David West Reynolds, Indy archaeologist

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Episode 279 of Blast Points Podcast which has been doing an Indiana Jones related episode each month to celebrate 40 years of Raiders of the Lost Ark has interviewed Dr. David West Reynolds. Here’s the description:
“Indy Year continues as this month we welcome the legendary Dr. David West Reynolds. In addition to finding the actual shooting locations from Star Wars back in the mid 1990s, creating the visual dictionaries and building Star Wars.com, Dr. Reynolds has for decades been doing archaeology on Raiders of the Lost Ark! He has been an actual Indiana Jones in the deserts of the world and in the Lucasfilm archives! Join us as we learn about the actual location of the Well of Souls! The secret facts behind the german flying wing! Abner Ravenwood's snow monster foot! Whipping Steve Sansweet in a Ewok costume! AND did you know he played Boba Fett for two years?! It's a mind blowing, super fun episode so get that fortune & glory and listen today.”

It’s a pretty fun episode with a few surprises; there’s a Yeti footprint taken by Abner Ravenwood within the Raven Bar!?!

Highly recommend a listen.
 

Moedred

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Here's his column at Indygear. Les cataloged the Raiders plane with him 15 years ago. Here's what he's worked on for Lucasfilm.

I just heard the podcast and it's absolutely packed with great stuff. Paramount should greenlight his featurette for the next set of discs, it's scripted and approved. Hopefully he visits Nepal and finds the location of the actual Raven someday. As Lucas said in the Raiders Story Conference Transcript, "There is actually a Rick's Place in Nepal. Bill and Gloria know about it. They stayed there. It's some expatriot American who lives there at the foot of the Himalayas. It's got this hotel/bar."
 

Moedred

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An educator, Thomas Riddle, actually used the Young Indy episodes as edutainment as intended at the Roper Mountain Science Center in South Carolina in 2008. Dr. David West Reynolds was invited to speak. Take note that as a result, Lucasfilm sent him some swag. Here are parts one and two, a third is forthcoming.

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