Great comment! I also agree. My 90s castles and Forestmen sets may not be the greatest ever designed, but because they remind me of when I was a kid, recreating the movie Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves with my sister, they will remain a favorite forever.
My mom kept most of my vintage legos in bins so it's been fun finding pieces to all these sets and slowing compiling them back and building these older sets back up. Found the bade plate and bridge yesterday!
Adventurers is my all time favorite theme, ive been searching the after market for these for the last year or so and haven't found any deal I could justify paying the high price for. Still the best original LEGO theme.
I wish I was into lego as a kid/ teenager and young adult.. these sets are so good looking but expensive now. I had to get into lego so late in life, thanks mom and dad lol. Great video and review. Thank you
I do hope you can get a few Adventurers set. I've got a lot of bits and pieces from bulk lots. There were just so many kits produced that there are a lot still floating around out there. It's these bigger kits which are unfortunately still quite rare and expensive.
As you mentioned, the colors are beautiful and really do represent the colorful nature of most native Latin American culture. 😀 this is one of my dream sets.
It's a good one - I would highly recommend! If you're looking for a cheaper alternative though, I think you'll get a lot of joy out of "Spider's Secret" from the same wave of sets
Thank you! I've certainly fallen in love with the theme too. I was talking to a friend about maybe borrowing the balloon for a quick review too. Hopefully it works out!
Unless I am mistaken, Lego doesn't make anymore of those awesome raised base plates. Everything now is BURP's, MURP's and LURP's. That's too bad, because raised base plates are just incredible structures to build on. Very nice Caleb.
I wanna say Pharaoh's Quest in 2011 was the last time we saw a raised baseplate, used quite effectively there. Now as a MOC builder, I prefer building up my own terrain with bricks, but as a kid, my brother and I loved having the raised baseplates. I remember we even built our first Christmas village on top of the raised baseplate from Ogel's Mountain Fortress!
The K-Mart in my city went out of business in 1999 or 2000, and my family bought a bunch of Lego sets at a steep discount. Amazon Ancient Ruins was one we got for me, and Pharaoh's Forbidden Ruins for one of my younger brothers. I swapped my Johnny's hands with Achu's gloves, partly so we could tell whose was whose more easily and because I thought it brought Achu closer to looking naked and therefore funny. (I swapped Achu's pelvis with the yellow pelvis off some Space figure or another for the same reason). I still have that gray cooking pot and brown boat! They're both on my dining room table right now. I was also very into Castle and its subthemes, and noticed from catalog photos that King Leo's Castle used the same mold as the Amazon Ancient Ruins, so I built my best approximation of that castle with my existing parts from eyeballing it in the magazines. I still have the baseplate, and kinda want to rebuild the Amazon Ancient Ruins roughly as intended using my current collection.
Awesome set. I got all the small/cheaper adventurer sets when I was younger and I've been slowly getting the larger ones now that I'm older and can choose to be irresponsible with my money
Bro always hits us with the trivia on the sets and the pieces in the set. That’s I think why these videos hit different. Well that along with the filmmaking
I remember being given this set in used condition back when I was a kid. I was too little to build the temple according to the instructions, but this set was a goldmine of awesome pieces to use for my own builds. Sometimes I still find a few exclusive pieces to this set while digging for parts in my bins, and was surprised to see parts that I usually just rummage passed go for so much. Knowing that, I still don’t think I’d ever sell them, though. The minifigures and treasures in this set were so cool to me. I think my favorite piece of all was the jumbo backpack of all things that you could put stuff inside... either that, or the movie camera. - Noah
Those old backpacks were great. I had one in blue from a Spider-Man set as a kid. It belonged to a criminal, and you could steal and hide gems in it 😂 Great times
Such a beautiful set! I love old sets that actually included baseplates, they just feel 10x more complete than todays playsets. I don't own any Jungle Adventurers, but my 5988 definitely my favourite vintage set :D Keep up the great videos!
@@CheeseyStudios you bet, and I remember having the box too over the years, many of it was lost or damaged so I bought another without a box and am making much more effort to keep it in good condition now
I really enjoy this subtheme's aesthic too. The 90's photoshop is certainly not great, but the art all around the box is still incredibly charming and playful. The character design for this time was truly awesome - everyone is so distinct!
