This set, 70839 The Rexcelsior, was announced back in London Toy Fair a couple of weeks ago. And yes, I am just now getting to posting these; better late then never I say. Priced at $149.99, this is the regular retail flagship set, no pun intended, of the line. Chock full of dark blue elements, The Rexcelsior might just make a good starting point for my Galaxy Patrol army. It might just!
Official fact sheet, product images below.
Also, I think the set name should include a ‘!’ character at the end. It just feels right like that.
One thing about these press releases is that all they ever seem to contain is a box shot, the basic contents shot, and the rest are miniigs. I get that minifigs are a big draw for some people, but this is a children’s toy. Why not focus on some hidden compartments or the interior. We seem to get more of those kinds of pictures with the adult-oriented Modular Buildings line than we do with the kid-targeted sets. Seems kind of backwards to me.
70839 The Rexcelsior
1,826 pieces| Ages 10+
$149.99 USD
Available May 1, 2019
All aboard for LEGO® space adventures with Stubble Trouble Emmet and Rex Dangervest on The Rexcelsior! THE LEGO MOVIE 2TM character Emmet has drawn stubble on his face to be more like his vest-friend. But will he enjoy travelling in Rex’s super-awesome sci-fi spaceship? Join Rex in the cockpit or hang out with the LEGO raptors. There’s loads to discover with this awesome LEGO set and spaceship from THE LEGO MOVIE 2—just make sure you are ready for enemy attacks. Reload the 6-missile spring-loaded shooter and fire!
This kids’ toy LEGO® set includes 2 minifigures: Stubble Trouble Emmet and Rex Dangervest, plus Emmet and Rex microfigures and 5 micro raptor dinosaur toy figures (3 metallic, 2 dark blue).
The Rexcelsior spaceship toy features big boosters, dual microfigure cockpit, detailed microscale interior with various rooms and compartments, opening doors and lift-off roofs for easy play, handle with a trigger to activate the rapid-fire, 6-missile spring-loaded shooter, and an ammo storage compartment with 6 extra missiles.
This building toy for kids also includes 5 micro builds: Emmet’s house, a forklift, 2 interaptors and a dropship.
Kids can recreate stellar action from THE LEGO® MOVIE 2TM with this creative toy playset.
The Rexcelsior LEGO® spaceship toy measures over 7†(19cm) high, 15†(40cm) long and 8†(21cm) wide.
Following up on their Number 1 box office debut weekend, The LEGO Group announced three new sets scheduled for an April release. These are marketed as a “call for families to play together”. I kinda got the feeling that the idea for “families to play together” is somehow related to the plot of The LEGO Movie 2’s live action segment… I haven’t seen the movie yet, but that’s just a feeling I get…
The three sets are listed below with an anticipated release date of April 1. Some observations: Emmet’s Mech Couch is a Target exclusive. And I was confused with the Shimmer & Shine set since there is a Nick Jr. cartoon series of the same name. I thought there might have been some strange crossover with Nick Jr. but I’m guessing the name is just a coincidence. I imagine the lawyers at Nickelodeon are taking notice right about now.
70838 Queen Watevra’s ‘So-Not-Evil’ Space Palace
995 pieces | Age 9+
$99.99 (USD)
Create out-of-this-world adventures with a space palace toy from THE LEGO® MOVIE 2TM!
Join Bachelor BatmanTM and Queen Watevra Wa’Nabi for dinner at the queen’s ‘So-Not-Evil’ LEGO® Space Palace with this fun-packed building set! Enjoy a smoothie and check out the DJ booth. Meet other colorful THE LEGO MOVIE 2TM characters like Ice Cream Cone and launch the Stars and Hearts into space in their pods. Then make the top of the palace spin as Queen Watevra Wa’Nabi takes off in her super space rocket toy!
This LEGO® palace set includes 9 characters from THE LEGO MOVIE 2TM: a Bachelor BatmanTM minifigure and Celeste mini-doll figure, plus Queen Watevra Wa’Nabi, Ice Cream Cone, 2 Star, 2 Heart and Royal Guard brick-built figures.
The multi-level palace toy features a rotating top section with an opening, detachable rocket for Queen Watevra Wa’Nabi, detachable opening pods for other characters, 2 balconies, security room with a buildable security screen and assorted elements including a coffee cup, small heart and donut, and a dining room with a table, 2 seats, sideboard, buildable smoothie maker, assorted food and drink elements and a DJ booth.
Also includes the Royal Guard’s buildable lollipop.
Bachelor BatmanTM minifigure (with special suit decoration), Celeste mini-doll figure, Queen Watevra Wa’Nabi (small version), Ice Cream Cone (small version) and Royal Guard figures are all new for May 2019.
Kids can recreate fun-packed scenes from THE LEGO® MOVIE 2TM with this cool palace toy building set.
Toy palace measures over 18†(48cm) high, 13†(34cm) wide and 7†(18cm) deep.”
70837 Shimmer & Shine Sparkle Spa!
691 pieces | Age 7+
$69.99 (USD)
Surprises are guaranteed at the Shimmer & Shine Sparkle Spa!
Join THE LEGO® MOVIE 2TM characters Benny the spaceman, Washed-out Wyldstyle and Unikitty as Calm-Down Kitty at the Shimmer & Shine Sparkle Spa with this colorful playset! Enjoy a massage by Eight the octopus. Relax in the hot tub with Calm-Down Kitty. Check out Washed-out Wyldstyle’s new hairstyle—everyone likes it except her! But beware—all is not what it seems here in the Systar System. That hot tub has a trapdoor. And when Balthazar transforms into a vampire bat, you better get out of there!
This kids’ toy LEGO® set includes 8 characters from THE LEGO MOVIE 2TM: Benny and Washed-out Wyldstyle minifigures, Balthazar mini-doll figure, plus brick-built LEGO Unikitty as Calm-Down Kitty, Flaminga, Eight, Archimedes and Balthazar vampire bat toy figures.
Shimmer & Shine Sparkle Spa features an arched entrance, buildable loudspeakers, lever-operated revolving wall for Balthazar to ‘transform’ into a vampire bat, hot tub with an opening lid and trapdoor function, buildable sink, 2 removable tables, 6 brick-built potion bottles and assorted elements including a towel, teapot, cup, serving tray and translucent crystal decorations.
Also includes a buildable massage table.
Flaminga figure features posable wings and tail.
The minifigures, mini-doll figure and brick-built figures in this set are all new for May 2019 and the Washed-out Wyldstyle minifigure features blue and pink hair while the Unikitty as Calm-Down Kitty toy figure has a new face expression.
Kids will love recreating fun-packed scenes from THE LEGO® MOVIE 2TM with this popular toy playset.
THE LEGO® MOVIE 2TM toy spa measures over 5†(14cm) high, 12†(31cm) wide and 4†(12cm) deep.
70842 Emmet’s Triple-Decker Couch Mech
322 pieces | Age 8+
$29.99 (USD)
Available this Spring at Target, LEGO retail stores and shop.LEGO.com
Build and rebuild with the 2-in-1 Emmet’s Triple-Decker Couch Mech toy!
Create a cool triple-decker couch with THE LEGO® MOVIE 2TM character Emmet! Take a seat on the super-tall buildable couch and have a drink with Unikitty as Rampage Kitty. But beware—Sweet Mayhem could attack at any time. So show off your master-building skills to rebuild the couch into an amazing mech! Get in the driver’s seat and flap the ladder wings. Spin the gear wheel and grab Sweet Mayhem with the claw. Then celebrate by having another mug of coffee. There’s so much fun to be had with this awesome LEGO building set!
This THE LEGO® MOVIE 2TM toy building set includes an Emmet toy minifigure, Sweet Mayhem mini-doll figure and new-for-May-2019 brick-built LEGO Unikitty as Rampage Kitty figure with a bushy tail.
This 2-in-1 LEGO® building set features a triple-decker couch that can be rebuilt into Emmet’s couch mech.
Triple-decker couch features 6 detachable mug elements and ladders on each side.
Emmet’s couch mech features a top-deck minifigure seat with mug elements as driving ‘controls’, posable arms, legs and feet, spinning gear wheel ‘hand’, gripping claw, and adjustable ladder wings.Includes Sweet Mayhem’s blaster.
Accessory elements include Sweet Mayhem’s adjustable wings, helmet and boosters.
Kids can recreate fun scenes from THE LEGO® MOVIE 2TM with this master-building Emmet LEGO set.
Triple-decker couch model measures over 5†(13cm) high, 3†(9cm) wide and 1†(4cm) deep.
Emmet couch mech model measures over 7†(18cm) high, 7†(20cm) long and 1†(3cm) wide.
First thing’s first, there may be some light spoilers to the movie in here, specifically where I’m talking about the sets and how they stack up to the movie towards the end of the review. It looks like some of the Lego Movie sets are on sale, likely to coordinate with the release. There are links to them down below in the review section where I see where they stack up, and it’s a great way to help support the site.
Fun fact about my family: The LEGO Movie was the first movie that my daughter ever went to in a theater, when she was around 18 months old. She was still pretty young, hadn’t even latched on to Duplo yet… but boy, did she love popcorn. Fast forward five years later, and my son was going to his first movie at around 19 months old… The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part. Unfortunately, the popcorn machine at the theater we went to was broken, so he wasn’t able to enjoy that part of it… but it did serve dinner so he got some french fries and was happy.
