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Category: The LEGO Movie

  • The LEGO Movie 2 Official Trailer

    The LEGO Movie 2 Official Trailer

    Update: The official release date is February 8, 2019.

    The LEGO Movie 2 official trailer is out today and based on the first viewing there are a couple of things that are immediately obvious which I’ll spout off here.

    Yeah, there is no doubt in my mind that the mystery figure featured prominently in yesterday’s poster reveal is, in fact, a minidoll. The minidoll’s secret identity remains a secret, though, as she never takes off her helmet.

    Also, Unikitty looking Max Max-ed out doesn’t seem to be a coincidence. It seems all of Bricksburg has been thrown into a post-apocalyptic setting. Could this be Finn’s dark age? Also, Unikitty is HUGE. Her head looks about six studs wide, up from three.

    Lucy and Emmet are a thing now, living together as evidenced by the E <heart> L 4-EVA monogrammed pillow on their double-decker couch.

    The turn signal in the truck is on the wrong side.

    The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part will be out in theaters in February 2019.

  • The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part Theatrical Poster

    The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part Theatrical Poster

    The poster for The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part has been revealed today and gives us some clues as to what we can expect to see in the upcoming sequel. Take a look at the poster below:

    So before I share a few observations, I just want to give credit where credit is due and that the following observations came from our chat room participants.

    Some observations and theories:

    • Batman’s tire pauldrons. I’m dying to know what the story is behind that. I mean, did the creators just decide to stick tires on Batman’s shoulders to make it look like fancy armor hoping we didn’t notice that they are tires? Was it done as a joke? Did Batman just improvise? Is it part of a transforming suite? So many questions…
    • Benny has a robot arm.
    • Unikitty has gone full-on Mad Max mode.
    • The Statue of Liberty is seen in the background, but skewed at a really weird angle. Could this be a Planet of the Apes type of scenario?
    • The figure is most likely be a Friends minidoll type of figure based on the proportions that we can see (neck, head shape, shoulders/arms). This sort of changes idea of what the sequel could be. Friends as a theme came out in 2012, two years before the 2014 debut of the first LEGO movie. The first movie ended with what looked like an invasion of Duplo pieces, so I was kind of expecting a story based around Finn having to now share a space with his sister who is younger and plays with Duplo blocks. If the figure IS a friends minidoll, it could be that Finn’s sister is much older now and playing with the girl-oriented theme of Friends.
    • Back to Benny. He looks downright unhappy and it could be that the Friends minidoll is space-themed and he is just not happy about having to share the galaxy with some girls. It could be like a Woody and Buzz Toy Story 1 situation where the new space-themed Friends sets are getting all the spot light and Benny and Classic Space are being cast aside.
    • Emmet looks unchanged.
    • Wyldstyle now has goggles and what looks like a quiver on her back. Like Benny, she doesn’t look too thrilled either and it might be because she’s a girl and doesn’t like the concept of the minidoll or what the Friends theme represents.
    • Can’t really see much of MetalBeard, but he’s back as well.

    The teaser trailer for The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part will be revealed tomorrow.

    Thanks to ninnymuggins for sharing the poster drop.

  • LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part coming in February 2019

    LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part coming in February 2019

    We’ve known there was a sequel in the works for some time, but LEGO finally gave us an official-ish date, along with a title, for a return to the world of UniKitty and Surfer Dave. While we don’t have the specific date quite yet, we should all make some plans for a movie trip next February*.

    I’m keeping an open mind, despite the director involved (when your most high-profile movie is Duce Bigelow… yeah, just yeah)… it was still written by Lord and Miller. They may not be able to direct a Star Wars film, but The LEGO Movie and LEGO Batman were works of joy.

  • Movies Anywhere Is My New Favorite Thing

    Movies Anywhere Is My New Favorite Thing

    Disney got it right and I’m glad other movie studios are getting on board. I’m talking about digital rights management for movies. See, I’m an iTunes guy, so when I buy a Blu-ray that includes a digital copy, I like downloading a legal digital copy to iTunes. Most of the time anyway; Ultraviolet can go to hell. That was the main reason why I never got a digital copy of The LEGO Batman Movie: Ultraviolet. I started with iTunes for my digital library and planned on sticking with it forever. The prospect of signing up for another service and having my digital library spread out over multiple accounts across different devices and apps was not appealing. Screw that. Who has time to keep track of things like that?

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  • The LEGO Movie Sequel Details Emerge, Lord and Miller To Rewrite

    The LEGO Movie Sequel Details Emerge, Lord and Miller To Rewrite

    Phil Lord and Chris Miller, the directors behind The LEGO Movie, are back in the drivers seat for the sequel and will be rewriting the script. There’s a ton of details revealed over at this Collider article but the gist of it is that the movie will pick up a few years after the first movie’s ending, where Duplo was seen attacking Bricksburg. The movie will explore the differences between how boys and girls play. The article is definitely worth a read and echoes a lot of the same thoughts I had while reading it.

    The LEGO Movie 2’s release date has been pushed back all the way to February 8th, 2019.

  • Unikitty To Get Her Own Cartoon Network Series

    Unikitty To Get Her Own Cartoon Network Series

    It seems Batman isn’t the only one to get a spin off from The LEGO Movie. Cartoon Network announced today that in partnership with Warner Bros. Animation, Unikitty will be getting her own television series. Voiced by Tara Strong, Unikitty is “a ruler of a kingdom who is obsessed with keeping her subjects happy and ridding the kingdom of negativity. Unikitty joins her friends, including Dr. Fox and Puppycorn, to seek out happiness, creativity, and dance parties.” She will be joined by Grey Griffin (Be Cool Scooby-Doo!), Kate Micucci (Be Cool Scooby-Doo!), Roger Craig Smith (Regular Show), Eric Bauza (The Adventures of Puss in Boots), and H. Michael Croner (Review). The directors of The LEGO Movie Phil Lord and Chris Miller have been named as executive producers. No other details such as air date have been announced.

