Indiana Jones and the Expanded 2023 Lego Well of Souls 

Your imagination and determination to improve never ceases to amaze me. I’m such a huge fan of yours because Of the lengths you go. Thank you for all the hard work you do

You did a great job with the Lego sets. The fact that you got a movie accurate play set out of what you had is really neat.

This is just genius. It must have been so satisfying to see it all come together so perfectly.

One of the biggest reasons I subscribed all those years ago and will always be here for, is your great attention to details for which I always have respected the Hard work you put into every video you create , I absolutely love the original Raiders of the Lost Ark film , saw it in theatres when it was first in theatres, and you definitely always show every property you talk about with great respect. love this!

This build is a great example of what a well of souls set wouldve looked like if it were made into a diorama set, like the idol grab set with the black base and plaque with a quote, for the well of souls it would obviously be “Snakes? Why did it have to be snakes?”

I'm glad these seem to be selling well, hopefully it encourages Lego to expand beyond scenes they have already covered, like maybe a Club Obi-Wan or the Grail Temple as a set

Well done. I like the rules you instituted as well.

[Pete looks around and quickly clicks quantity (2)] Great job sir. Enjoyed the cool lighting you did on the set. 👏👏👏

Hey man! Coming from someone in the LEGO community, I gotta say, you did a really good job with this upgrade!! I would love to see more content like this from you, so keep up the good work!

I recently rewatched ROTLA. I’m normally not into Lego sets, but seeing what you were able to do with two of these sets, makes me contemplate picking up this set. Love the end result!

12:11 really impressive lighting effect! Also . . . might be my eyes playing tricks, but the Lego Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade Fighter Plane Chase 77012 has an Indiana Jones mini fig that looks like Michael French in full costume.

It took great self discipline to stay within your rules, I imagine. And it turned out really cool! I would’ve been much too tempted to dig into brick link…

You should make insructions on how you built your modified set and release them so we can build it too!

Thanks for uploading the follow up so soon!😊😊

Wow, that turned out really well. It’s certainly much more impressive than the regular set, and the way you incorporated the geography of the film makes it much more dynamic

Excellent video! Very creative. You must be tired. I was obsessed with Indy as a kid in the 80s. If I'd seen this back then I'd have exploded!

Wow. That was a nice addition using all those parts.

This is really awesome! Thank you for sharing this! I really enjoyed how you tremendously improved this play set!

Wow, that was great. Yes, two sets help a lot sometimes. And the Details you worked out to get the look of the movie, great work! Can't wait to see more sets CREATED by YOU :)

Top effort!! Looks like a brilliant display piece. You may not want to admit it, but you’ve certainly given plenty of ‘Lego Ideas’ to us all!

Now that’s what I call a playset!

Great job. Have been holding off buying this set for budget reasons, now I want two sets 😂

Wow, that was awesome! It would help us a lot if you made instructions for this improvement, because I'm sure lots of people are looking forward to do the same in their collections

This looks great such a big improvement. I wasn't thinking of getting this set but seeing what you've done with 2 sets is really tempting. Also this is quite a good value set which I'm surprised by.

Thank you micheal. I respect you and your content so much. I’m so glad you’ve done a part two. Very enjoyable

That looks fantastic. Great job and I wholeheartedly agree about Raiders being underserved. Thank you!

Very cool. Its amazing that Michael was able to make the set better with detail rather than size or gimmicks. This is the way!

I love that one of the posts for the Ark Dias has the R2/C-3PO Easter egg. That’s a nice touch.

Wow!! That is amazing! Well done! You’ve inspired me to do the same so I’ve just ordered my second set!

Excellent work, sir. I appreciate your emphasis on the guardrails of only using pieces from the two sets. Restriction boosts creativity.

Did the same a few days ago, totally worth buying 2 sets. It is now a display piece and looks pretty fresh! :)

Been waiting for someone to do an expanded version! Looks good

When you are good you are good Michael! Great attention to detail!

Fantastic job!!! I would have loved a Well of souls play set like the one you build but for the Kenner figures !!! Man one can only dream right ?

Cool video, design and channel. Subbed!

Love the amount of thought and consideration that went into achieving the result you managed, it’s a brilliant expanded space which still kept the essence of the original playset while striving for movie feel and accuracy. You don’t look that tired so I assume you’re talking about mental fatigue rather than physical, I totally understand that and feel your pain lol. Great video and result Michael.

