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NYCC ’08: Robot Chicken: Star Wars DVD details

IGN reports a few Star Wars tidbits from the Robot Chicken panel:

IMAGE: Robot Chicken: Star Wars DVD

  • The Robot Chicken: Star Wars DVD will contain two hours of bonus materials.
  • And seven commentary tracks!
  • The Star Wars special took them fourteen weeks to prepare – an entire season (20 episodes) generally takes eleven months.

The DVD comes out May 20th.

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How about that shindig?

Word has it that Firefly will soon be heading to BlueRay.  And it’s a special edition!

Jewel Staite told a con audience in Australia that she has been asked to come do commentary for the special edition.  And TV Guide confirmed it with Fox Home.  However, it’s apparently in the very early stages, so don’t go gettin’ all excited.  ‘Like to hurt somethin’.

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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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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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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)

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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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Gate Geek – SG1 Continues to Reign

In spite of the upcoming episode in which the fans got their way about to air, this week seems to be dominated by the SG1 legacy:

We do have some nice Stargate Atlantis stuff, though: