Why, though? It just makes it look tacky to me, and not in a Stylistic Suck kind of way.
It gives it the feeling of how you'd move your minifigures as if they were walking on their own.
Dakota's blog An odd agent of justiceIt's also not stop motion in the sense that it uses physical models.
This is CGI that very closely resembles stop motion, and it has let them do some awesome things.
Though I'm sure at some point in the design phase, actual models were made. I can imagine a whole room of writers playing with bricks and saying "And then he takes apart his car and turns it into a rocket ship, whooosh! And it has a forcefield, so your thing doesn't work."
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?Which can probably be underscored by Lord President Business' evil plan reportedly being to glue everything together. Which sounds really weird and infeasible if it were concocted by a bad guy in just about any other setting, but for Lego? It's probably a downright horrifying fate to consider.
edited 19th Jan '14 12:35:47 PM by TheSpaceJawa
And with Will Ferrell always having a knack for playing Cloud Cuckoo Lander s, it should be a great character.
edited 19th Jan '14 1:17:25 PM by Shota
@SR 3: that's practically a requirement for this kind of film, I would imagine. You have to build the CG models based on something.
Also, who wouldn't want a job that involves playing with huge piles of Lego? All in the name of...wait for it... world building!
Visit my Tumblr! I may say things. The Bureau ProjectSpeaking of which, there's a videogame of the movie coming soon, but that was innevitable.
x5:Obviously, her secret is she's an ali-kitty
edited 20th Jan '14 9:35:10 AM by KingKix
Dakota's blog An odd agent of justiceSo I just finished reading the Junior Novelization of the film. Here are my random thoughts
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Overall, I'd say that if the film is anything like the book, one of the things it does surprisingly well is capturing how believable this world is. Not only do they address aspects about how a city governed by toy building blocks would work, but they also introduce how things like money, economy and public services work in this world (for instance- all of the construction workers have to have the "Instructions" sent to them every day). And the world gets even more interesting once you realize that introducing foreign human objects like golf balls, "KrazyGlue" and nail polish remover can actually become threatening in their sterile plastic environment.
Another thing I really like about the novelization is, where in other novels like Wreck-It Ralph, they had to take strives at not naming the licensed characters (for instance, calling Q-Bert Ralph's "little orange friend"), the publishers actually got the rights to name the cameo characters: Bat Man, Super Man, Wonder Woman, etc. Batman is especially hilarious and over the top, with my favorite scene involving him and Uni-Kitty at a business meeting
That said, this film seems like your basic set up for "Ordinary Guy that saves the world" plot, with a "Cars-esque" framing for how the world came about. Don't go in expecting a lot of big questions to be answered (how do Lego toys come to life? where do all of the human artifacts come from?) Also the ending seemed a bit too nicely wrapped up- the villain is basically a Karma Houdini that gets away by learning about the Power of Friendship.
Anyway, it's a good read and makes me only more interested in seeing how it will play out.
edited 20th Jan '14 2:50:04 PM by Mattonymy
You are displaying abnormally high compulsions to over-analyze works of fiction and media. Diagnosis: TV Tropes Addiction.The Wreck It Ralph novelization did that? What a a disappointment. It must have ruined the Villains Meeting...
edited 20th Jan '14 6:48:00 PM by NapoleonDeCheese
They didn't simply NOT use the copyrighted names. They had to include illustrations, and the cameos are replaced by original, non-descript villain characters.
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edited 20th Jan '14 8:56:58 PM by Shota

Based off the trailer I saw, the stop-motion is kind of bad IMO.