His official review of the LEGO Movie 2: “Wooooooooow.”
Sadly, on the box office haul side of things, everything wasn’t nearly as awesome. While it was the #1 at the box office this past weekend, raking in $35 million domestically, it was well below what was expected for a marquee franchise and barely more than half what the original pulled in on its opening weekend. What’s less clear is if the failure is on the movie, or just part of the larger trend of nearly all box office sales being down in 2019.
We saw the movie at 4:45 PM on Friday afternoon, and the theater wasn’t even 1/3rd of the way full. Now, we didn’t go to the most popular theater in town, but that’s still a light crowd for what would be prime time for a kid’s movie. I’m also fairly certain that I’m the only one on the staff who saw it this weekend, and one of only a couple in the FBTB Discord that had gone to see it as well.
This set sort of exemplifies what’s wrong with LEGO for me. It’s a great looking set, that’s too much, banking on the fact that the exclusive minifigs in it are enough to sell it. And they’re the ones I would want… just not for $300
Box office performance aside, the movie itself is actually pretty great. Despite the fact that I’ve quit collecting LEGO, it will always have a place in my heart, and has been a part of me for most of my life. The original LEGO movie was simply fantastic, and had a poignant message for adults (and AFOLs, specifically), but also plenty for kids to enjoy as well. Since that came out, we’ve gotten two more theatrical LEGO movies… one is the greatest Batman movie ever made, and the other is a narrowly-focused stinker based on a specific first party LEGO line, The Ninjago Movie.
The Second Part, in some ways, is simply more of the same from the original movie. It’s set five years later, and obviously goes on the relationship between Finn and his younger sister, Bianca. Anyone that had a younger sibling likely recognizes a lot of the things in play here, and anyone with two kids will see how perfectly they portrayed that rivalry and love between them.
I won’t go into the full breakdown of the movie, but it’s both very predictable (the barely hidden reveal of a character’s actual origin) and very surprising (the origin of Queen Watevra Wa-Nabi, the small “original edition” album reveal at the end, and the truth of the sinister plot). Suffice it to say, there’s more than enough to keep you engaged and entertained… but will also say that the special, pun totally intended, of the first movie is somewhat lacking. It’s more familiar, so it can’t really surprise you with what it’s trying to do.
The new characters are interesting, but only two get a lot of time, General Mayhem and Watevra Wa-Nabi. The rest of the time is split between Wyldstyle and Emmet, with most of the other supporting characters given less time. Batman gets a decent bit, Benny and Metalbeard get a few more, and we get our obligatory Bricksburg (now Apocalypseburg) montage of Emmet talking to everyone (twice, actually). But most of those feel like how most of the villains did in the LEGO Batman Movie, part of the joke rather than part of the story. That’s not bad, given that they’re introducing more, but just setting expectations.
The Soundtrack
That being said, where this movie absolutely shines is with the soundtrack. Sure, the original movie had the catchy-despite-purposefully-being-catchy “Everything is Awesome.” It’s also funny how they positioned “Catchy Song” as the new Everything is Awesome, and it certainly could have been, but it’s not the best one on there.
It reminds me of Frozen… while “Let it Go” got all the playtime, it wasn’t the earworm song on the soundtrack (that was most certainly “Do You Want to Build a Snowman”). Both Gotham City Guys, and what I think should be the official song of 2019, Everything’s Not Awesome, are better songs and incredibly catchy. The visuals in the movie for Gotham City Guys, and the little jokes that make Batman the best character to come out of it, are worth the price of a ticket alone.
Everything’s Not Awesome, though, is an incredible piece of writing. It’s catchy, uplifting, and has the message that’s so critical. “We can make things better.” It’s the song for the brother and sister relationship, and for the general outlook all around us. “Everything’s can’t be awesome all of the time, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try” is a lesson that I try to get to my daughter every single day. It’s the most important lesson I can try to teach my kids. The world can suck, and things can be hard, but that doesn’t mean you stop trying to make it what you want. As far as messages go, that one is awesome. Plus, Benny’s line in the movie is a joke in this son is squarely aimed at parents my age and is my favorite joke in the whole movie.
Rating the Sets
Of course, let’s not kid ourselves… this is a movie that’s crafted and designed to sell toys. Much like the first movie, the sets are all slices of the movie. Out of context, they all seem fun, but let’s look at them in context. Curiously, the majority of the sets seem to be inspired from the first 15 minutes or so of the movie, and there are a lot of things that could show up from later on in the next wave.
10895 Emmet and Lucy’s Visitors from the DUPLO Planet
This is a set that I’m actually likely to buy for my son as a gift at some point. It captures some of the creatures that are at the end of the first movie, and start of this one. There are some quibbles here, like the lack of a heart (and I don’t recall what a shovel or stop sign have to do with it). But the big creatures are fun.
