Follow the link to check out the official IJ packaging for 2008 images -



http://creativepilot.com/

Holy crappers ,that was cool,everything was perfect :D the theme and everything.

Whoa... Get a load of that big skull in the middle of that homepage picture...

It's plastic counterpart's also on the LEGO Indy IV promopic:



Crystal skull design anyone? ;)

Cool find once again, Chrome! :)

Well, thank you, Sir! :D

This is just starting to get FUN! Hopefully it won't take long for the pace to really pick up and we get rumor listings for ation figures and news of other IJ merchandise!

That designer web page was really cool. The skull was prominent in the background. Almost inhuman. Anyone else notice the Fertility Idol incorporated into the design? :confused:

Yep, I saw it. I wonder what that creature left and right at the bottom is though...

Is it a boar?

OMG! THERE'S A BOAR IN INDY IV!

:p
Only joking... (It's very good for morale ;) )

No seriously, that packaging design is just perfect. I hope we'll see it soon and in great numbers in shops all over the globe.
It would be about time... Indy's been treated like Star Wars' less popular brother for far too long!

Well, there are going to be 30 basic carded action figures in 2008. :D Good thing we all approve of the packaging design!

Actually you can tell a lot about a movie from the planned merchandise. Somewhere I read the names of the 4 IJ & TKOTCS Lego sets. These are coming out in May of 2008. Maybe Indy will have to tackle a boar in the jungle. :confused:

You mean this?

:whip:

That would be it - exactly! Thank you!

Wow...30 seems like an awful lot. But it's cool that we're getting that many. I guess I was wrong then on my guess that we would only get a couple from the other films.

I had noted that 30 would be a proper # of figures but remember, this includes the Indy 4 figures.

HOWEVER, Let's all be honest. Indy is NOT Star Wars.. we do not have the # of characters to allow for this line to be on the shelves for "YEARS TO COME" Unless Hasbro gets creative...Or Lucasfilm has more Indy goodness planned.. the Indy collection has a limited time to live it's life in. If done right, the Hasbro line could make it for 3 years. at the end of that 3 years we should have about everything possible that Hasbro could make.

Please understand that Hasbro Will not make the obscure background characters for Indy like they do for SW...A bunch of carded regular people are not interesting for kids to buy and Kids are still the target buyers.

Hopefully they'll expand the line at some point to include the Indy "EU". I would totally be up for some Indy comic book 2 packs like the Star Wars ones.

I may pick up some of the Indy legos, maybe a SW one or too.

AMEN! I really think that there is a true possibility to this. The Comic 2 packs are HUGE sellers for Star Wars and in 2008 Gi Joe will be using the Comic 2 packs in their line...So, it would be nothing for hasbro to use those two examples and transfer it to Indy. Thankfully, Dark Horse and Hasbro already have a great relationship. Soooo The transition should be easy. I'm sure Dark Horse owns the rights to the old Marvel Indy comics too just as they do for Star Wars.

We could have a GREAT thread on which comics and characters Hasbro should produce.

There's been GI JOE comic packs for awhile now.They come with three figs though.

But man Indy comic packs would be a god send.It might be our only chance to get a Sophia Hapgood figure.

Sorry but the Gi joe comic packs are now going to be packed with 2 figures....You can look at the news from the Joe Convention to see what hasbro has planned.

All new sculpt figures will come in packs of 2,.....the same will be for Indy.

Gi Joe also has a new Mail order figure for 2008 ( DOC) Here is hoping that Indy does too

I have a really good feeling about Hasbro's ability to deliver.
If excecuted correctly, the entire Indiana Jones line can thrive into 2010. We would still get all of the main charaters, plus some cool extra, not to mention a few beasts and vehicles and some "Expanded Universe goodness".

The Temple of Doom characters will be such a welcome addition! :whip:

I like the skull icon with wild hair, wings and "IJ" feet.
Looks like a deadhead tattoo.

AMEN on the TOD!!

If we do not get playsets, Hasbro will be doing the kline a major harm. Indy toys SCREAM playsets.

If they get into Young Indy, we will see a full line into 2010-2012 I would loveto see a Mystery of the blues indy!!

With the current Star Wars line Hasbro states that playsets are not in demand anymore.

In my mind, it just doesn't make sense is to have action figures with absolutely no environment for them to be in. For kids a playset gives play value and for adults/collectors a playset offers a display environment.

As a boy in the early 80's, I had all of the original action figures, the Arabian Horse and the Streets of Cairo playset. Thinking back, I can remember spending hours with those toys. After 25 years of looking at the photo of it on the figure cardbacks, I finally acquired my Well of Souls playset. It was so much fun setting it up with my figures.

I do not get Hasbro's constant push that Playsets do not sell well.

Small modualr playsets like the Indy Vintage line would be a GREAT product....If we do not get at least ONE major playset for Indy next year, the line will havea HUGE black Hole in it.

Unless you grew up playing with the Indy playsets, you just can't understand how much they are needed.

That's exactly the point! Without playsets, the line would be empty!

As kids in the 70's and 80's, Kenner really spoiled us with the 3 and 3/4 line. We had action figures, vehicles, beasts and playsets. We had everything needed to enjoy our own little Star Wars and Indy universes.

If anything, Hasbro really should give us at least one playset from each flick.
The Temple of Doom is an absolute NO-BRAINER as a playset. Kali Ma could easily be scaled as a 12 inch figure sized "statue". The arms sculpted to hold the decaptiated head, schimtar and the two outstretched hands holding the skulls with "chains" to the sacrificial cage. Of course the cage can open to hold one action figure. At the base of the statue is the large skull shrine with 3 removable Sankara Stones. Below that would be a secret trap door that can open to help Mola Ram escape.