LEGO Indiana Jones Versus, Er, Some Guys...
I've been staying up-to-date on the coolest stuff to hit Toy Fair 2008 this week. What really caught my eye was this amazing life-size Indiana Jones rendered in LEGO (see right). Not only do we have a new Indy movie to look forward to this year, LEGO is also releasing tie-in playsets and a video game!There is one catch to the latter products, however.
The Interweb has been all aflutter ever since it was announced that both the game and playsets will be Nazi-free. Well, that certainly does change things, doesn't it? I'm not sure how I feel about this, frankly. I mean, Indy kicked a lot of Nazi butt in two of the three original films!
Does this mean we won't see a LEGO minifig's face get melted off by the Arc of the Covenant? Nein! Apparently, Traveller's Tales (makers of the LEGO game) are keeping their story lines faithful as far as baddies are concerned. LEGO has merely "replaced them with an anonymous genocidal, occultist, trenchcoat-wearing master-race."
Er, okay. So, there goes the argument that LEGO was going for a light-hearted approach by censoring the Nazis. It seems the villains are just as evil, they just don't wear Nazi regalia. That would certainly help out in foreign markets where they pretend WWII never happened.
I'm guessing the video game cut scenes will look something like this:
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