Indiana Jones 4 - The Movie

[Darby]

Oh, hells yes.   

[Matt]

Okay, so it's not IJ4, but close enough:



Traveller's Tales raiding Lego Indiana Jones

LucasArts commissions Lego Star Wars studio to parody history-turned-adventurer's first three excursions, available in 2008 for consoles.

By Tom Magrino, GameSpot
Posted Jul 27, 2007 6:35 pm PT


Eat your heart out, Mr. Ford.

Traveller's Tales is no stranger to LucasArts properties. The developer won praise, or at least a few smirks, with its tongue-in-cheek send-up of the hallowed Star Wars franchise in Lego Star Wars and its follow-up, Lego Star Wars II. However, during Star Wars Day at this year's Comic-Con International: San Diego, it wasn't the epic space opera that received one of LucasArts bigger announcements.

Closing out its conference at Comic-Con, LucasArts announced Lego Indiana Jones: The Videogame will ride on to consoles in 2008. As with Lego Star Wars, Lego Indiana Jones will parody three Indiana Jones movies, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Lego Indiana Jones will developed by the same team behind the Lego Star Wars games and feature the same style of quirky humor and familiar movie moments rendered in children's building blocks.

LucasArts' storied franchises aren't the only ones Lego Group has courted recently. In March, Warner Bros. Entertainment announced it would be piecing together DC Comics' Gotham City with Lego Batman, available for multiple consoles in 2008. Earlier that same month, Lego Group announced that Auto Assault developer NetDevil was prepping a massively multiplayer online game around the popular building blocks.

Along with the game, LucasArts also announced that Lego Indiana Jones playsets will be available in January 2008.

LEGO Indiana Jones: The Video Game - trailer

But here's something from IJ4:

[Diddly]

If Lego Indiana Jones is half as good as the Lego Star Wars games then we're in for a real treat.

[evenflow]

Awesome news on both accounts 

[Artoo]

Can't wait for Lego Indy. 

[Brian]

Today's Foxtrot has an Indy theme:

[Artoo]

Man, the old Indy joke is old. 

[Matt]

Apparently Henry Jones the third announced the full title of IJ4 during the MTV Music Video Awards tonight:

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

No bull****--I was just thinking, earlier today, that we should be hearing an announcement on this very shortly, and here it is.  Weird, wild schtuff.

Nothing at the official IJ site as of yet.  Nor theraider.net.  Probably tomorrow, if it is indeed legit.

Sounds more like the title of an Indiana Jones Choose Your Own Adventure book, to me, but whatev.

[Darth Broem]

Yeah, I could not tell if Shia was serious or not when he announced that?  I guess so. 

[BillCable]

But here's something from IJ4:

Wow... Marion looks about a thousand times better than the last interview I saw with her.

[Matt]

Yeah, I could not tell if Shia was serious or not when he announced that?  I guess so. 

It sounds like bull**** to me, but I don't know the context in which it was used, as I didn't catch it on TV.

It does seem to take IJ4 in a totally-different direction from what some of the rumors have suggested -

SPOILER - HIGHLIGHT TO READ: that the plot involves re-finding the Ark.

Who knows.  Guess we'll find out soon enough, anyway.

[Scott]

Pappy "Nuthuggers" Wise has the official press release it seems

[Matt]

Son of a bitch.

Anyway, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

Rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?

Abbreviated IJatKotCS.

Yeah, that's not much better.

[Nathan]

I'm not believing it until I see it on IJ.com. But I'd like it to be true, because it sounds frickin awesome.

Hell of a lousy way to announce it, though.

[Scott]

I plan on calling it "Crystal Skull" (is that what we're calling it now, "Crystal Skull"?) sort of like I call "Raiders", "Raiders" "Temple", "The one in India" and "Last Crusade", "Last Crusade"