Random set of the day: Peril in Peru
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Today's random set is 7628 Peril in Peru, released in 2008. It's one of 11 Indiana Jones sets produced that year. It contains 625 pieces and 6 minifigs, and its retail price was US$49.99/£41.09.
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Outstanding set. A really great looking aircraft with great side builds.
Johnny Thunder could rip this off, Panic In Panama.
Johnny with the raft and now Indiana Jones with the airplane.
Wanted so much this set when it was released but was unable to do so. I always found this airplane one of the best Lego ever made.
Watch out Indiana! Johnny's coming to steal your plane next!
Man, when can we get Indiana Jones back as a theme? Indy 5 feels so far off still...
I own this set. Years later when I look at it, it still makes me happy. When it came out, it was a bargain.
Great set for recreating the part where the bad guy gets ripped to shred by the airplane propeller. Zwwwuuiiiiip!
One of my favorite sets ever.
For me, Lego Indiana Jones coincide with Lego's golden age. I know that today we have amazing sets, but that theme spoke to me more than any others.
Not a bad set for a really terrible movie.
... which is the standard for most movie tie-in Lego sets, really.
Simply a nice chunky, brick built airplane. Honestly just a wholesome set.
Partly because it lasted such a short time, and partly because it landed at a time when there wasn’t a lot else competing for my paychecks, I think this is the theme I’m closest to being complete in. The only set I know I’m missing is the SDCC Brickmaster set (limited to 500, so I’m not even going to try for it), but that’s just the regular Brickmaster set combined with some parts and stickers from the boulder temple set from the opening of Raiders. I’ve even got the leather folio and both cases for the Nintendo DS.
@Harmonious_Building:
7683: Fight on the Flying Wing works a bit better for that particular scene.
One of lego’s best planes and tractors too.
If you don’t own the set, download the instructions and build that tractor, you’ll absolutely love it- you’ll even be making tractor noises.
My very first LEGO set after coming out of the dark ages. I saw it at the Toys R Us store in Times Square and had to have it. The airplane is still my favorite LEGO airplane model.
I always wanted this set but it was so hard to find. I think it was a toys r us exclusive? I ended up buying power miners stuff instead every time I went to the store and they were sold out. Only saw it’s in stores once, and by then I had no money. Maybe I’ll treat myself for Christmas.
Oh man, I had almost successfully blocked that movie out of my memory until I saw this.
I would, however, like to see a polybag based on this movie. It would come with an Indiana Jones minifigure and just enough parts to build a lego refrigerator he can fit inside.
I would throw that around the room all day.
Indiana Jones sets always look good. This one doesn't disappoint either. I didn't collect any of them but it's enough to look at them from time to time. Too bad that movie wasn't so great.
One of the best aircraft ever made by Lego. No doubts. Maybe they can do something similar in the creator line.
I cannot help but think the rear wheels on that tractor are way too far under the fenders.
Also interesting use of the 4 stud wide windscreen on the plane.
This theme was out when I was just coming out of my dark age. Alas, I only got one set from the theme and recently acquired four others in a lot. It will take a lot of willpower not to try to get the rest of these sets.
For the second day in a row, Raiders March is in my head. Thanks Huwbot!
Was this from a deleted scene in the film?
Ive always wanted a Lego Douglas DC 3. Lego's version was very well done although I made the nose a bit more like the real thing and changed the windows. I ordered this set back in March but it never arrived. :( No one in Australia owns it, except perhaps someone who wanted in the 200-300 dollar price range.
As people have said, great set with good side builds. I really like the Soviet officer and infantry uniforms. The officer torso could also work for a Polish soldier. I did manage to find the Soviet lady's torso in a parts bin and actually used it for a Confederate soldier with a dark grey kepi.
I really wish lego would do another minfig scale DC-3!
Easily one of the best aircraft Lego has ever produced, much better than the current offerings, but I’m a child of the 4-wide era so that may just be a heaping dose of nostalgia talking.
I don't remember this aircraft appearing anywhere in the movie... Was this set based off a deleted scene or something?
One of the best lego planes ever and good price too.
Beautiful set. But look, those soldiers have no guns or rifles, they have... Shooters!
@LegoDavid said:
"I don't remember this aircraft appearing anywhere in the movie... Was this set based off a deleted scene or something?"
