Definitely a nice looking plane, in a nice color as well. I wish the tail flaps were a bit smaller, and I like the engine design of 6615 a bit more. I think that one nailed the size ratio a little better. Plus, that yellow knob is too big. Even the propeller feels too large on this one.

@PurpleDave said:
" @Maxbricks14 :
I'm assuming you mean historical accuracy, and not sharpshooting. However:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopwith_Camel /media/File:Sopwith_Camel_at_the_Imperial_War_Museum.jpg

@dimc :
6615, being a stunt plane, looks more like it's a biplane version of the Gee Bee, which was all engine and no wing. WWI combat biplanes had longer propeller blades than what 6615 depicts. The famed Sopwith Camel's propeller, oriented vertically, spans the distance between the upper wing and the axle for the landing gear. It also only has two blades, which probably made it easier to work out the timing issues so you wouldn't cut the blades off the first time you pulled the trigger."

The mechanism worked by the machine gun being synchronised with the propeller so that no damage would be done to the propellers.

@legoDad42 Yes, you're right. it just looked like one, and the position made me think i was right.

@StyleCounselor said:
"7198"

https://impdb.fandom.com/wiki/Indiana_Jones_and_the_Last_Crusade?file=IJLCSV4.jpg

Looks like a 2-blade propeller to me. Also, that’s a Stampe et Vertongen SV.4 trainer/tourer that was dressed up like a combat plane for the film. While six military forces across four nations did use them, it doesn’t look like any had standard armament. Being from 1933, it was probably hopelessly outclassed by even the monowing fighters at the start of WWII, so using them to train rookie pilots who couldn’t be trusted with shooty bits was comparable to the US turning luxury paddleboat cruise ships into aircraft carriers they could use to train Navy pilot recruits on the Great Lakes. Useful for the war effort, as long as it didn’t involve getting shot at.

@Maxbricks14 said:
"The mechanism worked by the machine gun being synchronised with the propeller so that no damage would be done to the propellers."

And this was accomplished with the invention of an interrupter gear that prevented the gun from firing whenever a propeller blade was directly in front of the barrel. The more blades you have to shoot between, the less often your gun can actually fire.

@peterlmorris said:
"I’ve had this set forever. It’s one of the few where I actually applied stickers to the aircraft. One day some years ago I lost my balance while playing with my kids. I stepped on the plane and broke the vertical stabilizer.

Except that it’s held on by the sticker. Later, one of the round wing pieces broke because it’s that older dark red. I love this plane. But dang it just does not want to be together any more. "

“We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (LEGO’s Version)”

One of my favorite sets ever. Still got it built.

@Maxbricks14 said:
"Pharaoh's quest, the re-booted Adventurers.

I really like that military style bi-plane with the rotating cannons under the wing and the two on top. they should be in-front of the pilot for accuracy but, it adheres to the original adventurers planes."

accuracy Went out of the window when fun entered with flying mummy.

this set was everything man i love it so much

Ah, the Spirit of Luis. One of my favourite biplanes.
Who cares about accuracy at this size in a play set? It looks cool, that's all that counts.

@Brickalili:
And the Anubis guards in 7327? Horus is one of the more significant gods of the Egyptian pantheon, and if the theme had continued long enough, we probably would have seen several other animal headdresses.

Loved this set - one of the ones that helped draw my dark ages to a close!

The biggest sadness is the stickers - especially those on the obelisk when adventurers had a print.

Aside from that little gripe, great set and figs

@PurpleDave said:
" @Brickalili:
And the Anubis guards in 7327? Horus is one of the more significant gods of the Egyptian pantheon, and if the theme had continued long enough, we probably would have seen several other animal headdresses."

Imagine a boat set that has crocodile headed/dressed mummies popping up. Neither this theme nor Adventurers really made anything of Egypt having the arguably largest river in the world running right through it, would have something a bit more original amidst all the cars and planes

Pharaos Quest was a good theme. Not great, but certainly good. The reasn I say that is that it was heavy on the action-adventure and less so on the mystery and world building like Adventurers. The treasures were relatively easy to find. There were traps, but not that many outside the pyramid. Instead everything was guarded by giant statues and mummies.
Still, it was one of the many good-to-amazing original themes of 2011!

