1/6 Sideshow 1:6 Indiana Jones - Temple of Doom

[Prime Clone]

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Great repaint, but I think that also reaffirms how much SS's stock paint apps have improved.

 

[Asta]

Well from the 2008 Making of Indy book, the village scenes were some of the first scenes shot for the movie, so clearly by the time they got to the interior Temple stuff they had lost track of what he was supposed to look like by the end.

I love that book.

Or who knows, maybe for the walk back he just decided to store the holster in the backplack Short Round was carrying, since there wasn't much use for it anymore.

Found a page with thousands of screencaps which might prove useful.


Shorty returns without his backpack:

The only other place is in the gas mask bag:

Then a moment later, as bmarz1000 wrote, the bag seems to have gone:

 

[TaliBane]

A movie set in India, is then banned in India. I wonder how often that's happened?

 

[Asta]

I just realized that Indy didn't take the stone from his bag, but from his jacket pocket.

When he came up from the bridge he didn't have the bag:

Walking down into Mayapore the bag is back:

And then gone again.

 

[Timemeddler]

I guess it's what somebody said earlier - they must have filmed that scene with them walking back into the village early on in the shoot. It doesn't make sense for him to keep the bag after the bridge scene, as it gets ruined when the Sankarra stones burn through the side of it!!

 

[momaw]

He didn't have his jacket either on the bridge. Maybe he left the bag with the jacket in the Thugee coat check.

 

[Asta]

There are some answers in James Kahn's novelization.

After Mola Ram's death:

Indy put the last Sankara Stone, now dark again, into his pocket.

...

They rested a few days at the palace.

...

Indy took the stone from his pocket, unwrapped it from the bit of Sankara cloth he still had.

...

The shaman reverently took the stone from Indy...

So the bag was gone, but incorrectly filmed as being worn by Indy on the return to Mayapore.

During the days spent recuperating at the palace Indy retrieved his jacket and changed his trousers. The whereabouts of the gun belt and holster, however, remain a mystery.

 

[Michael Mercy]

Interesting about the disappearing bag at the end of Temple of Doom, because I just watched Last Crusade again, and Indy has the bag before the Knight stands up and takes a swipe at him, and then he doesn't have it a second later. I'm assuming the knight cut the strap on the bag? But we don't see the bag fall or even hear it. Odd way for Indy to lose one of his most iconic pieces of gear.

 

[davejames]

I think the intention was probably that Indy would somehow lose the holster during the struggle on the bridge, but they then forgot to film that bit.

Either that or Spielberg just wanted an excuse to have him carrying the whip on his shoulder instead of on the holster, and just said "screw the continuity, no one will ever notice or care about this."

 

[bmarz1000]

I think the intention was probably that Indy would somehow lose the holster during the struggle on the bridge, but they then forgot to film that bit.

Either that or Spielberg just wanted an excuse to have him carrying the whip on his shoulder instead of on the holster, and just said "screw the continuity, no one will ever notice or care about this."

If he only knew.

 

[Asta]

Received my second SS TOD Indy today. Arrived mint in the SS brown shipper.

Only thing was that the seller indicated it was the Exclusive in the description as they'd copied the Exclusive's descriptions from Sideshow. They were understanding enough to issue a partial refund, so the regular cost me less than £145 delivered. (With a $20 code a regular would have cost about £200 direct from Sideshow).

First order of the day was to give the sculpt to the DX05 with the HT fedora:

Non screen accurate injuries, of course, but if I turn his head to show only the bruise it looks like he just got belted by the German Mechanic.

Next, find a use for the remainder of the figure. Had to employ the DX05 sculpt with the SS TOD fedora; and wanted to put the SS ROTLA jacket to use to create a non-movie Indy.

SS ROTLA trousers didn't work because the Pro 1.0 is a short figure so they get pulled up tight round Indy's crown jewels. So ripped trousers and a bandaged hand indicates he's having a rough time during some unspecified adventure.

A tale of three Indys:

 

[Timemeddler]

Custom TOD Indy Mk II. And this isn't meant as an anti-Sideshow comment, just my own take on the TOD look.

 

[Timemeddler]

Why does everything keep posting sideways..?!!

 

[Mad Old Lu]

A tale of three Indys:

Nice looking group, Kuat!

 

[Asta]

Nice looking group, Kuat!

Thanks!

Of course, the DX05 sculpt photographs horribly. But the funny thing is that since I put it on the SS body and added the old SS jacket, it doesn't seem as bad as it did with the stock body and outfit.

 

[davejames]

Has anybody tried removing the cuts and bruises with some rubbing alcohol? Or is it on there a bit more permanently than the weathering on R2 was?

 

[TaliBane]

Has anybody tried removing the cuts and bruises with some rubbing alcohol? Or is it on there a bit more permanently than the weathering on R2 was?

Good question, though you have to wonder if the light spray of skintone will be as durable as the thick silver on R2's dome.

 

[Timemeddler]

Right way up this time!

 

[bmarz1000]

Great pic! What body is that?

Probably belongs in the custom Indy section though. This is the thread for the Sideshow Temple Indy.

 

[paramoremcr88]

Indy's home! Thanks so much for working your magic Jake