Everything is awesome, but tracking down the Red Bricks in The LEGO Movie Videogame can make your game so much more so. Each of the 20 bricks that can be found across the 4 hub areas can make building faster, hacking quicker... and they can also net you an unbelievable amount of studs in no time flat. If you want to purchase everything in the game you'll want these bricks under your belt, and we'll tell you where to find them all!Looking for more assistance with The LEGO Movie Videogame? Then make sure you check out our Gold Manual Pages guide, Bonus Room Gold Brick locations guide and Pants location guide. When first hearing about “The Lego Movie,” the reviewer thought it might be like YouTube’s hilarious “Death Star Canteen,“ a stop-action LEGO video wherein Darth Vadar eats lunch in the Death Star cafeteria. He orders “Penne a lá Arrabiata” and then gets into an argument with the server, who thinks he’s talking to “Jeff Vadar.” Server (British accent): You’ll need a tray.
Darth Vadar: I do not need a tray. I could kill you with a thought; I could kill this whole place. Server: You’ll need a tray. The food is hot. Darth Vadar: Oh I see! The food is hot! That would have been an awesome, adult-level, slightly Python-ish, LEGO movie. The official LEGO movie is for the five-to-ten year-old set. And for this adult, it was the equivalent of sticking one’s head in a large box of LEGO pieces and having an enthusiastic child whack the box with a hockey stick for two hours. So, once upon a time, there was a LEGO world. And in this everyday LEGO-world, there lived a small LEGO-everyman named Emmet (voiced by Chris Pratt). Emmet follows instructions, drinks ridiculously high-priced LEGO-coffee, listens to the LEGO-radio play “Everything is Awesome,” and watches LEGO-TV shows like, “Where are My Pants?” One fine LEGO-day, Emmet finds “The Piece of Resistance.” Well, it’s the cap to the “Kragl.” And “The Kragl” is, in actuality, a tube of Krazy Glue with a couple of letters missing.
“The Kragl” is Lord Business’ weapon! Hmm… some LEGO-playing kid’s dad, maybe? (it’s definitely Will Ferrell’s voice). Because it’s the ultimate controller! Now, in that aforementioned human dimension, see, there’s this boy who likes to play with dad’s gargantuan Lego set when dad’s at work (will the real Emmet please stand up?) This boy would like to do away with dad’s Krazy Glue (and dad doesn’t want his meddling son anywhere near his arrested-development hobby) because with it, dad AKA Lord Business can block the tinkering of small hands. Dad’s Kragl is the death of son fun! Okay, so that’s a taste of the behind-the-scenes, human-dimension stuff. Meanwhile, back in the Lego-reality, Vitruvius (Morgan Freeman) is a Lego-wiseman. Wyldstyle (Elizabeth Banks) is a sort of a rebellious Lego-ninja girl. They have painted-on faces. They inform Emmet he’s “The Chosen.” He’s a “Master Builder.” What’s a Master Builder do?
Generate and build stuff! Thus freeing the universe from the inhibition of The Kragl!It’s actually quite religious and profound. It’s even somewhat fundamentalist. Perhaps orthodox is a better word. You see, Lord Business is a kind of guru, who decrees “The Dharma,” if you will. He decrees the law. It’s a bunch of “instructions” that keep his minions and creations pristinely separated into their various universes. No mixing of anything whatsoever! Speaking of mixing, an especially clever ontological construct is having all the various LEGO game-sets represent various dimensions of the universe, which allows all the well-known LEGO characters to be trotted out, such as Batman, Han Solo, and Shaquille O’Neal. Guess who voices Shaquille O’Neal? It’s not allowed to mix universes! So, in the end, the badness of Lord Business might not really be bad. Order in the cosmos is good! But what five year-old mind can understand that? Kids don’t want toy rules.
They want to dump all that bounty of LEGO on the rug, put Shaq’s head on Han Solo’s body, and stick mermaids in the Bat-mobile. They even want to mix in foreign, found items, like band-aids and golf balls, pronounced, hilariously, “Banda-eed,” and “Orb of Teeta-leest” (Titleist) respectively. Gotta love those imaginations. It’s all CGI of course. According to the press notes, a stop-motion approach would have taken approximately 15,080,330 LEGO bricks. It’s garishly colorful and highly, highly animated. It will give you a headache. It will inspire your kids. You will buy them tons of LEGOs. The LEGO company will loot a tremendous amount more cash than it probably poured into this movie. Your kids will play LEGO loudly. And that will give you a headache. In the end, you will reach for a fresh tube of Kragl… ‘The LEGO Movie’Directors: Phil Lord, Christopher MillerStarring: Will Ferrell, Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Liam Neeson, Morgan FreemanRunning time: 1 hr., 41minutesRelease Date: Feb. 7Rated PG-13
3 stars out of 5The Lego Batman Movie (2017) Will Arnett, Zach Galifianakis, Michael Cera, Rosario Dawson, Ralph Fiennes At the start of the credits a Lego Batman music-style video is played in which the characters sing along with some scenes from the film. There is no stinger after the credits of The Lego Batman Movie. Special thanks to Russ N Jake for the stinger submission! Stinger information added and verified by The Great Wall (2017) 1 week ago | The Lego Batman Movie (2017) 2 weeks ago | Fifty Shades Darker (2017) 3 weeks ago |Note: As the video game follows the same storyline as the film, there may be slight movie spoilers in this review.There has to be a point where we get a bit sick of these Lego games. It seems that every time a major film franchise is announced that a Lego game follows, but they continue to sell well and so it continues. However, this latest game is a bit different. Instead of being based on a famous franchise, it is based on the Lego Universe itself, and that is a major reason why this is the best Lego game that TTGames has ever developed.
