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Introduction: Indiana Jones(es)
Would anyone want to see my new Indiana Joneses? So far I only had one of the small ones, but they are really small and not many joints and so I never did much with him.
But now that I found those 7" ones you may see them more appear in my stories. Apparently they were only sold at Disneyland stores and are therefore rare? At least that's what the ebay description said.
What can I say, I am a sucker for lots of accessory stuff and I love this:
It can be taken apart so I guess it will come in handy:
I'll have to watch the movies again as I don't remember some of the things:
And since I couldn't decide between the two I got this one as well:
Different setting:
Different accessories:
And even the whip he comes with is differently:
So, overall a good haul I guess!
But now that I found those 7" ones you may see them more appear in my stories. Apparently they were only sold at Disneyland stores and are therefore rare? At least that's what the ebay description said.
What can I say, I am a sucker for lots of accessory stuff and I love this:
It can be taken apart so I guess it will come in handy:
I'll have to watch the movies again as I don't remember some of the things:
And since I couldn't decide between the two I got this one as well:
Different setting:
Different accessories:
And even the whip he comes with is differently:
So, overall a good haul I guess!
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I know these movies by heart, so I can help with the props a bit... in the first pic the crate has to be from Raiders of the Lost Ark, where they put the ark at the end :D And the broken tablet in from Last Crusade, it was the first clue :)
In the fifth pic the golden thingy is from the very beginning of Temple of Doom... the notebook is from Last Crusade - Indy's dad's notebook. The sword is from Raiders - the duel in the market, the gun probably too, though the gun was present in all parts :D
And in the second to last pic, the second sword is probably from Temple of Doom, so is the voodoo doll and the poison/antidote if that's what it is, hee :D
Man, now I want to watch Indy :D I recently acquired the trilogy on blu-ray but never had a chance to watch it yet :D
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I'm so used to "old" Harrison Ford that at first I did not recognize him at all in these faces, but then I looked at a picture of Indiana Jones and at least the first one isn't actually too far off.
I didn't photograph it but I also have this figure in the upper right corner, it comes with the golden whatsitcalled and I got it cheap in a pound shop: http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080521224942/indianajones/images/f/f0/DeluxeActionFiguresWave1.jpg
As for the crate in the first pic, after the last movie had come out, the one with the crystal skull, I saw a stop-motion video on youtube where someone had made the scene of Indy climbing the crates. I wonder how many figures this guy bought to get so many crates!
Yeah, but the small tiny thing in the fifth pic? Same size like the antidote, but different color. Maybe someone was just lazy painting it. I also note that his gun is once painted nicely and once just black.
On one of the boxes (with the yellow background) the accessories are listed, so I guess the yellow round thing is the "Sankara Stone"?
I definitely need to watch them in English as I only saw them in German so far. Weren't there Nazis one time? Did they speak German? It's always fun to discover such things ;)
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Last Saturday I watching the entire season of Man in the High Castle and they also had German actors doing the German speaking parts... at some point they had Rufus Sewell say one sentence in German and while he said it right, you could hear it was painful for him, lol :D
We had a Polish movie released last year called Jack Strong, about a Polish spy, and his American contact was played by the awesome Patrick Wilson - he was brilliant speaking his Polish parts :D
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Not sure where you are at the moment with "Stargate"? I think it was in second season when Daniel had to use his German ;) The fun thing is, Michael Shanks once told us at a convention, that he was taught the pronouncation by a Hungarian guy so now he is speaking the German sentence with Hungarian accent ;) Although to me it sounds rather French actually.
That is always good when they have native speakers. They had that in "Christopher and his kind" as well, which was set in Berlin. A movie about Christopher Isherwood and how he wrote the musical "Cabaret". I watched it because of British actor Matt Smith and he also had to say some German sentences, but he actually did rather nicely. Same goes for David Tennant, who did this in a few movies now.
I still need to get the James Bond movie with Pierce Brosnan which was filmed in Hamburg and apparently at the airport he ordered a car in German.
I hear there is a new series called "Sense8" which was filmed all over the world with actors from all those countries, I want to watch that one day. I've never heard of "Man in the High Castle" but that sounds interesting as well.
Two days ago "Deutschland 83" started finally over here, which is actually a German series, but already was shown in American TV in August, which is pretty weird and actually the first time that something sells well ;) With subtitles. It's about East and West and the nuclear arms race and spies in the year 1983. Some clichés but overall I liked it.
Do I need to know Patrick Wilson? Looking him up... nope, nothing sounds familiar. But it reminds me that I need to finish "Space Station 76" one day. That one was a bit weird, wasn't it? Matt was great as usual, but overall I didn't quite grasp it. One group at IMDB says it was hilarious and funny, the other group says it was boring. I'm with the other group. If anything, I feel rather sad for Matt's character. Then again, I saw him training and sweating and playing the guitar (so far) so who's complaining? And he was also a very cute dad with his daughter.
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I almost made it to the end of season 5 with SG-1 :D
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And it occured to me - while the Germans were digging for the ark, they could have found the Stargate as well LOL I should do a crossover episode.
I wonder if you know this? I think it is pretty well made:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JwhRkF9-Xc&feature
Stargate Season 5 was still good, season 6 also has some good episodes, but then they started to build ships and have Star Wars like space battles and this is not what I have signed up for :(
I hope you are not spoilered about future events?
