70835 Rex’s Rexplorer! is down 35% to $78.48: Amazon | Walmart
70829 Emmet and Lucy’s Escape Buggy! is down 34% to $32.99: Amazon | Walmart
70823 Emmet’s Thricycle! is down 33% to $9.99: Amazon | Walmart
70820 LEGO Movie Maker is down 34% to $32.99: Amazon | Walmart
70830 Sweet Mayhem’s Systar Starship! is down 29% to $49.99: Amazon | Walmart
70828 Pop-Up Party Bus is down 28% to $57.97: Amazon | Walmart
And although the discount isn’t huge compared to the above, Amazon is applying a 14% discount on 70840 Welcome to Apocalpyseburg bringing the price down to $257.96, down from $299.99. This being a D2C set, it rarely sees a discount.
I never ended up taking my kids to see The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part in theaters so I was waiting for a deal on a digital copy. I figured I’d have to wait until Black Friday or something but I found this awesome deal online. Head on over to Amazon’s page for The LEGO Movie 2. Select the Blu-ray or 4k versions. Prices are $14.99 for Blu-ray and $19.99 for 4k. Add to cart and then proceed to checkout. Apply coupon code “10LEGO” and get $10 off whichever version you selected, making the Blu-ray version just $4.99 and the 4k version $9.99. An incredible deal. If you’re like me and don’t have a 4k player and have a friend that does, you can even split the cost making it super cheap to own. Each version comes with a digital copy too for super convenience. Each version shows “Temporarily out of stock” but as long as its shipped and sold by Amazon, you’re good.
And right now, you can select “no rush shipping” to get $1 credit for select digital items. Win win as they say.
When the LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part sets were announced, there was one set that stood out even to my dark-aged heart as the one to buy: 70841 Benny’s Space Squad. At the time, we had no idea how it was going to fit into the movie, but I think everyone can get on board with a rainbow spectrum of classic space characters in a low price ($9.99 SRP in the US, and frequently marked down on Amazon).
I wasn’t a Classic Space fan as a kid. I had a couple of sets, but my jam as a kid was actual space stuff. I liked Sci-Fi for the stories, but I was obsessed with learning about astronauts, astronomy, and the Space Shuttle. I may have watched Sci-Fi, but the stuff I designed and built were things like the Saturn V rockets or the Voyager probes. Star Trek: The Motion Picture may be an tediously awful film, but I know there’s a picture of me building the V’ger probe using Construx.
Despite that, I’ve come to love and respect the line as a kid, and every time it pops back up I try to buy some of them because I want the line to do well. Sadly, LEGO seems dedicated to killing off that line for whatever reason, and it’s always languished or been priced
If you haven’t seen the movie (and I mean, why haven’t you), the set itself was from a very short bit during the song “Not Evil.” By short, I mean the characters were seen for less than ten seconds and I don’t think we ever saw them again at the forefront. “Never see them again” could really describe most of the main characters in the movie, which I enjoyed, but it was laser focused on a few of the old ensemble and the rest were pushed to the background.
We get four figures… Lenny (Pink), Benny (Blue, obviously), Kenny (Yellow), and Jenny (White). Yes… Lenny is the pink character, and there’s nothing at all wrong with that. I mean, we only know the names because they’re on the back of the box, so call them whatever you’d like. Benny is the only one that’s unique, but unchanged from previous versions, and the rest are color swaps of the classic space design.
Is it asking too much to get the rest of the rainbow made up? I don’t think so…
If you’ve seen the movie, you know that there’s a better version of Benny that I would have loved to see here. It’s also, unfortunately, the only one of the makeover styles that hasn’t shown up in a set as of yet. Or the alt face could have been with hearts for pupils… that would have been fantastic.
Even without that, though, this is a great lineup. It’s similar to the City character packs that you can get which usually come with a mix of profession characters (firemen, divers, mining). They have had 3-4 figures, and come with vehicles that fit as well, and have been great value.
Besides the figures, we get some simple little space-type sets. They feel more like Polybag style stuff than what you’d get in a set like this. All of this stuff, except for the little robot, does appear on screen, but they’re the smallest parts or incomplete. That being said, they’re clearly inspired by Classic Space, or could even be re-imaginings of classic space stuff. If you saw them next to the classic stuff, the only thing that would look off would be the colors.
Look at it and imagine what could have been…
This is a stellar little set that’s simple, but packed with everything a LEGO set should be. I love the mix of colored characters, and while it’s light on parts to make anything, there’s still enough to spark the imagination. It doesn’t matter that the scene in the movie was somewhere around four seconds long… the set stands by itself as a great little purchase. It’s everything we remember about LEGO as kids, except it was modern LEGO that somehow made it. It’s a very solid five out of five, and even if you’re not into space, a worthwhile thing to have just for the fun of it.
You can, and should, buy 70841 Benny’s Space Squad on Amazon.com. As of this writing, there was a small markdown, bringing it under $9.
I was reminded by my daughter last night that I forgot to take the family to go see The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part in theaters. To be honest, I don’t know if that was a lapse in memory or a conscious decision. Movie theater outings are expensive, man! Anyways, Nick reminded me that it was out on digital and when I looked it up, I found out that The LEGO Movie 2 physical release would be tomorrow, May 7th. After some quick googling, I discovered a couple of notable deals for its release. Best Buy, Target, and Walmart each have an exclusive version. Check them out below.
Target has an exclusive boxed copy that includes some actual LEGO. You get Rex Dangervest and …. that thing. The Target edition includes Blu-ray, DVD, and digital copies and will run you $27.99. Unfortunately, online pre-orders are sold out, so your best bet at this point is to walk into a store to get it.
Walmart: Movie with Building Set
Walmart also has their version of The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part. Like Target’s version, this includes some actual LEGO but with Emmet and Emmet’s ‘Piece’ Offering along with Blu-ray, DVD, and digital copies. It’s slightly more expensive at $29.99 than Target’s offering, but this one still has availability online with free shipping.
For a physical release on a variety of media, you’re looking about $10 more than just a straight up digital copy from iTunes, Amazon Prime Video, or whatever digital outlet you choose. That extra $10 you spend gets you a fancy case or some LEGO. Seems like a pretty fair deal then.
Side note: I had a draft of this post since forever and am now finally getting around to it. Yep, ever since Toy Fair.
I updated each of the theme’s posts with some of the videos I took showcasing some of the play features but I thought I’d repost them here in case anyone reading this didn’t go back.
The one video that I couldn’t find a home for was The Rexcelsior, posted above. It shows a little more of the play features that never made it through the press release. More Star Wars stuff below.
75239 Action Battle Hoth Generator Attack
These worked about as well as you think they would.
75236 Duel on Starkiller Base
Something occurred to me as I rewatched this video. Why hasn’t the Star Wars license adopted the BeyBlade-style Spinjitzu toy feature from Ninjago? Seems like it would be fitting.
75937 Triceratops Rampage
I’m pretty sure I made a comment before about the Fairground Mixer being a great set to take out some aggression on. You can just really crank away at it and have the Mixer spin and spin. This kiddie ride, using the gigantic gears, felt just as satisfying in my test run.
75243 Slave I – 20th Anniversary Edition
I didn’t notice until late during the preview party that the Slave I set housed a pair of missile launchers I couldn’t figure out how they launched so I enlisted Erik’s help. I was never a fan of the missile launchers, maybe I’m too old to appreciate their play value, but I do appreciate the ways they can be incorporated without being overly conspicuous.
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.
Buy 10895 Emmet and Lucy’s Visitors from the DUPLO Planet from Amazon | Walmart | LEGO S@H
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.