Is Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Really That Bad? (Indiana Jones) 

You are either a shill or have extraordinary bad taste if you like Indy 4 and are hyped for Indy 5. Indy 4 was maybe fine as a movie on itself but absolute dog shit as an Indy movie. And Lucasfilm hasn't got any better. Instead it's now so infested with woke political zealot activist paracites; the scum of the earth, that I don't expect anything even remotely watchable coming out of that studio.

Your logic really isn't persuasive here, and the movie is definitely not a good one. Happy you enjoyed it, but what's the point of making a video like this? To convince the naysayers? To give confirmation bias to those who like it? If the former, then it doesn't do it. If the latter, then, sure. Have at it

The director means nothing when the writer is a woke activist. Just look at what happened with Doctor strange even though it was directed by Sam Raimi

Simmmmp

Temple of Doom is the worst in the series

That was the original plan. Lucas was ready to go all in

When I last re watched it that's how I felt. I kinda wanted more science fiction / aliens stuff.

Your only real problem... is half the movie LMAO

I’m with you, first half is great. Second half is just a bit much for me.

It's extremely rare you'll find an 'infamously' "bad" movie to be anywhere near as bad as you've been told by the same few hipsters on the Internet. This is no longer about the quality of the film. There's a narrative now, that wouldn't be as pleasing to these snowflakes, if the movie was admitted to be better than they've made it out. That narrative people are so in love with wouldn't hold up. The bottom line is, ITS COOL TO DISLIKE THIS MOVIE. People are petrified of not fitting in and being seen as an outcast or freak. So, in all of our pathetic nature, most people hear that a movie sucks a couple times by a vocal minority, and in order to "fit in" they'll naturally want to go along with that narrative instead of being viewed as wrong or different. This happens WAYYYYY more with movies and shows than anybody is willing to admit or acknowledge. If you somehow got those insecure cowards to give up their ACTUAL REAL opinions on the movie, this would be a totally fkn different story and that's just a fact. My whole cinema loved the movie. Same with force awakens, superman returns. Man of steel. All movies that it's cool to hate. You fit in better at work and school if you join in the whinging and complaining about movies such as these. It's a hugely sad truth.

For some people one bad bite can spoil a whole meal. For me, I love that it's a throwback, but overall the movie is still pretty good either way.

Thanks for the information! That’s hilarious and it’s almost funny enough for me to forgive the ridiculousness of the incident. Almost.

I had never heard that before. That's amazing.

@@GingermaasI think it’s funny how people pinpoint the nuked fridge as a bridge too far in terms of believability, when Temple of Doom and Last Crusade are stuffed full to the brim with over the top ridiculousness.

I mean it is possible to survive in a fridge just very unlikely 🥶

Oh my God yes! That's exactly what happened with me as well and for that it holds a place in my heart

@@ef3691me too. It was on a personal sad day for my family and watching it with my dad was a great escape from the reality: it was also the first Indy movie on Blu-ray since the 2003 Indy dvd set

Me as well i saw the trilogy after it

I personally prefer Skull over Temple of Doom and the recently kinda awful Dial of Destiny. Feel like Kingdom gets way too much criticism all basing around the nuclear scene, the jungle vine swinging, the ending. Alot of the hate is overblown imo

Nicely put.

In the young Indiana Jones series, we know that he has a daughter. But, I know, that the parts of "old Indy" are no canon today.

I fundamentally differ, as one goal of Mutt was to Indy see himself in his son, to repeat what his relationship with his own father was like.

I’ve seen this movie countless times and even 4 in theater when I was 8. I fully stand by what you’re saying here as the idea of him not being present in his sons life or never talking to Marion again just feels out of character. I understand he’s a globe trotting adventurer who doesn’t have time for a relationship but he was close with people she knew prior to raiders even and their chemistry felt more like actual love than any of the others.

or just leave it ambiguous. A mystery. Part of Indy’s mystique is the mystery. Like sure you got a bit of back story in Last Crusade, but nothing more

Oh I agree. I didn't have a problem with Shia Lebouf. It was the writing of his character. Mutt was homage to 50s bikers. But he played it in a dorky kind of way. Lol. Plus the scene with the swinging monkeys. I cringe thinking about it. But overall, being a sci-fi genre fan, I liked the storyline. The marriage at the end was good. Not as special as The Last Crusade riding off into the sunset ending though.

