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		Leland Y Chee Member Profile Total Posts: 1396 Member Since: 05/00

Date Posted: Aug 01, 2007 01:42 PM

Ask about the Indycron database here.

E.T.F., Golden Boy
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Date Posted: Aug 02, 2007 08:03 AM

Okay.

What is it?
Where is it?

		Leland Y Chee Member Profile Total Posts: 1396 Member Since: 05/00

Date Posted: Aug 03, 2007 01:45 PM

The Indycron is our Indiana Jones continuity database, along the lines of the Holocron which we use for Star Wars. It includes story summaries, timelines, and entries for characters, objects, places, and events. It covers not only the movies, but the Indiana Jones TV shows, games, books, comics, and merchandise. We try to make things as consistent as possible so Indy doesn't get his hat twice or be introduced to Wu Han or Marcus Brody twice. We track things like when Indy was born, where and when he went to high school, when and where he got his college degrees, where he teaches and when, what kind of pistols does Indy use, what languages does Indy speak, and other things like that.

E.T.F., Golden Boy
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Date Posted: Aug 06, 2007 02:42 PM

Cool!

So how does one access the data in the Indycron? Or will you (Tasty) be the Keeper that we should just ask questions to in this thread?

		Leland Y Chee Member Profile Total Posts: 1396 Member Since: 05/00

Date Posted: Aug 10, 2007 01:25 AM

The Indycron is the internal continuity database used primarily by Lucas Licensing. Neither the Indycron nor the Holocron are accessible to the public. I'll drop in on this thread on occasion to answer what questions I can.

E.T.F., Golden Boy
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Date Posted: Aug 10, 2007 11:53 AM

Neither the Indycron nor the Holocron are accessible to the public.
More's the pity.

I'll drop in on this thread on occasion to answer what questions I can.
Thank you for your willingness to do so.

So here's a couple of questions, I suppose:

Old man Indy (from the Young Indy Chronicles) had an eyepatch. How did he lose the eye -- adventuring, diabetes, fork mishap, or what?

If adventuring, is it from events we would seen in Indy IV or an as-yet-unchronicled adventure?

		Leland Y Chee Member Profile Total Posts: 1396 Member Since: 05/00

Date Posted: Aug 10, 2007 01:54 PM

Old man Indy (from the Young Indy Chronicles) had an eyepatch. How did he lose the eye -- adventuring, diabetes, fork mishap, or what?

Hasn't been determined, though back in 1992 George Lucas responded to the question by saying "That's possible!" Of course, with the "Old man Indy" (played by George Hall) segments cut out of the VHS releases, the official continuity of older Indy has been in limbo.

		PEZman4 Total Posts: 9 Member Since: 12/99

Date Posted: Oct 16, 2007 03:23 AM

So, does the Indycron use a letter designation system like Holocron does? And if so, where, generally, does everything fall?

E.T.F., Golden Boy
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Date Posted: Oct 26, 2007 08:22 AM

Of course, with the "Old man Indy" (played by George Hall) segments cut out of the VHS releases, the official continuity of older Indy has been in limbo.

Have they been restored for the DVDs?

		Leland Y Chee Member Profile Total Posts: 1396 Member Since: 05/00

Date Posted: Nov 05, 2007 01:55 PM

So, does the Indycron use a letter designation system like Holocron does? And if so, where, generally, does everything fall?
The Indycron assigns each entry to one of the following categories:
- Movie
- TV
- Licensing
- Non-Continuity
- Non-Fiction

Of course, with the "Old man Indy" (played by George Hall) segments cut out of the VHS releases, the official continuity of older Indy has been in limbo. Have they been restored for the DVDs?
The DVDs are based on the VHS release, so the George Hall scenes have not been restored.

E.T.F., Golden Boy
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Date Posted: Nov 07, 2007 10:12 AM

The DVDs are based on the VHS release, so the George Hall scenes have not been restored.

Thanks. That makes them less attractive to me, though. I'm surprised that they wouldn't be included as bonus features, though.

Adam_wan_kenobi
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Date Posted: Nov 12, 2007 12:12 AM

Tasty Taste, have you ever been told why exactly Mr. Lucas chose to remove the "Old Indy" bookends?

		lukevanhorn Member Profile Total Posts: 393 Member Since: 05/07

Date Posted: Jan 18, 2008 02:03 PM

Are "Movie" and "TV" the equivalent of G canon and "Licensing" the equivalent of C canon? If so, does this mean that there is nothing like the distinction between C and S canon for the Indycron?
Also, do you read German and French (for the German and French language books), or have someone on staff go through those for you who reads those languages? Or do you have some kind of official translation available?

		Leland Y Chee Member Profile Total Posts: 1396 Member Since: 05/00

Date Posted: Feb 04, 2008 01:17 PM

This message was edited by Leland Y Chee on Feb 04, 2008 01:18 PM

Are "Movie" and "TV" the equivalent of G canon and "Licensing" the equivalent of C canon? If so, does this mean that there is nothing like the distinction between C and S canon for the Indycron?
Movie = G
TV = T
Licensing = C & S

Also, do you read German and French (for the German and French language books), or have someone on staff go through those for you who reads those languages? Or do you have some kind of official translation available?
I don't have translated versions of the foreign-language titles; just brief story synopsises.

TheShroudHasFallen
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Date Posted: Mar 04, 2008 01:45 PM

So how does that language barrier affect the treatment of those stories regarding continuity?

Do cut scenes, like Old Indy, get the same treatment as disowned Star Wars scenes? Where do educational books (Indiana Jones Explores) stand?

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