Congrats on a great set mod. I personally collect LEGO. I would love to collect action figures too, but I don’t have the space or funds to do so. So I’ll keep collecting LEGO, and watch channels like this to appreciate others collections.

As a newcomer to Moccing. You did a great job! Ive been building for years now and love improving sets like this

Super funny listening to Michael getting LEGO tractor-beamed.

Nicely done!

Not a "Lego ideas guy"?!?! This is such fine work. I just picked this set up and I now hate it compared to what you've accomplished. Amazing work!

Says he isn't a lego engineer makes an improvement that I wouldn't have thought of and does it better than I a guy who collects Lego ever could

It turned out really great! (did Lego sneakily intended us to buy two sets to get the full set? LOL) Its now a fully functional diorama of the Well of Souls, I like the way the anubis statue know knocks over two panels of the walls.

Fantastic job, nice one mate

Excellent job!

Impressive, most impressive. I remember getting upset when I got a lot of Lego sets as a kid, lack of floors, strange locations, inaccuracy island, and all for glorious prices of $50+. I think I expanded sets like Tony Starks home, Two Face’s bank, and simple stuff like that but nothing like this. This set alone I definitely want to find as well as the last crusade set as that film is my second favorite. Perhaps I’ll have to try something like this. As a young Raiders fan, I couldn’t help but smile at both videos quite a few times

He new exactly what he wanted to do and he made it happen!!!🙌🏾👍🏾👍🏾💯🔥

Well done! Well executed

Indiana Jones Lego was my passion years ago. I managed to track down and collect them all, but was always trying to improve them to be more accurate like this. You may have just started, but you nailed the expansion on the first try, congrats!

Awesome alterations!👍🏻

I’m definitely going to try to do this!

Great video. I did go a little cross-eyed when you went into your design changes, but I was impressed with your customization.

Fantastic work sir! 👏

Totally Awesome Michael, this is how it should of been made and released! Cool creativity!

Came out great!

That is a fantastic use of two Lego sets to make a really nice well of souls diorama - I was never into lego growing up but my son got me interested with his enjoyment and collecting - I will get one of these for him, thank you for sharing your video!

i dont know if its a good or bad thing but i really enjoy those lego video! keep on the good stuff

You did well! As always the video production and content is super entertaining. Really enjoyed watching this.

The love for the original Indiana Jones sets comes from nostalgia

Cool video Mike the way you put it together came out great

This is a great video. A good deep dive.

Inspiring, I only want you to make videos you want to make but I did really enhoy this and the other stuff, good job Michael!

05:30 seems to be the way with a lot of Lego sets these days- it’s better if you double them! Like the Star Wars Endor Chase set that came out this year. One is nice, but kinda small plus there’s only one Scout trooper doing the chasing even though in the film Luke and Leia are chased by two troopers…simple solution, buy two! Twice the diorama size and the correct number of scout troopers! 😂 06:33 I do this too. I am neither a creator expert, nor do I wish to have loads and loads of surplus parts stored just to create an idea or a MOC. Personally I prefer to buy sets and either build the set as intended, MOC it into something different using only the set components or buy multiple of the same set to create something from the total parts!

5:38 I am digging the new logo animation

It wasn't till I watched this video did I notice the this set reference the lego theme bionicle on some of the wall inscriptions

Thanks to you, I will be 80 bucks down this coming weekend. Good stuff.

Good video. Would love to see some building instructions on the well of souls.

I would recommend checking out the adventures theme if you liked the Indiana jones set

Michael on his way to make nearly the first whole half of the video just the intro, love to see what can be done with the two sets, I do believe I will have to do this when I’m able to find some, love the content and the video, thank you Michael

This does make me interested in getting two of this set. This recreation is very well done with the pieces that come in the set. Thank you for the great content.

Pretty awesome upgrade! Did a lot of Lego as a teen, I may be getting back into some of it! Thanks for that!😂

A Most Impressive build. And as always, First Class editing.

No adds at RetroBlasting 🙌🏻

I loved this! I saved it for when I was back at work so I could have a bit of awesomeness mixed with boringness.

Please just get all of the lego indi line. I’d really like to hear you talk about each set and do a retrospective on the line! You have so much insight that would add an extra special element to them. Thank you and keep up the good work!

I was thinking of getting 2 and putting a top on it, but very impressed on how you did it. The rabbit whole is huge and deep on lego.