Who would have thought that actually focusing on Lego being Lego would make for such a successful game? In many ways, you have to wonder why it has taken so long for this to happen, but the result has made the wait worth it.The Lego Movie Video Game follows the same plot line as the movie. Emmet--a construction worker trying to move up in the world, win friends, and have fun--becomes the unlikely protagonist in a superhero story of trying to save the Lego Universe from complete destruction at the hands of President Business.In previous times, the various universes of Lego could mix together and come up with interesting creations, but Business has put a stop to this, meaning that the Lego Universes must exist in their own world's. Emmet discovers the magical piece de resistance that can bring an end to this, and it is up to you as the player to do so.Where the Lego Movie Game differs from its predecessors is the tightness of its levels and gameplay. With the previous Lego games, we always found ourselves having to force ourselves to the end of most levels with most of them dragging on for far too long.
The Lego Movie changes this and, just when you think a level is dragging on, it finishes and, quite often, the gameplay changes to something different.That's not to say the traditional gameplay styles we have seen in the past with the Lego games is gone; they are there, but it's a lot more logical to figure out the puzzles. Whereas in the past you had to sometimes be a super fan of the franchises on offer to figure out some of the puzzles, in this game you just need to think like you are building Lego toys, and it makes the game much more enjoyable to play. The most we got stuck on a puzzle was around five minutes, which leads to a game that flows well.There have also been some additions to the game that mix up the monotonous nature of some of the previous games nicely. First of all, between missions, you actually get to help build Lego toys. A Lego structure displays on the screen and you need to select the missing piece. The quicker you do this, the more currency you gain, and it's a nice distraction for the between mission loading times.
There is also now the concept of master builders in the game. If you try to build certain structures with Emmet, for example, he won't be able to build them, and so you need to find a master builder character. Along with this, there are Lego instruction manuals. To build some of the larger structures, you need to find the instruction manuals that are required. It's a small touch, but it really builds into the fact that you are exploring the entire Lego universe rather than a movie franchise. And finally, there are some special builds that require you to find special blocks that flash within the level. All interesting differences when compared to the past titles.Aside from this, the gameplay remains the same as the previous titles: you have to bash Lego bricks to find more, build structures to assist other characters, and use each character's special ability. However, we found it quite easy to figure out what ability needed to be used when, and this has not always been in the case with the Lego games.
This just shows how much the gameplay has been tightened up for this release. The game is noticeably shorter than other Lego titles, but we didn't find issue with this as the game flowed so well. Any longer and it would have seemed like it was dragging for the sake of it.GO TO TOP OF THE NEXT COLUMN ^One of the key factors as to why this is a better Lego game than most is its variety. Throughout the game, you will visit four Lego universes and see many more in cut scenes. This is where the game really shines. Just as you are becoming bored with the city gameplay, it will throw you through to the western universe of Flatbush Gulch, which features different challenges and characters. It really is one of the best-paced games in the franchise's history, and the fact that the game follows along the same lines of the movie really has helped. This has forced TTGames to be tight with the story, and it has paid off in spades.When it comes to comparisons to the movie itself, it remains very close to the cinematic release, and this is both a positive and a negative.
It's positive because the movie is actually incredibly funny, but negative because you really have to see the movie before playing it (and therefore know exactly what is going to happen). It also doesn't explore the Lego universe beyond what the movie offers. There is over twenty minutes of scenes from the movie included, and these form some of the more memorable moments from the film. Some of the traditional humour we have seen from the TTGames writers is not as present due to this, but it still remains a very funny game. We laughed many times before the credits rolled.Visually, the game is impressive, although we did expect a little bit more of an improvement on the PS4 version when compared to the last generation consoles. No frame rate hiccups were found, and the world of Lego has been built extremely well. There do seem to be slight frame rate issues when the movie cut scenes are playing, but, other than that, it plays fine.On the sound side of things, the voice acting is done well and their movie counterparts, including Morgan Freeman, voice most characters.