What are you hoping to see in the next Lego Movie? (SPOILER WARNING)

The_Mad_Vulcan · February 2014

As well as this film has done, I would expect the sequel to get a summer release. May being the earliest point in the big box office season.

lilbirds · February 2014

Quick recap of Finn's dad's childhood (more classic space!), dark ages, return to LEGO, and evolution of Lord Business. Maybe he turns evil because he lost a few online auctions to fake buyers driving up costs/jaded by poor quality clone brands. Skip ahead to 5 years after LEGO movie, Finn is annoying tween and turning from the force. Younger sister brings Wyldstyle back and they do an epic build together with dad for brickcon. Emmet & company have a terrific master builder adventure. Some character gets dropped or left behind and they pass through amazing worlds (hub 14), fight Bionicle/HF MOCs, get a refreshing smoothie at Friends juice bar remix. Finn discovers LDD and mindstorms during a demo, family gets recognition for their build. Everything is awesome again. Warner Bros and TLG, just send me 2 of each set designed for movie. One for now and one for later.

MorkMan · March 2014

I want it to be a prequel. It should be a young Will Farrell and his "need" to use the Kragle explained.

Shib · March 2014

A lot of mixed opinion on the real life element. I was expecting the child's story part, but was not expecting the man upstairs revelation so I thought that double reveal worked quite nice.

I really hope that any future film doesn't try to direct sequel, there are so many more worlds available to them that keeping all the same settings and characters just seems pointless. The only possible direct sequel story I can imagine is from the duplo punch line ending, with the lego world being at war with the duplo world for control of the basement area, but any plot there would be so messy and up relatable it'd tarnish the first movie somewhat

Aanchir · March 2014

Shib said:
A lot of mixed opinion on the real life element. I was expecting the child's story part, but was not expecting the man upstairs revelation so I thought that double reveal worked quite nice.

I really hope that any future film doesn't try to direct sequel, there are so many more worlds available to them that keeping all the same settings and characters just seems pointless. The only possible direct sequel story I can imagine is from the duplo punch line ending, with the lego world being at war with the duplo world for control of the basement area, but any plot there would be so messy and up relatable it'd tarnish the first movie somewhat

A sequel wouldn't have to be about LEGO versus Duplo, any more than Toy Story 2 was all about the new puppy who showed up at the end of the original film. The Duplo arrival at the end is really just an illustration of how Finn's sister joining the play world in the basement will impact the family's storytelling, not a setup for a particularly important conflict. A sequel could take place weeks or years later, so wouldn't have to pick up immediately after.

Shib · March 2014

I appreciate that but I felt everything else in the story tied up apart from that do I think a direct sequel would be weaker than a completely original story.

gmonkey76 · March 2014

As long as they keep the characters minifigure size and have a good story I'll be happy. Don't want to see friends or any of the themes that will go unmentioned.

Aanchir · March 2014

gmonkey76 said:
As long as they keep the characters minifigure size and have a good story I'll be happy. Don't want to see friends or any of the themes that will go unmentioned.

Not sure what you mean by "themes that will go unmentioned"... are you talking about Wildstyle's offhand comment about "too many other worlds to mention"? Because that wasn't meant to suggest those themes were "unmentionable", just that there was a whole lot of worlds out there that Wildstyle didn't have time to talk about.

Of the themes that flashed by in that sequence, two of those, Friends and Fabuland, were referenced elsewhere in the movie (some of the highway signs in Bricksburg mention Heartlake City, and there are Fabuland heads mounted on the wall of the saloon, not to mention the Fabu-Fan character). Speed Racer, arguably the only theme in the list that could be considered an outright flop, does include minifigure characters, and they were even featured in other scenes of the movie. Speed Racer himself is one member of Metalbeard's "Hearty Crew" in the flashback to the previous attempt to storm Octan Tower.

Beyond that, there are already plenty of non-minifigure characters in the movie — Unikitty and a number of denizens of Cloud Cuckoo Land are brick-built, as is Metalbeard. Not to mention the brick-built Duplo newcomers. It's hard to argue that Friends and Fabuland are terribly out-of-scale with minifigures when there are characters in the movie even larger and more alien to the majority of the movie's minifigure characters.

