Indiana Jones And The Temple of Doo

2008 saw the theatrical release of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the fourth chapter in the Indiana Jones quadrilogy and first new Indiana Jones film since 1989’s Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Along with the release came the usual slew of multimedia products from a LEGO Indy video game to a fake whip for kids to the collectible action figure collection by Hasbro toys that encompassed all four of the Indy movies.

We found this price tag at a Wal-Mart store a while back where the Indiana Jones movie action figures were supposed to be.

I was excited at first when I saw this label because I had been eagerly anticipating the release of the Temple of Doom action figure line. Not only was it my favorite of the films when I was a child but this wave of figures contained the one figure that I had been waiting for since the launch of the line, Thugee cult leader Mola Ram (the guy that pulls the guy’s heart out in the movie). At first I didn’t even notice the strangeness of the error on this tag and began searching vigorously through the nearby pegs of action figures, none of which were Indiana Jones. In fact, there weren’t any Indy figures around and the peg that this tag was on was filled with Batman action figures that hadn’t sold.

Really. No Wal-Mart employee thought this was out of place? Really. Maybe they did it on purpose because they hated the film. Why not just call this “TEMPLE OF DOOM FIG” or something? And why did they bother to include the size of the figures (3.75 inches) in the title if they couldn’t even fit “doom” in there? They even included Indiana Jones in there twice, both as “IJ” and “INDY.” Seriously. How could they screw this up so badly?

I really over-analyzed that poop joke, didn’t I.