Really great reviews ! Glad i discovered your channel , your reviews are very well done ,detailed and your personal touch and opinion is often similar to mine regarding the discussed topic. Also the production quality and the beautiful set really set this channel apart from others
I want this set so badly. I was still a bit too young for serious Lego building and collecting back when Adventurers was out, but I remember wanting these sets for sure.
I kinda missed out on these too and so sad that I did! I only ever remember seeing a few leftover Orient Expeditions kits on shelves in 2004, but had no idea what it was so very very young me never begged my parents for it, ha. These kits do tend to turn up in a lot of bulk lots though!
@@CheeseyStudios Yup, Orient Expedition was right on the cusp of when I started asking for and getting Lego as gifts. This Amazon Temple you got is an awesome find and in great condition too so I'll have to keep my eyes open for something similar! I'm still hoping that Lego will design a new theme like Adventurers. I mean, Pharaoh's Quest was close, but that didn't last very long.
This was always a great looking kit, when I wasa kid I always wished we could afford to buy it. I loved the Advebtures theme and can remember playing the Johnny Thunder games on the Lego games website. Me and my sister made some good memories trying to beat the temple and mountain climbing levels.
Great video, thanks! Would love to see more adventurers from you-but also, I think it’d be cool for you to do a big MOC re-imagining of the jungle subtheme!
I'd love to take this style and blend it with modern bricks! A lot of themes have been inspiring me to do that - but this one more than any other really seems to fit my style. It might just happen! Thanks for the suggestion!
You guys are so creative well presented for such a small channel! I look forward to more of your videos! Keep up the good work! (PS: You ever get the chance to review any more Adventurers or Orient Expedition sets, I will be watch in a heartbeat!)
Thank you so much! Glad you ran across the channel. It's a lot of work for sure, but great fun to put these together. I've got two Orient Expedition reviews in the works. One will be dropping in a few weeks I imagine, the other hopefully April May!
I’ve had Gabaros’ torso alongside some of my other torso pieces for a while, glad to know where it came from! Must’ve came in some bulk a while ago. Great review!
I had this set as a kid. Having previously built the Flying Ninja Fortress (at least as far as I can remember), I was a little relatively underwhelmed by the build, but loved the play features. This one's definitely more of a playset than anything, but knowing LEGO's target demographic that isn't a bad thing.
I only learned about the set a few years ago - the jungle and dino Adventurers subtheme certainly flew a bit under the radar compared to Egypt and Orient Expedition!
I can't believe I was gifted this set.... I absolutly enjoyed it... Alpha Team was another I really collected, and they were amazing. Oh and the characters of this set were some of the opponents in the Lego Racer video game...
I always felt like the jungle subtheme has some great detailed builds and also some juniorized builds. It’s a wierd blend between Desert and Dino Island
I love that the older sets have those big wide green bricks they look so cool but to be honest I probably wouldn’t use them lol I would use some little bricks and plates as a little mound in the ground.
As cool as those big plate are, something custom will definitely always look better. I do wonder if we'll ever get raised baseplates again - it's been quite a few years now!
i have this set!!! i got it for my 10th birthday when it released and i still have it to this day. the platform got snapped in half but i used blue tape to keep it together.
If LEGO re-released Adventurers with updated designs, I'd lose so much money. These sets are beautiful but they have untapped potential. With the mechanical/aesthetic genius that designers have now, it'd be great to see this theme with a fresh coat of paint
so, this set is basically the Temple of doom bridge scene, which Lego SHOULD have done for Lego Indiana Jones, but, we technically have it with this. and I wanna get this now. classic set
I have around 80% of this set from a garage sale, including the baseplate. Now I just need to figure out something interesting to build on this base, since this temple feels quite lackluster.
As I am watching this video, a realization slowly dawns on me as he goes over exclusive expensive pieces, that I got many of these (baseplate, boat, pot…) in a bulk lot a couple years ago and me, being a bionicle guy, completely dismissed them when sorting and gave them away to my younger cousin… maybe I should check these things…
Everybody says Anubis Temple is the best Adventurers flagship lego but actually its THIS. I am proud owner of this baby since 1999. Just compare Anubis Temple and Ancient Ruins. In BL Amazon Ruins is 600usd and there is no NEW SEALED.The raised baseplate is extremely rare and important lego vintage piece
@@CheeseyStudios Yup and its very clever design. Raising footprint and mass by single large mold. My Ancient Ruins is next to Rivendell and with 400 piece count its still look huge 😅
@@CheeseyStudios Sadly no. All of my older lego sets from when I was younger were sold off on garage sales we had by my parents. :( I wish I still had a lot of my older sets.
