Indiana Jones 2023 - Rumors & Discussion

[DrHenryJonesJr]

7 hours ago, Kaijumeister said:

Also, is everyone receiving two copies of the new hat/hair mould with their sets? I’m wondering if that’s across the board or not.

I didn't have a duplicate hat piece in any of the sets.
I've bought the whole series 6 times and never received a duplicate anywhere.

But I also live in Europe Austria, i.e. DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), so we also have other boxes, without a number of parts and are probably supplied from other warehouses and therefore with other batches, so I think that’s the reason.

40 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

No kid is going to care about DoD sets so long after the movie leaves theatres.

I agree, but an Indiana Jones "LEGO Icons" set or an adult 18+ set wouldn't be impossible

[PGBQW]

1 hour ago, DrHenryJonesJr said:

I didn't have a duplicate hat piece in any of the sets.
I've bought the whole series 6 times and never received a duplicate anywhere.

Excuse me, did you just say you've bought 18 Indiana Jones sets in the last week?

[BrickBob Studpants]

10 minutes ago, PGBQW said:

Excuse me, did you just say you've bought 18 Indiana Jones sets in the last week?

Not gonna happen, but if they released 77014 and DoD sets after all this kerfuffle, I would buy enough copies of each to build a coffee table out of the boxes

[PGBQW]

Just now, BrickBob Studpants said:

Not gonna happen, but if they released 77014 and DoD sets after all this kerfuffle, I would buy enough copies of each to build a coffee table out of the boxes

Not trying to shame him! I was just extremely surprised, because since he specifically mentioned the hats included inside, it implied he bought 18 lego sets in the span of 3 days?

Like don't get me wrong, I'd do the exact same thing if I had the resources!

[Agent Kallus]

3 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Disney reportedly told Lucasfilm to focus purely on Star Wars from now on, so yeah…

More sets in 2024 is unlikely in general. DoD sets in 2024 is next to impossible. No kid is going to care about DoD sets so long after the movie leaves theatres. Also, TLG is not on the list of licensees, which would certainly cover future tie-in products too.

You can hope for more classic sets next year all you want, but there is no way for DoD sets to get made. Even if they were THIS worried about spoilers, they would have found a way. Hasbro will still release stuff. And even No Way Home got tie-in sets, loosely inspired as they were

Like how Lego thinks kids don't care about raiders or last crusade sets so long after those movies left cinemas and haven't made system sets for either.... Oh....

[DrHenryJonesJr]

2 hours ago, PGBQW said:

Excuse me, did you just say you've bought 18 Indiana Jones sets in the last week?

I had ordered all three sets on LEGO.com at 01:02am as a precaution as I wasn't sure if SmythsToys would have the sets on the shelves by 04/01 in the morning. The employees don't work 7x24 for the Indiana Jones fans either :-) Up until March 31st they were marked as sold out or not yet arrived.

So rather delivered 2-3 days later by LEGO than maybe no sets at all for another few weeks.

When I saw in the morning that SmythsToys had them available I ordered 3 of each set on Click&Collect as I wanted to pick them up right away and not risk not getting any. I had no way of knowing how big the hype would be.

At 09:06 in the morning I picked them up at SmythsToys. As I suspected and expected, they weren't on the shelves yet, the employees fetched them directly from the warehouse. This even had the advantage that I got the 77015 in the brown outer box, just as LEGO had delivered it, scratch-free and without the usual cuts when you cut open the outer box too deeply with the carpet knife.

In the afternoon on April 1st I was at Smyths again and was able to take all three sets with me again, but 77015 was the last copy.

So I was able to get the sets 4x from SmythsToys via Click&Collect and once they will come via DPD from LEGO tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

So a total of 5x the entire series 77012, 77013 and 77015 (it always hurts to have to leave out the 77014 in such a list)

I also got the 77012 and the 77013 twice from Smyhts today, but without Click&Collect, so I went there.

So if anyone is really interested, yes, I now have 77012 7x, 77013 7x and 77015 5x

And if someone now thinks I'm a rich stupid snot or a dork or something, no, neither the one nor the other is the case, from my point of view.

But I've been saving for a long time, we're not going on vacation this year and I also saved quite a bit for Christmas last year.
And no, I didn't buy away all sets for all others, there were still enough copies left and I also paid attention to fairness and didn't take everything with me at the start of sales in the morning, even now there are still enough copies available locally at Smyths.

Unfortunately, there are no other topics at LEGO that interest me, no adventure series, no pirates, few trains.

In fact, it's more like Indiana Jones that interests me most and I'm only currently able to get something about the franchise from LEGO.

As soon as Hasbro has released the Indiana Jones Monopoly, I'll grab it too.

 

Maybe I'll grab the sets again in the next few months, but that's enough for now.

AND NO, I am not a scalper and I do NOT intend to sell the sets for twice the price now or for 20 times the price in 10 years.

I want to keep the figures, the bricks etc. and probably open them all.