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I’m lumping all of these togethers, as they aren’t really parts of the movie itself, more of inspiration from it for other purposes. They’re all decent looking, but the prices are what make them unattractive in all cases. Pricing sunk the movie stuff last time, and will do it to these… I look forward to seeing them on sales or clearance some day.
These two are interesting, as they are both from the exact same scene, and probably belong all in one set. The build whatever box specifically plays into a major point of the movie, but also doesn’t give an important configuration away. I’d be curious to see if a particular shape is in the instructions or not. That being said, one of the more important configurations is available in another set.
For value in characters from the movie, 70824 is up there, and I’m certain my daughter will want it eventually. It’s a great way to get General Mayhem, and the Banana Guy factors in to some slapsticky jokes at more than one point.
This is the only set from this first wave that has, so far as I can tell, no basis in the actual movie. We do see some fix-it-up type stuff during Emmet’s walk, but it doesn’t include him (it’s Metalbeard, if I remember right). I mean, a decent setup, but has nothing to do with the movie.
This is a weird one… everyone in this set is in the movie, but they aren’t friends of Unikitty… they’re henchmen of the Queen. Fun fact, my daughter owns this set, and loves it, so from her it was a 5 out of 5. But she also thought that the pasta we had at what I could call a middling Italian place in town last night was the “best dinner she ever had,” so take that with a grain of salt.
70823 Emmet’s Thricycle, 70827 Ultrakatty and Warrior Lucy!, 70829 Emmet and Lucy’s Escape Buggy, 70830 Sweet Mayhem’s Systar Starship, 70831 Emmet’s Dream House-Rescue Rocket, 70834 MetalBeard’s Heavy Metal Motor Trike, 70836 Battle-ready Batman and MetalBeard, and 70840 Welcome to Apocalypseburg!
Okay… that’s a whole lot of sets mashed together, but they are basically part of the same continuous scene that makes up the first 15 minutes of the movie or so. Emmet’s house is a mixture of the start and the aftermath of it, but all of these together add up to it.
Really, the sad part here is that the best figures, the Apocalypseburg version of a lot of the minor joke characters from the first movie, are locked up in one set. That would have been a fantastic CMF line to complement the movie. I mean, they could easily make a version that has half of them in the Apocalypseburg form and half in a regular form… and it would be great.
This is an odd one… the ship itself does figure into the movie, but not in this particular configuration. Unikitty also needed a scarf as well, but that version is pretty funny and shows up later. It’s price that hurts this one more than anything… and it’s not exactly memorable. I’ll talk about it more later on what I’d expect to see later on, but this feels like a missed opportunity.
Both of these are offshoots of the real missed opportunity of a set, which would be Rex’s actual spaceship. That set is clearly coming, since there was a physical brick version shown in the movie. Neither of these two sets show something that was overly memorable, outside of the Raptors. I’m also sure that the Rexplorer showed up in the movie, but I don’t remember it…
I maintain that this will be the most popular and fun set, and I’m still planning on buying it (I just haven’t looked for it yet)… but it’s time in the movie is probably 3 or 4 seconds, total, during one of the Queen’s songs. Benny doesn’t get a lot of screen time in general in this movie, so this is one where an awesome set stands on its own, but no one is likely to remember where it happens in the movie.
Like I mentioned above, Rex’s Starship is the most obvious thing that isn’t in the lineup yet. While I don’t know that it has the same iconic feel as Benny’s Spaceship, Spaceship, SPACESHIP! (which you want to know a sad set that has retained absolutely no value, go look up what that thing goes for a couple years after being discontinued)… it certainly played into it and is a good looking build.
Beyond that, I would just adore seeing all of the variations that came up during the “Gotham City Guys” song. Most of that stuff has been released in some way, but there’s still a lot that would be great, and you know LEGO could get the license for all the Batman variations.
With Batman and the Queen, there’s also a lot of options for the event at the end that should be there, and I’d love to get the costume we saw Batman in his more… let’s say, glittery, outfit. Same with the happy village we see Superman and Green Lantern in later on, or any of the escape stuff we get in there.
The one that feels like a miss is the lack of anything around the spa scene that’s in the middle of the movie, and a particular hair variation (and a printed tile that would come along with it that’s record shaped). I mean, we all need more Sparkly-hair vampire minidolls in our life and collections. The Friend’s themed stuff in general is lacking… Duplo and LEGO System all get sets, but the Friend’s oriented stuff only has a few minidolls buried in other sets. This would be a chance to bridge all of the lines.
