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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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One way or another, we’ll be aiding and abetting George Lucas’ net worth this spring

Dude, io9. Like it’s humanly possible for Indiana Jones to flop? Remember how The Phantom Menace made $64,820,970 on it’s opening weekend back in 1999? It might not have been a critical success, it may not have knocked down Titanic, it may have irrevocably changed the landscape of Star Wars fandom in a way Han shooting first could only dream of, but that sucker pulled in the cash. Never underestimate the power of nostalgia. Or the addition of Harrison Ford and Steven Spielberg.

That said, I did vote for Speed Racer.

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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)