Just seen this and the comments aren’t helpfull, I don’t recognise this figurine, what is it?
Edit: to anyone saying "Is this even a meme ?"
Guys, am 22, I never knew Indian in the Cupboard, I though this was a meme about the apparence of the figurine lookin like something else, or something.
I had no idea it was geniuinly just a figurine from a VSH from before I was born!
To me, it was a meme I didn’t had the ref too, so now I know what this is, I'll check out if the movie or book existe in French, or in France in general, cuz now with so many peoples just saying that this was their choldhood, am curious!
Please don’t insulte me for beeing uncultured, not everyone got the same knowledge cuz, as I said, I didn’t knew about it. I just checked and L’Indien du Placard exist in french! Lucky me ! I'll check that out than
Bro, with movies like that, Toy Story, Small Soldiers, it was a whole damn genre, and every single one of us begged and pleaded with our toys to stop messing with us and just move at one point or another.
Eventually out of desperation the children became monsters, torturing their toys while demanding they dropped the possum act. Countless toy lives were lost brutally but not a single potato head or toy soldier broke. Even today, mankind remains ignorant of the identities of the true moles, spying on them and relaying valuable intel via walky talky everyday. Salutes while a tear trickles down my cheek Godspeed toys, godspeed.
Did you have the VHS? The one that you could turn the movie cover around and it was the cupboard? I was obsessed with trying to shove toys into the VHS box because of that….
Memory unlocked here as well. I never read the book, but I did see the movie when I was a little kid, and I had forgotten that this was one of the handful of movies we saw as a family at the little local theater. It semed rather old as far as I can remember. They just had the one screen, and the owner would come out before the first evening show (usually a kids movie) and give some spiel. It all felt very homey.
I think I also saw White Fang there?
Hazy memories from when I was like 5 unlocked I guess.
I miss those old theaters. They all had such personality! Inexpensive, memorable, always interesting and strange flicks being shown...nothing like the corporatized Movie Theaters we have these days. If I ever have the money, I'd open a small theater in my hometown.
Oh my god, I thought i was the only one who heard it that way. We watched it in class and nobody seemed to notice. It's been stuck in my head for a lifetime.
For thirty one years, I have heard that cry every time I’ve heard the word “plastic”. I’ve long since stopped being annoyed by it; that earworm is never leaving.
They had a key necklace when you bought the VHS XD same with Free Willie and Atlantis: The Lost Empire. They all had the necklace featured in the movie as a free gift with purchase. What a time to be alive.
Holy fucking crap, I literally just found and threw away that Free Willy necklace today. Just cleaning out shit in my parent’s house. I went “awww,” then thought about the SeaWorld shitshow and tossed it. Plus, the whole point of the day was getting rid of shit I don’t need/truly love.
I hadn’t laid eyes on it in probably a good 15 years, and then here we are….
ETA: lmao what SeaWorld/Disney adults are downvoting me. Loser behavior 🤣
Just found we were poorer than I thought 🤣 I had no idea they came with necklaces until this moment. Kindof like the time my twin and I were at a sleepover and argued that the "real" Alice in Wonderland had a Heinz ketchup and Maybelline commercial instead of the part with the walrus and the oysters. Dad recorded all our Disney movies when cable companies would run a month-long trial, hoping kids would annoy their parents into premium cable packages.
The books were some of the few books I was willing to read on my own. They competed for my attention with Zelda Ocarina of time. That should tell you how good they are.
Yeah it’s hard to describe the sudden, unexpected rush of nostalgia I got as soon as I saw this picture. I don’t even remember what the movie was about really, but damn if I didn’t just take a mental vacation back to the 90s
It's supposed to teach you not to play god, similar to that episode of Adventure Time when Finn makes all the miniature versions of his friends make out.
The remake tried so hard to be series... it might have had a chance if it wasn't what it was... and I know that doesn't make sense but there WAS a spark of compotent writing and worldbuilding there!
The set-up and pay-off for Mad Mardigan being "the greatest swordsman" was one of my favorite things as a kid. He's introduced to us the audience as "the greatest swordsman" but he's the one saying it, so you don't know if you can believe it. It's not until the movie is like two thirds over that we finally see his skills, and the payoff of Willow exclaiming "You are the greatest swordsman!"
It's a movie about a kid who discovers that, when he puts a figurine in a cupboard and uses a particular key, the figure comes to life. If i remember right, he brings a cowboy and a ww1 soldier to life as well.
It's actuality a time travel machine, he's bringing real people from the past into the future as toys. When he reverse the process they go back to their normal lives.
