Amateur Adventure 52 Minutes

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Hey! We’ve not done this for a while but yesterday we were alerted by a French chum to an amateur take-off of La Carte aux Tresors called Le Qlub aux Tresors (Le Qlub appear to be some sort of French youth collective) which is surprisingly well done on a couple of Go Pros, video cameras and iPhones. Three contestants solve clues and do tasks in a race to find and unlock the treasure including getting a transfer tattoo and trying to find (what looks like) their dads in a car park to get a lift to the next destination. It does not have the helicopters but you can sense the ambition – we quite enjoyed the large amount of graphics and little biography bits of the places you get just like on the show. We also enjoyed watching the contestants try the gambit of trying to hitchhike lifts to the first destination by going up to cars and saying they’re from Carte aux Tresors, despite the fact the show was axed in 2009. They’ve even incorporated some elements of physical adventure challenge the show liked to provide as well.

The music’s used a bit haphazardly and the first fifteen minutes are probably a bit dull if you don’t know the language but it’s definitely worth sticking with, I was getting really into it by the end. This is episode two, apparently episode three is on the way.

If you quite enjoyed that somebody seems to be uploading archive episodes of the original right now.