Lego Adventurers Jungle Statistics [Req Photos]

[moschino]

Hello, I recently tried to create some stats about Adventurers series and I kinda got stuck at Jungle series in Europe.

I remember when few years ago, I asked on this forum if Adventurers Jungle series are limited or not available in Europe because trying to find them on eBay in Europe is almost impossible and someone answered me they are not limited but I should just continue to search.

It took me about 3 years to find 5976 EU version, boxed and I still couldn't find yet 5986 EU boxed. Same situation for 5956, 5936 and 5925.

There are plenty in US, and especially the smaller sets such as 5925 are extremely easy to find, but not in Europe. I started to believe these are not US Exclusive, but they are pretty limited edition in US and extremely limited edition in EU.

Right now there's only one single 5986 available for sale on BrickLink, and there were only 11 sets sold during the past 6 months, most of them in US. This set is more rare than a lot of sets released 10 years before it and if Adventurers Jungle weren't limited release, shouldn't be so hard to find. I really doubt people around the world sell every Lego excepting Adventurers Jungle because they're so awesome.

However, doing my statistics, I noticed this series is missing in UK/DE Catalogues. Initially I thought I missed the page, but after more time searching I found that this series is present only in Eastern Europe Catalogues Poland/Romania and partially in France.

If these sets were not promoted in UK, Germany and Netherlands, this explains my theory. If they were not promoted, they were probably not sold there (at least not as any other sets, maybe some particular store imported few of them from Eastern Europe), and if they were not sold there is normal to not find them now on eBay and BrickLink.

So, I would like Adventurers Fans all over the world to share with me their experience in finding these Jungle series sets, especially in 1999 when they were supposed to be in stores.

If any of you has the catalogue from 1999 and can make a picture with smartphone or something to the Adventurers page, that would be extremely welcome.

I'm very curious to see Adventurers catalogues especially from Eastern Europe Countries and Australia/Japan. Of course, catalogues from Western Europe will be welcomed too.

Edited August 15, 2016 by moschino

[Tezclatipoca]

Hello,

I am not specially an expert concerning the adventurers jungle sub theme but as I lived the period and as 5936 was my very last acquisition before I entrer my Dark Age I will try to give you my thoughts.

I can ensure you that the jungle sub theme was released and well promoted in France. Where I lived, back in those days, I clearly remember seing all Eu boxed sets on the stores.

But 2 things are to be known :

1) the sets of the jungle theme did not stay long on the shelves, so I can assume TLG did not produce much more of them.

2) this leading to my second point as 1999 is a terrible year for TLG financially speaking. It is when they lost many money and just began to launch the first Star Wars sets. IMO, They simply did not had the capacity to produce much of somewhat could appear like an "annexe" sub theme.

This makes me think the jungle subtheme is quite rare just from the source and not because of collectors that are keeping them in their collections.

I agree with you on the fact that it's totally plausible TLG did not released the Adventurers Jungle theme in every country. That could really be interesting to see how the theme was treated in other countries.

Concerning the catalog, I remember having one. I will look at my parent's where I think I left it. If I find it I will post a picture. It's a french catalog of 1999. I hope my parents kept it in their attic...

I hope this helps. Now, me too, I am curious to know how the sub theme of the Jungle was released in other countries.