I agree!

Agreed! All 4 Indy movies are outstanding in there own ways. Love the games also. Not sure about this new Dial of Destiny… we’ll find out tho🤞

What about all the people like me who just hated the movie, I'm not performing for anyone. I hate it, my friends hate it. We found it boring, derivative, poorly written, boring and generally ill-conceived. I hated the idea of it, I watched it when it came out and I didn't like it the whole way through. Are you just going to no true Scotsman away all the people like me?

It was horrible compared to the others yea. 6 out of 10.

Idk if it's not actually bad or if blockbusters are so terrible now that it looks better in retrospect but either way I had fun with it on rewatch

Yea people ALWAYS point to that scene, which is about 2 minutes long. It's stupid as hell but it has no impact on the rest of the film. It really is a 6 or 7 out of 10 fun but flawed film.

The issue people have with the fridge seen ignores the other incredibly unlikely things that happened in the other films. Riding for weeks on the outside of a u-boat without drowning or dying of exposure? Using a raft to fall out of a plain and over some massive cliffs? The main issue IMHO is the cheap ending that isn't prepared for earlier in the movies.

That’s the thing - I can’t see why 💁‍♂️

@@adriandenton6637I feel like that’s kind of the reason people don’t like the scene: it’s goofy, completely pointless, and longer than it should be. If you combine the first two, but make them short and sweet, they can work, but the nuclear fridge just kinda overstayed its welcome (I wouldn’t say that it’s that much more unrealistic than anything from the previous movies, as some are wont to say, but perhaps that’s just my personal taste)

It's like, why would anyone care about the crystal skull, when they have a magical fridge that grants invulnerability - it seems much more impressive than the title artifact.

The ant bit is so good

And terrifying seeing it as a kid lol

These ants must give a good meal

Yeah like the Star Wars prequel’s

The Last Crusade is already a perfect ending to the Indiana Jones trilogy.

@@reek4062 It's funny though, because despite "perfect endings", people always want more.

@@papameeloI still fee like the prequels do better than KotCS simply because of the memes. Think of classics like “I don’t like sand,” “A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one,” or “This is where the fun begins,” and then try to think of popular memes related to this movie. There aren’t many.

I'm gonna keep this in mind. Thanks.

So people who call out shit movies are hyperbolic angry dweebs to you? Whatever, sheeple shill.

dont have to be angry dweeb to dislike crystal skull.

It’s a fun time with just kind of messy pacing. It still feels like Indiana Jones and I’ll never understand why people act like it’s the death of the franchise.

at this point i feel like people say its bad just to not look silly

I actually enjoyed it except for the end. It was such a cliche climax. Oh wow, they found the big mystery, only for it to self destruct, kill the last of the baddies in the process, and then disappear without a trace. Never saw that before!

It won’t lucasfilm doesn’t care about quality

@@damiantirado9616 And you "doesn't car" about spelling and grammar LMAO

@@BloodyMunchkin lol what a nerd. I was writing fast and sometimes due to shitty auto correct stuff are misspelled.

Idk if you saw but Drew tweeted out the other day a gif of Indy from Raiders “start the engine!” with the caption “me every time I’m asked if I’m coming out of retirement…”

@@BloodyMunchkin oooh-whee, he left out an 'e' wow, what a burn

I really like the warehouse scene. It's my favorite opening behind Raiders and Crusade.

the Aliens were done well when you learn of the historical context it's being based off of

Yeah there's definitely a contingent that doesn't want to see old characters in anything new.

I'd still rate Temple of Doom lower but I really, really don't like that one.

Before someone @s me, racist, terrible grossout humor, ugly, needlessly gory, nonsensical plot, overly nihilistic, Willy sucks hard, terrible waterfall scene, uninspired performances. I do like the intro, Short Round, and the minecart tho.

@@positivetakes5592 No need to justify your feelings on it, you are spot on! Even Spielberg regrets a number of culturally insensitive moments & decisions in Temple of Doom. They thought that because they were riffing on cheap adventure serials of the 30s they could get away with recreating terribly racist and insulting tropes.

