I love this theme, but the movie is totally forgettable.

Fond memories of this set and theme. I’d love to see more sets like this.

This is actually one of my first Lego sets that I ever got. So seeing it here makes me pretty nostalgic.

Yeah, this was a weird one, wasn't it? I watched the movie, and neither hated it nor loved it, but the sets weren't bad. I picked up an ostrich on Bricklink that year, I remember.

It has become the duty of the commenters to find similarities between different Random Sets. Yesterday's used animal moulds, and so does this one. I must point out, though, that Huwbot's interests have been changing rather swiftly!

Forget about the movies, but do play the Sands of Time trilogy of games. Basic platformers, but they left a very strong impression! The whole Assassin Creed series is based on how nice it is to move , paltform and fight in those games!

I like the printing on the horsey, the rest I can live without.

Never saw the movie either, but as I was emerging from my dark age I got a lot of these sets off of Ebay when I found out about their existence. For a fan of the old Pirates and Castle themes, these sets complemented my taste for more historical era type sets.

SERIOUSLY- if any of you can find the Alamut castle set from this theme for a decent price, I highly recommend it. It’s a beautiful build.

@xboxtravis7992
Yeah, I wanted the Resistance Bomber for the same reasons, but HP came back the next year and my budget went towards that.

Even as a kid my brother and I appreciated this set for the parts pack it was, having never seen or intended to see the movie. Pretty much every part in here is good for something, and all of them got plenty of use.

That is a fantastic horse. Didn't watch the movie, but I did pick up a few sets in this theme; mainly to expand my Indiana Jones Lego world, and because I loved the ostriches and camels!

I liked the movie, good, nobrainer romp!

I have this set somewhere, the minifigs anyway. Must have come in a job lot I think. Nice little set.

the only interesting thing from PoP are the Austriches.

@PurpleDave said:
" @Norikins:
The Night Buzzard? Haven't heard that one before...

@Isabella_and_Lego_Liker:
Adventure Time also ended up with three Dimensions packs (1x Fun, 1x Team, 1x Level). I'm also realizing there are a lot more licensors than I was thinking at the moment. Besides several brand licenses (car companies, building owners, NASA, Discovery Channel, NatGeo, sports teams, etc.), I think I have a fairly exhaustive list assembled here:

Disney owns Star Wars/Disney Wars, Indiana Jones, The Simpsons, Toy Story, The Incredibles, Cars, Wall-E, Home Alone, PotC, Frozen, Disney Princess (and all the movies tied into that license), Mickey Mouse (and the rest of the core characters), all the other movies featured in the two CMF releases, TRON: Legacy, Steamboat Willie, Marvel, certain rights to Winnie the Pooh, Lone Ranger, Prince of Persia,

WB owns the original Batman, DC Superheroes, HP, LotR/Hobbit, Wizard of Oz, Scooby Doo, Gremlins, Goonies, Beetlejuice, Powerpuff Girls, Ben 10, much of the Midway Games catalog, The Big Bang Theory, Flintstones, that show about people who drink coffee, and co-owns TLM/TLM2 (and possibly the Unikitty! series) with The LEGO Company

Nickelodeon has TMNT, Spongebob

Universal has BttF, JP/JW, E.T., Minions, The A-Team, Knight Rider, Fast & Furious, Trolls, Voltron, and obviously Universal Monsters

BBC has Doctor Who (both Ideas and Dimensions)

Sony has Ghostbusters, Angry Birds, Seinfeld, and the first Spiderman theme

I think Valve licensed Portal 2, Sega licensed Sonic, Paramount licensed Mission Impossible, Mojang licensed Minecraft (and then Microsoft bought Mojang), Nintendo licensed Mario, Blizzard licensed Overwatch, Apple Corps licensed Yellow Submarine/The Beatles, Netflix licensed Stranger Things, Sesame Workshop licensed Sesame Street, and CinéGroupe licensed...Galidor.