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And no worries about spoilering me for SG-1, I have already seen the whole thing, I may not remember details, especially from the later seasons because I've only seen them once, but I do remember the general flow of events. I really like Mitchell so I have something to look forward to in the last seasons :D
Of course it takes literally ALL of my willpower to resist the desire to start watching Atlantis, heee... I just know that once I get sucked into the Atlantis awesomeness, I'll have trouble getting back to SG-1 - and I'm determined to rewatch the whole SG-1 adventure, start to finish :D
Now most of the shows are on winter hiatus so there is not much on TV, my estimate is that by the time Christmas rolls in, I might be very close to the finish line :D
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Oh, I just meant regarding to Daniel but then again, I guess that is general knowledge now. But since you have seen it already anyway...
I don't remember when Atlantis started, it may be worth checking out the exact date as there was a cross-over episode. So you should watch it like it aired - one SG-1 one, one Atlantis one? As they also guest starred in each other's episodes?
So does that men you haven't seen Atlantis yet? I liked the first three seasons but after that it became quite repetitive and boring and I was glad when it was over. And I could not get into Universe at all and stopped after few episodes. Not even well-known guest starts like RDA could keep up my interest in that, and it seemed he also had no idea what he was doing there.
And since then - nothing :( While Star Trek gets another series next year. I always thought the Stargate universe could be as big with many new series and teams, if done well.
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But after that, in the long run we have seen all seasons of Atlantis several times, either reruns on TV or I'd grab my SGA stash and we'd watch a few eps every day :D So I've seen all seasons of SGA several times... but again, it's been a few years since I've watched it so I don't remember the details, I'm sure once I'll start watching, it will all come back to me. And it will be the first time I'll be watching my blu-rays, before that I only had the complete series DVD and my recorded eps with Polish voice over for my mom.
So now it will be all English and all blu :D If only I could force Win 10 to communicate with my TV regarding the mirror copy function, my squee would be complete, lol :D
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I don’t know, something changed in Atlantis, and I did not like it. Towards the end it was only replicators and Wraith and Wraith and replicators… and they were running around on dark space ships never finding the light switch… I missed them going to actual missions to actual planets and meeting new people. In daylight.
And once fan favorite Paul McGillian was killed off and they found a way to include the female doctor into episodes she did not belong to just because the writers loved her so much (but were the only ones)… and I actually had liked Weir a lot as well and was sorry when she was forced to go. She’s the reason for my love for red shirts, like she wore. It’s my favorite color now, my glasses, my watch, my sandals, my umbrella, my rucksack… LOL
Obviously, something changed in the last SG-1 seasons as well and I did not like it either. It’s definitely not Mitchell’s or Ben Browder’s fault – I saw him at a convention and he seems to be a great likeable guy – again I blame it on the writers. Nobody was checking their stories anymore, and they became more ridiculous. What was a good drama show with some humor liked by real Air Force people became a comedy and over the top. And I could not get accustomed to that. So yeah, I probably should watch them again as well, as I only saw them once and had no desire to watch again and have forgotten most.
We used to have long discussions at Gateworld about all the things that were just wrong, but the biggest gripe of course is that the Air Force never would have given a newbie who never had been through the gate before the leader of the flagship SG-1 team when there were so many other qualified people doing this for years. No way. It used to be that Jack was the one telling Daniel that he shall not touch anything – now it was Daniel telling Mitchell not to touch anything. Isn’t that just wrong on so many levels? He could have joined the team as a newbie, and over the years we could have more new people and new teams and it could have gone on forever. It’s certainly not that I was saying that I would not watch because of no RDA. You could clearly see that he had lost his joy at the end, and I didn’t like his performance either. Just dumb jokes nobody laughed about, but no important bits in the stories. It’s understandable with family trouble at home and then again he had wanted to quit after season 5 already.
But it must have hurt him when after he was gone they basically said “Yay, now that Dad’s out of the house, we finally can do whatever we want with nobody telling us off”, and so they did, and we saw where that led to.
It led to me not taking out my DVDs or action figures for YEARS. It’s only recently that they get to play again. That’s how sad the whole thing had made me, and I fled into Doctor Who and Torchwood, not looking back for a long time. But one day I am going to do that scene from the crossover, was it Sheppard giving Mitchell the lemon or something? The McKay figure comes with a small lemon, and a little scene like that was the first action figure theatre I ever saw in the internet. This is the thing that did start it all for me.
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I wish I could say the same thing about poor White Collar, obviously I still love my boys and it's the only fandom that inspires me to play with Photoshop but the idea of actually going back and watching episodes gives me stomach ache. The sad part is that I don't have a problem with the show and with any of the episodes but over the few years my brain involuntarily formed certain associations with either particular episodes or aspects of fandom and now I just can't bring myself to watch it. I'm sure (and hope) it will change in time... le sigh.
Weird things are weird... luckily there are plenty of other shows I can go back to... I'm contemplating Three's Company as a change of mood :P (Herzbube mit Zwei Damen :P)
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You are absolutely right that sometimes it is better this way. Then again, with reading so much in forums after having watched "Arrow" or "Doctor Who", I realize how many things I miss that then get pointed out in discussions. So I probably wouldn't understand half of the backgrounds without this.
I am sorry to hear your enjoyment of the episodes was so tarnished. But I can indeed assure you that one day it won't matter as much anymore. From experience, there also have been things in the past that gave me literally belly-aching just thinking about them and now, several years later, I am just meh about it. I have moved on, other things became more important, and it gives you a new perspecive. Time does heal wounds indeed. Just wait for it!
I don't think I've ever heard of that other show you mentioned. But then again I am not much into sitcoms. The only exception which I regularly watched was "Full House" - and several ALF episodes, if that counts as a sitcom as well? May be nice to revisit that one.