This article is about a list of Lego movies (released and upcoming). For stop motion films made using Lego bricks, see Brickfilm. For the 2014 movie, see The Lego Movie. This is a list of films and TV series made by The Lego Group and/or based on Lego proper. Brickfilms, videos using Lego, have existed since the 1970s. Starting in 2003, Lego officially made their first film partnership to make films based on their toy property. They chose Bionicle as the property and they made a deal with Miramax to make a trilogy of Bionicle films. Over the years, after the trilogy ended, a new trilogy based on Bionicle was planned with Universal Pictures after the Miramax film contract ended and the first film in the new trilogy would be titled Bionicle: The Legend Reborn. But plans broke between Lego and Universal so they cancelled the fifth film in the series. But they continued on with a film titled Lego: The Adventures of Clutch Powers. The film received positive reviews from fans and critics and after the DVD release, a sequel was set to star Clutch as the hero again.
A mini-sequel and a short film based on Clutch Powers were released and plans for a sequel are unknown. In the summer of 2009, Lego made a deal with Warner Bros. to make a film based on their property. It would feature many themes and characters and it would be released as the first Lego film in the theaters. In 2011, Lego released Lego series on TV titled Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu. Later, in 2012, the untitled Lego film was titled "Lego: The Piece of Resistance". Meanwhile, the Ninjago series received fame worldwide and was praised by many fans and critics for its storytelling and plot. The characters on the show had finally developed after the first season and a video game based on the show was released. The show would then be confirmed to exist in the same universe as "Lego Clutch Powers" as in one episode, Clutch Powers would be mentioned by Cole as one of the adventurers who discovered a mystical Snake tooth. He would then turn it into a trophy. This small easter egg would later be used by fans to speculate that the show and the movie take place in the same world.
Later in the year, Ninjago ended its second season still having positive feedback. A new show titled Legends of Chima would air in January 2013. The show was faster and more productive than Ninjago and it received mixed reviews. In the same year, the "Piece of Resistance" film would be renamed "The Lego Movie" by Warner Bros. and it was released in February 2014. The Lego Movie received universal acclaim from Lego fans and critics for its characters, plot, special effects and humor. Many actors from the Lego universe came to reprise their roles in the film. Due to the success of the film, a Ninjago film was announced to be released in 2017, and a "Lego Movie" sequel was announced to be released in 2018. In 2014, Mixels also debuted. In late 2015, Lego Nexo Knights was introduced, replacing Legends of Chima. On February 10, 2017, a spin-off film of The Lego Movie known as The Lego Batman Movie was released in theaters, only this time, the film's story centers around The Lego Movie character and DC Comics superhero, Batman, and his "adopted orphan son" and apprentice sidekick, Robin.
Type “Lego movie trailer” into YouTube and you’ll be presented with an avalanche of teasers for The Lego Movie, as well as individual scenes, foreign language versions and special publicity promos. What you won’t get – surprisingly enough – is a Lego recreation of The Lego Movie trailer, something reserved for the most-loved and most-watched regular teasers that aren’t already made out of bricks. Here are just twelve of our favourites, with particular attention going to community stalwarts Antonio Toscano and Brotherhood Workshop. The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug Best bits: There’s so much great detail, it’s almost impossible to pick. The butterflies, the barrels, the splash of the water, the bricky intertitles, and a little wyrm called Smaug. Captain America: The Winter Soldier Best bits: Cap’s shield in bricks, the Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy-referencing 42s in bricks and imagining what Steve Rogers’ barbershop quartet would look like in bricks.
Best bits: The size of the ruby Pepper Potts is given, and the thought that somewhere out there is a Lego version of Trevor Slattery. Guardians Of The Galaxy Best bits: The haircut on Glenn Close’s beautiful plastic head, as well as that Lego cassette player you definitely, definitely want. Best bits: That GARGANTUAN cigar, the bottle and chair slicing in twain and the delightful R2-D2. Avengers: Age Of Ultron Best bits: It has to be the hulkbuster suit and the broken shield, right? Best bits: The fisherman! Or Amy Adams’ brick smirk! Or the clever work getting the cape to flap! Best bits: Just how old-school that car is. That, and the skeleton zombies. Best bits: Not the raptors, not the poor shark, but... Captain Sparrow visiting the park. Even pirates need holidays.Has to be Gollum. Star Wars: The Force Awakens Best bits: As with the original teaser, when the Millennium Falcon swoops up and down and around, the TIE fighters shoot, and, and, and… why isn’t it December yet?
Best bits: Slo-mo mid-air gun-catching-then-firing, as well as the little bricky oxygen masks that drop down. YouTube is a great place to find some wicked LEGOmation or "brickfilms" with many fans using the colorful little bricks and minifig characters to create tributes to their favorite movies. Here we've drawn up a list of ten great examples of film scenes, trailers and clips recreated in LEGO — although, perhaps controversially, we've deliberately left out any Star Wars-themed efforts as these could easily fill up a top ten list in their own right. So, following up the fantastic LEGO music video roundup we recently brought you, here is the film-themed equivalent, and as always, do let us know what we've missed (politely please, we're people too) in the comments below. 1. LEGO Matrix Trinity Help If you didn't think the awesome special effects from the bullet dodge scene in The Matrix would translate well in the medium of stop motion then you need to see this clip which took a staggering 440 hours (18 days!) to create.
Time well spent, we say. With the special bonus of a surprise happy ending, here Steven Spielberg's classic don't-go-into-the-water horror gets a decidedly blocky makeover. 3. Crocodile Dundee - That's A Knife Very possibly the only funny line in Eighties outback flick Crocodile Dundee is immortalized here in LEGO as Mick whips out his Bowie and flashes it at an unsuspecting would-be mugger. 4. Monty Python and the Holy Grail in LEGO High-kicking knights and dancing skellingtons await you in this professional LEGO-backed clip that reveals Camelot to be a very silly place indeed. 5. The Battle of Wits in LEGO Vizzini and the Dread Pirate Roberts fight it out over iocane-spiked goblets in this great revamp of the classic scene from The Princess Bride. 6. Shaun of the Dead LEGO Trailer If you thought the line "Ooooh, he's got an arm off" from this Brit zombie film could not be more funny (and if so, you're not alone) then wait 'til you see it delivered by a little LEGO man.
7. LEGO Indiana Jones With official Indiana Jones minifigs available, the rugged adventurer was ripe for a brick film — and this is a great one. Stick around for the surprise ending that Harrison Ford fans will surely appreciate. 8. Blade Runner - Tears in Rain (in LEGO) It's amazing to see how the emotion still comes through in this short clip that swaps Rutger Hauer's Batty for an animated lump of plastic. 9. Napoleon Dynamite Bike Jump Scene In Lego Somehow the slightly amateur quality of this LEGOmation (no offense intended to the creator, we sure as heck could not do any better) juxtaposes really well with the slightly amateur Napoleon Dynamite not quite managing that sweet jump. 10. A Little Going Away Present This perfectly captures the fax-bashing scene from geek fave Office Space. Be sure to mute it, or don't press play, if you don't want to hear any swears. Or if you really like fax machines. BONUS: The Simpsons Intro LEGO Style Not technically a film, hence the "bonus" clip status, but this brilliant LEGOmation that emulates the opening sequence of the The Simpsons to near perfection was done by a then 13-year-old.