Edited April 4, 2023 by DrHenryJonesJr

[BrickBob Studpants]

15 minutes ago, Agent Kallus said:

Like how Lego thinks kids don't care about raiders or last crusade sets so long after those movies left cinemas and haven't made system sets for either.... Oh....

You do realise those are 1) sets based on classic movies that stood the test of time, whereas DoD could suffer the same fate as KotCS, and 2) were released close to the release of a new movie?

Or do you think they would‘ve brought the theme back if it wasn‘t for DoD? If TLG actually thought the sets didn‘t need that boost, they would have kept the original April 2022 release date.

3 minutes ago, DrHenryJonesJr said:

I want to keep the figures, the bricks etc. and probably open them all.

Out of curiosity: what are you going to do with all of the bricks and minifigs? Create XXL versions of all the models?

[THELEGOBATMAN]

10 hours ago, EdWebhead said:

I’m confident that there will be more in the future. I think people are underestimating how big of a push Indy is going to get from Disney. If the new movie does well (and I’m sure it will) then we can expect spinoffs to keep the franchise relevant, and that means more merchandise. There’s already a Disney+ show in development. With the sets selling well so far I see no reason for LEGO not to continue. 

The absence of DoD sets could simply just be to avoid spoilers and we could very well see a wave in 2024, with the sets we have now filling that void for the time being. This is the grand finale for Indiana Jones and they’ve been pretty tight lipped regarding the plot. There’s been no major plot leaks at all.

I remain hopeful is all, but I definitely don’t think this is all we’re getting. We don’t know what the plans for 2024 are yet, so all we can do is be patient. 

Quite the opposite.

If reports are to be believed, the series was cancelled and Lucasfilm will now focus solely on Star Wars.

[DrHenryJonesJr]

39 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Out of curiosity: what are you going to do with all of the bricks and minifigs? Create XXL versions of all the models?

One series was only for the figures, I just pulled out the figures and sorted the stones.

One series is actually to be built and displayed in a display case

Two series are intended to be kept in the storage cellar, of course appropriately preserved and protected from moisture in case I want to build the series again when I'm older.

And one series is intended for my two daughters (9 and 7), who also love to build LEGO and have taken something away from my Indiana Jones hype.
The younger daughter has already built the 77012, the older daughter the 77013.
They would also like the 77015, but have some respect for the high part count and associated longer build time, as well as the engineering components for the game features

Of course, related to my daughters, we are now and then at SmythsToys (unfortunately there is nothing for me at the moment apart from Indiana Jones) for LEGO Friends Sets, Classic Brick Sets, or LEGO Creator Sets.

But since I like to build and play together with my daughters, I will just take one of the Indiana Jones sets with me to build something that I like to build.

Of course, we also use the stones to build things ourselves, or my children use them.
Thank goodness you're still one of those kids who I was able to teach that LEGO is meant to be rebuilt and not to be kept in showcases like in a museum :-)

[BrickBob Studpants]

@DrHenryJonesJr: Aww, that‘s adorable! Regarding the last sentence: it belongs in a museum  At least as far as my sets are concerned

[sammy_zammy]

8 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Not gonna happen, but if they released 77014 and DoD sets after all this kerfuffle, I would buy enough copies of each to build a coffee table out of the boxes

Lego Board Meeting:

“Wow, Indiana Jones was our most popular theme yet! We should release more!”

I see you ;)

[GonzoTheGreat]

6 hours ago, DrHenryJonesJr said:

One series was only for the figures, I just pulled out the figures and sorted the stones.

One series is actually to be built and displayed in a display case

Two series are intended to be kept in the storage cellar, of course appropriately preserved and protected from moisture in case I want to build the series again when I'm older.

And one series is intended for my two daughters (9 and 7), who also love to build LEGO and have taken something away from my Indiana Jones hype.
The younger daughter has already built the 77012, the older daughter the 77013.
They would also like the 77015, but have some respect for the high part count and associated longer build time, as well as the engineering components for the game features

Of course, related to my daughters, we are now and then at SmythsToys (unfortunately there is nothing for me at the moment apart from Indiana Jones) for LEGO Friends Sets, Classic Brick Sets, or LEGO Creator Sets.

But since I like to build and play together with my daughters, I will just take one of the Indiana Jones sets with me to build something that I like to build.

Of course, we also use the stones to build things ourselves, or my children use them.
Thank goodness you're still one of those kids who I was able to teach that LEGO is meant to be rebuilt and not to be kept in showcases like in a museum :-)

So you didn't actually check them all for the extra hats?

[Mopasali]

7 hours ago, DrHenryJonesJr said:

One series was only for the figures, I just pulled out the figures and sorted the stones.

I love that a translation from a Germanic language is stones :).  In English it's bricks, and now I want to know what the whole world calls the building blocks.

It does make me wistful for any ToD set and the sacred stones, but oh well.  I just bought a used Creator Pirate Coaster that is going to get converted into the mine chase!  The skull pass through works well, but I'll need to convert the ship to a water tower, the fort to a temple/palace, the shark cars to mine carts, and the octopus to perhaps the pile of insects that Willie had to bypass.