@@CheeseyStudios They're out in the storage shed. I just saw a few sets from Forest, Dark CAstles, ...i never realized i had so many lego sets. check my Storage Shed videos. Those flying egyptians were my favorite
I can't tell what civilization this is supposed to be but I know for a fact that real Mayan Temples were initially very colorful. It's just due to them being abandoned for centuries that caused them to be grey. I remember hearing that some of them used to be a vibrant red.
@@CheeseyStudios Yea, As kid I really enjoyed them. As adult I wish that they were still apart of Lego. It really feels like the whole thing is complete.
Lego system will forever be my favorite lego sets, such simplicity and charm
The golden era of LEGO :D
Regardless of the negative elements, you can never outdo the classics, no matter how poor they are. Childhood nostalgia always glows the brightest!
Nostalgia certainly clouds my vision in all my review lol - but how could it not?
Great comment! I also agree. My 90s castles and Forestmen sets may not be the greatest ever designed, but because they remind me of when I was a kid, recreating the movie Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves with my sister, they will remain a favorite forever.
Totally agree, and also because it wasn’t on movies or games so hey to invent everything behind it which, imo, adds to the charm !
I got this for Christmas as a kid. I had no idea it had so many rare pieces.
This set was wild! Big sets like this always had at least one or two exclusive parts.
My mom kept most of my vintage legos in bins so it's been fun finding pieces to all these sets and slowing compiling them back and building these older sets back up.
Found the bade plate and bridge yesterday!
Sweet! That's gotta be a ton of fun reliving those memories
Awesome, I was so happy when I found the boat piece.
Adventurers is my all time favorite theme, ive been searching the after market for these for the last year or so and haven't found any deal I could justify paying the high price for. Still the best original LEGO theme.
I feel I was born just a tad too late - these sets are so awesome! Best of luck in your searches
This set along with the Egypt sets were some of my favourite sets as a kid.
Adventurers had so much good stuff. If only I had been born a few years earlier... 😂
I wish I was into lego as a kid/ teenager and young adult.. these sets are so good looking but expensive now. I had to get into lego so late in life, thanks mom and dad lol. Great video and review. Thank you
I do hope you can get a few Adventurers set. I've got a lot of bits and pieces from bulk lots. There were just so many kits produced that there are a lot still floating around out there. It's these bigger kits which are unfortunately still quite rare and expensive.
Achu is my favorite figure of all time. I love this set and it's great.
You are probably to blame for this purchase, as our LEGO Masters Q&A reignited my interested in this line! (Thank you for doing that, ha)
As you mentioned, the colors are beautiful and really do represent the colorful nature of most native Latin American culture. 😀 this is one of my dream sets.
It's a good one - I would highly recommend! If you're looking for a cheaper alternative though, I think you'll get a lot of joy out of "Spider's Secret" from the same wave of sets
Indigenous* cultures*
Can we all stop and appreciate the hugely detailed coverage and excellent editing of this video..
Adventurers:Jungle is my favorite LEGO wave ever. This and Expedition Balloon were just awesome.
Fantastic review dude!
Thank you! I've certainly fallen in love with the theme too. I was talking to a friend about maybe borrowing the balloon for a quick review too. Hopefully it works out!
Unless I am mistaken, Lego doesn't make anymore of those awesome raised base plates. Everything now is BURP's, MURP's and LURP's. That's too bad, because raised base plates are just incredible structures to build on. Very nice Caleb.
I wanna say Pharaoh's Quest in 2011 was the last time we saw a raised baseplate, used quite effectively there. Now as a MOC builder, I prefer building up my own terrain with bricks, but as a kid, my brother and I loved having the raised baseplates. I remember we even built our first Christmas village on top of the raised baseplate from Ogel's Mountain Fortress!
