Indy and the Deadly Scorpion (1 Viewer)

[WesternOutlaw]

"Our desert scorpions can be quite deadly, Dr. Jones..."

 

[villagehorse]

Another creature you can identify with Indy. Good one Rob. Robin.

 

[Horus]

Never saw a Scorpion in all my trips to Egypt Rob, but did once, just a couple of months after the revolution there in 2011, when laws were pretty lax, see a local doing a snake charmers street show with two Cobras, I can assure you I gave that as wide a birth as possible. I'm with Jones, I hate snakes !

I remember on a tour in Thailand the local guide ate a fried Scorpion at a street market, it sounded crispy !

 

[mestell]

Snakes and scorpions. All we need now are big hairy spiders.
Mike

 

[jason foote]

Great stuff Rob, love this Indy figure

 

[WesternOutlaw]

Thanks fellas. This one was actually inspired from an episode of Johnny Quest called, Curse of Anubis.
Spiders, hmmm...

 

[Louis Badolato]

Thanks fellas. This one was actually inspired from an episode of Johnny Quest called, Curse of Anubis.
Spiders, hmmm...

So the bad guy is an Arabic Egyptologist who wants to frame Dr. Quest for steeling the Statue of Anubis? Sim sim salabim! Johnny Quest is my son and my favorite cartoon! You might have noticed that my avatar is Race Bannon.

 

[Woodyskysolo]

"Our desert scorpions can be quite deadly, Dr. Jones..."

Brilliant Rob. Paul

 

[WesternOutlaw]

So the bad guy is an Arabic Egyptologist who wants to frame Dr. Quest for steeling the Statue of Anubis? Sim sim salabim! Johnny Quest is my son and my favorite cartoon! You might have noticed that my avatar is Race Bannon.

You remember your Quest episodes quite well, Louis. One of the better episodes in fact. Ahmed Kareem was the villain but suffered the "Curse of Anubis" in the end.

Here's one for you, a "little treasure" I picked up several years ago:

Brilliant Rob. Paul

Thanks much Paul.

 

[Louis Badolato]

You remember your Quest episodes quite well, Louis. One of the better episodes in fact. Ahmed Kareem was the villain but suffered the "Curse of Anubis" in the end.

Here's one for you, a "little treasure" I picked up several years ago:

Thanks much Paul.

Great stuff, Paul!

When my kids were little, we watched the DVD of the original Johnny Quest series pretty much every day. I built garage model kits of the characters, and, because the action figures prototypes were advertised, but never released, I made my kids 1:6 scale action figures of Johnny, Hadji, Race and Dr. Quest (I made the heads of the dolls myself, then was able to obtain the prototype heads from the original doll sculptor, but chose my heads for Johnny and Hadji and used the prototype heads for Race and Dr. Quest):

 

[Horus]

Nice one Louis.

 

[WesternOutlaw]

That's really cool, Louis (and nicely done). How fun!
Imagine if TG created a set of these figures...

 

[WesternOutlaw]

Here's a little poster card I created a few years back with a few Playmobil items:

 

[WesternOutlaw]

Hey Louis, I'm looking at Jonny and Hadji's head sculpts. How the heck did you make these? They're so realistic.

 

[Woodyskysolo]

Great stuff, Paul!

When my kids were little, we watched the DVD of the original Johnny Quest series pretty much every day. I built garage model kits of the characters, and, because the action figures prototypes were advertised, but never released, I made my kids 1:6 scale action figures of Johnny, Hadji, Race and Dr. Quest (I made the heads of the dolls myself, then was able to obtain the prototype heads from the original doll sculptor, but chose my heads for Johnny and Hadji and used the prototype heads for Race and Dr. Quest):
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Fantastic job Louis . Being English I have to admit that I have never seen or heard who Johnny Quest is but you and Rob seem to really like him. I will have to Google him. All the best Paul

 

[Louis Badolato]

Hey Louis, I'm looking at Jonny and Hadji's head sculpts. How the heck did you make these? They're so realistic.

Johnny I made out of the head for an Anakim Skywalker. I used super-sculpty to create the pompador and an exacto knife to carve the features. Hadji's head was made from an Avatar Airbender's head, which I carved to look like Hadji with an exacto knife and made a turban out of some 1:6 scale puttees and a jewel from one of my daughter's craft sets. I cut the crap out of my fingers doing these heads!

 

[WesternOutlaw]

Really impressive, Louis.

 

[Louis Badolato]

Fantastic job Louis . Being English I have to admit that I have never seen or heard who Johnny Quest is but you and Rob seem to really like him. I will have to Google him. All the best Paul

Paul,

For my money, it was the best cartoon Hanna Barbera ever made. It was only on for one season, because animation was done by hand back in the 1960's, so the level of realism employed to make Johnny Quest was prohibitively expensive. It was an action/adventure series, with some great aircraft depicted, from a Sopwith Camel and Fokker DR1 in an episode about an evil WWI ace, to a DeHaviland Tiger Moth in an episode about them discovering cavemen on top of a mountain in Africa. My favorite episode, Turu the Terrible, has them on the "Amazon Queen" (a steamboat copied from the African Queen of Bogart/Hepburn fame) when they are attacked by a pterodactyl that somehow survived from dinosaur times and became the pet of a mad scientist confined to a wheelchair. I think you would definitely enjoy catching an episode or two.

 

[WesternOutlaw]

I purchased the complete series a few years back. My favorite cartoon as a kid and I still enjoy watching the episodes.

 

[Horus]

Fantastic job Louis . Being English I have to admit that I have never seen or heard who Johnny Quest is but you and Rob seem to really like him. I will have to Google him. All the best Paul

I don't remember seeing it as a kid in the sixties either Paul, back then of course, I would of only have seen it in B&W anyway !

But do remember seeing it a couple of times when roped into looking after nephew and nieces Years ago.

One of my favourite cartoons as a kid was Marine Boy, which was dubbed into English from Japanese.

One of the scariest, kids tv programmes I remember seeing as a kid was an imported East German kids series, The Singing Ringing Tree, which had this creepy dwarf in it !