LEGO Indiana Jones

LEGO Indiana Jones is a short film that was released on June 12, 2015. It holds record as longest in production, went through 4 completely different scripts, and had several other titles including LEGO Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Brick, and The Battle for Hogwarts Part 12.

Kingdom of the Crystal Brick
Production on the first LEGO Indiana Jones standalone film in the LEGO Canon, titled LEGO Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Brick was scheduled to be released in the Sumer of 2012. The plot would have been somewhat similar, but would have had dialogue and would have focussed only on the exploration of the Temple of Akator. With the revival of the Hogwarts series, the film was pushed back to an unknown date. The plot was completely changed, and involved the Akator Aliens coming down to earth, and Indiana Jones would be recruited to stop them.

The Battle for Hogwarts part 12
However, the film was pushed back again, because decided that it would tie in the the Hogwarts series. Another planned trilogy of films would have centered around Pythor P. Chumsworth collecting the Crystal Skulls of Akator to be a part of an evil plan of his. So, instead of having two films coming out the same year both involving a quest for the Crystal Skull, Kingdom of the Crystal Brick was cancelled and merged into the Battle for Hogwarts Series. However, with the cancellation of the further planned Hogwarts sequels, the film was cancelled yet again. It was laid to rest seemingly forever in summer 2013.

LEGO Indiana Jones
The film, now titled simply LEGO Indiana Jones, was being considered for production again in summer 2014, with a spring 2015 release date. The film was confirmed to be in production again in the after-credit scene of LEGO Star Wars: Battle on Kashyyyk, and a script was written in March 2015. Shooting began in late May, and mid and post production lasted about three weeks. The Cosmic Goat composed the original music.

Notes/Easter Eggs

 * Saruman has a cameo in one shot. News of the passing of Christopher Lee, the actor who played him in the Lord of the Rings films, reached the public the day before his film was released to the general public. While the cameo in the film was completely random, it can be seen as a tribute to the actor, as Jack has said he is fond of him.
 * Pythor P. Chumsworth has cameos in two shots of the film. This is to address the abandoned plotline that was set up in The Battle for Hogwarts part 10, which would have featured Pythor exploring Akator for the crystal skulls in Part 12. Since the series has been canceled, the plotline has been canonically resolved with Pythor being sealed within Akator.