I'm not sure exactly who licensed the James Bond set, since the distribution rights are split between US, pre-2015 international, and post-2015 international. I also don't know who licensed the Marylin Monroe mosaic (it was probably either her estate or Warhol's).

There are several unrepresented licenses that are exclusive to the Duplo/Explore lines. Also, it turns out Cartoon Network is ultimately owned by Warner, so I rolled all of those in the same way any Lucasfilm/Fox/Pixar licenses are included under the Disney banner."

I am glad to see you lumped Cartoon Network with WB. However, in addition to that, Nickelodeon is owned by CBS/Paramount. So Paramount's Mission Impossible and Nickelodeon's stuff should be lumped together, and there was an Airbender Lego theme a while back to add to that conglomerate. Also, Indiana Jones at the time it was a Lego theme was a Paramount property as well, and since you made a note that Spider-Man was Sony at the time of the movie theme in 2004ish, before it became a Disney merch property, I thought that was relevant info.

I’ve got two of every PoP set except this one (just the one). Still waiting for new desert sets ten years later...

The villains make great SW tatooine figs as well. They already have the desert feel.

I watched the movie in the cinema and liked it. I ended up with most if not all of the Lego sets, I thought they were excellent, especially the castle. It was a different style of architecture to the European castles.

I never saw the movie but loved playing the game in the 1990's. My main regret now is that I never knew in 2010 that there was the Arabian fort set: Battle of Alamut 7573, which looks fantastic both closed and opened up to play on the inside. It also has so many playable bobby-traps which my kids would have loved, but it is a shame Lego have not done any further Arabian themes for todays kids even though they do appear in Lego ideas and rebrickable.

Now there's a theme I have never heard of before.
Looks interesting. Pity I was more or less still in my dark ages back then.

@Graupensuppe said:
"Unfortunately Prince of Persia (alongside Indiana Jones, Pirates of the Caribbean, and The Lone Ranger) was one of the last good historical/adventure themes Lego released :("

Completely agree, glad some other LEGO fans are thinking the same!

No matter who wins that skeleton gets someone to hang out with so he’s just happy to be there

LOL! Hard to believe Jake Gyllenhaal has TWO minifigures.

You have to ask yourself, is Mysterio just an extension of Bubble Boy?

@Zander said:
"^ @Cooliocdawg, In this universe, Trump has recently been re-elected president of the US, the world is battling a terrible virus called MORBID-91, Chinese bootlegger LEGO continues to sell knock-offs of Lepin sets, and AFOL is an acronym for Adult Fan of Lepin. Isn’t that what it’s like where you’re from?
"

I’m gonna be honest, I haven’t laughed as hard as I just did after reading that in a while!

@xboxtravis7992:
Bombers and cargo planes are easier to maintain over the decades because they tend to fly long, straight paths with low-g maneuvers. They probably also spend a lot more time on the ground than passenger planes. Fighter jets, on the other hand, do a lot of high-g maneuvers that put a ton of stress on the airframe, so even if the plane has a long service life, it usually requires swapping out the wings periodically. Also, while _the_ F-15 may have a long service life, _an_ F-15 may have been sent to the scrapyard already. In the US, all of the F-15A/B aircraft have been retired as of 2009, and all the F-15C/D aircraft will be retired in about five years or so. The F-15E (technically a different plane) is currently slated for another 10 years after that. We are buying new F-15EX fighters, but that's primarily for use by Air National Guard units, not regular USAF.

@JasonBall34:
You're right about Avatar. There may be others that I forgot about as well, and I purposefully skipped the Duplo/Explorer lines because I wasn't sure, beyond Bob and Dora, which were licensed and which weren't. You're wrong about Indiana Jones, though. IJ is, and always has been, a Lucasfilm property. Star Wars was a bit goofy because Lucas didn't have the money to self-finance when the first movie came out, so Fox owned that from the start. He traded some of his pay as director for ownership of the IP and all the merchandising rights, and from Ep5 on, Fox only handled distribution. Even after Disney bought Lucasfilm, they were only slated to get digital rights to the original Star Wars film this year, and Fox would have still kept 100% of the rights to physical copies including film prints and home video.