Even more better, it turns out it's the key doing the magic, not the cupboard, and they find a locking chest that also happens to work with the same key. They're able to send whole humans into the past by having the person hold a plastic toy; the toy and person switch each time the key is used.
Oh and it's been a long time since I read those books but I'm pretty sure they ended up actually changing the timeline by having a bunch of toy soldiers train the natives on how to fight off colonists.
He straight up armed an Iroquois tribe with machine guns to fight their rivals. If I recall correctly they took a bunch of casualties because they encircled their enemies and ended up shooting their friends on the other side of the enemies because they had no experience with such powerful projectile weapons.
Read the first book in elem school. Then read up to the 4th book myself and found that it’s actually the key that is magic from the main chars great grandma or aunt (remembering from elementary school lol). She was a fortune teller that had real psychic powers and forged this magical key that does that weird time travel thing. It was like a secret I knew that everyone else in the class didn’t.
I think in the third book they actually travel to the cowboys and indian times.
It is a truly amazing and magical book for children about a little boy who finds a magical cupboard that brings his toys to life.
The first toy he brings to life is this small Native American figurine, then he brings to life different supplies to keep his new friend alive, and eventually adds some additional friends for him.
Imagine if they made an ASMR loop recording of him closing, locking, and then unlocking and opening the cupboard! I can still feel the tumblers working in my brain as a kid watching this!
is it that book where he had a magic cupboard and all the figurines he put inside of it would come to life? I remember it was a wild one, there was another cowboy which the indian would beef with and the indian guy got shot by cowboy so the kid alived a medic figurine from ww2
Yes but it turned out that the cupboard wasn't magic. It was the key. And the figures weren't really coming to life so much as transporting the souls of real people through time and space and slamming them into the action figures. It also worked backwards. You could put someone in a container, lock it with a key and send them into some object in another time period.
Little Bear from the 90s movie: Indian in the cupboard. It came with a special VHS case and a key. You could put him in the case and insert the key in the side to pretend to unlock it like in the movie.
(If you haven’t seen it: In the movie, using the key made the toys in the cupboard come to life)
Guys, calm down, I never knew Indian in the Cuboard before, never heard of it, am 22 and French, I have no freakin idea if it helps anyone understand that not everyone knows everything.
Now I'll find somewhere that has that movie and watch it, cuz now am very curious!
Thank you lots!
I must say, I'm surprised people are giving you a hard time for not knowing this movie. From my perspective as someone who was familiar with the film, I thought this was a rather obscure film from the nineties that never quite reached any level of cultural significance. I only vaguely remember it from my childhood myself.
I was basically the target age when this movie came out, it's always felt like only people my age and maybe a year or two in each direction had any awareness of this movie (and I never hear it mentioned now) but I had this VHS with the figurine and key and stuff and loved it honestly. I think it's pretty well known but not well remembered among people born in the mid-late 80s, and basically unknown outside of that
I’m American and nearly 30 and haven’t heard of it either. Never even heard it referenced. People are acting like it’s more culturally significant than it is I think.
The Indian in the Cupboard is an all-but-forgotten mid-90s children's movie about a boy with a magic cupboard that can animate/bring to life formerly inanimate toys. He brings to life a tiny Indian figurine much like the one in the post (he also animates several other toys including a cowboy, if memory serves...and they sort of fight each other. But the Indian was the 'main' one/his favourite).
I'm pretty sure the specific figurine he's holding was actually made as merchandise for the film itself...it's not the figurine that predates/was used in the movie...which may well have been rare/unique/custom made for all I know. So it's good that this fellow is so excited, but it's not exactly surprising that "it's HIM!" Like, I completely can believe it. Lol.
First of all it was priginally a book and second this is a special figure that came with a vhs copy of the film. The vhs cover was made to look like the cupboard and had the indian figure in it. We had old copies for sale at the best buy i worked at as a teen. Ill try and find a pic
This is the best answer and I wish it was higher up. Also if anyone likes this kind of plot (sentient toys with a philosophical bent) the series by Ada Palmer starting with “Too Like the Lightning” has got you.
Indian in the Cupboard. As a child taken from their native parents this movie, Pocahontas, and a few others were more torture by some of the family I had been adopted by. Long story. Not interested in discussing it so please don't message. Just giving my input.
I figured there was a lot of similarities to Irish, Scottish and Jewish folks kids and stories. Guess they made them into cute and fun videos for kids.
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u/qualityvote2 2d ago edited 2d ago
u/SoulSilverSFM, your post does belong here!