[DrHenryJonesJr]

2 hours ago, GonzoTheGreat said:

So you didn't actually check them all for the extra hats?

Not until my last post, no.
Since about an hour ago I unpacked all sets, except for the two that I keep for a long time, and put them in smaller bags for better storage in the apartment, I was able to check the small bags in response to this request.

Unfortunately, I could not find any double hats in my variants.

The whips are duplicated, but unfortunately the hats are not.

 

1 hour ago, Mopasali said:

I love that a translation from a Germanic language is stones :).  In English it's bricks, and now I want to know what the whole world calls the building blocks.

It does make me wistful for any ToD set and the sacred stones, but oh well.  I just bought a used Creator Pirate Coaster that is going to get converted into the mine chase!  The skull pass through works well, but I'll need to convert the ship to a water tower, the fort to a temple/palace, the shark cars to mine carts, and the octopus to perhaps the pile of insects that Willie had to bypass.

Due to the inaccuracies in the automatic translation, I usually read the posts briefly before sending them off. Insofar as they are longer or I'm in a bit of a hurry, or both, I occasionally overlook such things, of course the correct word is brick.

With the German word "Stein" or "Steine" (plural) we usually refer primarily to the small version of a rock, or a small part of a rock, but it is also used in connection with building bricks, which would literally translate as "building stone".
Occasionally the term "Klemm-Bau-Stein" is used in a generalized way, which would probably be translated literally as a clam-(on)-building-stone.

In German, however, the term "BauStein" (translated literally Building-Stone) is also used in the analogous sense of being a small part of a large whole, so the use of this word in this context comes less from the meaning of the rock but from a small part.

I'm not sure how to better explain this

[Textorix]

On 4/3/2023 at 12:06 AM, RODDY said:

So just so you all know, Reddit leaker who predicted the gunship months in advance and pegged the IJ reveal date said that he’s sure that there’s another wave for next year. 

As expected. It never made any sense to me that they would bring this theme back just for 3 og sets :D

[THELEGOBATMAN]

Wow, Fighter Plane Chase is already (temporarily) out of stock on Shop@Home 

[BrickBob Studpants]

14 minutes ago, Textorix said:

As expected. It never made any sense to me that they would bring this theme back just for 3 og sets :D

This is what the Reddit user said:

No idea how that’s supposed to translate to “more sets are coming in 2024”

[THELEGOBATMAN]

People are getting really desperate on this forum.

Coping mechanisms work really hard, because how on Earth do you translate I wouldn't know to yeah, we're getting more sets next year 

[BrickBob Studpants]

I do feel bad for hammering this in as I don’t wanna destroy people’s hopes, but it just ain’t looking good. Trust me, I would sacrifice A LOT of sets in other themes in exchange for more Indy stuff, so it’s not like I want the theme to be discontinued.

But crafting flimsy theories why more sets must be coming won’t magically make that a reality. These are the facts:

• TLG is not on the list of DoD licensees.
• They have never before released the first wave of sets based on a new movie after its release, and especially not the following year. (Avatar TWoW doesn’t count as some shops broke the street date and the Ant-Man figure is a result of a shift in release schedules)
• Spoilers don’t matter as Hasbro releases a ton of DoD products and even No Way Home got tie-in sets.
• No movie-licensed theme that only got three sets in its first year continued further.
• Follow-up waves for non-evergreen themes do not exist anymore

None of this means it’s impossible for there to be more in 2024. But it’s incredily unlikely. Applying Ockham’s razor, I think they produced these three sets to tie in with the movie and that’s it

[Big_Daddy]

For those of you who are living in Germany, do you know if the three new sets are Lego exclusives or if they'll also pop up on Amazon eventually?

[RODDY]

3 hours ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

People are getting really desperate on this forum.

Coping mechanisms work really hard, because how on Earth do you translate I wouldn't know to yeah, we're getting more sets next year 

It’s not coping when he also said this

But I didn’t see the other comment so I’ll stand corrected and think this is probably his personal opinion rather than fact. 

[BrickBob Studpants]

14 minutes ago, Big_Daddy said:

For those of you who are living in Germany, do you know if the three new sets are Lego exclusives or if they'll also pop up on Amazon eventually?

They are exclusive for now and will be more widely available in June

[Big_Daddy]

1 hour ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

They are exclusive for now and will be more widely available in June

OK great, thanks for the info!

[THELEGOBATMAN]

The Lost Tomb is also temporarily out of stock. Those sets are selling fast.

I suppose after they are retired, the prices are gonna be crazy. It's a really wierd relaunch of a theme — a three-set wave out of the blue.

[BrickBob Studpants]

23 minutes ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

It's a really wierd relaunch of a theme — a three-set wave out of the blue.

It’s not completely out of the blue tho. The wide release being scheduled for June and them being delayed for a year to coincide with DoD clearly indicates they are meant to tie in with the movie, despite not being based on it