@Cooliocdawg:
There's no set called "Night Buzzard", so I figured that it _was_ a snide comment, probably about that horky, half-baked shuttle that Darth Crybaby stomped off of the first time anyone rolled their eyes at him. Turns out they actually slapped Darth Vader's grill on a flying brick, asked the folks that produce Ducktales to come up with a name for it...and The LEGO Company said, "Yeah...no...we can't call it that or nobody will want to buy it."

@PurpleDave said:
"There may be others that I forgot about as well, and I purposefully skipped the Duplo/Explorer lines because I wasn't sure, beyond Bob and Dora, which were licensed and which weren't."

My toddler would like me to remind you of Thomas & Friends. He plays with some Thomas & Friends Duplo that he inherited from his cousin and some of his favorite characters that I've had to get from eBay.

@PurpleDave
So you’re saying you intentionally try to find fault in everything? And you just proved my point by feeling the need to point out how I was wrong. Seriously, every article, you come in and try to prove that you know more than everyone else in the comment section. Even though I agree with a lot of what you say, it’s a little annoying to hear it in such a harsh way all the time.

Was One of My Favorite sets I got, I loved the Claws on The Assassin's.

@PurpleDave said:
"You're right about Avatar. There may be others that I forgot about as well, and I purposefully skipped the Duplo/Explorer lines because I wasn't sure, beyond Bob and Dora, which were licensed and which weren't. You're wrong about Indiana Jones, though. IJ is, and always has been, a Lucasfilm property. Star Wars was a bit goofy because Lucas didn't have the money to self-finance when the first movie came out, so Fox owned that from the start. He traded some of his pay as director for ownership of the IP and all the merchandising rights, and from Ep5 on, Fox only handled distribution. Even after Disney bought Lucasfilm, they were only slated to get digital rights to the original Star Wars film this year, and Fox would have still kept 100% of the rights to physical copies including film prints and home video."

I'm just saying, Paramount distributed Indy in theaters, even though it is of course a Lucasfilm property. And I believe Paramount still has some hold over the old movies' distribution. Raiders aired on CBS (Paramount) a few months ago, all 4 are on Netflix, none are on Disney+. Obviously you're right about all the Fox Star Wars stuff and Indy is definitely currently a Disney IP going forward, but, again, since you listed the old Spider-Man theme under Sony I thought it was relevant to point out Indy was Paramount *at the time of its Lego theme.* Also, you didn't mention the current Marvel Superheroes theme anywhere, unless my eyes are deceiving me.

@PDelahanty :
Yeah, I knew I was missing several licensed IPs in the Duplo/Explore section. I figured McStuffins, Jake, Miles, and a few others were all licensed, but I didn't have to look up Bob or Dora to know for sure. Also, I find that most people aren't as concerned about Duplo/Explore when it comes to discussing licensed IP because none of them are geared towards AFOLs*.

Specifically for Thomas, I couldn't even see it listed. I was using the Bricklink set category pages as a reference, and they only list themes and sub-themes. Train is a theme, but because Duplo is also a theme, Duplo Train is only a sub-theme. Thomas, therefore, gets bumped to sub-sub-theme where you can't see it.

Dimensions was the worst, because there's so many different themes represented, but their category tree treats Dimensions as the theme, and "Dimensions Wave X" as the sub-themes (so all the major IP names get pushed to sub-sub-theme level), plus several prominent packs (like Gremlins and E.T.) didn't show up at all when I pulled up the main theme category. And I'm still trying to figure out how the Joker/Harley Team Pack got cataloged as "Dimensions: Dimensions Wave 3: Super Heroes**: Western***"

*I know someone who was running Thomas MOCs on his layout long before the official sets came out (I actually informed him that I'd seen the first wave of sets in person during a major event, and he went out and bought some that day), but they weren't something they _intended_ to market to adults.

