The vechile in the third one looks crazy!

"In a daring escape from the Soviets (not as bad as the Nazis, but we still hate them)"

Come again? Stalin killed far more people than Hitler and the communist Soviet empire enslaved far more people. Not as bad as the Nazis? No, much worse.

They are both evil political ideologies, but let's be accurate.

If I were making a fan film with these sets, I would have to have the chase scene take Indy racing past all the other Lego sets with Harrison Ford in them. And perhaps a few Harry Potter sets, as well.

Absurdity FTW ! ! ! !

Russians and no Nazi's! Fuck!

I know I'm going to catch flak for it on this site, but sadly I have never seen any of the Indiana Jones films ): I just never got around to seeing them. Really weird/sad.

I don't like the new legos as well as the old ones. In the old days you wouldn't have a tent, ot inflatable boat or aligator lego, you had to build them out of other legos. they are making too many new single use "bricks"

Those crazy Soviets and their wacky technology... "Power to the Prolitariate!!"

@enine: I'm 50/50 on this issue. Self genrated creativity is great, but sometimes these "specialized" pieces can be gems themselves... when their utilized for creations that Lego may never have anticipated.

@enine: Yeah, they'd be way more "8-bit" with more regular pieces if at all. (if you'll pardon the expression)

Not that the Aligator/Croc (who the hell can tell in LEGO?) isn't the coolest because it is.

@theespacepope: You are fired.

@enine: This is about the movie, more than about the LEGO themselves. But as I said here, the only limit is the imagination. Many people are using specialized pieces to do all kinds of new and weird wonderful stuff.

Those guards in the last set get dowsed with Agent Orange? That or a little to much fake tan I'd say.

I want legos that say CCCP on them!

Red snakes..... Why did it have to be RED snakes?!

Looks more like an A-Team set.

.....so...spielberg replaced everyone with legos?
awesome.

@theespacepope: Don't feel bad, I could say the same up until about a week ago... So I manned up and watched em. The point is only you can decide to change, no one can do it for you.
@giz... HEY what's up with the spoilers!!! I thought to myself "spoilers" in LEGO form would somehow be lesser spoilers, but wow was I proven wrong... Maybe I'll yell out everything I know in the theatre... Yeah, that'll show em.

I was hoping for a clear skull to add to my collection.

Sounds much more like Lara Croft than Indiana Jones... but giant ants! Them returns!

Required Indiana Jones Exessories:

1. Hat - check
2. Whip - check
3. Man-purse - check
4. Sholder fired rocket propelled granade - CHECK!

@strider_mt2k: It is a crocodile. A hungry, LEGO crocodile.

@Out2gtcha: "Man purse" - priceless.

@enine: I understand where you're coming from, but I don't really agree. When I got my son the Harry Potter Hogwarts set I was amazed at all the specialty pieces. We put it together as intended exactly once, since then the specialty pieces have been used in many very creative ways. I don't believe this takes away Lego creativity at all, but rather enhances it.

Falcon update please, I beg of you...

Crystal Skull? Wasn't that a Stargate episode?

Fantastic.

Happy days are here again!

@Jorin - that's my favorite Gizmodo comment ever. You are my hero.

Am I alone in not being bothered at all by the "spoilers" in this post? It's just the same kind of stuff you could possibly see in a trailer or commercial or something...

That first picture with the tent could be Brokeback Mountain.....

Actually, this is Brokeback Mountain in Lego!

[destinationdaniel.smugmug.com]

Our Lego store has Indy in the window, but not available for sale. I wanted the set with Indy and his dad on the motorcycle. Hmf.

what are the skeletons wearing, and not the ones wearing spanish helmets.

@Mini Driver - I'd pay not to see that Lego set

One of the things that annoys me is how LEGO is moving from pre-printed blocks to vinyl stickers. The CCCP and other special bits are just stickers in these sets. It makes the pieces easier to use in other constructions, but I worry about the permanence if I want to reuse that logo.

@enine:
I'm with you. Legos were about creativity. These sets, with so many single use pieces don't foster creativity. Maybe if you bought them all, you could make a pretty good mash-up, but alone...you're stuck with what you got...especially that Jungle Duel set. But, what can you expect for $9.99?

I think I have pieced the story together:

The Giant Sentient Rainforest Spiders land is being taken over by companies bent on deforestation and by runaway emos and Goths living in tents. After saving the Giant Sentient Rainforest Spiders from the emos and Goths (which get off on the whip) it is reviled that the artifact he is seeking (a device said to contain a plot that no body can resist) is at a temple near the original Garden of Eden. The spiders don't know the location of Eden, but the Talking Snakes of the Rainforest know of its location.