@@positivetakes5592 With respect, I disagree. While there might've been a misrepresentation of Hindu deities (like making Khali explicitly evil, and the voodoo doll), there was an established difference between the village Indy first meets and Pankot Palace. The fact it's so gross and clearly messed up is supposed to indicate there's something wrong with the place (I mean, just look at the totem of human fingers practically hanging on the front door). So, I guess I don't get the racism complaint. The plot is clearly laid out with the villain's scheme of collecting the stones, and Indy coincidentally landing there to deal with it can be handwaved by divine intervention (which we know exists in the universe). Willy, I digress. She toughened up by the end and landed a solid punch on a goon. Nihilistic? Once you get past the sacrifice scene, it has one of the most uplifting climaxes and endings of the original 3 movies (Raiders is kind of cynical with the Ark being put in the warehouse), with Indy having an intense fight with the slave driver and returning the children to their parents. I'm not saying it's my favorite, but I call it underrated. The discussion of British colonialism in India and the very real thuggee movement was also very interesting from the historical standpoint, in my opinion.

@@HyraxusPrimus I appreciate your perspective. However I would say that racism isn't only surface level and can also be about influence on an audience. And things like showing the PM to be in league with the bad guy, or diminishing the villagers to simply victims (rather than multifaceted humans), Indy's portrayal as a white savior, the claim that monkey brains is traditional Indian food (it isn't, Indian food is delicious), and yeah, very questionable interpretations of Hinduism, not to mention short round or the representation of the Hong Kong gangsters, are all these things influence the non-critical viewer's perception of the real India. In fairness, the representation of Germans in the other movies is also pretty racist but considered acceptable because... you know. As are the South Americans in part one.

I was going to comment something similar. A few weeks ago I started watching just to see the Area 51 part, and finished the movie enjoyably. The last third was relatively underwhelming, but I had a smile the whole time. It felt great, as this was the first movie I remember leaving the theatre feeling disappointed by as a kid. Wonderful to see this vid and read comments from people having similar experiences.

Same kind of thing, they started playing all four movies on Film4 last year, one movie each day. I remember watching Kingdom just to kill time and ended up really enjoying it

Tons of fun. Not on the level of Raiders or Crusade by any means but it edges out Temple for my money

Makes me so happy to hear a fan say that. Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is a joy to watch, especially after seeing Dial of Destiny. Dial is great, but it’s a different kind of film than Spielberg’s, one where our hero’s age is felt, so going back to the original revival of the character in which his old age is less relevant and Spielberg is at the helm, is quite a treat.

Food cart in the screen? What does that mean?

@@ssssssssssssssssss50 There was a sort of cart on wheels in the screen itself where you could get popcorn and drinks. You don't usually see that in British Cinemas

@@sealionstudios8597 I can’t comprehend how the cart on wheels was in the screen that the film was projected on and am so curious right now. Looked it but but didn’t find anything. Regardless, I am really glad you have such fond memories of the film

@@ssssssssssssssssss50 he meant in the screening, how do you not get this? Screening=cinema, there was a food cart in the theatre is that easier to get? Not sure if I worded this any better

@@Srights01 nobody in the US has ever heard of a film screening being referred to as a "screen" i wouldn't doubt it's uncommon in other places in the world too. i learned it for the first time reading this comment thread. saying "in the screen" gives people like us the impression that the movie is played/projected over top of it and you're meant to walk up in front of the movie and annoy other viewers whenever you want popcorn or a sodie-pop

FACTS

Especially playing the Lego game of it

@@lvnar5734 ive been looking for this comment, glad you feel the same

Nope the originals are better then the crap crystal skull

@@martinlee7102 lmao, I never said it was better than the originals.

​@@martinlee7102have you ever been punched in the head really bad?

Yeah I think it’s the fact it flies across the sky and he’s still standing afterwards but then again he jumps out of a plane on a raft in Temple and is absolutely fine so I think people really pick and choose what’s “unrealistic” and what isn’t

Yea, it's 2 minutes long, who cares. It makes me laugh how throwaway it is.

@@FullFatVideos Because dropping from a plane on a raft and surviving, while ridiculous, is not out of the realm of possibility. People have survived failed skydives from several kilometers up with minor injuries. Being in a refrigerator a fraction of a mile from a miniature fucking sun and not being vaporized, or condemned to terminal radiation sickness, on account of being inside a lead-lined refrigerator? Please. That's a bullshit equivocation.