If I remember right, like you said, it wasn't in the Crystal Skull movie, but I kinda' remember my kid's LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues DS game that has an opening scene animated with a crashed plane like this one. Then you'd start your adventure in the game from the wreckage, etc. It's been many years so don't quote me ;)
The first Indiana Jones DS game was great. I played that, but the Part 2 game was meh. Not as interesting and puzzles were much better in the first one.
I remember, how I bought this set. It was in November/December 2014. I bought it MiSB on polish Allegro for 440 pln (about 110-115 $). I remember that then there was a problem with availability of this set on bricklink.
https://brickset.com/sets/list-35078 - My ranking of Indiana Jones sets.
I wish Lego made more 6 wide planes, as the early 4 wide planes were too narrow and the later 8 wide planes too large for airports with too many large pieces. The clean smoothing into the tail fin is very well done, the retractable wheels are great as missing on the former larger planes. The wings are made from lots of plates rather than a single piece allowing more creative alternative builds.
I always wondered how they did the curved airplane body and circular windows, from the instructions they just added stickers with holes onto a clear train curved roof piece 56204 which works really well. The crystal skull with blue brain is a bonus.
I like those nonviolent guns carried by soldiers.
For those asking what scene in the film it represents - You need to be looking at the 'map' scenes. Across all the Indy movies you see the red line travelling over the map to show Indy's progress from location to location. And THIS is where things get interesting! The set shows an aircraft (most probably a DC3) in a white/dark blue and yellow livery marked as Panangra Airways. Panagra (Pan American Grace) Airways were a real airline and a subsidiary of Pan American that were based and serviced South America from the late 20's till they were sold in the mid 60's. The livery in the set is MOSTLY accurate as Panagra also had a dark green block section towards the front of their aircraft and used the full name 'Pan American Grace Airways' on their aircraft.
As KOTCS is set in 1956 it would be ENTIRELY correct for Indy to fly Panagra from the continental US to Peru. Where it gets DOUBLY interesting? The map scene in KOTCS actually shows a PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS DC3 flying to Peru. In reality it would be HIGHLY unlikely that a PAA aircraft would make this journey. SO, in the instance the LEGO set is actually more historically accurate than the movie itself.
It would be interesting to know how the set did come about and who did the research to closely match the historically accurate Panagra when the movie itself didn't!
The only part of this set I'd redo if I ever build it again are the passenger compartment windows, I'm not excited about the clear canopy and large stickers to achieve that look. Otherwise, great design.
This one completely passed me by at the time - what a shame - it’s lovely!
I must have been put off by the terrible film!
Yesterday Jones' Raft, today Indiana Jones set? Is it really RANDOM set of the day?
This set is amazing, it is my favourite Indiana Jones set!
A unique set for the use of handguns. About as rare as rocking horse manure.
@Harmonious_Building said:
"Great set for recreating the part where the bad guy gets ripped to shred by the airplane propeller. Zwwwuuiiiiip! "
Wrong movie, dude.
Although they did make a set on that scene, 7683, which is just about as rare as this, maybe rarer....
@Harmonious_Building said:
"Great set for recreating the part where the bad guy gets ripped to shred by the airplane propeller. Zwwwuuiiiiip! "
That is actually the NAZI plane set (without the NAZI insignia) based upon the first film, this is based upon the fourth. Now that I am seeing this I want it so bad for everything it has.
I think you’re all hallucinating. There were only 3 Indiana Jones movies. ONLY 3.
If anyone thinks differently, they should be locked in a bonnet, locked in a refrigerator, forced to use a snake as a rope and then Tarzan call for help. :o)
This is an interesting set and all but I kind of wish I waited for 7683 Flying Wing to release and got that instead. It's a much more iconic scene, as opposed to just being a plane that appears in the "map sequences" (and this specific plane didn't even appear in Crystal Skull's montages). That said, this is still a pretty good build, although I doubt I'd be able to rebuild it.
heyyyy i have this one. it's one of the only sets from my youth i bothered to rebuild, come to think of it.
@MeganL :
I hope you don't expect us to be supportive of your abstinence. That was a pretty cool theme. There are a few minifigs it would have been nice to see (from this movie specifically, John Hurt's character got skipped, which was likely his only chance of picking up a second minifig to go with Ollivander). From Last Crusade, the tank would have been cool, but there's a snowball's chance of seeing that as an official set. We were all shocked when we got the flying wing from Raiders, and the fighter plane (which I believe is the only released model based on a real, offensively-armed, military vehicle from WWII or later) from Last Crusade.