Lastly, there’s the new Systocalypstar stuff that has the option to do variations on basically everything else that was made. And if being a fan of Star Wars LEGO taught me anything, it’s that LEGO loves to just rerelease color swaps of sets. In the past few years, they’ll do multiple variations at the same time.
Announced earlier today on social media, WB Games and LEGO both revealed the cover art for The LEGO Movie 2 Video Game.
Yawn.
As much as I’ve been into video games lately, LEGO video games are not at the top of my playlist. I’ve played a handful of them, reviewed two of them here on this site (The LEGO NINJAGO Movie and LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2) giving them 5- and 1-star reviews, respectively. Heck, I’ve even been told to give up the site entirely after my Marvel review. But the scores indicate gaming experiences that are so disparate, I often wonder which is more indicative of the median when averaging all LEGO video games.
Looking at the metacritic scores for both of those games, my scores trend in the opposite direction. Clearly, my opinions are not the norm. I skipped LEGO The Incredibles despite the Edna Mode pre-order bonus, and didn’t give LEGO DC Super Villains a chance either. It just seems like they aren’t any different. The LEGO Movie 2? Unless they drastically change the formula, I’ll tell you this much: I ain’t shelling out money for it anytime soon.
I haven’t seen a release date for The LEGO Movie 2 Video Game yet. No doubt there will also be a pre-order bonus from somewhere. We’ll report more info once we find it.
Hot on the heels of the trailer, LEGO has provided pictures of the 19 upcoming sets coming just after Christmas (December 26th, to be exact) to empty out your wallets, gift cards, and store credit after the holiday season. A couple should be showing up at the beginning of the month (specifically, the Builder Box sets), but the rest will be coming at the end.
While the movie itself won’t be out until February, there will be plenty of time to see, build, and enjoy the sets once they show up. I’d keep an eye out starting in mid-December, as stores have been known to put them out early as stock of other sets run out around the holidays.
It’s an interesting lineup, and I’m certain after I see the movie with my kids, more than a few of them will end up in my house. My son is just about to Duplo Age, and my daughter has gotten really big into her own LEGO stuff lately. It will also be, most likely, the first “in the theater” movie my son ever goes to. Fun fact, the original LEGO Movie was my daughter’s first theater movie as well!
And you know what? Despite the fact that I don’t really collect LEGO any longer… I’m still going to buy that Benny Space Corps pack…
10895 Emmet and Lucy’s Visitors from the DUPLO Planet
53 pieces | Ages 2+ $29.99 USDÂ
Introduce toddlers to the color and creativity of THE LEGO® MOVIE 2™ with this fun preschool building set. Little fans of Emmet and Lucy will love helping them defend against the easy-to-build alien invaders! Then mix all the bright and chunky DUPLO bricks up so young children can create more aliens of their own, developing imagination and fine motor skills on their journey to becoming the next master builder! Includes 2 LEGO DUPLO figures: Emmet and Lucy, plus 4 buildable alien invaders.
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70820 LEGO Movie Maker
482 pieces | Ages 8+ $49.99 USD
Kids can make their own movies with this versatile building set, featuring a movie stage, camera stand for a smartphone device and plenty of cool action props! The stage features a frame with sliding, adjustable arms at the top to hold and animate props, characters and accessory elements, a double-sided backdrop with alternative scenes, plus a platform with built-in sliders to move characters around. Young film makers can attach the camera stand to any of the 3 special points on the stage for different angles and camera panning movements. This THE LEGO MOVIE 2 set also comes with action props like Emmet’s Escape Buggy and Rex’s Rexplorer, 3 minifigures, a minidoll figure, 4 brick-built figures and a raptor figure for creative play.
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70821 Emmet and Benny’s Fix it Workshop
117 pieces | Ages 4+ $19.99 Â
Specially designed for younger builders ages 4 and up, this playset lets kids use the tools to fix Benny’s Spaceship and Emmet’s Escape Buggy. Kids can “pump gas†into the vehicles and launch them into orbit, then use the spaceship’s buggy to explore new planets! Includes Emmet and Benny minifigures.
70822 Unikitty’s Sweetest Friends Ever!
76 pieces | Ages 5+ $9.99 USDÂ Â
Builders can pretend to enjoy a drink and a snack with this fun building set featuring 3 buildable LEGO MOVIE 2 figures—Unikitty, Ice Cream Cone and Chocolate Bar—plus a tea trolley with teapot, coffee cup and cake accessory elements designed to inspire creative play.
70823 Emmet’s Thricycle
173 pieces | Ages 7+ $9.99 USDÂ Â
Kids can raise their master-building ability to another level with Emmet’s Thricycle! This awesome building set features a minifigure seat, 3 vertically stacked rubber tires and foldout stabilizers. It includes a fuel station, with a buildable gas pump, catapult function and parking spot for the Thricycle, plus THE LEGO MOVIE 2 characters—an Emmet minifigure and a brick-built alien invader with a chomping mouth and rotating cyclops eye. Includes Emmet minifigure and buildable Alien Invader.
