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San Diego-based Jawa.
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Young Indy – the Lost Years

Pablo’s got a sweet article on StarWars.com about the unproduced third season of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, with some plots that never made it to the screen (and some that did make it). Check it out here! Geese, Hirohito, Babe Ruth, tango and crystal skulls!

Speaking of Young Indy: The tour of the Volume 3 DVD set continues with:

Need to practice your skills as an adventurer? StarWars.com checks out the Indiana Jones Handbook, with important tips on escaping tombs, riding elephants, and punching Nazis.

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People dressing up in non-sci-fi movie costumes? (and more Indynews)

USA Today provides some coverage of Indyfans, gathered at Legoland, as well as the upcoming documentary of the same name.

A new Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull poster (by Drew Struzan) has surfaced, and looks great. But what’s this? /Film says it might be fake!

Making news in India: Shia LeBoeuf’s injury on the set of Indy.

and someone at film.com muses on how glad they are that Indy is not all-CGI-all-the-time.

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Mr. Jones and me staring at the video…

Professor Jones, actually.

Spielberg and Ford grow close on the set of Indy IV? So sayeth Digital Spy! Well, sometimes it takes a long time to become friends with a co-worker.

MBC will be airing the original three Indiana Jones films in May, as a lead-up to the release of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Yup. MBC – check your local Middle Eastern satellite service provider for showtimes.

IndianaJonesShop.com has some new art for sale, in a variety of styles – art-deco, toon, etc. Check it out at the online shop, opened this week! and look.. the Indiana Jones Handbook ships tomorrow!

The StarWars.com tour of Volume 3 of the DVD set for The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones (release date 4/29/08) brings Indy back to the States:

  • Disc 4 – Winds of Change –  Indy translates at the Versailles Peace Conference and witnesses the creation of a new world order, that might just collapse into global warfare in the future. Then he returns home to Princeton, and deals with his dad – and ends up separated.
  • Disc 5 – Companion Documentaries for Winds of Change covers The Treaty of Versailles, Woodrow Wilson, Gertrude Bell, Ho Chi Minh, Paul Robeson, and Robert Goddard
  • Disc 6 – The Mystery of the Blues – In 1920, Indy learns how to play jazz under Sidney Bechet while working at Jim Colosimo’s restaurant and witnesses speakeasies and racial segregation in Chicago. When his boss is murdered, Indy teams up with his roommate Eliot Ness and Ernie Hemingway to solve the case – was it Al Capone? Will Indy be left singing the blues? Harrison Ford provides the bookend material in this episode.

Want to win a copy of Volume 3? There’s a contest at dailygame.net – and you can enter it once per day!

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News from around the Indyworld…

Dispatches from around the world of Indiana Jones:

Initial scriptwriter Frank Darabont tells the MTV blog that he’ll work with Spielberg again, but not Lucas, after his not-to-be-credited experience with Indy IV.

In the UK, Titan Books will be releasing the official Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull graphic novel on May 23.

Xboxic reports that the LEGO Indiana Jones video game will be released on June 3 in the US, and June 6 in Europe. Meanwhile Game Informer gets some questions answered about LEGO Indy – How will LEGO Willie Scott break glass, and why must LEGO Marcus get beat up?

And the adventures of baby Indiana Jones? Some Jones’ up in Alaska decided to name the dog their baby son Indiana.

and remember:

It’s a world of bullwhips, a world of snakes,
a world of idols, and German tanks.
There’s so much Indy finds,
That it’s time to rewind,
and watch an Indy world after all.

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Indy in print, & in widget!

The Star Wars Blog takes a look at some of the upcoming Indiana Jones publications (reference books, making of, young reader) that are coming out as part of the IJ and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull blitz. No real big title announcements, but a little bit more detail.

IESB.net reports that Paramount released an Indiana Jones widget for a variety of social networking and blogging sites. Or just check out the widget here.

The Courier Mail (of Australia) ponders the issue of action heroes battling age.

