lao che & sons said:
I was also thinking that...
But then I remmembered that I am protesting lego Prince of Persia, b/c if it sells well then Indy is long gone
Oh, I very much doubt it'll last longer than a year or so. Very few LEGO licenses go on for very long, and some of them come and go in a matter of months (
Speed Racer, for example). Indy is actually one of the more successful licensed lines they've done. The only ones that have lasted longer have been derived from ongoing film series with new installments at fairly regular intervals (
Star Wars of course,
Harry Potter, the first couple
Spider-Man movies), and even then there's been no guarantee of LEGO's line continuing even if the franchise it's based on is massively popular - they didn't even keep the
Spider-Man license long enough to do the third movie (MegaBlocks did sets from that), they've let the
Batman theme end after not too long, and even the
Harry Potter line seems to have faded away, at least for now. Even if
Prince of Persia is a huge success, I don't see it outdoing
those franchises, and I don't think any licensed LEGO line is going to outperform the movie or series it's based on. And if
PoP bombs, the LEGO theme is likely going to last about as long as the
Speed Racer one did.
At any rate, I don't think it'll perform better than the
Indiana Jones one has (and I suspect a not-insignificant portion of whatever success it enjoys will come from fans who want its new elements for use in custom Indy creations, and LEGO surely knows it). From what we've been told, LEGO Indy hasn't officially been canceled but has instead merely gone on "hiatus"; while that does indeed sound like PR-speak for actually being canceled, they actually have had one or two successful licensed themes go on a brief hiatus and then return for additional sets before finally going away -
Harry Potter has, and I believe Batman might have as well (though I'm not sure of the set chronology for the latter). Right now I wouldn't say the odds are
good, exactly, but I do think there's a very real chance LEGO Indiana Jones will be back at some point after spring / summer 2010 - perhaps summer 2011, say.
If nothing else, I think it's extremely likely we'll get more LEGO Indy sets
if a fifth movie gets made; it's also possible (somewhat less likely, IMO, but still well within the realm of possibility) that LEGO will use the upcoming 30th anniversary of Indy in 2011 (Yikes! Has it really been that long?!) as an opportunity to relaunch the theme after its hiatus. Let's hope...