70824 Introducing Queen Watevra Wa’Nabi
115 pieces | Ages 6+ $9.99 USD
Join Lucy and meet the shape-shifting Queen Watevra Wa’Nabi for the first time with this fun building set that features a brick-built Queen Watevra Wa’Nabi in horse form with a rotating platform, plus 5 interchangeable face expression decorations for rebuilding the shape-shifting queen into pile-of-bricks form.
Set also includes a buildable Banarnar character, Sweet Mayhem and Susan minidolls, and a Lucy minifigure.
70825 Queen Watevra’s Build Whatever Box
455 pieces | Ages 6+ $39.99 USDÂ
Kids can build and rebuild THE LEGO® MOVIE 2™ shape-shifting star Queen Watevra Wa’Nabi in 15 different forms with this open-ended creative building box! This set has instructions to build each version of the shape-shifting queen, from a grumpy volcano to a happy butterfly or colorful rocket, and also includes inspirational ideas for young master builders to create their own shapes.
70826 Rex’s Rex-treme Offroader
230 pieces | Ages 7+ $29.99 USD
Kids can display their master building versatility when they rebuild the 3-in-1 offroader and Recon Rex-o-saurus into the Rex-o-saurus Quad or Execu-Rex-o-saurus. The offroader seats 2 minifigures and has a rotating rear turret with 2 stud shooters, while the Recon Rex-o-saurus features snapping jaws, posable legs, 2 stud shooters and a buildable removable gun (non-shooting) that can also be used as a minifigure weapon. Includes Rex Dangervest and Emmet minifigures and a buildable Plantimal character.
70827 Ultrakatty and Warrior Lucy!
383 pieces | Ages 8+ $29.99 USD
Kids can ride into battle against the alien invader with this building set. Ultrakatty features a minifigure cockpit, a posable head which can be rebuilt for 3 different facial expressions, and a posable tail and legs. This awesome building toy includes Lucy and Emmet minifigures, plus a brick-built alien invader with a chomping mouth and rotating eye, to recreate action-packed scenes from the film.
70828 Pop Up Party Bus
1,013 pieces | Ages 9+ $79.99 USD
Kids can board the Pop-Up Party Bus and party on with Chad, Amber and Zebe. This fun building set features an opening cockpit for the Zebe figure, opening roof and sides for easy play, foldout loudspeakers, a LEGO light brick to light up the rotating dancefloor and a flip-up disco ball with translucent colored elements. Includes Unikitty, Chad and Amber minidolls and a brick-built Zebefigure.
70829 Emmet and Lucy’s Escape Buggy
549 pieces | Ages 8+ $49.99 USD
Kids can escape danger by building Emmet and Lucy’s Escape Buggy, featuring seats for 2 minifigures, opening doors and hood, foldout arrow gun (non-shooting) and suspension. This fun-packed construction toy also includes a buildable base with an explode function, 3 minifigures and 3 buildable figures—MetalBeard, Star and Heart—with cool weapons and accessory elements.
70830 Sweet Mayhem’s Systar Starship
500 pieces | Ages 9+ $69.99 USD
Kids can help Emmet and Lucy evade capture by Sweet Mayhem’s Systar Starship, featuring an opening cockpit for a minidoll or minifigure, retractable landing gear, disc shooter, a roll of stickers and an opening prison cell. This fun construction toy includes 2 minifigures, a minidoll figure and buildable Star and Heart toy figures to role-play action from the film.
70831 Emmet’s Dream House-Rescue Rocket
706 pieces | Ages 8+ $69.99 USD
This 2-in-1 building set features Emmet’s home which can be rebuilt into a rocket. The house toy opens out for easy interior play and has a detailed living room/kitchen and attic. Remove the roof and use parts from the water tower and barricade to create a rocket with spring-loaded shooters and adjustable engines. Includes Emmet, Lucy, and Rex Dangervest minifigures, plus buildable Planty and Warrior Kitty characters.
70832 Emmet’s Builder Box
125 pieces | Ages 5+ $29.99 USD
Open a world of master building adventures with this versatile builder box, featuring 3 buildable models—Emmet’s digger vehicle, house and construction mech. The digger has an adjustable front bucket to lift rubble elements, the mini-build house features an opening door and the rotating construction mech has a minifigure cockpit, 4 posable arms and 2 demolition balls. Includes an Emmet minifigure and a brick-built alien invader for endless role-play fun.