The K-Mart in my city went out of business in 1999 or 2000, and my family bought a bunch of Lego sets at a steep discount. Amazon Ancient Ruins was one we got for me, and Pharaoh's Forbidden Ruins for one of my younger brothers. I swapped my Johnny's hands with Achu's gloves, partly so we could tell whose was whose more easily and because I thought it brought Achu closer to looking naked and therefore funny. (I swapped Achu's pelvis with the yellow pelvis off some Space figure or another for the same reason).
I still have that gray cooking pot and brown boat! They're both on my dining room table right now.
I was also very into Castle and its subthemes, and noticed from catalog photos that King Leo's Castle used the same mold as the Amazon Ancient Ruins, so I built my best approximation of that castle with my existing parts from eyeballing it in the magazines. I still have the baseplate, and kinda want to rebuild the Amazon Ancient Ruins roughly as intended using my current collection.
Awesome set. I got all the small/cheaper adventurer sets when I was younger and I've been slowly getting the larger ones now that I'm older and can choose to be irresponsible with my money
Ah yes, I also enjoy the ability to be irresponsible with my money. Most LEGO fans share that wonderful sentiment lol
I do the same with bionicles some of them are horribly expensive :,D
With all the Lego icons they’re bringing back. They definitely need to remake this set 😎
Yes!
@@CheeseyStudios Very yes!
Man, all of these LEGO nostalgia trips you keep putting out are amazing. Thanks!
These are probably my favorite videos to do. Lots more to come, don't you worry! So glad you're enjoying as much as I am.
I miss those old boxes that opened up and gave you little windows to the set.
I know, right? The packaging was great back in the 90s and early 2000s.
Oh my god! I remember playing with this when I was a kid. Sadly I lost it during one of the times I moved, But I loved it! Thank you for the memories!
Awwww that's so sad. Moving is such a pain. Happy it could bring back some good memories though
Gosh old legos are so nostalgic even if you didn’t own it
I know, right? 😂
Yay! I found your channel, i love your builds in Lego masters! I was rooting for you guys.
This set looks so fun
Bro always hits us with the trivia on the sets and the pieces in the set. That’s I think why these videos hit different. Well that along with the filmmaking
I'm such a nerd 😂 Glad that a lot of people enjoy the little parts facts though!
thaNks for adding that hobbit hole in the new blitz lobby that was very nice of you
I gotchu :)
I remember being given this set in used condition back when I was a kid. I was too little to build the temple according to the instructions, but this set was a goldmine of awesome pieces to use for my own builds. Sometimes I still find a few exclusive pieces to this set while digging for parts in my bins, and was surprised to see parts that I usually just rummage passed go for so much. Knowing that, I still don’t think I’d ever sell them, though. The minifigures and treasures in this set were so cool to me. I think my favorite piece of all was the jumbo backpack of all things that you could put stuff inside... either that, or the movie camera. - Noah
Those old backpacks were great. I had one in blue from a Spider-Man set as a kid. It belonged to a criminal, and you could steal and hide gems in it 😂 Great times
Such a beautiful set! I love old sets that actually included baseplates, they just feel 10x more complete than todays playsets. I don't own any Jungle Adventurers, but my 5988 definitely my favourite vintage set :D Keep up the great videos!
5988 is a beauty!
When this was released in 1999, I was 4. It was my first LEGO set ever. I still love it.
What an awesome first set!
@@CheeseyStudios you bet, and I remember having the box too
over the years, many of it was lost or damaged so I bought another without a box and am making much more effort to keep it in good condition now
This set is so cool and colorful! The art on the front of the box looks great and I really want that Senor Palomar minifig!
I really enjoy this subtheme's aesthic too. The 90's photoshop is certainly not great, but the art all around the box is still incredibly charming and playful. The character design for this time was truly awesome - everyone is so distinct!
Really great reviews ! Glad i discovered your channel , your reviews are very well done ,detailed and your personal touch and opinion is often similar to mine regarding the discussed topic. Also the production quality and the beautiful set really set this channel apart from others
Thank you! Really glad you're enjoying these.
The adventures theme was my favorite, the Orient Expedition subtheme especially. Would love to see more reviews in this theme
Awesome! I'll certainly have to do more. Man, I sure hope I can get some Orient Expedition sets. Those would be super fun to take a look at here.
Got this set for my birthday as a kid after months of waiting. Still have it today complete with box 🙂
That's awesome - I do wish I had kept more of my boxes too. They were so cool back in the day.