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Second Indy trailer, IGN builds on LEGO Indiana Jones.. and other news from the Indy-world

News from ShoWest: A second Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull trailer is on its way in April – most likely coming out on Iron Man. So sayeth ComingSoon.net.

IGN takes an in-depth look at the upcoming LEGO Indiana Jones game, guided by Nick Ricks of the game studio Traveller’s Tales. “There’s much more emphasis on discovery and creation in LEGO Indy, with appropriate puzzles now taking the place of some of the character-based challenges of the Star Wars games.”

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull spoilers can be found by going to Jail.. or Free Parking or Boardwalk… at least by checking out the new Indiana Jones-themed Monopoly board game. Ain’t It Cool News covers the scoop.

And StarWars.com continues the tour of the upcoming Young Indiana Jones, Volume 3 DVD set with

  • a tour of disc two: Masks of Evil, where Indy faces the dangers of leading a double life in Istanbul – getting engaged and dealing with a double agent while trying to convince the Turks to switch over to the Allies, and then faces a more sinister and supernatural threat on a mission to Transylvania. Documentaries include coverage of the Mustafa Kemal and the his revolution, Halide Edib, the Ottoman Empire, and Dracula.
  • Swinging back into treasure-seeking adventure, the tour hops onto disc three: Treasure of the Peacock’s Eye – where Indy and Remy go from London to Alexandria to New Guinea in search of a lost treasure of Alexander the Great. On the way, Indy meets E. M. Forster and Bronislaw Malinowski. Companion documentaries cover Malinowski, Anthropology and New Guinea.

The DVD box set is schedule to be released on April 29th.

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No time for Facebook, Dr. Jones! (and other Indy news)

…Or perhaps more appropriately :”It tells me that goose-stepping morons like yourself should try reading Facebook instead of banning them.” Paramount is planning to release thousands of short video clips from its many films for use on Facebook, using the VooZoo application, according to The Press Association. While many films will be released soon (this week), clips of the man with the whip and fedora will wait. Terms for releasing clips of Indiana Jones films will have to wait for the moment while they hash out the marketing plan related to the release of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

In other Indy news, you can now play some of the new LEGO Indiana Jones video game next weekend, even though the game doesn’t come out in June. The only catch – you’ll need to be in the UK, at the Play.com live event at Wembley Stadium.

Want to have an Indiana Jones themed birthday party? Better pre-order those Indy supplies. 4 hats for $3.35!

And in random news, filmmaker Uwe Boll, (director of Bloodrayne), has intentionally decided to release his new film, Postal, on the same opening weekend as Indiana Jones, saying, ”On the Indiana Jones weekend – May 23 – we will go out and destroy Indiana Jones in the Box Office! We all know that Harrison Ford is older as my grandpa and his time is up – would Michael Moore say! Spielberg gets sloppy. We saw that with War of the Worlds (why the —- the older brother survived?) and also in parts of Jaws, E.T., Munich etc.! My performance in Postal as ‘Nazi Theme Park Owner’ outperforms easily Ben Kingsley in Schindler’s List!” (CinemaBlend.com’s first tag on this news article is “Stupidity” – says it all)

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Indy Special Edition DVDs coming in May, teaser trailer hits online gold, and no cameo for Mace.

IMAGE: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Special Edition DVDBefore Indiana Jones can go in search of the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull on May 22, he’s got to unveil some other treasure – Special Editions of the first three Indiana Jones films, coming to DVD on May 13, with some new bonus content. Previously released as a box set, this time the films are available individually, with some new features, including a joint discussion with the women of Indy: Karen, Kate and Alison. Read the official press release IndianaJones.com (or copied for easier linking over on ComingSoon.net). But StarWars.com has the box art…

Meanwhile, the Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull teaser trailer had reached over 200 million viewings online – in the first week alone. Read more about it on Yahoo!

Who’s the cat thats grumblin’ about
he won’t be in Indy when it comes out?
Samuel L. Jackson!
Can you dig it?!
(apologies to Isaac Hayes)