“We’ve been looking everywhere for that!”
I had been carelessly tossing a flaking gold lump into the air while contemplating new humiliations to heap upon C-3PO when the exasperated cry of the Lucasfilm archive director snapped me out of my reverie. When I had started working at Skywalker Ranch a year before, my office was furnished with a beautiful vintage desk. Upon inspection, I was astonished to find the original Chachapoyan fertility idol from Raiders of the Lost Ark hidden away in a bottom drawer. As employees were encouraged to decorate their offices with props and artwork from the original movies (as long as we gave them back when asked) I kept it.
For months Cha-Cha had a place of honor on my desk, presiding over a dozen Ewok action figures arranged as if they were conducting their own heathen fertility rites. Now that the long-missing idol had been found (needed for toy reference or something) I turned it over as sourly as Indy originally surrendered it to Belloq. I put a Max Rebo figure in Cha-Cha’s place, trying to convince myself his keyboard playing was whipping the furballs into a frenzy of sensual delight.
It just wasn’t the same.
Paul Dini is the Emmy and Eisner Award winning writer of Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series, Detective Comics, Countdown among many, many other things. You can find him online at either kingofbreakfast.livejournal.com or http://www.jinglebelle.com/.
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As always: A great little read, that puts a smile on my face. 🙂
"Dr. Jones. Again we see there is nothing you can possess which I cannot take away."
Good Stuff.
A side note, everytime I hear or see "Dr. Jones" I think of that Aqua song not Indiana Jones. Yep.
Who else wants to see a shot of the Ewok action figure fertility ritual?
Just me?
What a great bottom drawer find, but sadly, "…once again ,Jones, what was briefly yours is now mine."
@Josh Seconded.
@Josh i’d like to see that. That is really cool that you were able to have such a iconic prop at your desk. was the Ark being used as a coffee table or was that final shot actual the warehouse of lucasarts?
@Josh- When I first read your post, my brain skipped over the "action figure" part, so it read, "Who wants to see a shot of the Ewok fertility ritual?" And, for five seconds, it came across as quite possibly the worst idea ever.
But I’m all for action figures doing it! 🙂
at my work we currently have the Mach 5 from speed racer that we tour around to promote the film releaese here in Australia on 21 July, but any thing from Indy or Star wars certainly beats that
agreed