I never grew up with Adventurers and therefore never got to appreciate these but if I can ever find suitable enough pieces I might try recreating a few of the play feature sections someday. Rebuilding the Indy sets is my top priority, though— what play feature is better than finding a guy hanging? (skeleton in Indiana Jones and the Lost Tomb) On the topic of this theme, I’m making a trilogy of Indiana Jones-themed student films for my digital cinema production class and I almost named the main guy Johnny Thunder (after previously having an Easter Egg confirming his name is Jake Raines).

I own some parts from that set, they came in a parts lot I purchased in January. Had to choose to complete it or 6265 since the lot only had one palm tree. I preferred the Pirates set. The Johnny Thunder figure went to a 5918 that was missing his figure.

Oo-de-lally, I own this one. What a pleasant surprise. Sure is a classic! I agree with what @Miyakan said. This was my first Adventurers set, too.

I voted for this back in February’s poll of what classic set should be done as a gift w purchase: https://brickset.com/article/92105/result-which-classic-set-should-be-re-imagined-for-a-gift-with-purchase

Um...did the Baron just brake his neck? His head looks like it's twisted too far...

My fave part out of this series was the fig-wings, that finally got resurrected for Marvel's "Falcon".

@brick_r:
You mean the wings in 853176? Pharaoh’s Quest. 2011. Only three years before they got used for Falcon, so the mold might even be the same. Yes, one was opaque and the other transparent, but they only had a single ring connection, so tolerances wouldn’t have been super critical. And it’s possible the PQ wings were molded with the same plastic as the transparent ones.

One of my faves. I think I have a decent amount of the pieces still.

So, is this what caused the split? Was it Bush that ambushed Oasis?

@leetshoe I'd buy some more LEGO if this were remade as a GWP. Of course, at today's thresholds it might be cheaper to buy a new original.

@Miyakan and @PurpleDave: Ah, yes you're both right: I must of 'blended' the two themes...Could be because of similarities between them, at least in the 'first wave'...

Indiana Jones sets have come a looong way

@Miyakan said:
"My original Adventurers set!!!! This is a really good intro set to the theme. Skeleton, Good guy, Bad guy, play feature, and some great decorations! Really can't get much better than this!"

And guns, lots of guns.

I picked this up 11 years ago. I still love it a lot. It's just the perfect size and has neat play features. I'd buy a lot more new lego if they did more adventure and exploration oriented stuff like this again. As a kid it was so inspiring to see all those creative trap play features everywhere.
We need more good old trap doors!

One of the first adventurer sets I got back in the day. Those amazing palm trees, the play features... They really crammed a lot into such a small set. ??

@PurpleDave said:
" @leetshoe said:
"One of the best sets, where's the remake, Lego Group???"

7326?"

Probably the most Brendan Frasier Mummy set ever.

It may not be Indiana Jones, but this is pretty neat. The sphinx looks very good for the time.

Not quite my own original Adventurers set, but very close! As I wrote a whole article on back when Featured Set of the Day was a thing, 5906 was my first Adventurers set since I didn't discover the theme (or that Lego themes were a thing, period) until 1999; but this was my second Adventurers overall, and my first from the Egypt line.

Even now I remember getting it from the shop on the ferry on the way back from France that summer. Opening it up and building it in the cabin, having to be very careful not to lose pieces with the motion of the boat, since the sea was a bit rough that day.

I mostly chose to pick it up for Johnny Thunder, who I'd encountered through the comic in the third issue of the UK's Lego Adventures magazine; I had no idea who the guy in the suit was, or any knowledge of Egyptian stuff at that point. It just seemed like a cool set with a character who I wanted and an INSANELY COOL SKELETON. That was another figure who immediately became a favourite of mine; all the little details on the moulding? The floppy arms? The cool Egyptian-style hat? The whole vibe it gave of being *slightly* spooky but not overly much so? Everything about that figure just made me love it.

(Though let's be real; everything about the set was equally cool! I loved that trap-door piece so much as a kid, too...)

And then, when we got back home, I found my copy of the fifth Lego Adventures magazine had been delivered while we'd been out of the country - and, with absolutely perfect timing, the comic within was focused on this very theme! So within hours of getting the set, I knew that the suit guy was Slyboots, bumbling henchman of Mr. Hates (a.k.a. Baron Von Barron, a.k.a. Sam Sinister), and had the overall concept of what was going on in the theme.

And then, next term back at school, studying Egypt gave me even more context for the theme, and really cemented it as one of my all-time favourites - with this little set being the one responsible for kicking all that off for me ^^

@brick_r:
PQ did kinda feel like the Power Miners of Adventurers. Same theme, new cast and color schemes.

@Rimefang:
I recently ran across a DVD combo pack with the Mummy trilogy, and it feels like he did that, and fell off the face of the Earth until coming back for Doom Patrol.

I still can cite a large portion of the audio Drama included in the German Version xD

Lovely set, and I miss those chrome coins, as impractical and prone to losing as they were.

Would be such a nice GWP...

Adventurers FTW! Johnny Thunder beats Indiana Jones EVERY time!

@Murdoch17 said:
"Adventurers FTW! Johnny Thunder beats Indiana Jones EVERY time!"

What’s Johnny’s cumulative box office haul?

Someone will probably come up with an alternate build for 77013 : Escape from the Lost Tomb that will look similar to this. (I don't have that set, or I would)

I do have 2 Johnny Thunders from this first wave though : 5918 : Scorpion Tracker and 5900 : Adventurer - Johnny Thunder

@brick_r said:
"Um...did the Baron just brake his neck? His head looks like it's twisted too far... "
He's just looking back in anger, despite being told not to....

Well that's what I heard him say.

@sjr60:
Well...Someday we will find him, underneath the laaaaandsliiide...whoops, wrong song...how about:
To day, was gonna be the day...no?:)

@Miyakan said:
"My original Adventurers set!!!! This is a really good intro set to the theme. Skeleton, Good guy, Bad guy, play feature, and some great decorations! Really can't get much better than this!"

As summations of what made Adventurers perfect, you can't get much pithier than that--and this set was the same: the pithy, but complete, summation of what is my all-time favourite LEGO theme.

I never got Oasis Ambush, but since I had both Sphinx Secret Surprise and Pharaoh's Forbidden Ruins, I think I was doing okay.