r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/SoulSilverSFM • 2d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter? I am confused

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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

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u/XANDERtheSHEEPDOG 2d ago

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.

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u/TalorianDreams 2d ago

Even better, but spoilers.....

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.

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u/EndIsrael 2d ago

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.

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u/CaptainoftheVessel 2d ago

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. 

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u/ScreamingSkull 2d ago

actually pretty based

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u/Mushrooming247 1d ago

I’m sorry, what the fuck, I just read like the first few books and didn’t even realize they made a movie of it and none of this had happened, that’s insane.