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’s cup shows him smiling and holding a hammer. The scene shows him falling into another brick dimension. 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 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. 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.
**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 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. Wyldstyle’s cup shows her winking and holding a stick of some sort. The scene shows her rescuing Emmet in the Super Cycle. The final cup is Unikitty. Her portrait shows her changing into Angry Kitty. **Spoilers ahead** The scene shows the Dog Colisseum being attacked by a tennis ball although the movie shows a golf ball flying in. The background shows a few LEGO characters including Cleopatra, Batman, Lizard Man, Forestman, and Benny. Overall, the Action Cups are some decent collectibles. They have some nice artwork and the cups themselves are some good hard plastic. Are they worth $1.99 each?
To me, the cups are worth about $1.50 or less but if you’re a fan of The LEGO Movie, then you’ll probably end up getting them anyways. Again, you do not have to buy the food to get the cups. You may have to go to different McDonald’s restaurants to find all of them since some sell out quickly while others still in boxes and aren’t open yet. Your mileage may vary a lot. I recommend picking them up if you can find them. They do make a nice addition to your LEGO Movie collection. McPlay, the official iOS app of McDonald's Happy Meal, has just been updated with McPlay Power. McPlay Power allows kids to unlock more fun in the McPlay app with every Happy Meal. For its inaugural run, McPlay Power lets your kid unlock one of eight games by scanning the so-called Action Cup in each Happy Meal, which ties in with "The Lego Movie" from Feb. 7 to March 6. In every "The Lego Movie" Happy Meal, there's an Action App featuring one of the main characters of the movie: the "everybrick" Emmet, the rebel heroine Wyldstyle, the brooding dark knight Batman, the weird wizard Vitruvius, the robot pirate MetalBeard, the terrifyingly cute Unikitty, the sometimes-good-cop Bad Cop, and the megalomaniac President Business.
Each Action Cup unlocks a different game. Note that the new games based on "The Lego Movie" may also be accessed by playing Happy Ball in McPlay. The new version of McPlay is available now in the App Store for free. The app is compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad running iOS 5.1 or later. The newly updated app also comes with a new Happy Meal e-book that relates to Lego in that it's all about construction, showcasing how people construct buildings, bridges, and more. The new "Construction" e-book is the latest installment in the Amazing World interactive series from DK Publishing. For more information on the app, check out McDonald’s Tries To Bring The Fun Of A Happy Meal To iOS Devices With McPlay and Shelf Control: McDonald's Introduces Interactive Happy Meal Books To McPlay App.McDonald’s has updated their Happy Meal site and we now know what the coming toys for The LEGO Batman Movie will be. If you remember, I reported last week that there will be Happy Meal toys associated with the movie.
As you can see above, there are three different types of toys that we will be getting. The first one looks like a 3D viewer shaped as Batman and Batgirl’s masks with some scenes. The next one is a puzzle of Batman, Robin, and Batgirl. Below that, I have no idea what that is with Catwoman. It looks like it may be stickers or character stands or maybe bookmarks. Finally, there are four different colored cups of some of the characters in the movie. These are different from the Action Cups that were released with The LEGO Movie. If you were hoping for some actual LEGO with the Happy Meal toys, you’ll be disappointed again. There hasn’t been any actual LEGO sets since 2001 due small parts and they don’t want kids choking on them accidentally. So there you go. We have our first look at the The LEGO Batman Movie Happy Meal “toys.” There’s no release date so far but I did send an email out to confirm the dates. Will you be picking them up? Keep in mind that you do not have to buy the food to get them.
You can buy them individually. Knowing me, I’ll probably pick them up eventually but I won’t be hunting them down. Update: Over on the Spanish ad, the Batman puzzle and Catwoman thing are translated to metal box holders.It looks like LEGO and McDonald’s will be teaming up again this year for some toys for The LEGO Batman Movie. I’ve been sent the above image showing a part of a Happy Meal box which shows there will be some sort of promotion for the movie next month but doesn’t say what it will be. If you remember from 2014, LEGO did a McDonald’s promotion for The LEGO Movie with some Action Cups. Hopefully we get something similar or better for The LEGO Batman Movie. I’m sure fans would want some actual LEGO but that hasn’t happened for a long time. If anyone knows the source of the image, please let me know and I’ll give proper credit. Update: We now have our first look at the toys. Check them out here.LEGO® Minifigures - The LEGO Movie SeriesWarning!