5988 – Pharaoh’s Forbidden Ruins “ReMOC”

I’m a big fan of Lego’s Adventurers theme, and for many years, “5988 – Pharaoh’s Forbidden Ruins” has been one of my white whale sets. Problem is, complete copies tend to hover at around $300+ on BrickLink. I was messing around in Stud.io when I decided to try to rebuild the main temple part of the set – no side builds – with the modern brick color palette and substitute modern brick elements where I could. I also decided to include no printed pieces to further cut down the price. The result is a list that hovers around a much more reasonable $130 ($100 for parts, $30 for shipping).

Edit – apparently, the Bricklink wishlist is saved as a forbidden filetype so I cannot upload it, but if you are interested, let me know!

Notes:

I have replaced sarcophagi with inverted slopes; the silhouette is the same, though the sarcophagus molding is absent. The blue “sarcophagus” at the temple’s base is on a swivel panel; the idea is to add the mummy/minifigure of choice so it can jump out.

I have added spikes to the bottom of the trapdoor that previously would drop a minifigure into a criminally empty space.

I have replaced the modular palm tree elements with the palm tree build from set 60365 – Apartment Building.

As there is no part-for-part replacement for the Dark Gray crocodile “statues,” I made two brick-built crocodiles from Dark Bluish Gray instead.

• This topic was modified 7 months ago by Avi.