If the line lasts long enough to give us a second wave for each of the four movies, here's what I'd like to see:

Wave 5: Raiders of the Lost Ark

• Indy in German Soldier Disguise
• Marion Ravenwood in White Dress
• Toht
• German Mechanic
• Belloq in slacks and white shirt from the scenes in Cairo
• Colonel Dietrich
• Satipo
• Captain Katanga

I've chosen this mix for a couple of different reasons. The first five figures help finish off the vintage Kenner line being remade. I think it would be nice to have Colonel Dietrich only because he was the third part of the trio of bad-guys from the film and he was one of the three who opened the Ark. The other two figures just help flesh out some other regular/memorable characters from the film. They could be easily replaced with characters like Marcus Brody, Major Eaton or Jock.

Wave 6: Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

• Marion Ravenwood
• Professor Henry "Indiana" Jones (pics have surfaced of Indy riding on the back of Mutt's motorcycle in a suit)
• Mac
• US Army Soldier
• TBD
• TBD
• TBD
• TBD

I do think that there will be a second wave of KotCS figures, we'll probably see them on display at SDCC and they will probably be scheduled for release around the time that the fourth Indy movie comes out on DVD. I'm sure I'll have a few more figure ideas after I've seen the movie, but for now, even just based on the teaser trailer & photos, those are four figures I definitely hope they make.

Wave 7: The Last Crusade

• Walter Donovan
• Marcus Brody
• Kazim
• Sallah from Last Crusade
• Indiana Jones - Venice
• Elsa Schneider - Venice
• Panama Hat - Young Indy "Flashback"
• Fedora - Young Indy "Flashback"

I had a hard time fleshing out this wave to have eight figures. I'm really surprised that they didn't put Donovan and Marcus in the third wave - I guess old men in suits aren't that exciting. I chose the last two figures because it would be nice to have some figures to put with the Young Indy figure, but if Hasbro wanted to only do a wave of six figures, those two could be dropped.

Wave 8: Temple of Doom

• Indy in Tuxedo
• Lao Che
• Kao Kan
• Willie Scott in Performance Gown
• Chattar Lal
• Pankot Maharaja Zalin Singh
• Captain Blumburtt
• British Soldier

I really would like to see them make at least four figures from the sequence in Club Obi-Wan. If the Wave 4 Willie Scott figure is her in the red dress from the opening of the movie then the Willie Scott figure should be her in the pants and shirt from Indy's tux since he has a lot of scenes in that outfit. I think a nice deluxe figure would be Willie in the sacrificial gown and cage, so that's why I chose the tux shirt/pants outfit instead. Since for RotLA & LC we have German Soldiers to army build, for KotCS we got Russian Guards and already for ToD we're going to get Temple Thugs, it would be great if we could get a British Soldier army-builder. The Maharaja seems like a no-brainer to me too.


Deluxe Figures:

• Life Raft w/Short Round from the Temple of Doom
• Sacrifice Cage w/Willie Scott from the Temple of Doom
• Thugees w/Mine Cart from the Temple of Doom
• Indy on German Motocycle from The Last Crusade
• Henry Jones Sr. in Side-car from The Last Crusade
• Mutt Williams w/Motorcycle (I think I read that this is already coming)

Vehicles:

• Flying Wing from RotLA
• Elephant from ToD
• Speed Boat from LC
• Tank from LC (might be tough to squeeze into the $20 line)

That's about all that comes to mind right now. I want to re-watch the movies before I go see the fourth one, so I'm sure I'll have more ideas after those viewings.

Finally got around to opening up the Indy w/Horse set. This is also a great set. The horse has some pretty impressive articulation and stands very well. Indy also sits very well on the horse.

The two deluxe sets where it's a figure and a vehicle/animal to ride are by far my favorite two deluxe sets.

I haven't gone through everything I picked up yesterday, but I was just curious, is there supposed to be a "ticket to adventure" form with the deluxe figures.  I found them in the Adventure Heroes and basic figures, but I didn't happen to see one in the three deluxes I've grabbed so far.  Just wondering - maybe there wasn't a mail in for this line and I'm just forgetting that.

The promotion is actually two parts. The first part is advertised on all of the products and that's the "My Indy Adventure" contest sponsored by National Geographic. The grand prize is your own Indiana Jones - type adventure to exotic locations.

The second piece of the promotion has three sub-pieces and is tied specifically to getting an exclusive mail-away item for the line.

• For the 12" line, you can mail-away for a 12" scaled Ark of the Covenant
• For the 3.75" line, you collect any 6 relic stickers (this is akin to the VTSC/VTAC UGH silver sticker concept) and send away for a Crystal Skeleton Figure on a Throne (I'm assuming this is a Kingdom of the Crystal Skull figure)
• For the Adventure Heroes line, you can mail-away for the Indy & Horse set.

So while the Deluxe figures do advertise the contest for the "My Indy Adventure" piece of the promotion, they do not come with any mini relics or relic stickers which are needed for the 3.75" mail-away part of the promotion.

Hope that helps explain things a bit better.

The head of the single german soldier figure is duplicated in the 2-pack but the color of the uniform is different. The second figure in the german soldier 2-pack has a new head.

Quote from: Darth Broem on May  1, 2008, 12:17 PM

My wife is going to crap her pants after she finds out I am buying another toy line.  I may be divorced after this.  Just kidding of course.  I will have to remind her that it could be worse.  I could have a smoking habit or a drug habit.  For some reason that usually works but can only use that excuse sparingly 

I feel pretty much the same way... also sounds like we married similar women.  Heh.

Ditto for me as well. That's part of my motivation for only getting an open set of this line. If I were to start to stockpile carded/boxed IJ stuff, my wife would kill me.

I use the "I don't do drugs/smoke" excuse all the time. Here in NJ a pack of smokes = 1 basic figure so it's easy for me to throw up to her that when I buy a figure I still have it years later and she can't say the same about the 2 packs of cigarettes she smokes every week.

I can't wait to see what she says when I come home with two AT-TEs and two BMFs.

I picked up the Truck and the Troop Car this morning at a Target - they are indeed $19.99 each. I combined each of them with a German Soldier and got both a vehicle and 1 Indy figure for $24 (including tax) after using the $5 off coupon.

I had picked up the complete RotLA wave last night at a different Target. I went to this one shortly after they opened hoping to find the KotCS figures, but they only had Wave 1 as well.

Same story with the Deluxe figures, only wave 1 (German Soldiers 2-pack, Marion/Cario Henchman, Indy w/Ark)

This was the first time I had seen the vehicles. The packaging doesn't show the Jungle Cutter vehicle on the back of the box, and the Truck and Troop Car were the only vehicles they had - so I'm guessing that's Wave 1 of the vehicle assortment.

Well on the way home I stopped by a Target and scored the entire RotLA wave.

I also scored what appears to be the three Wave 1 deluxe figures: Indy/Ark, German soldiers 2-pack and Marion/Cairo Thug.

Only grabbed one of each - I have decided that for this line I'm getting openers only.

I checked Targets DCPI number and this item is still not in stock and no signs on ebay even the completed auction search comes up with nothing. I highly doubt we will see this item in April.

I wonder if it's been held back until September. Just a thought...