70833 Lucy’s Builder Box
141 pieces | Ages 5+ $29.99 USDÂ
Give your young master builder hours of fun with this versatile builder box! This creative toy features 3 buildable models—Lucy’s motorcycle with a ramp, a rotating dance stage and the Unikitty spa with spa bath and washstand. Includes a Lucy minifigure and a brick-built Unikitty figure for endless role-play fun.
70834 MetalBeard’s Heavy Metal Motor Trike
458 pieces | Ages 7+ $59.99 USD
Builders can power into battle against Sweet Mayhem and Star with this fun set that features a built-in MetalBeard minifigure head, rotating turret with adjustable shooting cannons, adjustable shark shooter with snapping jaws, crow’s nest and flag and a huge front wheel. Includes an Apocalypse-borg Benny minifigure and a Sweet Mayhem minidoll figure with cool weapons and accessories, plus a brick-built Star figure to recreate action-packed adventures from the film.
70835 Rex’s Rexplorer
1172 pieces | Ages 9+
$119.99 USD
Kids can team up with Rex, Emmet and the raptors against the Plantimals with this building set. The Rexplorer features 2 opening cockpits, spring-loaded and stud shooters, rotating engines, an opening rear compartment for interior play, and a removable speeder. Features 2 raptor figures with a brick-built mountable stud shooter and raptor skateboard, plus 2 brick-built Plantimals (including one with a trap function). Includes Rex Dangervest and Emmet minifigures.
70836 Battle-ready Batman and MetalBeard
168 pieces | Ages 6+ $19.99 USD
Builders can scuttle into action against Star with this action-packed Batman playset featuring the famous pirate MetalBeard in crabmech form, with a built-in LEGO MetalBeard minifigure head, opening treasure chest with MetalBeard’s internal organ elements, flip-down crow’s nest with a flag and posable legs, plus a Batman throne with an adjustable ‘You’re Welcome’ sign. Includes 2 minifigures, a brick-built Star figure, and weapons and accessories.
70841 Benny’s Space Squad
68 pieces | Ages 5+
$9.99 USD
Kids can join forces with Benny’s Space Squad for fun adventures in outer space. This action-packed building set features a spaceship toy with a minifigure seat and a lunar buggy with 2 minifigure seats. Role-play scenes from THE LEGO MOVIE 2 with this space toy for kids including 4 LEGO astronaut minifigures with assorted accessories.
“You’re me, when I’m late to school, and I forgot my homework, and my pants are made of pudding?”
Okay… I’m now officially in the “I want to see this” camp for the sequel. The new trailer dropped today, and with it, official pictures and news on the new sets (which will be coming in a later post).
LEGO pulled the wraps off of more of their San Diego Comic Con plans. In addition to the UltraKatty model that will be on display, LEGO will also be showing a selection The LEGO Movie 2 sets. Those sets are: 70827 Ultrakatty & Warrior Lucy!, 70829 Emmet and Lucy’s Escape Buggy, and 70830 Sweet Mayhem’s Systar Starship! Pictures and prices are below in their respective descriptions. The movie comes out on February 8, 2019, so I’m guessing these sets will be out by January at the latest.
70827 Ultrakatty & Warrior Lucy!
Ride into battle against the alien with THE LEGO® MOVIE 2 70827 Ultrakatty & Warrior Lucy! and rescue Emmet. Ultrakatty features a minifigure cockpit, a posable head which can be rebuilt for 3 alternative facial expressions, and a posable tail and legs. This awesome building toy includes Lucy and Emmet minifigures, plus a brick-built alien invader with a chomping mouth and rotating eye, to recreate action-packed scenes from THE LEGO MOVIE 2.
Includes new-for-January-2019 Lucy and Emmet minifigures, plus a brick-built alien invader with a chomping mouth and rotating cyclops eye.
Ultrakatty features a minifigure cockpit with reins, posable head with 3 alternative facial expressions, and a posable tail and legs.
Includes Lucy’s crossbow weapon
Accessory elements include Lucy’s quiver and ‘STOP’ sign shield element.
Recreate fun-packed scenes from THE LEGO® MOVIE 2.
Ultrakatty measures over 3†(8cm) high, 8†(21cm) long and 3†(8cm) wide.
$29.99 USD
70829 Emmet and Lucy’s Escape Buggy
Drive away from danger in THE LEGO® MOVIE 2 70829 Emmet and Lucy’s Escape Buggy, featuring seats for two minifigures, opening doors and hood, foldout arrow gun (non-shooting) and suspension. This fun-packed construction toy also includes a buildable base with an explode function, 3 minifigures and 3 buildable figures—MetalBeard, Star and Heart—with cool weapons and accessory elements.
Includes 3 LEGO MOVIE characters: a LEGO Emmet minfigure, Lucy minfigure and Sharkia minifigure, plus 3 brick-built figures: MetalBeard, Star and Heart.