In fact, even BIONICLE and Hero Factory could arguably be incorporated without a huge discrepancy in scale, since both of those themes included minifigures at one point. Not traditional minifigures, of course, but the same could be said of the Skeletrons.

markarm919 · March 2014

I think the Duplo ending leads me to believe that it will be about Finn and his unmentioned little brother or sister fighting over bricks or a playroom. It leaves the writers room to involve any and all themes, even name a new main character. Emmet is generic, intentionally no less, but hardly worth a sequel based on him.

MorkMan · March 2014

I can see the direct to DVD semi-sequel disc called Emmet in Legoland, with mini adventures of him and Wyldstyle spending time in each separate World while hilarity ensues. Think of the entire DVD of Mater shorts (Mater the Greater, Fire Truck Mater, etc.) Disney did with Cars. It's all digital, so there isn't as much overhead. I'd buy a DVD with 10 shorts of Emmet in it.

Shib · March 2014

^ I had thought similar. For a new full movie I hope they go for completely new world and completely new main characters but the existing movie characters could be used for some great shorts.

TheLoneTensor · March 2014

Shib said:
^ I had thought similar. For a new full movie I hope they go for completely new world and completely new main characters but the existing movie characters could be used for some great shorts.

I don't want to see another Lego Movie if it doesn't have Benny.

Shib · March 2014

I'd like to see some shorts about Benny, I think the eccentricity of character would work brilliantly for shorts.

markarm919 · March 2014

Shib said:
I'd like to see some shorts about Benny, I think the eccentricity of character would work brilliantly for shorts.

I agree completely. I feel like his character has the most longevity which would open up so many stories about Lego history.

ytjedi · March 2014

The next movie, I feel, would have to touch on some new real-world LEGO-related topics, like how one of the themes in this one was the free-building vs instructions building and how there's a balance for both, not just only one way or the other.

Maybe in the next movie LEGO could use it as an opportunity to tackle the LEGO for Boys vs LEGO for Girls issue. The live-action back drop is Finn and his sister are a few years older. Finn's sister plays with LEGO too, but is into the Friends line and other girl-marketed LEGO products. Finn keeps them separate from his LEGO collection and stories. In the LEGO world, Emmett and gang end up dealing with this "segregation", where after a crazy journey with many laughs along the way, the Friends and other LEGO minifigs are able to come together, showing that LEGO is for everyone and there doesn't need to be a boy/girl angle to it. The LEGO villain could be an old disgruntled Belville doll that controls the LEGO world via a puppet president that comes from the Paradiso line (but no one suspects anything because he seems like just a regular minifig)

Then I would say go the Toy Story 3-ish route for Part 3 and have it be about Finn coming out of his dark ages. Emmet and the gang are old and nearly forgotten, having been left in the basement or stored in the attic for some time. Their master-building skills are rusty, but they eventually come back stronger than ever.

The main point I'm getting at here is any future LEGO movies will need to be related to topics/discussions/debates that actually go on in the LEGO community and in a FOL's lifecycle if it wants to have the same impact. Otherwise the movie just becomes a slew of empty jokes that leave you thinking "what's the point".

LegoRocco · March 2014

I'm not trying to hit the movie too hard, but I'd like to see something that actually makes sense.

TheLoneTensor · March 2014

I would like the next movie explore more into the afol world, maybe it could be an epic quest to find the elusive 27% discount off exclusives.

Pitfall69 · March 2014

TheLoneTensor said:
I would like the next movie explore more into the afol world, maybe it could be an epic quest to find the elusive 27% discount off exclusives.

This is the joke that keeps on giving :)

Plell · March 2014

"You want 27% off? I can get you 27% off, believe me. There are ways, Emmet. You don't wanna know about it, believe me. Hell, I can get you 27% off by 3 o'clock this afternoon... with a Martian Manhunter. These blocking amateurs."

What are you hoping to see in the next Lego Movie? (SPOILER WARNING)

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