Friday, January 11, 2008

Okey dokey, Dr. Jones. Hold on to your potatoes!

As some of you may know, I have a raging hardon great appreciation for all things Indiana Jones. And as some of you may also know, Lego has released a series of special Indiana Jones edition playsets to commemorate the most recent (and final) installment of the former trilogy, "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull." Several of the sets are pictured here.

Capitalizing on this brilliant piece of marketing, a member of Lego fansite Brickshelf has assembled a series of scenes from the first two movies (Raiders of the Lost Ark and Temple of Doom, for those not in the know), and they are straight dope. I was a Lego fan when I was younger, and I loved the ability to build just about anything with a bag of seemingly incongruous pieces. But these sets really take it to another level, and the level of detail present in some of these scenes is outstanding. Note, for example, the scars on the face of the big bald Nazi that eventually gets chopped up by the Nazi flying wing in Raiders, or the LAO CHE on the airplane door from the opening escape sequence in Temple. My hat is off to you, sir.

Full galleries here:

Raiders of the Lost Ark


Temple of Doom