I think it would have been similar to his falling off the cliff in Crusade, which is fun and he looks beat up after, even having to take a second to rest on the ground

It's the impossibility that kills it for me. No freaking lead fridge would make you survive a nuclear blast!! It's just not comparable to jumping out of a plane in a boat or falling down.a cliff or something. It just doesn't work. And yeah, the bad cgi throughout the film doesn't hep either.

Yeah it makes me very intrigued to see what happens next. What will be the action heroes of the future and next generations. What movies now will be the classics that get nostalgia bait legacy sequels with cast members nearing their 90s. As a fan of movies you don't want your favorite franchise to end, but you don't want them to become something you don't enjoy. Movies need to keep moving forward and growing or else they will stagnate and die, something no one wants. All and all I'm very interested to see what comes next.

If you haven't seen any of the other movies, it's a rather good movie. If you have seen the other ones, it's the clear worst of the 4. Most of the hate comes from people that were expecting the same magic of the previous movies.

Agreed ❤

You’ll love to know the new one sees them return lmao

I suspect Temple plays better today than at the time because we're used to movies having very rapid pacing these days. At the time, one of the most common criticisms of Temple was that it was too fast-paced and "exhausting" to watch. Today, movies whose entire final hour is nonstop action are pretty standard.

@@jasonblalock4429 I found the female character very annoying (unfortunately) but the darkness of the plot was so interesting to me and Short Round!! Love him!

​@@JaiProdz Yeah, Kate Capshaw is pretty much universally considered the worst part of Temple. BTW, did you realize that Short Round is the same guy who played Waymond in Everything Everywhere All At Once?

@@jasonblalock4429 not until I finished the film. And then I saw the photo of them reunited and I wished Ke Huy Quan could've been in the upcoming film :( Maybe it's still possible.

My guy!

Not excited for Dial of Destiny in the slightest. Just because Mangold has directed some good films in his day? That isn't a guarantee. You still have Kathleen Kennedy involved and I absolutely hated what she did with Star Wars. People criticized Kingdom saying Indy was too old then and he's now pushing 80 here. Reports have indicated they have shot several different endings and they didn't test well at all. The rumor indicates they plan to kill off Indy then have PWB step in as a new Indiana Jones. I have no desire to watch anything remotely like that. Indy is and will always be Harrison Ford. If they want a female Indiana Jones? We already have one. Her name is Lara Croft.

You can thank CinemaSins for popularizing that. And ironically, despite claiming to be 'smart', it depends on people not actually paying attention to or thinking critically about the movies they're watching and not understanding basic cinematic language.

@@Linkman247 my favourite thing about the internet is that you can say something positive and then immediately someone will just say something negative. What did you hope to achieve with that, for me to go, “oh damn you’re right, I shouldn’t be excited, my mistake”?