Great video! As a huge Lego nerd myself it is always really interesting to see a bit of a different perspective when it comes to Lego collecting. Personally, to my mind the original set was superior to the modern version, because of how compact it was, so I guess you can say that I liked that version for the reason you didn't. You've said in several of your previous videos that Lego collecting is sort of a lifestyle and honestly I couldn't agree more - I remember having a few action figures and Hot Wheels cars as a kid, but my toy collection was definitely dominated by Lego sets. Your revamped Well of Souls is a definite improvement over the base set - the addition of an another wall definitely helps the model convey the look of an enclosed space instead of looking like a flimsy facade. Considering the limitations you had to work with the build you've made looks pretty solid. One interesting thing to say about Lego's relation with Indiana Jones is that it kind of goes back farther than 2008. There was an original Lego theme called Adventurers, which debuted in 1998. The series' characters were clearly inspired by ones from the Indiana Jones films - one of the commercials for the last wave of sets from 2003 had a spoof of the "If adventure has a name, it must be Indiana Jones" tagline. I managed to get the new set based on the Last Crusade and it's a pretty good one. Unfortunately, the Henry Jones Sr. minifigure is a bit of a downgrade detail-wise when compared to the 2008 version - it is especially visible when you compare the face prints - the old one just screams Sean Connery, while the new one is fine, but a bit more generic. Lego mini figure designs have been getting kind of homogenised over the past decade, I honestly miss the times when they were willing to experiment more with their art style. We can still see them experimenting with it sometimes (the Avatar theme is a good example of that), but it doesn't occur as much as it used to. Sorry for the long text, I just wanted to share some of my thoughts! Have a good day!

Very interesting video great work I still haven’t seen the new sets yet and I was planning to get some sets and do a cross over with the sets I already have. But seeing your video gives me interesting ideas and I might do like you did. Thanks Micheal

OK. Now I'm going to have to buy a second one, thanks to you Michael... :) Really amazing work.

Confoud you, Retro Blasting. I was going to buy one of these sets but now I'm going to have to buy two. 😂

Damn it Michael now I have to buy two of these

Amazing moc!

this is amazing! I want to do this now! very creative!

Fun fact: lego tomb raider was an actual planned IP lego almost acquired as an idea for a Lego video game after the lego Star Wars games. It was proposed to have tomb raider sets and a video game but as many already know tomb raider was already a video game so why make a Lego game? If anyone’s interested in this look up lego tomb raider animation test and you should fine the prototype footage. (James bond was also supposed to be given a Lego videogame but at the time casino royale came out and it was a little too violent for Lego to cover).

Seriously Michael this is so awesome!! I finally started buying Stan Solo’s incredible droids because of your reviews but since my nephew absolutely loves everything lego, we started watching this video and at only 10 mins in, Ive already ordered a couple of these sets for us to build like yours. I’ll post pics when we finish! Thank you Good Sir!!!

I just bought another one. Now you have to do a how to tutorial hahah

This looks great. Cool job😃

Great job reimagining the the set. Your version is obviously far superior. Now I want to do that.

I thought about doing this and seeing how you did it makes me want to do it now, too tempting

Well done, sir. Doing this sort of project looks like a blast (no pun intended), but alas a bit above my engineering-challenged pay grade

What a great video! Your usual top notch attention to detail came through splendidly with this build. I enjoy your LEGO videos-would love to see you get your hands on the 08 Raiders sets and take a deep dive on them!

No worries Michael, I don’t do dwelling 😊 I just enjoy your videos and I every is reminded of what I have in common with you regarding childhood 😊 ergo for me it’s pure joy and entertainment.

This is an amazing build Michael. I love LEGO and struggled to finish the Vader helmet. What you have created is in my opinion how it should have been sold at retail.

Looks stunning!

You did a great job and inspired many to do the same. Can we purchase instructions from you ?

I think being modest - this is wonderfully executed!

I just ordered all 3 Indiana lego sets yesterday, I own the original Ambush in Cairo and wished I purchased the others.

Great video, Michael. Brilliant.

*Recorded during a Lego high* LOL Love it.

*WOW x 5! That turned out awesome, Michael!* I like how you did the Indy/Sallah snake fight with the torches, the lighting effects looked pretty cool!🤙😎👍 -- I wasn't (and still am not) much of a "Lego Engineer" either -- I like to play and adventure with my toys, and Lego is more akin to... model building? Tedious, a little on fragile side when completed, and more for dis-play, than actual play. --