The LEGO Movie Merchandise

CapnRex101

I love the look of these sets, the Ice Cream Truck in particular looks like a winner!

Aanchir

I think it's brilliant that so many of the sets have a traditional "main model" and a zany, science-fantasy "alternate model". That will probably help them appeal even to more traditional-minded AFOLS who just want an ice cream truck, castle, or plumber van and don't care for the wacky alternate models. On a side note, I love that #70801 has Wyldstyle with her hood up!

EDIT: And set #70813 has a minifigure wearing the Fabuland T-shirt from the trailer!

lordzarak

I'm loving these models. You gotta love the zany little details like the police lights on the gators.

TheOneVeyronian

While I'm only going to pick up a couple of these sets, I for one am glad to see that Emmet is not in every single set (as some might have thought/feared was going to happen in what I call 'Lone Ranger' fashion)

Or... At least Emmet is not the next Lone Ranger! :-P

sweetness34

Or captain jack sparrow

TheOneVeyronian

^ For a single variant or minifig to number of sets in theme ratio, Lone Ranger is the worst offender for this, closely followed by Jack Sparrow Tonto Johnny Depp :-P ;-)

dragonhawk

#70813 Fire Helicopter. I am not a fire engines fan, but when they turn to a mech with hydro gun LEGO can take my money

legodude

The Ice Cream Truck set and the Steam Punk set with the Fabuland T-shirt minifig are the winners!

I like all the civilians being saved from -spoiler- Lord Business' robots that want to glue them and the LEGO world together.

Also anyone laugh at the melting room? A reference to how LEGO bricks are made. :D

kez

I'm really happy with the lego movie sets, some look fantastic and imo all minifigures are wacky yet great and some are a must have for my collection, I cant wait to start buying some of these, and I like the quirkiness of these sets. Perhaps its a more daring path for lego to take but I hope it proves to be a successful one (sadly due to my budget and lack of space I wont be able to purchase all sets) :-D

dannyrww

Couple things that bother me... Vitruvius seems to only be available in the most expensive set...now its a nice set mind you but I was hoping he would be in a mid range set ...also where is Benny the 1980s something space guy...it looks like he is somewhat important to the movie...that being said I like these...might not get them all as I like playsets as opposed to vehicles but they are neat, creative, and wacky

Jonn420

No Batman ? ):

AdeelZubair

I understand that this is the strongest 2014 theme revealed so far, however there is a certain amount someone can spend. So I will be getting #70808 Super Cycle Chase and maybe #70809 Lord Business' Hideout, it looks like these are the two flagship sets in the entire theme.

I also like: #70800 Escape Glider, #70803 Fool Palace, #70805 Waste Crusher, #70807 Metal Beard's Duel and #70812 Western plane however I have plans to buy other 2014 sets these were cool but not cool enough to purchase.

LostInTranslation

^ How can you "understand" this is the strongest theme of 2014? It's not on sale yet!

AdeelZubair

LostInTranslation said:

^ How can you "understand" this is the strongest theme of 2014? It's not on sale yet!

^The designs of The Lego Movie sets are much better than the other 2014 retail sets that images have been released: Hero Factory, Mixels, Disney Princess, Friends, Star Wars, Chima, Super Heroes, Creator, Ninjago.

LostInTranslation

^ In your opinion. So you "believe" or "think" it, not "understand" it. It's not a fact.

Legoboy

Personally I believe it's one of the worst themes for 2014.

I was mildly looking forward to the sets and had 'budgeted' the theme in to my spending next year [for whatever that's worth].

Now that I've seen the majority of what's coming, I can't help thinking that TLG abducted Sam during the night to help with their designwork or perhaps it's the result of him pinching Book 1/2 and Book 2/2 from two different sets.

They just ain't right. Fact.

CCC

They are definitely not for me. I can see that kids will probably like them, but I won't be buying. Unless they are 50% off for parts packs.

One thing that strikes me, they are nearly all very similar in size. The pricing point model seems to have gone for this range. I guess the (non-)CMF series cater for the pocket money sales, so there doesn't really seem to be a £12 point in this series.

cheshirecat

^ both #70800 and #70801 are given as 13.50 Euro from the prices at the start of this thread. If you look at say #79106 that has a RRP of 14.99 Euro and £11.99 in the UK. So I think they are both £12 or even less sets (and seemingly pretty good value by comparison).

TheOneVeyronian

Adzbadboy said:

LostInTranslation said:

^ How can you "understand" this is the strongest theme of 2014? It's not on sale yet!