@@luanagullotta6218 Not sure if you realize this...but people can be critical just as you can be optimistic. Just because they share a different opinion than yours doesn't mean that their opinion is any more or any less valid than your own. If you want to be excited by all means. But that doesn't mean that everyone else has to think that Indy 5 is going to be great just because of the director they have attached. And for the record James Mangold has taken to attacking fans. Mangold attacked a fan/author for posting this on twitter... “To anyone thinking Indiana Jones 5 might be good, just let me point out… 1. Steven Spielberg is not directing. 2. Kathleen Kennedy is producing. 3. Harrison Ford is 78 years old. 4. It’s written by Jonathan Kasdan, who wrote SOLO.” Mangold replied... 1) Keep making the world a better place crapping on things in the 1st week of production from your basement. 2) Never seen a script by Jon. Nothing against him. Just reality. Butterworths & I started from a blank page. 3) 1-3 r hugely talented & all at my side.” And now Mangold is denying he ever made those tweets. boundingintocomics.com/2021/07/15/indiana-jones-5-director-james-mangold-lies-about-his-temper-tantrum-and-attacking-fans/ Where have we seen this before? Paul Feig and Ghostbusters. We've seen it with the likes of other franchises as well where the director attacks the very fans the film depends on for it to succeed. It's not exactly a recipe for success. I've just seen too many franchises get dragged through the mud now. Is it cynical? Perhaps. But Hollywood these days has given fans plenty of reasons to be cynical. Anymore it's about subverting expectations. If Hollywood actually made a film that felt like it did right by the fans and source material my expectations would be subverted. Every once in a while you do get a welcome surprise like Top Gun Maverick a sequel no one was asking for either. I say this as an Indy fan. Someone who doesn't want to see it butchered beyond recognition. The original Trilogy is in my opinion among the best action/adventure films ever made. I am sure we could probably agree on that at least? Some might prefer Raiders but Last Crusade is my favorite and I wouldn't argue with them as Raiders is fantastic too. I also say this as someone who didn't really hate Kingdom as many others did. There is plenty I liked about Kingdom. But I just look at Kennedy and Disney's track record and I am not too excited. Some felt Indy should have ended with the third and I wouldn't disagree but I do think Indy should have ended with Indy 4. Look at Back to the Future. It's a perfect trilogy. People have wanted a Back to the Future 4 and the creatives have firmly said no. "You don't want an aged Michael J. Fox with Parkinsons. I will quote the creatives here.. ""We told a complete story with the trilogy. If we went back and made another one, we'd have Michael J. Fox, who will be sixty next year, and he has Parkinson's Disease. Do we want to see Marty McFly at age sixty with Parkinson's Disease? Did we want to see him at age fifty with Parkinson's Disease? I would say 'No, you don't want to see that.' And you don't want to see Back to the Future without Michael J. Fox. People say, 'Well, do it with somebody else.' Really? Who are you going to get? All you're gonna do is beg comparisons to the originals, and you're not going to match up."- Bob Gale. When it comes to Indy I've played the game, own the films, and I have more interest in the Indy game Bethesda are working on than I do in a 5th film. If you are excited, great, hope you enjoy the film and it lives up to your expectations.

This is spot on

Same here. The fridge scene was kind of goofy, but not that much more than him clinging to a U-Boat for thousands of miles or exiting a plane via an inflatable raft. IMHO, the finale just felt tacked on and rather cheap. It set a precedence for an extra-dimensional explanation which was completely out of character for the series for no particular reason. An alien might have worked, but from another dimension was a massive leap.

@@SmallSpoonBrigade the fridge scene was very cool, i don't care it didn't make sense

@@SmallSpoonBrigadeThe fridge scene was intentionally goofy, it was a joke Steven Spielberg had in his mind since Back to the Future, but he never got to implement it, until Crystal Skull

I agree that "being better than stuff coming out now" is not a ringing endorsement that it should be re-evaluated. I feel a lot of films could use that when they are smaller budgeted or trying to be ambitious, but Crystal Skull does not. Not when it had the money and talent behind it. It was just a movie majorly credited to people who weren't interested in making a movie and more interested in catching up after so long.

@@motherplayer exactly, and I think the reason why people feel like crystal school after re-watching it is a better quality than 90% of the recent MCU movies, or The new Star Wars content, or really just any franchise movie made in the past few years, is because there is clearly heart behind it, and a lot of creativity, it just so happens to be really fucking bad. But I think when people watch movies from that time, the 2000s to the 2010s, they see a clear difference in motivation behind making the movie.

and you are correct and others arent because? if there are bad parts and flaws of movies, these things can dampen your enjoyment for it. ur literally saying its good if you ignore the bad parts, but some people just think its too much to overlook.

@@bigjawline9235 What I'm saying is people love to focus on the parts they didn't like much more heavily on the stuff they enjoyed. Are CGI monkeys and a funny fridge scene really that big of a deal? People need to get over themselves if that "dampens" their enjoyment of a movie, that's ridiculous.

Straight up blows

There's definitely a weird nostalgia bias that takes hold with sequels and prequels. I don't fully understand it. But sometimes you just need to ask the youngers if THEY enjoyed it. Then you can have a better perspective.

This sequence was originally how the first Back to the Future ended. Spielberg REALLY liked the concept

Same

Temple of Doom is far better than Crystal Skull

@@reek4062 Obviously but people need to not lose there minds there just movies for entertainment

I honestly like Crystal Skull way more than Temple of Doom. It might be nostalgia, but what does it matter, as long as I enjoy it XD

If you like a dark, gross, racist vehicle for Spielberg's at the time mistress.

@@jaynekranc8607 Racism is just a negative human emotion based on skin color not every one in life has those negative feelings

Thank you!

I enjoy a good shit but I don’t ask people to pay to see it on the big screen punk

Interestingly, it came out the same year as Mummy 3, and Indy 4 was way better than that sequel.

