The Lego Movie

So, a week ago I went to the Legoland Discovery Center in Schaumburg. It was very obviously aimed at kids something like ten years younger than me, but there were some pleasant surprises. One of them was a Lego Movie short about the main cast taking a trip to- you guessed it- Legoland! ...only they ended up at Brickworld instead. And in this case Brickworld isn't that one convention I went to a couple months ago, but a Legoland knockoff run by Lord Business's totally-not-evil-I-swear brother (named Risky, because why not) using the money the movie makers saved from not hiring Will Ferrell this time around.

As you might be able to guess by the tail end of that last sentence, it was a very silly short. Really well done, too, outside of the obligatory audience participation bit that all the movie shorts at the LDC theater played (in FOUR DIMENSIONS! Somehow.) The writing felt so much like the stuff in the Lego Movie proper that I'm almost certain it was directed and/or written by the same guys- I would've thought they'd be too busy for that sort of thing, but evidently not!

Man, now I wanna go back to Legoland. Last time I was there we were all still paranoid about terrorists crashing planes.

Guess what Lego Movie character is getting their own TV show?

edited 10th May '17 3:17:28 PM by TargetmasterJoe

I GUESSED RIGHT.

In this case, that's like guessing the sun will rise in the east.

HOLY SHIT. I'm so excited!

This definitely seems worth a look, Unikitty was hilarious. I just hope they try and do their own thing and not copy Teen Titans Go.

Necro: Can you say sequel?

Sequel.

(Seriously though, I'm happy this is happening!)

Excellent necro.

Needless to say, I'm psyched. And in. And enjoying the subtitle.

I can say it!

Sequel.

And I been looking forward to this for years now!

I just wanna point out, the usual marketing strategy in Hollywood is poster one day, then a trailer the next day. So, keep an eye out, just in case.

They come in pieces.

Also, first trailer's coming TOMORROW.

...well, I was technically, correct.

I haven't seen any sign that Morgan Freeman will return to voice Vitruvius. It's probably for the best considering the recent revelations about him. At least they already have an easy out for Vitruvius, since they killed him off in the last movie.

The best kind of correct.

Oof, yeah, I was wondering about that. Probably for the best, anyway.

Wait... that body shape... and remembering the last line of The Man Upstairs....

Dear God... they're at war with Lego Friends.

There is an half destroyed LEGO Statue of Liberty in the back. Likely an war with the kiddie legos although I am curious about the actual character themselves that our cast is being seen by.

edited 5th Jun '18 6:57:54 AM by Wispy

I kinda assumed that The Duplo War already came and went off-screen during the sequel gap, causing everyone to go all Mad Max and now this time, the heroes are going to war with a different preschool LEGO brand.

Also, holy crud Unikitty's looking worse for wear...

Wow, I saw the sequel involving fighting with the DUPLO blocks and all, but I didn't expect them to actually start the movie with the DUPLO aliens winning and turn LEGO City into a Mad Max-like post-apocalypse. I'm curious as to how this'll all end.

edited 5th Jun '18 8:13:56 AM by kablammin45

I'm there. :)

Given that this is all an allegory for the kid's state of mind, i'm guessing that whether his sister did or didn't "win" their little war at first, the Mad Max stuff is just a reflection of him being a drama queen about it happening in the first place. And the new attack in the movie is a reflection of her being bitter about him and stealing his things, leading to a Heel Realization from him.

I'm guessing the sister has grown up and moved from Duplo to LEGO Friends.

... wasn't this supposed to be about a race?

The race thing was a spinoff movie which I thiiiiink is in Development Hell right now?