I remember the time it was bought and the place. It was a gift for good grades. I chose it, because it had many interesting pieces: coins, scorpion, chain, map, rifle and skeleton with nemes. And I loved that it had 2 secrets: black chest, hidden in plain sight as a very appropriate jackal (Upwawet) statue, and mechanism to open the lid of the tomb. It was so simple, but worked really well. I don't know, though, why builders thought it's a necessary thing for a tomb to have.

Also, it has some ideas for alternative assembling. The shrine with chained skeleton has very creepy implications. And the picture of the skeleton in a top hat is self-explanatory.

It's a great little playset that has everything for an adventure. I think it holds up till this day.

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I managed to find some of it. Mr Sinister Boots was chewed by my dog... a very long time ago...

This was my first set from the Adventurers' theme, and I love it! As a child I spent hours pitting Johnny Thunder and Slyboots against each other. To this day it remains built; it is perfect for its size and price. This set encompasses all of the main ideas of the Adventurers' theme. It has a trap, treasure, nice palm tree, clever design and your good guy, bad guy, and mummy.

Box/Instructions

I love the box art and instructions. I remember as a child, it really gave the vibe of this little temple being hidden in the middle of the desert.

Parts

Nice parts! The palm tree is wonderful, along with the treasure chest/coins, scorpion, trap door, and a couple of printed pieces (treasure map and hieroglyphs on the 1x4 plate) The hieroglyphs on the side of the tomb are stickers, but they are the decal type, and are still firmly in place 18 years later :)

Minifigures

Perfect selection! You have your hero, Johnny Thunder, with his map and a revolver, and then the sinister Slyboots with his rifle, and finally the mummy hidden in the tomb, he is my personal favorite. The mummy looks great with the yellow headdress

The build

A unique build, I had fun building the trap and hidden treasure chest!

The completed model

Very nice little set, looks great! The trap is so fun! You pull the spear and the trap door opens revealing the mummy! The hidden treasure on top is awesome too! It perfectly blends into the Anubis/canine statue!

Overall opinion

I would definitely recommend this to anyone interested in the Adventurers' theme, or just anyone wanting to get a taste of what that wonderful theme was all about :)

Cheers!

Kyle

This set is really good.

I think the 'legoglyphs' are better then the new ones but the best thing about this model is the added play function of opening the tomb by pulling the spear and revealing the skeleton.The only bad thing about this set is when you have opened the tomb it is really hard to get the skeleton out.

The palm tree is really cool and bends easily when you want it to.

I definitely recommend this set.

Set #5938 Oasis Ambush: I think the title of this set is misleading, true it does include a palm tree, but when I hear Oasis I think cool watery shaded place in the middle of arid wastelands, not a dangerous miniature tomb with the skeleton of a dead Egyptian King waiting to spring to life and murder you.

This set from the Adventurers theme is one of the small cheap sets released back in the day - it includes three mini-figures, a black scorpion, gold pieces and a treasure chest to put them in. It also includes one palm tree and a scary looking tomb, like I said not an Oasis.

Johnny Thunder is the same as we've all seen by now, a LEGO interpretation of an Indiana Jones archetype. He carries a pistol with him in this set and a treasure map marking the location of the tomb.

Sam Sinister... That is his name, right? Well he's obviously working with Johnny for the betterment of mankind. Not. This villain of the Adventurers theme is in it for only one thing, the gold, and he carries a rifle just to proove that he can take care of himself.

The Skeleton is the older designed version with the floppy limbs, so even though he can hold a weapon or other accessory he can't wield it very well.

Building the Oasis part of this Oasis Ambush is fun and relatively short, but it offers up some nice little touches. (In spite of the stickers used for detailing, which still hold up quite well thirteen years later.) The aforementioned stickers give Egyptian Hyrogliphics designs for each side of the miniature tomb, there is a printed plate with instructions on how to open the tomb.

This is accomplished by pulling on the spear which pulls the chain which flips open the top of the tomb allowing the skeleton to leap out (with a little help from the one playing with the set.) and scare off the intruders. The clever design of the dog-like statue incorporating the treasure chest as the body is really neat, and evokes a feeling of Egyptian style masonry/carvings.

The scorpion just sits in the open visible to all in the instructions, but if you wanted you could easily squeeze him into the treasure chest to protect the gold. After thirteen years my palm tree has only one good frond left, the others are broken or breaking so I'll have to order some replacements one of these days from LEGO Shop At Home. Still if you want some older style bendy palm trees this is a cheap way to get one.

All in all I rate this a five, because it's fun, it accomplishes what it sets out to do and it invokes the spirit of the Egyptian Mummy movies from Universal, or even Abbot & Costello Meet the Mummy. The Instructions also showcase alternative models that can be built with the pieces in the set, but you'll have to figure out how to dupliate the photographed models yourself, which is part of the fun of LEGO. Discovery.

I love this set. It has really awesome figs and a cool tomb

PROS:

• Johnny Thunder
• Sly Boot
• The tomb opens
• Treasure
• Palm tree
• Rare pharao hood
• Stickers look cool
• Scorpion
  

• NONE