Any smaller, and this would have less pieces than "Light"!

I didn't like the smaller sets in this theme. Not even the pieces were interesting. BUt the vehicles in larger sets were awesome. I especially liked the oldschool cars and the trucks. I even made couple of MOCS based on them.

This is absolutely just a bunch of spare parts turned into a set

This is madness. A king pushing along hid pyramid canon? Unheard of!

The first wave was the shit. I was 10 turning 11, prime LEGO days. As mentioned, the cars were awesome, I mean this was Indian Jones in LEGOs before they started licensing and it went down.

I'm sensing another theme with Huwbot: three of the past four days have been Kabaya promo sets :P It makes sense as there were a lot of those, though!

NGGGGH, there's that one illusive minifigure that's still just a missing space in my collection! I've always liked these 'odd one out' in the theme minifigures, like Hotep here and Achu, and others of their era.

Just, for whatever reason, none of the sets with him in every crossed my path at the time. To be fair, I did only start investing in Lego themes in time for the Jungle wave, so the Egypt ones were always a bit just... 'grab them when they come up' kind of thing, since they were generally leaving store shelves by then. I guess, other than Valley of the Kings which I found several years later, the others just didn't stick around.

Back in the day, I would have grabbed this set just for the Hotep minifigure. Still would, in fact, if it crossed my path for a suitably cheap price!

@AlEGOMan - Huh, really? I knew the bigger sets weren't featured in the catalogue at the time, but I always thought that was just because they didn't have space to fit them all in on the single page; I didn't know that we legitimately didn't get them. That's a shame.

The title here is a poor translation of the Japanese title ???????3? (kingu farao sansei) which can be barely made out on the single poor-quality image of the box on the internet. The Japanese spelling of pharaoh Farao, seems to be misconstrued to be Hotep's name in this set. "Sansei" is a suffix to a name meaning "the third" made up of 3 (called "san" in Japanese) and the counter ? (sei) used to count repetition of names in a family, and generations. A better translation would be "King Pharaoh the Third" which happens to be Bricklink's name for the set. Yeah, I know quite a bit of Japanese.

Well, the Japanese characters were replaced with question marks,so it's a good thing I also included the Romanizations.

Does anyone know whether that map is unique? We have the map but I have no idea about the other parts. Thanks!

@Slobrojoe said:
"Does anyone know whether that map is unique? We have the map but I have no idea about the other parts. Thanks!"

Map was in multiple sets :

https://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemIn.asp?P=3068px19&in=S

Wish I had more Adventurers. I did buy up all of Pharaoh’s Quest though and that stuff was great.

Kabaya: One of my most fear words in collecting. General very difficult to get outside of Japan. Lucky this one is not totally exclusive to Kabaya, 1183 is the same set. Like the most of the Kabaya sets 3021 came in a number of different packagings.

Another classic LEGO theme gone by the wayside. Johnny Thunder was the man back in the day. The story/comics/board game that accompanied the Temple of Mount Everest, Scorpion Palace, and Dragon Fortress sets was awesome.

Throw the Adventurers theme up on the "someday" big board with Castle, Pirates, Space, and Western. *sigh*

While I see a lot of jokes about the name of this set, I'm surprised nobody's brought up the inconsistency of this character's name (and Adventurers names in general) even in English-speaking countries.

Several folks have referred to him as the Pharaoh Hotep, which was indeed the name used in UK-based LEGO media. But in the North American Mania Magazines and in LEGO Racers, he was referred to simply as "The Pharaoh's Mummy". I suspect this is because in the US, "hotep" has been used since the early 90s as a pejorative for African-Americans with extremist viewpoints.

I definitely find it interesting how much less standardized LEGO media was between countries before the early 2000s, especially since it was confusing as a kid to see conflicting names between LEGO puzzle books authored in the UK and LEGO magazines authored in the US!

I suspect the Internet was the primary motivator for LEGO to start assigning their characters names that they could reliably use worldwide without the intent getting lost in translation. But those earlier years of inconsistency definitely can create a lot of confusion on sites like Brickset, BrickLink, and Brickipedia that catalog pre-21st-century LEGO sets, characters, and media!