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Re: WWII mini-figs and indiana jones
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Date: 
Wed, 5 Jul 2000 05:49:42 GMT
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In lugnet.adventurers, Bradley Dale writes:
> In lugnet.adventurers, Michael Nelson writes:
> > Mimicking Indiana Jones and making WWII mini-figs out of adventurers is an
> > awesome idea! I bet that TLG based the theme on Indiana Jones and won't admit
> > it.
> I disagree, I think that they were mooching off the potential sucess of the
> movie The Mummy that I believe was released in 1998.  Have you seen it?  Very
> Adventurerish throughout. Great movie. I've seen Indiana Jones and the Temple
> of Doom too, and it is not as Adventurerish. I'm not entirely sure about the
> 1999 line, though I see a lot of things from The Lost World: Jurassic Park in
> the new sets.  Is it any coincidence that we get competing hunter and
> researcher teams, the concept of loading a T.rex onto a boat for transport • back
> to the city, the concept of taking the Baby T. rex, a research shack that • looks
> kinda like the building where the raptors attacked, etc?

I do not think that they were trying to use the mummy as a guideline to the
adventurers theme
i think it is inspired from indiana jones because of the mini-fig resebalance
take for example

jhonny thunder = indiana jones
prof. kilroy = indie's father
gail weathers = tour guide that we think is good but in the middle uses jhonny
to get info and is evil (Last Crusade)

the baddies are seterotypical people from the Jones films


- Chris Walker

(james' brother)



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  Re: WWII mini-figs and indiana jones
 
(...) I disagree, I think that they were mooching off the potential sucess of the movie The Mummy that I believe was released in 1998. Have you seen it? Very Adventurerish throughout. Great movie. I've seen Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom too, (...) (26 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)

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