I remember one of the first sets I ever had as a kid was 5936! The egyptian theming for some of the sets also gave me a lifelong fear of mummies :')
Oh no 🤣 These Adventurers sets were so awesome though
I want this set so badly. I was still a bit too young for serious Lego building and collecting back when Adventurers was out, but I remember wanting these sets for sure.
I kinda missed out on these too and so sad that I did! I only ever remember seeing a few leftover Orient Expeditions kits on shelves in 2004, but had no idea what it was so very very young me never begged my parents for it, ha. These kits do tend to turn up in a lot of bulk lots though!
@@CheeseyStudios Yup, Orient Expedition was right on the cusp of when I started asking for and getting Lego as gifts. This Amazon Temple you got is an awesome find and in great condition too so I'll have to keep my eyes open for something similar! I'm still hoping that Lego will design a new theme like Adventurers. I mean, Pharaoh's Quest was close, but that didn't last very long.
Great job. I'm not muc for set reviews but you review connects with me. Loved you in brick separators video too.
Well done. Enjoyed your format.
Thank you! I certainly wanted to get the new year off to a strong start!
Such an iconic theme
Indeed. One of the greats!
I really like that box art, it's so nostalgic and overall beautiful with the detailed jungle in the background. Reminds me of tarzan
It's all around good stuff. If you're a LEGO fan at all, I think stuff like this will make you smile
This was always a great looking kit, when I wasa kid I always wished we could afford to buy it.
I loved the Advebtures theme and can remember playing the Johnny Thunder games on the Lego games website. Me and my sister made some good memories trying to beat the temple and mountain climbing levels.
I wonder if there's a way to still play those games. I never got to play the Adventurers ones, but I'm sure they were awesome!
@@CheeseyStudios The way back machine possibly.
Damnit now I have to know!
Looks like a awesome set!! I got the newer versions of some of the Minifigures from the Minifigure packs and there pretty cool!!
Yeah! I love the updated figures they've been doing. I'll certainly be using them for any custom Adventurers things I do in the future
Great video, thanks! Would love to see more adventurers from you-but also, I think it’d be cool for you to do a big MOC re-imagining of the jungle subtheme!
I'd love to take this style and blend it with modern bricks! A lot of themes have been inspiring me to do that - but this one more than any other really seems to fit my style. It might just happen! Thanks for the suggestion!
Fun fact: Charles Lightening is the curator in the new Lego museum modular set!
Love when they add little Easter eggs like that!
Great job as always!
Thank you!
I had this set as a kid. I loved the adventure sets.
Adventurers is peak LEGO!
This looks like such a fun playset. I would have loved this as a kid. I wish lego would make sets like this nowadays.
Indeed. The baseplates are obnoxious, but undeniable fun
You guys are so creative well presented for such a small channel! I look forward to more of your videos! Keep up the good work!
(PS: You ever get the chance to review any more Adventurers or Orient Expedition sets, I will be watch in a heartbeat!)
Thank you so much! Glad you ran across the channel. It's a lot of work for sure, but great fun to put these together. I've got two Orient Expedition reviews in the works. One will be dropping in a few weeks I imagine, the other hopefully April May!
@@CheeseyStudios I'm very excited! Looking forward to it!
Adventurers was so great. I really think this is a fantastic set
I'd love to get all the big flagship Adventurers sets at some point. They're amazing!
Such an awesome review, man. I have to have this set.
That's epic! This one's so much fun.
That backpack though, I need one. Such a cool piece
Yes! It's so fun. You can fit a good amount of stuff in there.
Incredible set
Indeed. Love this subtheme!
My biggest set ever as a kid, I loved it so much and still have it!
That's awesome! These big Adventurers sets were just the coolest
I’ve had Gabaros’ torso alongside some of my other torso pieces for a while, glad to know where it came from! Must’ve came in some bulk a while ago. Great review!
Oh hey, nice! Glad you liked the video :D
I had this set as a kid. Having previously built the Flying Ninja Fortress (at least as far as I can remember), I was a little relatively underwhelmed by the build, but loved the play features. This one's definitely more of a playset than anything, but knowing LEGO's target demographic that isn't a bad thing.