@chrisaw :
@LegoDavid :
It's...a bit messy. The scene depicted in this set never actually occurs in the movie, and doesn't fit anywhere. In this set we have six items of importance, and the name of the set (Peril in Peru). Four are named characters (Indiana, Mutt, Spalko, and Dovchenko), one is the plane, and one is a crystal skull. The film starts out with three of the named characters together (Dovchenko, Indiana, and Spalko), and we can assume that the first crystal skull is also present. Indy gets away, leaving the two Russians and the crystal skull together. Mutt makes his first appearance at 0:27:57 and joins Indy. The first mention of Peru is right before they board a Pan American Airways System DC-3 as the first plane on their trip from NYC to Peru at 0:38:28. The model in this set has been identified as a DC-3, but the livery is all wrong. It's a Panagra (or Pan American Grace) Airways plane with a thick yellow stripe bounded by thin blue stripes on a white body with grey (or silver) wings, while the only DC-3 seen in the film appears to be silver with two thin blue stripes (it's a bit hard to tell, as it's superimposed over a map showing their progress on the journey south, as you can see here: https://www.impdb.org/index.php?title=Indiana_Jones_and_the_Kingdom_of_the_Crystal_Skull ). Indiana and Mutt (and one of the crystal skulls) are captured by Dovchenko and leave Peru in a 4-prop Soviet cargo plane (shown at the bottom of the above website) at 00:55:58. And the first time we see all four of these characters (Indiana, Mutt, Spalko, and Dovchenko) on screen at the same time is in the Soviet base camp at 1:04:04, right after we see the crystal skull from the warehouse. From there, they only use surface travel on their way to the Akator temple, and the next time anyone gets on a plane is after two of those characters have died and both crystal skulls are gone.
My copy of the movie doesn't include any deleted scenes, and the only ones I could find on Youtube are fan-produced. If it was going to appear anywhere in the movie, it would have had to go between the Soviet basecamp and the trip to the temple, but that would mean that the Soviets established their basecamp in a completely different country from both the location of the second crystal skull and the Akator temple, which wouldn't make any sense. Any attempt I could make to justify the existence of this set would be a WAG.
@legoDad42 :
LEGO games based on IP themes included a _lot_ of callbacks to the sets in those themes, as well as heavily modifying the overall stories. Very rarely (possibly never) have we seen sets that were based on designs that first appeared in the games, beyond a few minifig polybags.
@magni_nominis_umbra:
Only Indy, Mutt, and Mutt's motorcycle (not present in this set) board the PAA DC-3 in NYC, and they switched to a single-prop bi-plane (Antanov AN-2 with a PAA Grace logo that matches the design of the PAA logo on the DC-3) before arriving in Peru. Based on the travel map scene, it appears they transferred planes in either Havana or Mexico City (the plane superimposed over the map changes as they're crossing the Yucatan), which were their only two stops on the way to Cusco. So, does that change your opinion regarding the accuracy of this plane? Better? Worse?
Given how badly it fits what we see in the movie, both in terms of livery and context, and how many positive comments this set got when it was released, I kinda suspect that someone on the IJ design team just really badly wanted to design a DC-3, and shoehorned whatever they had to into the set to justify it. Then they either opted for a livery that had more pop than what we see in the film, or they looked up the livery for the wrong airline on accident. Keep in mind that, of the four IJ films, this is the only one that they had to design sets for before the movie was complete. For the previous three, they were able to endlessly rewatch scenes on home video. The original trilogy released on VHS through the 80's, and DVD in 2003, but the sets and fourth film arrived five years later.
@Trigger_:
The Flying Wing is certainly more iconic, gets a lot more screen time, and was actually on the majority of lists of sets people wanted to see made from this film series, but the DC-3 is easily regarded as the best aircraft that was designed for the LEGO theme, while the Flying Wing might be the worst. To do that one properly, you really need to ditch the preformed airplane wing and up the piece count considerably. I've seen a couple MOCs that look a lot better than the official Flying Wing, but people loved this rendition of the DC-3.
What a cheesy, alliterative name. And a made up scene that never was in the movie. It's still good though.
The way the curved windows are done is pretty unique, but works.
So long, Indiana Jones set!