Oasis Ambush is one of the Adventurers sets released for 1998. It comes with the smirking "Indiana Jones" character, a black top hatted ambusher, and a skeleton/mummy. (The skeleton is a mummy by virture of a yellow Pharoah's headress.) The kit includes a black scorpion, a palm tree, the mini-fig chain element, 4 gold coins, a black treasure chest, 1x3 inverted double slope element, a 1x1 technic beam element, a spear, a pistol, a rifle, a "treasure map to the Pharoah's tomb" tile, a heiroglyphs tile, and several hieroglyph stickers.
The primary scene is the mummy's tomb. The tomb itself is a box, surrounded by the tall 2x2 slopes and heiroglyph panels and topped by a black jackal. The palm is nearby (on a seperate 4x4 plate) providing shade. The jackal is built onto a special "trapdoor" plate element (4x6) that is connected to a frame plate (6x8 studs) and will pivot open and close. The chain accessory is connected to the spear and run through the tomb and connected to the back of the jackal. When one pulls on the spear, the "trapdoor" element opens, revealing the contents of the tomb.
The kit cost me $7.99 at Toys R Us. My imagination is captured through the "Inidana Jones" Egyptology themes. I like the gimmic of the secret tomb door opening and closing. The new mini-fig elements are very cool.
The are several alternative scenes without building instructions included on the back of the 16 page instruction booklet. The skeleton is wearing the top hat and reclining on the black treasure chest. Another features the mummy chained up with the two mini-figs dueling with a pistol and the scorpion over the treasure chest.
It was nice to see Lego's web site address included on the instruction booklet.
I do not like the Lego Group's trend to incorporating guns into their kits. Archaeology is exciting enough without gun duels. This trend detracts from a new great theme.
![[Purchase Lego at Amazon.com]](http://in.adequate.com/i/lego/Ads/Amazon-sm.gif)
