The Last Crusade Challenge Coin

Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade Challenge Coin

Ravenwood Coins

Ravenwood Coins on Facebook is back with a new "Crusader" challenge coin that your Indiana Jones collection can't do without.  Especially if you have any 1:6 scale Indy dolls...it's big enough that it's practically an accessory from the film!

Instead of a rounded coin shape, you get a tiny reproduction of a Grail Knight shield!  The writing is even detailed enough for your tiny Indy to make a tiny rubbing.  

The back has the eyes on the prize, which you should know what it is even if you can't read Latin.  It also has the three grail trials in English to give any brave adventurer a heads up. 

Or make that "heads down."

Like Ravenwood's excellent Staff of Ra headpiece replica, this coin is big (roughly 2 x 3.5 in) and gorgeous.  The shield side is bright and shiny, while the trials side is a nice gold/bronze.  I feel it's definitely worth it's weight in metal and craftsmanship at $30 shipped.  Even more considering it has multiple uses as a collectible for me.  Again, if you are an Indy fan, check out what Ravenwood Coins has to offer.  I've got my fingers crossed that he's got something special cooking for Temple of Doom!

Previous review:  Staff of Ra Headpiece from Ravenwood Coins

Indiana Jones and the Staff of Ra

Indiana Jones and the Staff of Ra

Ravenwood Coins prop replica - Kenner vintage figures

Indy is right up there with Ghostbusters and Batman 89 for me, yet he has never had as much merch.  Outside of a renewed interest in the franchise with the release of "Crystal Skull,"  finding Indy stuff is a crapshoot at flea markets.  It only half sucks, as the fun of finding a diamond in the rough outweighs the bad.  One of these recent diamonds was a metal, full-scale replica of the headpiece to the Staff of Ra that some friends (and fellow Indy fans) pointed me towards.  

Ravenwood Coins on facebook produces limited runs on smaller challenge coins which look and feel fantastic, but I was all about the bigger one.  I've been looking for a good replica for some time, weeding through the various 3-D printed ones.  Nothing has even come close to this one in accuracy and quality.  It's heavy, shiny, and doesn't require any finishing.  I still need to find a chain for it, if I wanna be all Marion-like.

It may sound a bit pricey at $85 shipped, but I guarantee you will not be dissatisfied.  If Ravenwood Coins offers these again and you consider yourself any kind of Indy fan, jump on it.  It's beautiful!  Please check out their page for other goodies, like the challenge coin version and mini Grail Knight shields.

Throwing in a couple of other Indy "artifacts" with this review...I recently picked up a vintage Kenner Indy and Cairo Swordsman at a local toy shop for $5 together.  I think the guy assumed they were some of those Funko ReAction figures...barf.  It's one of the best conditions I've seen an old Indy figure in.  He came with his gun (usually lost to time and couch cushions) and both thumbs (these have become brittle with time and wear.)  His whipping or quick-draw action works, too!

Through an Indy autograph page, I picked up a Young Indiana Jones poster signed by the youngest Indy, Corey Carrier.  This was the first signing for him at a Chiller Theatre convention in NJ.  Members of the Fortune and Glory page were nice enough to take picture orders for those at a distance like myself.  Thanks for the opportunity to add this to the collection, Josh Clark!  There are some good folks out there in this fan community, but steer clear of the Raider.net...there are some real uppity jackasses in those parts.

Not new, but recently displayed:  a Jim Steranko autograph, a Crystal Skull art print, and a limited edition, signed artifact poster (all proceeds went to help American Veterans) by Matt Busch.  I also picked up Bottleneck Gallery's limited prints from Karl Fitzgerald. (Still need frames for Temple and Crusade.)  The adventure continues...more Indy stuff to come! (I hope...)

Disney Vinylmation Indiana Jones

Disney Vinylmation Indiana Jones

 

 

Another rare Indy find, second-hand at a local comic shop.  But is it a welcome find? It's creepy and pointless as all get out, but it was only three bucks.  The clerk asked "Is that Nicholas Cage?"  I said," Close, if you're a "National Treasure" fan. 

 

But I understand...this Disneyana crossover is confusing.  I know there isn't exactly a glut of Indy product out there, but was anyone asking for their favorite action hero to be grafted onto the body of Mickey Mouse? 

 

 

I guess they make the best they can with the ears, painting them to blend into a key location or suggestion of the film it is from.  Here we get some Egyptian hieroglyphics as featured in the Tanis Dig/Map Room scene from "Raiders of the Lost Ark.

 

 

The figurine is about three inches tall and has three points of articulation.  The paint is pretty solid, and is as accurate as any toon caricature can get with Mickey cheeks as your base, I reckon.  He comes with one accessory: the Staff of Ra.

 

I think that these are blind box figures and, to make things worse, Disney parks and stores exclusives.  So if these things are your bag and you don't live on the coasts, good luck with your Ebay hunting!

 

Just for fun, I dug out the old Kenner Map Room playset and all of the variations of that Indy I have collected.

 



Whoops...forgot one!  Original Map Room Indy is upset he wasn't invited!