Lego’s new Indiana Jones set reimagines Raiders of the Lost Ark

Lego and LucasFilm introduced on Monday a brand new collection of Indiana Jones-themed Lego units — the franchise’s first in a decade. The prize construct, “Escape from the Misplaced Tomb,” relies on some of the iconic moments from 1981’s Raiders of the Misplaced Ark when Dr. Henry Walton “Indiana” Jones, Jr. drops down into the Nicely of Souls in his race to search out the Ark of the Covenant earlier than the Third Reich, solely to search out himself confronted with a mass of toxic vipers and cobras.

The 600-piece set, due out subsequent month and retailing for $39.99, contains parts of an underground temple, together with the doorway and an historic wall adorned with two looming Anubis statues — one in every of which topples, revealing a secret passageway. As well as, the set additionally contains a number of new minifigures together with Indy, Marion Ravenwood, Sallah, and a creepy mummy, to not point out the Ark of the Covenant itself.

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Two further units, “Fighter Aircraft Chase” and “Temple of the Golden Idol” recreate different key moments from the Steven Spielberg movies. Fighter Aircraft Chase, on the smaller facet, is available in at 387 items for $34.99. The Golden Idol recreation is a whopper, with 1,545 items at a retail value of $149.99.

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The primary formally licensed Indiana Jones-themed Lego set was launched in 2008, tied to the discharge of 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Cranium, and discontinued that following 12 months. The identical 12 months noticed the discharge of Lego Indiana Jones: The Unique Adventures, a third-person online game that includes interactive Lego-theme recreations of the primary three Indiana Jones movies (1981’s Raiders of the Misplaced Ark; 1984’s Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom; and 1989’s Indiana Jones and the Final Campaign). A sequel, Lego Indiana Jones 2: The Journey Continues, was launched in 2009, based mostly on 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Crystal Cranium.

The connection between Spielberg’s iconic motion journey collection and the Denmark-based toy model goes again even additional than that although. In 1998, the Lego Group launched the “Adventurers” Lego theme, a collection of playsets which centered in and across the adventures of a fedora-toting archaeologist named Johnny Thunder — a personality with apparent parallels to Harrison Ford’s iconic character.

The “Escape from the Misplaced Tomb” and the opposite Indiana Jones-themed Lego units might be obtainable to buy on April 1, simply in time for the upcoming launch of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Future, the fifth installment within the Indiana Jones collection and presumably Harrison Ford’s ultimate flip on the character.