**Not DC, not DC Superheroes, and not Superheroes. Super. Heroes.

***Western? I got nothing.

@JasonBall34:
The Spiderman theme was based off the first two Tobey Maguire movies, and Sony had all the marketing rights to those movies. Marvel probably had veto rights on anything they did (which I know Disney used to play hardball with Fox over the X-Men/FF by putting a blanket ban on any related merchandising once Marvel Studios started making some money), but Sony signed the papers. If you look at the bottom of an Indiana Jones set, though, it says "(C) Lucasfilm".

There are some fundamental differences in the way the two contracts were set up. Marvel was flat broke when they made a deal with Sony. They sold off the movie rights to _every_ IP that anyone was interested in buying, and did so from a position of weakness. The rights, in most cases, were in perpetuity, and would only revert back to Marvel if the studios stopped producing movies. Marvel would get a cut of the box office and merchandising, but the studios got the lion's share of both. In the end, Sony kept running aground, and the appeal of having that MCU stamp to drive audiences to watch their films proved too hard to resist, so, like Universal before them with Hulk, they worked an odd deal that made them give up a lot of creative control, but still maintain ownership of the movie rights. I don't know if they had to give up anything on merchandising, but the LEGO theme was long gone by the time this deal was signed.

Compare that to Indiana Jones. Lucas got insanely rich on one thing: little plastic action figures. He didn't even have to make them, but he's pulled in more money over the years from merchandising than he has from box office (and he's considered to be the most successful independent movie producer of all time). He was able to self-finance Ep5 from all the money he raked in over the three years prior, and could have done the same for Raiders. There was one tiny little problem. Spielberg is DGA. Lucas dropped out of the Academy when they fined him for putting the name of the first Star Wars film ahead of the main cast credits (no, seriously, that's actually a thing, which is why some movies don't show the title until the end credits are done). Spielberg couldn't direct a film for LFL due to union rules. They had to go through Paramount, but Lucas had enough clout at the time that he could retain the merchandising rights without them protesting.

So, that's how Paramount can still be in control of the distribution of the four Indy films (and the TV series), even though Disney now owns the IP, but not even get listed on the boxes of the LEGO sets. If Disney thought Indy was as lucrative as Star Wars, we'd already be awash in Disneyana Jones films, and they'd be making offers to Paramount to either buy them outright or at least buy ownership of the Indy back catalog.

And I did mention Marvel. It's buried in the Disney pile, near the end.

@rab1234:
I missed a few properties that I should have remembered, plus one corporate tie, and intentionally skipped all the Duplo/Explore pile. Sorting out the actual ownership on a lot of these things gets downright onerous, as well. Wizard of Oz was licensed to MGM for the Judy Garland film, but MGM has been carved up like a Christmas ham. The easiest way to find out who has their finger in the pie is to see whose name is on the set boxes. Currently, Warner holds the copyright to that film, and all original depictions therein (including all the character designs and the famous ruby slippers).

If this list was going to be published someplace where it would be easy to find, it would need a lot of work. I do know people who could sort out a lot of the corporate side of things, but I only know them outside of the hobby (specifically pertaining to a 90+ year old movie palace that's run by a non-profit group that we're all members of). And their level of expertise probably doesn't extend to ownership of Nickelodeon. There's also another issue involved. Do you just list these all under Disney, or do you include sub-ownership levels (like sub-themes) where you split it up as Disney: Lucasfilm, Disney: Pixar, Disney: Fox, Disney: Marvel and so forth? If so, that's the sort of thing that really gets into coding territory, and Huw would have to decide it's worth making a heirarchy tree for licensed IP themes. It would be cool to see done, but it would require an insane amount of work to get it correct.

Good as a parts pack anyway