Lego Indy Jones announced

By Tom Bramwell Published 30 July, 2007

We called the game Indiana.

Following widespread success with Lego Star Wars, Traveller's Tales is hard at work on Lego Indiana Jones, due out on consoles in 2008. We wouldn't be surprised to see it on PC and handhelds, either - the official website currently lists platforms as "TBA".

Announced at Comic-Con in San Diego, the new title will parody Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. It doesn't sound like it will touch on the new Indiana Jones film, probably because making fun of old people is wrong.

Publisher LucasArts told Comic-Con that the Lego Indy game would boast the same quirky sense of humour, largely thanks to having the same team as the Star Wars games behind it, while TT director Tom Stone also sounds keen. "Indy also presents us with wonderful and memorable cinematic moments," he said. "The boulder scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark [done] in Lego is hilarious!"

TT is also working on a Lego Batman game, while Indiana Jones films still await proper news on LucasArts' own, George Lucas-aided Jones project, currently in development and due to deal with events a year after those in Last Crusade.

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Comments (31) Latest comment 5 years ago

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  • illusion #1 5 years ago

    Ooo lets milk an idea for all it's worth!!

  • Katsumoto #2 5 years ago

    thank god theyre ignoring the fourth film - I hope i'm proved wrong but I expect it will be tragically bad

  • figgis #3 5 years ago

    Lego Kramer Vs. Kramer next please!

  • moggsy #4 5 years ago

    Lego Back To The Future

  • Darren #5 5 years ago

    LEGO Star Wars and its sequels were lots of fun but I wonder how long the formula will last what with LEGO Batman on the way and now LEGO Indiana Jones, the latter of which looks identical to the previous games bar the lead character and setting? I think I might skip the Batman game and just go for Indiana Jones instead as the movies, characters and settings are far more interesting even if the gameplay's the same.

  • Killerbee #6 5 years ago

    How about Lego Hostel / Saw?

    I'd love to see the BBFC get their heads round that one. :)

  • paul_haine #7 5 years ago

    I'm going to hold out for Lego Schindler's List

  • sonmi451 #8 5 years ago

    Lego Debbie Does Dallas

  • JonFE #9 5 years ago

    I wonder if/how they will preserve the best -IMHO- feature of Lego Star Wars, the drop-in/drop-out co-op. I can see it happening in Lego Batman (even if Robin is not very popular) but who will co-star with Indy?

  • vegard #10 5 years ago

    LEGO DELIVERANCE NOW

  • Tweakmonkey #11 5 years ago

    It will never work.

  • afghan_jones #12 5 years ago

    Lego Kill Bill please.

    Lego Saving Private Ryan

    Lego Thundercats - that would be awesome. lots of good characters there for co-op.

    Lego Gears of War?



  • SBfistfun #13 5 years ago

    "Ooo lets milk an idea for all it's worth!!"

    Welcome to teh neXt GeN

    zzzzzzz

  • ruttyboy #14 5 years ago

    There's not enough characters in the Indy franchise for this to work! And even the ones that are there will just be dressed in 'normal' 30's clothes and so very similar anyway...

  • KillallHippies #15 5 years ago

    It's just called Raiders of the Lost Ark not Indianna Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark.

  • Lawlost #16 5 years ago

    The scepticism on this thread is at full blast. It looks like everyone enjoyed the Star Wars lego games I'm sure the developer can pull it off for Batman and Indiana Jones. Also, I'm not sure I would call it milking it. If something works why not extend it to other films? I'm looking forward to both.

  • Razorus #17 5 years ago

    Many of you seem to think the gameplay will be similar to Lego Star Wars. Don't worry, I'm sure it will have the charm of both Lego and Indiana and be unique at the same time. We'll see anyway, but I have high hopes for this one, and Batman.

    Here are some other suggestions!

    Lego X-Men
    Lego Transformers
    Lego Battlestar Galactica
    Lego Lost
    Lego Desperate Housewives
    Lego 24
    Lego Teenage Mutant Nina Turtles
    Lego High School Musical
    Lego An American Werewolf in London/Paris
    Lego Sin City
    Lego 300
    Lego The Last King of Scotland
    Lego The Departed
    Lego Blood Diamond

  • Artemis_Matsas #18 5 years ago

    @sonmi451

    +1 !!!!

  • Kazzahdrane #19 5 years ago

    Those decrying TT for milking the idea, I say "who cares?". As long as the games stay fun and let us play through films we know and love I'm all for the Lego series.

    Plus I love Indiana Jones like I love oxygen - this is now my most anticipated game for 2008.

  • Mechstra #20 5 years ago

    "Lego The Last King of Scotland "

    It'd certainly be easy to portray the limb-swap scene...

  • Waffleaber #21 5 years ago

    Lego Manhunt 2 - Can't have an "unrelentingly bleak tone" if it's made of lego.
    Lego Evil Dead - Lego Ash would look damn cool
    Lego Ghostbusters
    Lego Tetris

    I suppose for co-op you could be that annoying kid in the baseball cap, the annoying chick or sean connery. Or basil from the museum.

  • smelly #22 5 years ago

    +1 to waht Kazzahdrane just said.

  • bengray66 #23 5 years ago

    what about lego goodfellas? That would be pretty ace.

  • malloc #24 5 years ago

    Why not completely extract the Michael and go for a Lego Zelda. I'm sure Nintendo won't mind.

    Seriously though I think the Lego games are gooduns and why not try the same trick on a different franchise?

  • ExplodingClown #25 5 years ago

    What age group is this targeting, exactly? Being old enough to have seen Raiders of the Lost Ark at my local fleapit (and been pretty damn scared by the face-melting spirits at the end) I can honestly say I'm about 30 years too old for Lego.

  • smelly #26 5 years ago

    >I can honestly say I'm about 30 years too old for Lego.

    Then yer a grumpy old sod.

    i'm in my 30's and still love the idea of playing as a lego mr jones.

    so stop being such a grumpy pumpy.

  • ExplodingClown #27 5 years ago

    Then surely it'd be cheaper & easier to just buy some Lego? No waiting, no minimum system specs, easily portable, only limited by your imagination, etc etc...

  • smelly #28 5 years ago

    >Then surely it'd be cheaper & easier to just buy some Lego?

    Erm.. But then why play fps games? When you can go outside with a stick and imagine shooting aliens/zombies/etc? No waiting, no minimum system specs, easily portable, only limited by your imagination, etc etc...


    Hmmm.. i might try it.. anyone want to buy a stick?

  • Additive #29 5 years ago

    There's a trailer on IGN - looks quite good :)

  • ExplodingClown #30 5 years ago

    Ummm... sorry smelly, analogy doesn't hold up. The 'go and play outside' version of FPS games would therefore be Columbine or Virginia Tech. My gripe with Lego games approaches the kind of bemusement experienced when confronted with something like Monopoly on the PC: it just seems redundant when you can pick up & play the real thing without needing to own over a grand's worth of electronics first. The article talks about recreating the boulder scene from Raiders: well, I can do that with a proper Lego man and a tennis ball.

    I'm sure Lego games have their charm, but it's somewhere in my blind spot. I wouldn't see a Lego movie either....

  • knocker #31 5 years ago

    How about 'Lego' Lego !

    What a game that would be. Trying to seperate two of those fiddly little pieces for hours using teeth, keys, knives, semtex etx. Only on the wii of course.