^The designs of The Lego Movie sets are much better than the other 2014 retail sets that images have been released: Hero Factory, Mixels, Disney Princess, Friends, Star Wars, Chima, Super Heroes, Creator, Ninjago.

Also, may I add that it is probably not best to compare the final set images from The Lego Movie to images of sets in most of the themes you list? As far as I can tell, we've only seen one or two final set images for most of these themes (and for some themes, like HF, we've seen no final set images at all), and comparing the final set images of one 2014 theme to prelims of another 2014 theme is, at best, probably misleading.

Well that's my opinion anyway. There's a few nice sets, like #70809, but this theme on the whole isn't doing very much for me. I like and even applaud the way Lego have gone all-out and crazy on these sets though, I just don't really want most of them.

CCC

cheshirecat said:

^ both #70800 and #70801 are given as 13.50 Euro from the prices at the start of this thread. If you look at say #79106 that has a RRP of 14.99 Euro and £11.99 in the UK. So I think they are both £12 or even less sets (and seemingly pretty good value by comparison).

Thanks, I had missed that. Looking again, I guess they are about the same size as the Cavalry Builder LR set. In fact, that gave 4 minifigs, horse, cannon and parts. So the non-licensed vs licensed doesn't appear to have a huge difference here. Unless Lego Movie is a licensed line (from another part of the company). The glider seemed bigger somehow when I first looked at it. The KEEP and OUT tiles look good for a run down part of town to go with the existing planks, but I bet they are stickers.

cheshirecat

Legoboy said:

Now that I've seen the majority of what's coming, I can't help thinking that TLG abducted Sam during the night to help with their designwork...They just ain't right. Fact.

I think that's excatly the point - a few people have mentioned transformers and I think thats probably the wrong take on these sets - more likely Emmet (sp?) is making planes/mech's etc out of standard LEGO sets/vehicles/buildings to fight the bad guys but because he's not very good they don't turn out too great. Perhaps as the film goes on he gets better at it (the fire engine one for example looks pretty good to me) so its not that a fire engine turns into a robot rather that a fire engine is mashed up into something new by a largely incompetent lead character. Queue the hilarity.

Of course whether those ideas transform well into sets people want to build (I rarely look around MOCpages for incompetent builders to copy) is a very valid question. #70804, #70805, #70806 and #70811 are almost certainly ones I'll pass on even at 50% off, #70812 I'll definitely try to pick up (although as always will try for a decent discount).

cheshirecat

CCC said:

Thanks, I had missed that. Looking again, I guess they are about the same size as the Cavalry Builder LR set. In fact, that gave 4 minifigs, horse, cannon and parts. So the non-licensed vs licensed doesn't appear to have a huge difference here. Unless Lego Movie is a licensed line (from another part of the company). The glider seemed bigger somehow when I first looked at it. The KEEP and OUT tiles look good for a run down part of town to go with the existing planks, but I bet they are stickers.

Yes - I was thinking of a direct comparison with the cavalry builder. One more minifg and the cannon, but to me it looks like there are lots more pieces in #70800. A decent set if it has an RRP <£12.

Diggydoes

Maybe the Sets come with alternate Instructions so you can built the Mech/Mashed up Vehicle and the "Original"Vehicle it´s built from(Dump-Truck for example)? At the first look they seemed kinda crazy and built by a kid or some, but after a second look i kinda like them, at least they don´t look like mash-up´s from different themes all in one vehicle like the Time cruisers theme!

coolpix

^ That was actually the first thing I thought when seeing those vehicles... They will make a lot of sense if there are instructions to build both versions of them. It's like Creator meets a themed set or something, and it will add a lot of value to these!

Aanchir

coolpix said:

^ That was actually the first thing I thought when seeing those vehicles... They will make a lot of sense if there are instructions to build both versions of them. It's like Creator meets a themed set or something, and it will add a lot of value to these!

Some placeholder box art surfaced a while back that lacked any actual images of the sets but did feature a big callout reading "2 in 1" on several of the sets. So I think that's exactly what's going to happen.

I think this is a very cool concept. Even back in the day when alternate models were the norm, it was rare for a set's alternate model to be so thematically different from its main model. If it was a historical set, it'd have historical alternate models. If it was a science-fiction set, it'd have science-fiction alternate models. If it was a modern-day Town set, it'd have modern-day Town alternate models. I know there were exceptions, but this was the norm.

These sets mix this up greatly by really genuinely exploring how parts from one theme can be used to make something far wilder and less constrained to a single theme. And really, that's what creative LEGO building is all about: using the same parts for radically-different models.

