Category: The LEGO Movie (Page 13 of 33)

The LEGO Movie: The Essential Guide Book Review

February 15, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

A few days ago, I’ve received a new Dorling Kingsley LEGO book in the mail courtesy of Penguin Group, The LEGO Movie: The Essential Guide. Before the movie was released, the book gained recognition early by revealing some of the movie sets and minifigures that will be released in a few months. The Essential Guide retails for $12.99 and is written by Hannah Dolan. The book only consists on 64 pages but it is jam-packed with details about the movie.

The book starts off by introducing Bricksburg and some of its citizens. It then goes into detail of some of the main characters that you will see in the movie. Each of these characters gets two pages dedicated to them filled with random facts and tidbids. There are also pages that show some of the locations the characters will be visiting such as the Octan Tower, The Old West, and Cloud Cuckoo Land, just to name a few. The guide also mentions some of the other Master Builder of Bricksburg and their skills like the highly-popular popular Green Lantern and Johnny Thunder. Like I’ve mentioned before, the book also shows details of the three new Movie sets that will be released in the near future, Emmet’s Constructo-Mech (70814), Super Secret Police Dropship (70815), and Benny’s Spaceship, Spaceship, SPACESHIP! (70816). At the end of the book, it goes behind the scenes with Matthew Ashton, Vice President of Design for Playthemes and Intellectual Properties at The LEGO Group and it shows how the designers came up with the … Continue

The LEGO Movie Video Game Achievement/Trophy Guide

February 15, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 10 Comments

I’ve managed to complete The LEGO Movie Video Game on the Playstation 4 and have managed to get all the trophies associated with the game. Here’s an in-depth guide to completing everything the game has to offer including how to get all the Red Bricks to getting all the Golden Instruction pages. There are some things that you can easily do in Story Mode but the majority has to be done in Free Play since you will need specific abilities from various characters to do certain objectives. Hopefully this guide can help you out in your quest to getting the final “The Piece of Resistance” achievement.

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The LEGO Movie “Untitled Self Portrait” by Batman

February 14, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

If you watched The LEGO Movie, you would know that Batman, voiced by Will Arnett, made a song for Wyldstyle. He played it while letting Emmet, Wyldstyle, and Vitruvius check out his new subwoofers. The song is called “Untitled Self Portrait” and it talks about how Batman is an orphan. AngryConfusedRabbit has created a video of the full song including the deep, mesmerizing lyrics. This song is the total opposite of “Everything is Awesome!” with its dark meaning while the other is very cheerful and happy. The song is available on the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.

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The LEGO Movie Video Game Review

February 13, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 1 Comment

The LEGO Movie Video Game was released the same day the actual movie came out. I’ve been playing it for the past week and here’s my take on it. Like many other LEGO video games, it was developed by Traveller’s Tales and retails for $49.99/$59.99 depending on which system you got the game on. This review will be based on the Playstation 4 version. **SPOILER ALERT**

Chracters

There are a totsl of 96 characters that you can unlock throughout the game including a majority of the ones that was seen in the actual movie. While playing through the story mode, you can unlock many of the characters after each stage is completed. Even though you’ve “unlocked” them, you would still need enough studs to purchase them for use although a number of the major characters are given to you for free.

Each character has their own abilities and some are a lot more useful than others. For example, I would mainly use characters that can do multiple things such as Superman who can fly and destroy gold bricks. Another character that I would use a lot is Wonder Woman because she can also fly as well as use her lasso at grapple points.

All characters unlocked on The LEGO Movie Video Game.

Gameplay

Like other LEGO games, The LEGO Movie follows the same forumla with its Story mode and Free Play mode. In the story mode, you are assigned various characters to use and you have to solve puzzles to complete the level. You will find that some puzzles you are not able to complete … Continue

The LEGO Movie Outtakes

February 13, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

IGN has posted some outtakes from The LEGO Movie. The outtakes shows various scenes from the movie characters’ perspective. They aren’t actually outtakes but they’re pretty funny nonetheless. The LEGO Movie looks to dominate the box office again this week after opening with a whopping $69.1 million last week. Check out the video below.

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Could The LEGO Movie Pyjamas Emmet Be Purchased at Best Buy?

February 12, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 11 Comments

If you’ve been trying to get The LEGO Movie Pyjamas Emmet (5002045) minifigure polybag, Best Buy could be your answer. Best Buy was having a promotion of having the minifigure as a bonus for purchasing The LEGO Movie Video Game. According to a user on Reddit, a user purchased them separately without buying the game as seen from the image below. I’m not sure if this is allowed by store policy but it doesn’t hurt to go try and see. If you’ve tried purchasing Pyjamas Emmet this way, let us know in the comments below if it worked or not.

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The LEGO Movie McDonald’s Action Cups Review

February 12, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 1 Comment

The LEGO Movie Action Cups are now available at McDonald’s and I’ve managed to collect all 8 cups. The action part of the cups is the lenticular feature that they have. Each cup features a portrait of a character in the movie with their names as well as a scene that changes. If you haven’t seen the movie yet (what are you waiting for?), the some scenes on the cups may contain spoilers.

Emmet

Emmet’s cup shows him smiling and holding a hammer. The scene shows him falling into another brick dimension.

Batman

Batman switches from normal to angry expressions and holding his Batarang. The scene shows him arriving in his Batmobile to rescue Wyldstyle and Emmet.

Bad Cop/Good Cop

Bad Cop switches to Good Cop and he holds a microphone. The scene shows Bad Cop’s flying police car and the 4×4 SWAT car chasing Wyldstyle. You also see Sheriff-Not-A-Robot.

McDonald's The LEGO Movie Bad/Good Cop Cup

MetalBeard

MetalBeard’s portait doesn’t really show much. It just shows him raising his cannon arm and his other shark-attached arm. His scene shows the Sea Cow being attacked by Super Secret Police Dropships.

Vitruvius

**Spoilers Ahead** Vitruvius’ cup shows his young version as well as his older blinded version. The scene shows him and Emmet looking at a bird imagined by Emmet.

President/Lord Business

President Business’ portrait shows him smiling with his coffee cup while his Lord Business version shows him in his menacing outfit. The scene him riding a mech that I don’t remember seeing in the movie. I could be wrong though.