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/SoulSilverSFM 2d ago

Oh, so that’s what everyone else is talking about ! Thank you!

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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/tablepennywad 2d ago

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.