Escape Buggy features 2 minifigure seats, a removable roof, opening doors and hood, arrow gun (non-shooting), suspension and big wheels with rubber tires.
Buildable base features an explode function, container with fuel tanks and a gas canister with translucent flame element.
Weapons include Lucy’s crossbow and Sharkia’s crowbar.
Accessory elements include Lucy’s quiver and ‘STOP’ sign and MetalBeard’s internal organs.
Emmet, Lucy and Sharkia minifigures are new for January 2019.
Recreate fun-packed scenes from THE LEGO® MOVIE 2 with this cool creative toy.
Escape Buggy measures over 5†(15cm) high, x†(22cm) long and 5†(13cm) wide.
Buildable base measures over 3†(8cm) high, 1†(5cm) wide and 2†(6cm) deep.
$49.99 USD
70830 Sweet Mayhem’s Systar Starship!
Help Emmet and Lucy evade capture by THE LEGO® MOVIE 2 70830 Sweet Mayhem’s Systar Starship toy, featuring an opening cockpit for a mini-doll or minifigure, retractable landing gear, disc shooter and an opening prison cell. This fun construction toy includes 2 minifigures a mini doll figure and buildable Star and Heart toy figures to role-play action from THE LEGO MOVIE 2.
Includes 5 LEGO MOVIE characters: a LEGO Emmet minifigure and Lucy minifigure, plus a Sweet Mayhem mini-doll figure and brick-built Heart and Star toy figures.
Sweet Mayhem’s Systar Starship toy features an opening cockpit for a mini-doll or minifigure, retractable landing gear, a roll of stickers, disc shooter and an opening prison cell with a removable control panel and a gun.
Weapons include Lucy’s crossbow and Sweet Mayhem’s gun.
Accessory elements include Lucy’s quiver and Sweet Mayhem’s adjustable wings, helmet, 2 hearts and translucent-blue boosters.
Emmet and Lucy minifigures and Sweet Mayhem mini-doll figure are new for January 2019.
Recreate fun-packed scenes from THE LEGO® MOVIE 2 with this awesome building toy.
Measures over 5†(14cm) high, 6†(16cm) long and 11†(28cm) wide.
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So I guess when Ultrakitty gets super-angry, not only does she transform into a larger entity, she changes her name too, to Ultrakatty. This large-scale model will be featured at LEGO’s booth at San Diego Comic Con. More pictures and a time-lapse build below:
I kinda wonder if sometimes LEGO just doesn’t look at the pictures they’re sending and blindly selects them. The last two are practically the same.
After giving SyFy the scoop, LEGO shared the details on the last SDCC-exclusive minifig: Apocalypseburg Unikitty. Unique pieces galore! She comes with two interchangeable heads and a variety of printed elements that I’m pretty sure are super-exclusive to this figure. After looking at our preview coverage of the Unikitty Collectible Minifigures assortment from May, her spiked tail is unique but will no doubt be available from a set based The LEGO Movie 2. The other printed elements such as her body and helmet may also be available but her two printed heads are for sure exclusive, just like the previous LEGO Unikitty SDCC exclusive. Apocalypseburg Unikitty will only be available through at this year’s San Diego Comic Con. She joins Black Lightning from DC and Sheriff Deadpool from Marvel as this year’s trio of exclusive minifigs.
To enter, go to the exclusives portal through the Comic Con website. You have only a few hours left to enter. Winners will be drawn sometime tomorrow, July 13th .
LEGO announced a building contest dubbed “The Awesome Building Buddies Competition“. You and your best bud can have your awesome, original creation, featured during the end credits of the upcoming film, The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part. I guess Warner Bros. didn’t want to pay for an animated sequence like they did in the first movie and instead will use LEGO’s practice of harvesting ideas and creations from its fans, royalty-free. That’s right, by submitting your photos to LEGO and Warner Bros., and should your photos be selected, you give them permission to use them forever without paying you a dime. There’s no prize other than getting you, your buddy, and your creation on the big screen.
I’m all for getting fan work some recognition, but, and this is me coming from a creative background, the artists should be paid for their work. At least a one-time fee. But for free? I think Warner Bros. and LEGO can do better than that.
The non-cynic in me is telling me that this a good thing. That it gives kids and parents the the thrill of being featured on the big screen and on the little one when the movie goes digital/to DVD/Blu-ray.
That’s great and all, but still. You’re essentially signing away your rights to your photo for nothing. Warner Bros. and The LEGO Group get an end sequence they paid zero cents for.
If you still feel like entering and basically doing charity work, you can hit up the official website for instructions, the consent form, and the official rules. The deadline to submit everything is July 31st 2018 23:59 Central European Time. The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part comes out on February 8, 2019.