@Brickalili said:
" @PurpleDave said:
" @Brickalili:
And the Anubis guards in 7327? Horus is one of the more significant gods of the Egyptian pantheon, and if the theme had continued long enough, we probably would have seen several other animal headdresses."

Imagine a boat set that has crocodile headed/dressed mummies popping up. Neither this theme nor Adventurers really made anything of Egypt having the arguably largest river in the world running right through it, would have something a bit more original amidst all the cars and planes"

For what it's worth, 5928 Bi-Wing Barron depicts a river for one of the alternate builds (some sort of flat catamaran). And there's 1182 Adventuring Raft. I remember this because the water looks green, weirdly enough. And Baron von Baron is depicted submerging his map with the stock of a rifle. He looks so done with it.

@PurpleDave said:
" @Maxbricks14:
I'm assuming you mean historical accuracy, and not sharpshooting. However:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopwith_Camel/media/File:Sopwith_Camel_at_the_Imperial_War_Museum.jpg

@dimc:
6615, being a stunt plane, looks more like it's a biplane version of the Gee Bee, which was all engine and no wing. WWI combat biplanes had longer propeller blades than what 6615 depicts. The famed Sopwith Camel's propeller, oriented vertically, spans the distance between the upper wing and the axle for the landing gear. It also only has two blades, which probably made it easier to work out the timing issues so you wouldn't cut the blades off the first time you pulled the trigger."

Yeah well 6615 still looks better haha.

@Brickalili said:
"Imagine a boat set that has crocodile headed/dressed mummies popping up."

You mean Sobek? He’s not really that well-known. Set would probably be next in line, with his head of an unidentified “Set animal”. The bird could also be Ra (not sure there’s enough there to determine which was intended, but the headdress could easily work for Ra or Horus…or apparently several other Egyptian deities). Khepri might have been a bit of a stretch, but he might actually be possible if you can figure out how to attach to scarab shield to a minifig’s neck. Bast or Thoth are other possibilities. But realistically, if you didn’t see the head used in Stargate, it would have been a long shot to see in production.

@MCLegoboy said:
"As Silver Convention once sang:

Fly mummy fly
Fly mummy fly...
Fly mummy fly
Up, up to the sky!
...
Fly mummy fly
Fly mummy fly...
Fly mummy fly
Up, up to the sky!
...
Fly mummy fly
Fly mummy fly...
Fly mummy fly
Up, up to the sky!
...
Fly mummy fly
Fly mummy fly...
Fly mummy fly
Up, up to the sky!
...
Fly mummy fly...
Up, up to the sky!

I bet the Egyptians would have loved disco."

I was going to do walk like an Egyptian but with the word fly substituted, or even fly like an eagle (with mummy added instead) but I see the song quota has been filled for today...

I love the Pharaoh's quest theme! Has some great minifigs, and some really cool sets. Only downside compared to the Adventurer's theme it had only one wave, and uses stickers instead of printed pieces for some things. Plus side is that it combines with the Egyptian wave of Adventurers really well I think.

With this particular set I think my favorite part is the obelisk; I just think those things are so cool.

The Pharaoh's Quest theme was so cool!

@PurpleDave said:
" @Brickalili said:
"Imagine a boat set that has crocodile headed/dressed mummies popping up."

You mean Sobek? He’s not really that well-known. Set would probably be next in line, with his head of an unidentified “Set animal”. The bird could also be Ra (not sure there’s enough there to determine which was intended, but the headdress could easily work for Ra or Horus…or apparently several other Egyptian deities). Khepri might have been a bit of a stretch, but he might actually be possible if you can figure out how to attach to scarab shield to a minifig’s neck. Bast or Thoth are other possibilities. But realistically, if you didn’t see the head used in Stargate, it would have been a long shot to see in production."

Honestly once you’re past the jackal for Anubis and falcon for Horus, none of the Egyptian deities particularly stick in the popular subconscious. People can probably name Set but the animal that represents him is unidentifiable so isn’t going to make a particularly great headpiece, it’ll just come across as a wonky jackal. Hence picking crocodiles for Sobek, because at least those would be solidly distinctive. Stick a mummy in a crocodile hat and it’s nice and obvious it’s wearing a crocodile hat

"Are you my mummy?"