Felt the same way but the problem is that the vine swinging (and that whole car chase and fight) just looked like terrible CGI whereas the fridge, although unbelievable that he would survive, looks fine.

@@henriquematzenbacher9651 yeah, I get you. Funny thing is, the car chase/ fight on the ant hill I really enjoyed. Just the vine swinging section p*ssed me off. Thankfully it was a short part of the movie

If I could fan edit this film, I would cut most of the vine swinging, because I think if you did that it would work. Just show him up there following the monkeys, cut all the interluding swings, then have him burst out of the trees onto the bad guy vehicle. It was the repeated cuts back coupled with the CGI monkeys that took you out of it. I would also take out the prairie dogs for the same reason, except for the first one. One was fine, CGI wasn't great but it didn't linger. Repeated call backs to the prairie dogs just scream "This is an effects shot" every time.

Is Spoony in the room with us now?

I was shocked how good he looked here

@@FullFatVideos I sincerely hope I age that well.

Idk Harrison looks awake and alive and looks like he wanted to do this compared to Star Wars new trilogy where he looked bored and tired 🤷‍♂️

Further proof young people are idiots!

@@shanequastunningbrave5376 - We will get off your lawn, don't worry.

@@braytonwright6011 I'm sure you'll do a tiktok of dancing your way off my lawn with some lip syncing and think it's both creativity and artistic!

The magical and mystical stuff is unbelievable, but being magic gives it a suspension of disbelief. Everyone knows that if you are at ground zero of a nuclear blast you are going to die whether you are in a fridge or not. And being thrown hundreds of feet in the air in a fridge is also not survivable.

@@jasons5916 I'm not talking about the supernatural stuff. I'm talking things like the Nazis knowing where to set up a truck to look like a storefront and knowing Brody would just walk into it. Not that I mind that either. As for surviving a bomb, Tsutomu Yamaguchi survived two atomic bomb detonations days apart at ground zero and he lived to be 93. As far as Indy's ride in a fridge, do a RU-vid search on, "survived crash without a scratch."

​@@jasons5916Japanese citizens survived mere hundreds of meters away from the epicenter of the blast. That's where duck and cover came from, interviews with survivors of atomic blasts.

It is bad, though not as bad as the Star Wars prequels

I remember when I first saw the film in the theater. I had read an article years before and I think it was George Lucas that said they were just looking for that perfect script. After seeing the movie my first thought was 'yikes! I wonder what the bad scripts looked like!' I thought the movie wasn't terrible, but was terribly disappointing.

In other words, you were a kid so you had no investment in the older films of the franchise and it didn't have to make sense because 'splosions cool. Got it.

@@johngrey9415 shouldn't assume I didn't have any investment in the older films haha, I did watch them many times before crystal skull and as an adult they're an iconic trilogy. What's your point here...

That’s a bold statement

That’s a good point. I’m a big defender of the film as I loved it as a kid but yeah that’s some world class Disney cringe.

Anything set after ww2 feels like a whole new world because it kind of is.

It's from the director of Logan and Ford V Ferrari. We're in good hands.

The books got really bizarre in places. Invisible cities, alternate dimensions, living dinosaurs, and a book that tells everyone how long they will live. Crystal Skull was pretty tame by comparison.

@@astrosquirrel5038 The Books and Comics though are not very well known and popular even among Indy fans who will just mainly watch the movies especially when compared to star wars when media like books comic and video games are as popular and successful as the movies and Tv shows

@@astrosquirrel5038 I keep looking out for some of the books. Only found '...And the Dinosaur eggs' so far, I think?

I just finished re-reading all those Indy novels. Some were good, some were a little confusing, and some just seemed to jump around the world for no reason. The ones written by Martin Caiden were longer, and he also went into way too much detail about airplanes and flight (he is/was a pilot, so I guess it was him showing off?) Also, some novels went PAGES talking about a character's backstory, which could have been done through dialogue so it would be less clunky storywise. Who wants to read pages about a character who isn't even a main character of what they did before the story started?

It does!!!!

@@FullFatVideos still waiting for peter jackson to do the sequel.

Same here. Saw it in theaters when I was 10, and became obsessed lol I saved my money for all the Lego sets, the one with the tree cutter vehicle and amphibious truck was the coolest 😂