Meanwhile, Indy's geriatric nurse, played by Cate Blanchett, has learned that she can make money in the new "porno" industry, by being film in exotic locations having sex with an old man. While passing off blank film hidden in a jerry can to one of the "producers" she learns the location of temple from the talking snakes- who are directly descended from the Devil. The snakes tell her where the temple is, but also tell here that a better location to shoot would be Eden, as there are no people there. She disappears for the rest of the movie.

Indy learns that the spiders actually are major share holders in the company that is destroying the forest. It turns out that their investments are so diversified, that nothing can stop them from taking over the world. Indy attempts to reason with them and then kill them, but he finds out that all of the gear he has packed are actually prop weapons for some sort of movie (see above).

The final set piece is Indy battling the agents of a secret organization that will eventually become the MPAA. Their agents, anorexic actors and models, attempt to stop Indy. It turns out that their regiment of skin whitening and poor diet has caused them all to contract some strange disease called death. Indy is aided by those who he thought were his enemies- the spiders, snakes, emos, Goths, and porn producers. Indy finds the Crystal Skull, which it turns out is not a plot, but rather a poorly working plot device. He attempts to use it, it sucks the life out of him. The audience sees everything fade to black from his perspective. Then credits ensue.

i always get a kick out of it when officially licensed products leak plot details.

my favorite was in the lead-up to episode 1, when the score was released a few weeks before the film. one of the track names- "the death of qui-gon". duh.

Why did LEGO model Indy on Adam from Mythbusters?

Do people realize that the person who plays Idiana Jones is the incredibly annoying Shia Lebuff (I don't know if I spelled his name right)? What kind of name is Mutt? Giant ants and Soviet Jungle cutters....please don't fuck this up lucas

So this movie is basically a big "save the rainforests" ad? The temple at the end is probably the same natives from the beginning of Raiders in order to make the audience say "aw, they came full circle".

@Rizzuh: Harrison Ford plays Indy, not Shai Labeouf.

Shouldn't that read: "Warning: Film #4 spoils Indy"?

I'm withholding judgment on the movie until I see it, with fairly low expectations given both Lucas' and Spielberg's recent films.

Anyway, on to the LEGO! The parts-monkey in me is fairly excited by the new hair designs on the jungle duelers, and new military minifigs will be sure to make military builders happy (LEGO Chairman Mao, anyone?). Lots of foliage is also good. Ants not so much.

I think the recent "Classic Indy" sets are better, but these could grow on me...

*rassinfrassin* It's a lot bigger than the last time I found it, but that temple pic is still too small for me to make out any sort of detail on the skeletons that appear to be sporting "crystal skulls"! Alright, lets see, save image, view image, zoom in on image...'kay, that's a little better. They appear to have trans-clear skull-shaped skulls (not just painted minifig heads like all previous minifig-scale skeletons) with some sort of blue (trans, opaque, I can't really tell) blob located somewhere in the back section. I've heard rumors of rumors of aliens, but the only somewhat vague evidence I can see that would support that end theory is the sorta satellite-ish thing on top of the temple, but there's no reason why ancient aliens who visited primitive tribal nations on Earth would have designed a space-faring satellite that looks like it's straight out of the NASA design book. And the skeletons don't look like aliens at all.

@Boulderlaw:
Stalin wasn't all that much worse than Lenin, but he got a lot more "credit" for what he did.

@enine:
That's right! Except the tent that they used twice in 1998 (black one for Adventurers, yellow for Extreme Team)...which appears to be the same exact pattern as this one. Or the alligator/crocodile that was built around the dragon upper jaw and tail, and which has been used in around 20 sets dating back to the 1994 debut of the Islanders subtheme of Pirates. Or the rubber raft which has been used in nearly as many sets and comes in four different colors (inluding pink, which was a complete surprise to me!) and dates back to the Divers sets of 1997. Hmmm...well, the ants are a completely new piece, at least.

@strider_mt2k:
Green is alligator. Grey is crocodile, and fairly rare to find in new condition, having only been used in the most expensive Egyptian-themed Adventurers set (but you got two of them!). You can tell because the grey version only showed up in a set from the Nile Valley region (where they have crocs) and the green one is mostly from sets that are more or less from the Americas (particularly the Amazon River region and, to a lesser extent, the Carribbean) where we mostly have gators.

@Dunechaser:
New hair? I'm only seeing one, which is the grey-clad woman in the tent and temple sets. The gothboy just has a (very welcome) black version of the hair used for the new Anakin from his Clone Wars Jedi Starfighter (hair which looks more appropriate on a female, but still sorta works for a male, and which I'm going to have to get for Hitomi from the Exo-Force line because fern-hair just doesn't look good on _anyone_). And the native guy in the temple set, as far as I can tell, is sporting a black Dumble-do (or what Harry Potter's merman and Batman's Poison Ivy were wearing in dark-red).