What is this jacket?

PLATON · Post by **PLATON** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 10:27 am

Hey guys...
Look at this photo from Madam Tussauds museum.

http://electricsloth.com/images/tussaud ... _jones.jpg

What kind of jacket is this?
Anybody knows?
The color looks like @#$%.

Harrison_Davies · Post by **Harrison_Davies** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 11:24 am

And thats the worst waxwork i've ever seen...

kalkamel · Post by **kalkamel** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 11:41 am

It looks like Indy (or a lookalike at least) being chased by a giant disco ball!

The real Henry · Post by **The real Henry** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 11:41 am

Yeah a really bad one!
Looks like Indy just came back from a bar in Cairo after long night of drinking!

Bufflehead Jones · Post by **Bufflehead Jones** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 11:45 am

The boulder is not screen accurate, either. Actually, when a bunch of us gearheads went to Madame Tussaud's in NYC, they had Harrison Ford dressed in a blue suit. We figured that he didn't look right, so we stuck one of our Westeds and an AB on him. Then once we got him looking good, took a bunch of pics with him.

Lord_Clarence · Post by **Lord_Clarence** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 1:42 pm

Through a warp in the time-space continuum, Charlie Chaplin looks on as Indiana Jones is chased down the stairs by the Death Star...

Cordially,
Lord Clarence MacDonald

Erri · Post by **Erri** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 2:09 pm

When I went to the Madam Tussaud in 1998, Indy was in a temple-like location with a good looking boudler behind him. The new location is really... @#$%!

a bit too dark I know but at that time digital camera were still far from mass commercialization and you never knew how the pictures would have come out till you developed the film!
Anyway you can notice they changed the trousers and a part from the shirt and the bag I think they changed everything else.

Post by **Jens** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 2:15 pm

Yes Erri, I remember this setting, too. Seems they also bought him anew hat - that's at least not the one I remember ...
Unfortunately the new one doesn't look any better.

Erri · Post by **Erri** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 2:21 pm

IndyJens wrote:Yes Erri, I remember this setting, too. Seems they also bought him anew hat - that's at least not the one I remember ...
Unfortunately the new one doesn't look any better.

Yes also the hat. From my picture maybe you can see that it was "distressed" in order to make it look more like the film (or maybe there were fake spider nets). The new one has a horrible colour and look terribly new!

Post by **Jens** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 4:19 pm

I just found another picture of the "old" Indy Display at Mdme. Tussaud's ...

Please (!), no jokes or laughs about my clothes. Keep in mind that picture was taken in 1996, I was a sweet, young and innocent boy who had never heard about "Indy Gear" und couldn't even speel the words "Screen accurate". But I was a proud Indy Fan ... and you should have seen the guard's face, when we shot this photo ("Could have sworn, yesterday there was only one of them ..."

).

The jacket, bag and belt seems to be the same today, but they replaced the shirt, trousers, hat and the background ...

Erri · Post by **Erri** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 4:50 pm

Surely a much better location for Indy! Your picture is great and also your gear for being 1996!!!!!

It get me angry thinking that I've been to london every summer for 3 years and I NEVER KNEW that most of the orginal gear was made there and that I could have bought it! :evil:

Post by **Jens** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 2:26 am

Ha ha ... you're truly a master of Graphic enhancement, Tone.

VP · Post by VP » Fri Jun 16, 2006 9:41 am

This one is pretty crappy too: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image ... s_full.jpg

greatgarlando · Post by **greatgarlando** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 11:26 am

I went to Madam T's in Vegas last year and that was the freekiest place I had ever been. But that Indy sculpt above is the worst thing I have ever seen. It sure doesent look like the work I seen in Vegas.

Lord_Clarence · Post by **Lord_Clarence** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 12:41 pm

VP wrote:This one is pretty crappy too: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image ... s_full.jpg

At first, I was thinking that the above (vinyl?) Indy doesn't look a thing like him. But when I looked at the enlarged version, the middle of the face does bear some resemblance to Harrison Ford. Sort of. Maybe.

Cordially,
Lord Clarence MacDonald

Post by **Michaelson** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 12:51 pm

Lord_Clarence wrote:But when I looked at the enlarged version, the middle of the face does bear some resemblance to Harrison Ford. Sort of. Maybe.

Cordially,
Lord Clarence MacDonald

I agree....let's see...it has a nose, so does Ford..... REMARKABLE resemblance!!!

Regards! Michaelson

Shawnkara · Post by **Shawnkara** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 5:11 pm

This whole thread just boils my blood. I saw a documentary about Taussaud's on the Discovery Channel a while back, they were going through the process of creating a Michelle Quan figure. The process was amazing, the PAINS they took over EVERY detail; costume, pose, EVERYTHING. When it was done and Michelle posed for a photo with it, wearing the same costume they had used, you could not tell her apart from the figure! I wonder why a cultural icon like Indy does not warrant that kind of attention?? The likeness on the Taussaud's figure is not that bad, but the rest is a slap in the face!

Bufflehead Jones · Post by **Bufflehead Jones** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 6:32 pm

This many years after the production of that movie, they probably were not able to find one source that could tell them where to get all of the proper gear. So, they had to wing it. Too bad they didn't look on the internet under IndyGear. To the general public, just relying on their memory, it probably looks dead on.

The figure of Ford in NYC wasn't even dressed as Indy. He just had a blue suit on. Of course, he had a gray hat.

I'm just kidding about the last part about the hat.