    Anyone else welcome the idea of more Unikitty variants?

    via EW

  • LEGO Batman Movie Minifigure Pack – Gotham Police Department

    LEGO Batman Movie Minifigure Pack – Gotham Police Department

    I ran across something interesting on a visit to the LEGO store today… there’s one of the blister minifigure packs featuring three members of the Gotham Police department. These packs have been around for years in the City/Friends line (and occasionally other LEGO original lines), but are usually more a filler spot on the shelf in LEGO Brand Retail stores and apparently at TRU and Target. Brickset is listing it as a LEGO Exclusive, so for now, you need to hit a store to find them. If they show up on S@H or anywhere else, we’ll get a post together, because there’s a whole lot to love in this $12.99 pack.

    Batman Movie Blister Pack

  • Review: 70907 Killer Croc Tail-Gator

    Review: 70907 Killer Croc Tail-Gator

    You know, I own a truck, and while I’ve certainly used it to haul a number of things, I don’t think I’ve ever felt the need to extend all of the controls for the vehicle out the back of the cab and into the bed. If I needed to do something like that, I’d probably just reconsider my vehicle choices and go for more of a rocket-sled sort of affair. Look, practical doesn’t mean you can’t be stylish.

    Killer Croc is a weird villain in the lexicon of Batman… I’m not sure any other character has gone through more physical and artistic revisions. Originally, he was just a guy with a birth defect that made him look like a crocodile (backstory is that he was a wrestler that wrestled crocs), and more than once over the years, he’s looked like that again. For all of the failings of Suicide Squad (and there were so many), one of the things I think they got right was the look of Killer Croc. I mean, he was basically a prop otherwise, but he looked close to his roots. In more recent years, he’s taken more of a look like a lizard over a crocodile… but I think that’s more the fault of the fact that crocodiles and humans just look really different.

    One of the main reasons I decided to review 70907 Killer Croc Tail-Gator is that I haven’t picked up the other set that’s currently available with a version of Croc. I should, because it has Katana and Captain Boomerang, but it’s always been pushed to the side as I’ve been filling in my goal of having six hundred of the same Batman minifigure. This set is only $69.99 and a slight 460 pieces, continuing the unfortunate trend of a Bigfig costing us a good 100 or so parts off a set. This is the most expensive of the cars in the movie line, with the least number of parts… and it is sadly missing a Bat Kayak. In short, this truck better have some good 4WD, because it’s got a pretty tough hill to climb.

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  • Review: 70902 Catwoman Catcycle Chase

    Review: 70902 Catwoman Catcycle Chase

    There are currently two different Batman sets available that have the words “cycle chase” in the name… one last year and this year’s movie offering, 70902 Catwoman Catcycle Chase. The other set is lacking in Catwoman, but the cycle is suspiciously similar. It’s in the pipeline to get a review once we wrap up the LEGO Batman Movie sets, so eventually I’ll be able to draw a few more comparisons, but it wouldn’t shock me to learn it’s the same designer.

    I wasn’t sure what to make of this set when I decided to review it… I’ve owned every one of the Catwoman sets except the 66 Batcave (though I have purchased the Catwoman figure from that set), but I’d be hard pressed to remember any of them. I remember them usually having those absurdly oversized sport bikes, and Batman in some sort of small vehicle that makes me wonder why he’s not in the Batmobile. This set also seems suspiciously familiar… but looking back to the last Catgirl set, one of the original Super Heroes sets, it doesn’t seem to have much in common. Maybe I’ve just built one too many storefront sets.

    At $19.99 and a very slight 139 pieces, this is barely larger than 70900 The Joker Balloon Escape, but has three minifigures… and most shockingly, no Batman. In fact, Batgirl and Batman never show up in same set… only Barbra Gordon and Batman do. So I’m calling the first spoiler of the movie… Batgirl is not Barbra Gordon, but just Batman in a purple suit.

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  • Review: 70911 The Penguin Arctic Roller

    Review: 70911 The Penguin Arctic Roller

    I’m pretty sure that The Batman Movie sets include seventeen different villain vehicles. Okay, the actual number is… four? Five if you count that pizza delivery cart, but themed vehicles, we get four: Joker’s Lowrider, Riddler’s Riddle Racer, Killer Croc’s Tail-Gator, and our review subject, 70911 The Penguin Arctic Roller. It was one of the last ones we got an official look at, but certainly seemed to be one of the most striking once the reveal was done.

    Of course, after building it, I realized that 70911 was both the set number and the zip code that the set number apparently was sized to represent. Of course, that’s not an actual zip code, unlike the regular Super Heroes sets that are mostly made up of Texas Zip Codes (it makes googling fun when you’re an AFOL that lives in Texas). The bad joke I’m trying to make is that this thing is insanely huge, even by LEGO minifigure scale standards. It lines up against the Batmobile, a set that costs twice as much but was designed to be big and over the top. This one… I’m wondering if it was a design that got out of control because they wanted a certain style for the hubs and wheels.

    Anyway, this $29.99, 306 piece set only includes two minifigures. If they were different varieties of the character in any substantial way, that wouldn’t stick out… but we got Penguin in the Batcave set and Batman in every single set that LEGO has released in the last thirty-four years (or all but two of them… I’ve got a lot of Batman minifigs is what I’m saying). Still, it’s obvious that there’s a very specific style they’re going for on the build, and you have to love the look even if you’re not that into cars. In the US, this looks to be a Target Exclusive set, so you get that or Shop@Home for your purchasing choices.

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