Bumblepants

I am just pleased to see such an emphasis given to imagination and creativity in these sets. Too often these days the set on the box is perceived as the only possible outcome. Hopefully between the film and these sets a lot of young kids will get their creative juices flowing.

cheshirecat

Ooh I didn't know about the 2in1 box art. That would be brilliant if it's the case.

rancorbait

I don't know about anyone else but I just can't help but think that #70802 looks like a Lego Movie version of #8632. I mean look at it, two gators, (both sets have either lights or antennas on them) a vehicle, an 8x8 structure, (which appears to also be in a swampy setting, just like #8632 ) and it only has two Minifigures, so definitely some similarities there. That's my thoughts on that set :-)

tmgm528

rancorbait said:

I don't know about anyone else but I just can't help but think that #70802 looks like a Lego Movie version of #8632. I mean look at it, two gators, (both sets have either lights or antennas on them) a vehicle, an 8x8 structure, (which appears to also be in a swampy setting, just like #8632 ) and it only has two Minifigures, so definitely some similarities there. That's my thoughts on that set :-)

I had been thinking the same thing!

LostInTranslation

Me too!

plasmodium

I sure hope that these sets also have the capability to 'transform'/be rebuilt into the 'original' model (ie, a proper fire engine/castle/whatever). I think that would be brilliant. 'Alternate models' are one thing I think have been really missing from Lego sets recently.

Jonn420

My theory is Emmet convinces the town to fight back and they all change their everyday vehicles into fighting machines.

Looks as if thise black droids are kidnapping citicens.

BuriedinBricks

I love most of the images I have seen so far. There are some very creative designs in here. Some great parts are as well. Granted, that's my main point of interest right now. I wouldn't mind building a few of these, but all I can think of is clearance sales that allow me to harvest them for parts.

caperberry

Jonn420 said:

My theory is Emmet convinces the town to fight back and they all change their everyday vehicles into fighting machines.

That ties in with the Rebrick video competition earlier this year.

dannyrww

Lego confirmed on facebook that they will have two building instructions https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151800778983403.1073741852.6665038402&type=1 you have to read the replies though

CircleK

Pictures of alt builds posted to Lego's facebook - they are awesome!

turtle1173

I was looking forward to the castle set until I saw the movie version picture. Now that there's an alternative build, I like it again. Anyone finding all the alternate pics? I only see 3.

Aanchir

The box pics and alternate pics are all on the LEGO Movie page on LEGO.com. Some sets don't have alternate builds it seems, or at least the boxes don't advertise them.

The product descriptions are there too. Some of the figs have cute puns for names, while others have enticing monikers like "Blacktron Fan" and "Fabu-Fan".

bluemodern

I am not sure if everyone has seen this already or not but the alternate version of the plumber's truck looks very good: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tormentalous/11053459354/

binaryeye

I do like the plumber's truck and ice cream truck, but I'm surprised by the piece counts. I expected those two, along with the garbage truck, to be similar to City "great vehicle" sets at a $20 price point. It seems these will be in the $30 or $40 range, which is a bit disappointing.

margot

The Lego Movie video game is for presale at TRU. (US) I'm not running out to buy it but was interested that there is even a game, my son will love it.

sidersdd

margot said:

The Lego Movie video game is for presale at TRU. (US) I'm not running out to buy it but was interested that there is even a game, my son will love it.

The trailer for the game is available on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6ArFXI6nI0

graphite

LEGO really should release a game that is like Portal and LDD combined. Where instead of holding a button to build a pre-designed item, like in the current games, you can actually use a character to free build to solve problems.

madforLEGO

Ohhhh LEGO, just shut up and take my money.
A LEGO on top of it all.. Ugh I'm trying to save money here, especially after all of the LEGO sales this holiday season.

pumbaugh

Hey guys, Just saw The LEGO Movie CMF's at my local TRU! Shoulda taken a picture of the empty box, but fyi....they are out there!

rancorbait

Looks like those new Star wars blasters made their way into the Lego Movie sets. http://www.flickr.com/photos/hothbricks/11416212524/

There is a bunch of pictures on Hoth Bricks' Flickr gallery. http://www.flickr.com/photos/hothbricks/

ACWWGal2011

pumbaugh said:

Hey guys, Just saw The LEGO Movie CMF's at my local TRU! Shoulda taken a picture of the empty box, but fyi....they are out there!

they also had a video on the brick show on utube that an empty end cap box has been spotted at a target store.

beasty23

McDonalds in UK with support the movie with Happy meals around end of February. So we might get soem pylobags.

khmellymel

^ That would be SO good!

rancorbait

Burgers in the UK come in polybags? :-P