Wow. I thought this was just a really
Good custom. I don’t remember ever seeing this. So cool
I only learned about the set a few years ago - the jungle and dino Adventurers subtheme certainly flew a bit under the radar compared to Egypt and Orient Expedition!
Yes! And I considered myself pretty versed in Lego. Dino adventures were so fun too. Had 2 sets!
I Enjoy your videos ! Keep up the great work
a really thorough and interezsting review thankyou
Glad you enjoyed! :D
I always wanted this as a kid
All these large Adventurers sets were just so good! But as a sucker for green, I could definitely see myself really wanting this one in particular too
That is like the coolest set ever!! That rocky base plate is awesome,the build looks pretty cool, and I just love those minifigures!
Achu is just so good!
@@CheeseyStudios hey cheesy studios I uploaded my beach house moc short and if you have the time could you watch it?
Looks really nice!
@@CheeseyStudios thank you!! Watching this video inspired me to build a temple!
I always wanted this set as a kid
It's a gem! So absurdly expensive though 😂 My parents never would have gotten me this either haha
Wasup man. This video is great, as usual.
Hey! Thank you so much :D
Another theme I hope to come across and add a few to my collection
I actually love that they referenced this in the Lego Ninjago movie video game
Wait what????
I had this one! So awesome, I loved it. I miss Johnny Thunder
So iconic. Would love to see his return some day!
Great review!
Thank you!
I can't believe I was gifted this set.... I absolutly enjoyed it... Alpha Team was another I really collected, and they were amazing. Oh and the characters of this set were some of the opponents in the Lego Racer video game...
Very nice! Alpha Team always had some fun stuff imo too
Señor Palomar needs to make a return. 🙏👏
Such great villains in this theme!
I always felt like the jungle subtheme has some great detailed builds and also some juniorized builds. It’s a wierd blend between Desert and Dino Island
I can definitely see what you mean.
Please reveiw more of the Adventures sets. They illicit so much nostalgia and so many good childhood memories for me.
I've got one more in the works! Hopefully I can find more to review in the future
I love that the older sets have those big wide green bricks they look so cool but to be honest I probably wouldn’t use them lol I would use some little bricks and plates as a little mound in the ground.
As cool as those big plate are, something custom will definitely always look better. I do wonder if we'll ever get raised baseplates again - it's been quite a few years now!
@@CheeseyStudios yeah I agree I’m building rock work right now lol
Best of luck - I know that can be a tedious process!
i have this set!!! i got it for my 10th birthday when it released and i still have it to this day. the platform got snapped in half but i used blue tape to keep it together.
That's great that you've hung on to it! I know those baseplates can be pretty fragile since they're so thin.
This was my favorite growing up
Adventurers is the bomb
I got this recently after years of wanting it and I love it so much!!!
That's awesome! I hope you didn't have to pay tooooo much for it - I know it can be pricey!
@@CheeseyStudios I had to buy it overseas so it ended up costing me around $300 incomplete!! There have never been any for sale in the uk!
Ahh! What was it missing?? I have some UK friends and I know it can be really hard getting certain sets there.
@@CheeseyStudios gabbaros, Achu ( I already had one) and the dark grey saucepan. And yes it can be difficult to get sets I want like 6079 and 5976!
@@RetroBricks1 You've got expensive tastes, but I sure do respect it xD
damn them minifigs are so cool
So so good - love to see that they hold up today, more than two decades later!
If LEGO re-released Adventurers with updated designs, I'd lose so much money. These sets are beautiful but they have untapped potential. With the mechanical/aesthetic genius that designers have now, it'd be great to see this theme with a fresh coat of paint
Same here. It would be amazing! Hopefully we get a GWP remake
I’ve literally always wanted this set lol
It's a classic!
Nice playset. I never had that one.
The flagship Adventurers sets were always pretty epic. Wish I had more! Maybe one day...
I remember getting this set for Christmas of 1999!
Legendary Christmas gift 👌
Ah yes human sacrifice lego edition
Gotta love it xD
One of my dream sets
Never thought I'd get my hands on this one - it's a beauty! Wish it was easier to find.
@@CheeseyStudios yours is in excellent condition as well. What a find!
I remember having that set, but the baseplate went messing along with the silver tablet.
