The worst jacket ever

PLATON · Post by **PLATON** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:23 pm

Look how bad this jacket is

The pants color look accurate. For the rest I can't tell.

Opinions?

Gobler · Post by **Gobler** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:26 pm

Is that from the TOTFE ride at DL?

Cheers,
Jeff

PLATON · Post by **PLATON** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:35 pm

What's the DL?

It's from Madam Tausads.

Strider · Post by **Strider** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:43 pm

DL = Disney Land. The jacket wouldn't be so bad if it fit the mannequin.

Kt Templar · Post by **Kt Templar** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:47 pm

You might be surprised by that jacket. Yes the sleeve lining must be shot for the folded up leather to sag like that. But the collar has quite a LC look to it.

Scandinavia Jones · Post by **Scandinavia Jones** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 7:51 pm

Looks like Indy's been riding a boxcar sometime during the Great Depression... he's mad after he was thrown off by some mean railroad conductor.

Straight out of a Jack London novel...

Indiana G · Post by **Indiana G** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 8:24 pm

geesh, thats a horrible likeness...looks like a cross between nic cage and austin powers' boss, "basil". whats with the johnny depp-21 jump street hair do too?

i've been to Madam Tausads in vegas and was quite impressed by some of the exhibits but there are a couple that you would need to read the name tag and see who is being represented.....perhaps they are pushing to have his outfit identify him in this one (but they could have at least got that right

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Texas Raider · Post by **Texas Raider** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 2:36 am

I thought he looked like David Hasselhoff! In a bad '80s jacket!

TR

Havana · Post by **Havana** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 9:01 am

Scandinavia's right. Total hobo look. What's with the hole in his pants?

Gobler · Post by **Gobler** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 2:03 pm

I just thought it was Disney's ToTFE used in the dark background cause it looks so horrid

There are folks on this forum and at the RPF who put this Buttercup to shame..

Cheers,
Jeff

Scandinavia Jones · Post by **Scandinavia Jones** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 3:05 pm

Hmm... makes you wonder... check out this lobby card for the Depression/hobo flick "Emperor of the North" - something kinda familiar here...

VP · Post by VP » Fri Oct 06, 2006 3:32 pm

11 chapters for a walk? That's nothing. A Finnish classic novel called Alastalon salissa by Volter Kilpi (1933) consists of 900 pages about a meeting where some guys talk about investing in a ship. The meeting lasts only six hours. For example it takes 70 pages for one guy to walk to a pipe shelf on the other side of the room and choose the most suiting pipe.

http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alastalon_salissa

Kt Templar · Post by **Kt Templar** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 3:37 pm

Which Madam Tussauds is that? the London one or another? Has anyone seen it for real? As you really can't tell anything from that picture on a stick mannikin. You can't even see the pockets. Anyone know it's provenance?

Snakewhip_Sable · Post by **Snakewhip_Sable** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 3:41 pm

I thought Tussaud's museums cast the celebrities' faces these last 30 years or so.

VP · Post by VP » Fri Oct 06, 2006 3:44 pm

Heey, doesn't the jacket have some demon roll going on?

Post by **Michaelson** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 3:47 pm

Well, it does look possessed, now that you mention it.

Regards! Michaelson

Post by **Jens** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 4:04 pm

Kt Templar wrote:Which Madam Tussauds is that? the London one or another? Has anyone seen it for real? As you really can't tell anything from that picture on a stick mannikin. You can't even see the pockets. Anyone know it's provenance?

The picture in question was taken in the old exhibition of London's Madame Tussaud's.
They changed the arrangement recently.

We had a thread about this some time ago somewhere here ... if I only could find it.

It must be here ... or no wait, behind that dusty boxes? No ... between those old travel-logs, under these artifacts ... no, wait - don't go away, I know I can find it.

Ah! Got it. It's HERE!

Scandinavia Jones · Post by **Scandinavia Jones** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 6:38 pm

I for one appreciate the Joycean flow of consciousness in Disgruntled... one of the great American novels, IMO.

As for Tussaud's... they didn't get Henry Jones, Sr. quite right either...

No spectacles, and he good professor wouldn't have been caught dead in a turtleneck!

bleyd · Post by **bleyd** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 9:02 am

Hey! I have a sport jacket JUST like that.

McFly · Post by **McFly** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 12:37 pm

We can conclude that somewhere between Platon's original post in that older thread, and his first post in this thread, that exhibit was moved, and Indy went to c***.

The reason for this is that Bink actually tried to steal that thing to see if they cast Harrison Ford's wallet as well, but he had some trouble getting it through the door. I believe he actually knocked over the Barbara Streisand figure trying to get Indy out of there. He ended up putting Indy back in the Kokiri Forest set.

In Christ,
Shane

Serial Hero · Post by **Serial Hero** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 1:19 pm

Indiana_Tone wrote:Oh, I don't know. It has that appeal for a paperback novel.

This is great!

But now every one in the office thinks I'm crazy(er), as I really did start laughing out loud.

Scandinavia Jones · Post by **Scandinavia Jones** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 1:46 am

Oh, but I only stated the obvious, Tone... a thought that already floated around in our collective gearhead-consciousness. My humble post merely foreboded the greatness that is Disgruntled, one of the cornerstones of American literature.

Mystique · Post by **Mystique** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 5:27 am

The expression on the statue looks like he was kicked out of a diner circa 1930's after the truckers guffawed at him. The red in his face is the embarrassment, and the driven look is that of the images he's conjuring up of beating up the harassers.

zeus36 · Post by **zeus36** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 7:26 am

Indiana_Tone wrote:Hmm. The jacket really isn't so bad in the right color scheme. Looks like the selected display cheapened the whole theme. The mannequin's pose is blahze. Kind of like Indy's mad that he has to briskly walk away from that boulder that "isn't" chasing him.
"Stupid........friggn........boulder just stopped on me.....Now I have to walk to the exit."

This is why I insist on TAPERED sleeves........

Doctor_Jones · Post by **Doctor_Jones** » Thu Nov 16, 2006 10:36 pm

Hmmm, those pics of Connery and Ford at Madam Tussauds look very familiar.

I scanned those pictures a few years ago so maybe they are from my collection. I should check.