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Indy IV, Young Indy, LEGO Indy, and the real Lost Ark found?

It’s all Indiana Jones all the time here…
/Film posts about a visit to a set in Pasadena where some pick-up photography was being shot.

Is it possible that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull will not be shown digitally? Joblo.com seems to think so.

StarWars.com started off the tour of third volume of The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones with a tour of Disc One: Tales of Innocence. Indy competes for the love of an Italian nurse with American ambulance driver Ernest Hemingway, and then Indy travels on a spy mission to North Africa as Edith Wharton’s companion. Companion documentaries cover Ernest Hemingway, the French Foreign Legion, Edith Wharton, and Lowell Thomas.

Also on StarWars.com, news of an exclusive Indiana Jones LEGO set for members of the LEGO Brickmaster program. LEGO fans should check it out.

Continuing to showcase some of the sketch artists contributing premium cards for the Indiana Jones Heritage Trading Card Set from Topps, StarWars.com uncovers a few Marion and Elsa sketches by Jessica Hickman.

Has the real lost ark been found? A Welsh scholar believes he’s found the Ark of the Covenant, in a shabby museum in Zimbabwe.

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Indiana Jones and some random merchandise of doom?

StarWars.com reports that the Topps Indiana Jones Heritage trading card set will come with Artist Sketch cards. Read more about it here. Or go here to see a list of the artists. And there’s also Vintage Sticker Magnets. The cards are supposed to be coming out at the tail end of February – probably this week!

Meanwhile, who’s the most adorable adventurer with a whip and fedora? I think the Mighty Muggs version of Indiana Jones might be the winner here – check out that Mola Ram with flaming heart accessory! and you thought the Star Wars Mighty Muggs were cute.

And speaking of Mola Ram, here’s what he will look like in the upcoming LEGO Indiana Jones video game.

But if a cool statue of Indiana Jones in that classic scene from the opening of Raiders of the Lost Ark is more to your taste, you can get one of those too.

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Blanchett and Ford talk Indy IV…

The New York Post gets a Hollywood.com interview with Cate Blanchett, Oscar nominee and ‘baddie’ in the upcoming Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

And the award for Best Indiana Jones News Article with no actual news goes to this NY Post bit about a Hollywood.com interview with Harrison Ford. Umm.. where’s the interview, guys? (I can’t find it on Hollywood.com)

and in the gaming world, news is that LEGO Indiana Jones will support up to four-person multiplayer action – the game arrives on June 3.

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Crystal Skull revealed!

What does a Crystal Skull look like? It looks like this. And before that image appeared, Action Figure news showed off this picture of some various artifact merchandise – including the crystal skull. So… what does a Kingdom of the Crystal Skull look like? Wait until May 22, when Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is released – or at least until next week, when the first trailer is revealed.

Meanwhile, IGN’s Obscure Character of the Day is none other than the librarian in Venice from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

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More on the Indy IV teaser…

AICN has a possible text description of the Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull teaser trailer – which will possibly be released on Paramount’s The Spiderwick Chronicles, which comes out on Feb 14.

Who might not be making it to the premieres and press tours for Indy IV? Cate Blanchett has another production due in April that might keep her from the red carpet. So sayeth the Sydney Morning Herald.

And in a bizarre twist of art-becoming-reality: There is a Club Obiwan in China – not in Shanghai in the 1930s.. but in Beijing in 2008. Jamaican BBQ and Chick Flick Nights! No time for clubbing, Dr. Jones!

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Young Indy DVD set: Volume 3 – releases April 29.

According to DVDActive, the third and final volume of The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones will be released on DVD on April 29, 2008 (follow the link for box art). Subtitled “The Years of Change”, it will cover young Indy from after World War I through his days among the entertainers in America in 1920. This set will contain Harrison Ford’s contribution to The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, telling the tale of “The Mystery of the Blues” while snowbound in 1950 Wyoming.