Aw RIP 😪
so, this set is basically the Temple of doom bridge scene, which Lego SHOULD have done for Lego Indiana Jones, but, we technically have it with this. and I wanna get this now. classic set
Man, I do hope we get more Indy sets. They did a great job with those this year
I still have this sets MISB. Never intend to open and build it though. It looks nice on shelf as it is.
I'm sure that's a beautiful sight to see! I do miss the good ol' days when the packing was actually nice looking on its own...
@@CheeseyStudios Indeed, esp the flaps! Lego packagings are boring these days.
I have around 80% of this set from a garage sale, including the baseplate. Now I just need to figure out something interesting to build on this base, since this temple feels quite lackluster.
Those baseplates hold so much potential! I do miss them
Johnny Thunder, I miss that guy like you wouldn’t believe
An icon 😭
I remember being 9 years old and doing chores all summer to save up the money to buy this.
Gotta respect the grind
As I am watching this video, a realization slowly dawns on me as he goes over exclusive expensive pieces, that I got many of these (baseplate, boat, pot…) in a bulk lot a couple years ago and me, being a bionicle guy, completely dismissed them when sorting and gave them away to my younger cousin… maybe I should check these things…
Aw RIP. Hope your cousin enjoyed at least 😭
Oh my god that was a lego set I had as a kid. So mad my mom got rid of so many of my toys. I likely would have that set still if that did not happen.
Rippppp - that really sucks. I hope you're able to get some of your favorites back!
LEGO should make a theme where they remake old sets using more modern pieces and building styles. It should be called: "LEGO Legacy"
That would be so awesome! I'd love something like that.
I didn't realize you were the guy from Lego Masters, till I saw your beautiful face
You flatter me lolol
Those vibrant colors are actually relatively historically accurate, many Mextican temples were painted in vibrant ochres.
I do think I remember hearing that! That's really cool
(Even though the remaining stone today is a plain gray).
When you realize senor palomar is actually a hero trying to prevent grave robbers from looting the temple 😏
Never thought of it that way 😂
Everybody says Anubis Temple is the best Adventurers flagship lego but actually its THIS. I am proud owner of this baby since 1999. Just compare Anubis Temple and Ancient Ruins. In BL Amazon Ruins is 600usd and there is no NEW SEALED.The raised baseplate is extremely rare and important lego vintage piece
I do miss raised baseplates. As a kid, those were everything!
@@CheeseyStudios Yup and its very clever design. Raising footprint and mass by single large mold. My Ancient Ruins is next to Rivendell and with 400 piece count its still look huge 😅
Bless you.
Thank you 😂
This set deserves a modern remake
That would be so cool to see! Imagine all the plant pieces!
I actually had this when I was young! I almost forgot about it!
Nice! Do you still have the parts?
@@CheeseyStudios Sadly no. All of my older lego sets from when I was younger were sold off on garage sales we had by my parents. :( I wish I still had a lot of my older sets.
i had the tomb SPHINX set...and my friend had the one with the columns, egyptian looking.
The Egyptian subtheme from Adventurers was so cool. I'd love to get some of those sets one day!
@@CheeseyStudios They're out in the storage shed. I just saw a few sets from Forest, Dark CAstles, ...i never realized i had so many lego sets. check my Storage Shed videos. Those flying egyptians were my favorite
I can't tell what civilization this is supposed to be but I know for a fact that real Mayan Temples were initially very colorful. It's just due to them being abandoned for centuries that caused them to be grey. I remember hearing that some of them used to be a vibrant red.
They would have been pretty cool to see decorated like that!
This set always reminded me of one of lego racers tracks. But I always thought the main villain was BARON VON BARON
I think he changed names a few times xD
Cool baseplate
I know right? Wish LEGO still produced stuff like that
Achu? Bless you good sir.
Never seen Achu, i feel lego racers missed a great chance with him as a boss but they did add Captain Redbeard ect.
I really need to look into this Racers game - I've heard so much about it over the years!
@@CheeseyStudios i personally loved the first one on n64, but it was on pc and also had lego racers 2 but i rarely played that.
I wished Lego did more base plates.
Indeed. They had some really cool ones back in the day
@@CheeseyStudios Yea, As kid I really enjoyed them. As adult I wish that they were still apart of Lego. It really feels like the whole thing is complete.
That car is the only car made by lego to have windshield wipers.
That's crazy if so 👀