Anchorhead said:
Also they were done long before lucas lost it and made the special editions of star wars and the prequels.
Misplaced Prequel & SE hate - completely unrelated to the Indiana Jones franchise.
Untrue. The coming of the prequels and SEs marked a change a lot of people figure happened in Lucas. So it is significant that Indy 4 came after all that stuff. There was a distinctly prequelesque mentality in Indy 4.