Monday, July 25, 2011

30 years / 30 shirts - day 25


Another shirt pick to brighten up a rainy Monday. This is an official ride t-shirt from the Temple of the Crystal Skull ride in the Tokyo DisneySea park. The Japanese version of the Temple of the Forbidden Eye ride had an Crystal Skull right from the start, years before the fourth film adventure happened. Their skull is not inter-dimensional, though, it just looks like a human skull - just crystal.
One of the big effects on the ride was a real fireball blown towards the visitors. This was used for this shirt's design: A fireball containing the skull, a serpent pedestal, the truck and the bi-plane. Due to strict Japanese laws regarding open fire in buildings the ride effect had to be modified shortly after. Now the fireball is just an optical effect with hot hair smelling of burnt stuff blown towards the visitors.

shirt stats:
  • type: t-shirt
  • color: green
  • front: "Ball of Fire" design for the Indiana Jones Adventure Temple of the Crystal Skull; design shows one big ball of fire with the crystal skull at the center shooting blue rays; bi-plane and modified Jeep
  • back: small logo below the neck: Temple of the Crystal Skull with glowing skull(same as at the front but in mono color white
  • weight: 211 g
  • producer: Disney/Lucasfilm Ltd.
  • vendor: bought in DisneySea Japan March 2002
  • cat: happy 13th birthday!
  • post: the 100th. how could this have happened...

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