...somebody needs to put one of these mummies on the Orient Express, STAT!

@Brickalili said:
" @PurpleDave said:
" @Brickalili said:
"Imagine a boat set that has crocodile headed/dressed mummies popping up."

You mean Sobek? He’s not really that well-known. Set would probably be next in line, with his head of an unidentified “Set animal”. The bird could also be Ra (not sure there’s enough there to determine which was intended, but the headdress could easily work for Ra or Horus…or apparently several other Egyptian deities). Khepri might have been a bit of a stretch, but he might actually be possible if you can figure out how to attach to scarab shield to a minifig’s neck. Bast or Thoth are other possibilities. But realistically, if you didn’t see the head used in Stargate, it would have been a long shot to see in production."

Honestly once you’re past the jackal for Anubis and falcon for Horus, none of the Egyptian deities particularly stick in the popular subconscious. People can probably name Set but the animal that represents him is unidentifiable so isn’t going to make a particularly great headpiece, it’ll just come across as a wonky jackal. Hence picking crocodiles for Sobek, because at least those would be solidly distinctive. Stick a mummy in a crocodile hat and it’s nice and obvious it’s wearing a crocodile hat"

The Adventurers maps did depict four gods. I think they're meant to depict Khnum (ram head on the '20' map), Anubis (Jackal head on the '40' map), Thoth (Ibis head on '60' map) and Horus (Falcon head on '80' map).
The '20' map: https://img.bricklink.com/ItemImage/PN/2/3068px21.png
The '40' map: https://img.bricklink.com/ItemImage/PN/2/3068px19.png
The '60' map: https://img.bricklink.com/ItemImage/PN/2/3068px20.png
The '80' map: https://img.bricklink.com/ItemImage/PN/2/3068px13.png

@Brickalili:
Set may not be possible to nail down a positive ID, but it’s dog-like enough that I’m not sure it matters. Bast is a cat, Thoth is an ibis, Khepri a scarab beetle, plus there were frogs, snakes, a cobra (apparently distinct from a “serpent” or “snake”), a hippo (but maybe skip Tawaret), a lion, a bull, a scorpion, a ram, a hare, a baboon…basically, if they were aware of it, and could procure them to mummify as an aspect of some god or another, there was probably a god with that animal for a head.

@Binnekamp:
Ra had a stable of animals he could wear as heads, and a ram was one of them. Could be Ra, instead of Khnum.

@PurpleDave
In your haste to demonstrate knowledge you seem to be missing what I’m actually saying because listing Egyptian gods with animal features does nothing to discount what I said about those gods being -recognisable- or particularly iconic. If I’d said “Egyptian gods don’t have animal features” your list would be pertinent, but as my point was rather towards how those features would be received as minifig attire its kinda irrelevant

I really liked this set. Since I missed out on the classic adventurers theme, pharaoh's quest was a big deal to me. I regret taking the plane apart; those dark red pieces were brittle and I broke many of them. If you have this set still assembled I would recommend being gentle with the plane.

Jake Raines cutting down some mummies on behalf of the RAF.

Ooh, I have this one!

The bi-plane has been in the possession of my previously-planefree Harry Cane since about 0.2 minutes after I built it, and it's my clear favourite in the set, though the obelisk has some nice parts and the flying mummies are a neat addition.

Would I want the $200 nostalgia remake? Yes. Yes. I'd rather a 1998 Adventurers set, with the 1998 Adventurers, in my remake, but I like all Egyptian-themed LEGO.

This was the only set I ever got from this theme as a kid. I wanted to like the theme more as a whole, but i just did't have the same charm as the Orient (*shudders*) Expedition sets that I had a few of when I was even younger.

@Brickalili:
What I was trying to say is, put any animal head on a human body wearing nothing but a short towel around the waist, and a lot of people are just going to assume “Egyptian deity”. Even the famous ones, most people off the street wouldn’t be able to match to the specific animal, but jackal head is “one of them”. Falcon head is “one of them, too”. Anubis certainly has name recognition, but I’m not sure Horus does. People might think you’re saying “Horace”.