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Aside from creative endeavors ("more books," "more games," etc., to say nothing of "more movies" or "more episodes"), what licensed goods should be available, but aren't? What's on your dream list? Some of mine:
- LucasArts Indy game anthology. I'm counting this because the emphasis here isn't on new game creations, but simply on a repackaging to make the old classics available again. Ideally in updated versions for compatibility with contemporary hardware and OSes, possibly with (optional) graphics and audio updates (permitting play of a game exactly as it looked and sounded then, or in a version of the same game that just... shows its age less), and just maybe with ports to platforms originally unsupported, but at any rate available again. They shouldn't have any problem fitting all platforms' versions of all the Indy games up to and including Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine, say, on a single DVD. Maybe it could even include some of the pre-LucasArts and/or (emulated) console games.
- Complete Indy adventures trading cards. There haven't been all that many Indy products that encompass the entire mythos, so anything new here would be great. I'd particularly like something that just lets one enjoy the entire life and times of Indy as a narrative, all in chronological sequence, but as close as one might get watching the shows and the movies more or less in order, they can't be put completely in order without disrupting some of the individual installments' own narrative cohesion (e.g., splitting Last Crusade into two pieces and watching the first two movies and all the SPF-era Young Indy between the "Utah 1912" and "Portuguese Coast 1938." What's needed here is a different kind of visual medium that doesn't rely upon one-or-two-hour chunks of media, and trading cards would be perfect.
What I'm thinking of here would be a large set of trading cards, somewhere in the hundreds for the base set, with images and scene synopses from all of Young Indy and all four movies, sequenced according to the series' internal chronology. Ideally, as a concession to both purists and the "current" canon, the resequenced Young Indy cards could have some alternate numbering scheme permitting the collector to sort them according to either the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles chronology or the Adventures of Young Indiana Jones one. Since the base set would be so large it wouldn't have as much in the way of chase cards, bonuses, etc. as (for example) the Heritage series, or at least not so many and so rare, but it could still have a respectable number of cool bonuses. The original cards would focus just on the movies and TV show, but companion series based on the books, comics, games, etc. could be done as well, and given complementary organization schemes that sort and sequence the cards neatly into the appropriate place in the original set (so, for example, there might be lettered cards for those, preceded by the number of the card in the main set that comes right before them - so if card, say, #360 is the end of Last Crusade, then the cards from the comic Longship of the Gods might be #360-A through #360-F, and Fate of Atlantis cards could then be #360-G through #360-N, or whatever, and so on; card #361 in the main set would then pick up with Kingdom of the Crystal Skull). Having the "Indy EU" cards be separate series would both keep the original set down to something one could realistically collect by buying packs and trading. Naturally there'd be lots of cool photos and art from across all Indy's adventures, ideally including pics we've never seen before (and that still work in the context of telling the story). What would be great chase / bonus cards (stickers, magnets, 3-D cards, whatever) to include with this (and that haven't already been done with the Heritage set or the Pro Set Young Indy set)? I'm thinking Drew Struzan cards would be one ideal choice - all his art and art collaborations from all four movies, Young Indy, games, Disney, etc. - but there are all sorts of additional possibilities.
Apologies for the length; I wanted to communicate exactly what I had in mind for those cards...
What are some of your dream Indy collectibles?
- LucasArts Indy game anthology. I'm counting this because the emphasis here isn't on new game creations, but simply on a repackaging to make the old classics available again. Ideally in updated versions for compatibility with contemporary hardware and OSes, possibly with (optional) graphics and audio updates (permitting play of a game exactly as it looked and sounded then, or in a version of the same game that just... shows its age less), and just maybe with ports to platforms originally unsupported, but at any rate available again. They shouldn't have any problem fitting all platforms' versions of all the Indy games up to and including Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine, say, on a single DVD. Maybe it could even include some of the pre-LucasArts and/or (emulated) console games.
- Complete Indy adventures trading cards. There haven't been all that many Indy products that encompass the entire mythos, so anything new here would be great. I'd particularly like something that just lets one enjoy the entire life and times of Indy as a narrative, all in chronological sequence, but as close as one might get watching the shows and the movies more or less in order, they can't be put completely in order without disrupting some of the individual installments' own narrative cohesion (e.g., splitting Last Crusade into two pieces and watching the first two movies and all the SPF-era Young Indy between the "Utah 1912" and "Portuguese Coast 1938." What's needed here is a different kind of visual medium that doesn't rely upon one-or-two-hour chunks of media, and trading cards would be perfect.
What I'm thinking of here would be a large set of trading cards, somewhere in the hundreds for the base set, with images and scene synopses from all of Young Indy and all four movies, sequenced according to the series' internal chronology. Ideally, as a concession to both purists and the "current" canon, the resequenced Young Indy cards could have some alternate numbering scheme permitting the collector to sort them according to either the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles chronology or the Adventures of Young Indiana Jones one. Since the base set would be so large it wouldn't have as much in the way of chase cards, bonuses, etc. as (for example) the Heritage series, or at least not so many and so rare, but it could still have a respectable number of cool bonuses. The original cards would focus just on the movies and TV show, but companion series based on the books, comics, games, etc. could be done as well, and given complementary organization schemes that sort and sequence the cards neatly into the appropriate place in the original set (so, for example, there might be lettered cards for those, preceded by the number of the card in the main set that comes right before them - so if card, say, #360 is the end of Last Crusade, then the cards from the comic Longship of the Gods might be #360-A through #360-F, and Fate of Atlantis cards could then be #360-G through #360-N, or whatever, and so on; card #361 in the main set would then pick up with Kingdom of the Crystal Skull). Having the "Indy EU" cards be separate series would both keep the original set down to something one could realistically collect by buying packs and trading. Naturally there'd be lots of cool photos and art from across all Indy's adventures, ideally including pics we've never seen before (and that still work in the context of telling the story). What would be great chase / bonus cards (stickers, magnets, 3-D cards, whatever) to include with this (and that haven't already been done with the Heritage set or the Pro Set Young Indy set)? I'm thinking Drew Struzan cards would be one ideal choice - all his art and art collaborations from all four movies, Young Indy, games, Disney, etc. - but there are all sorts of additional possibilities.
Apologies for the length; I wanted to communicate exactly what I had in mind for those cards...
What are some of your dream Indy collectibles?
