Get everything Korn related here Lego, the only thing more Danish than Carlsberg and Lars Ulrich, have been making plastic blocks for infant brickies since 1949. Since then, they've added pretty much anything you can wear, play with or carry to their huge range. Two years ago, the took the world by surprise by releasing one of the greatest films of all time: The Lego Movie. It featured the voices of Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks and Will Arnett and it appears the whole world thought it was brilliant; it earned serious awards and grossed $469 million too. One thing stood out among the whip-smart writing and flawless animation: the theme song EVERYTHING IS AWESOME!!!, which was performed by Tegan and Sara featuring The Lonely Island. It was nominated for an Academy Award and has spawned many irrirating covers. This week, Norwegian musican Leo Moracchioli filmed his very own version of the song and gave it the metal treatment – and it's amazing. He's even got himself an 'Emmet' costume, which costs about £120 on eBay, so you know he's serious about the details.
Check out the video below and tell us which film theme should he cover next...On the hunt for a last-minute Halloween costume? We’ve gathered the best construction-themed costumes inspired by popular movies and TV shows. So grab your hard hat — because builders and architects in pop culture don't dress too different from you, anyway — and get ready for the spookiest night of the year. If you work in an office, odds are you can relate to at least part of Gibbons' plight in "Office Space." After hating his job, being hypnotized, smashing a computer and eventually quitting, he takes up his neighbor’s offer to work for a construction crew. In that job, he’s finally happy. The movie offers easy costume options, requiring only a hard hat and safety vest. When your friends ask why you aren’t more dressed up for Halloween, you can tell them, "It’s not that I’m lazy, it’s that I just don’t care." Do you own a collared shirt and tie? Well grab a hammer and mousse your hair, because you’re ready to be Tim "The Toolman" Taylor.
Bonus points for carrying a fake fence and talking to your friends like they’re Wilson. The lead character of the CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother" is more than just a lonely, single man searching for love in New York. He’s also an architect — and then, when that doesn’t work out, an architecture professor. To dress as Ted Mosby: Architect, you’ll need to muss up your hair, wear a collared shirt and look like an awards jury just rejected your design. Bonus points for adding red cowboy boots and a yellow umbrella to the look. Perhaps no movie celebrates the love of building more than "The Lego Movie." The main character, Emmet, uses his creativity and construction knowledge to save his friends and — if that wasn't enough — the world. To become a master builder like Emmet, you’ll need an orange vest and pants, a red hard hat and perfectly combed hair. Nothing is stopping you from singing the movie's incredibly catchy anthem, "Everything is Awesome," all night, either.
It would’ve been too easy for us to include the construction worker from the 1970s disco band the Village People on our list. Instead, we give you Wayne Campbell in "Wayne’s World 2," the entertaining-yet-inferior (in our opinion) sequel to the 1992 original. All this costume requires is a black T-shirt, jeans, a hard hat and a fake mustache — or a real one, if you’ve got it. Or should we say Art Vandelay? From the hit "show about nothing" comes the ever-clumsy George Costanza, who often pretends to be an architect in order to impress the women he’d like to date. Grab a sport coat and slacks and make sure people know: "Nothing is higher than architect." The AEC profession continues to struggle with gender equity, but Elyse Keaton was making strides in the 1980s as a lead character on the NBC sitcom "Family Ties." Grounded in the cultural liberalism of the '60s and '70s, Keaton worked as an architect in a male-dominated professional environment where she contended with '80s conservatism.
Key prop: a working knowledge of second-wave feminism. We should have guessed. There was, indeed, $250,000 in cash lining the walls of Bluth’s Original Frozen Banana Stand — before George Michael Bluth and his father, Michael, both heirs to the family’s fraught real estate development firm, burned it down. Dress as one of the younger Bluths in a button-down shirt and khakis or as the family’s criminal patriarch, George Bluth Sr., in an orange jumpsuit. Ariadne — "Inception" (2010) The early phase of a project’s design — before stakeholder feedback and value engineering determine the final form — can present a fictional reality. That’s far from the plot of the blockbuster "Inception" but near enough to get into the mindset of Ariadne, a young architecture student called on to create false worlds in the aid of a brain-hacking scheme. Keep your own grip on reality, and stay in character, with a hollowed-out chess bishop in-hand. 10. Douglas Quaid — "Total Recall" (1990, 2012)
Dreams of a Mars vacation are part of today’s reality, but when "Total Recall" debuted in 1990, they were still the stuff of Cyberpunk fiction. Step into the shoes of 2080s construction worker Douglas Quaid, unsatisfied with his day job and distracted by the idea of visiting the Red Planet. Turns out he’s been there before. Choose between the Arnold Schwarzenegger original or Colin Farrell, who played the lead role in the 2012 remake.Who or what are you planning to be this Halloween? A stealthy ninja, a Star Wars Jedi knight, or a creepy zombie in... Before you read on let me give the obligatory SPOILER warning. The thing is though, I often question why bloggers like me offer SPOILER warnings on stories like this because if you’ve landed here because you want to know the major plot hole, surely you’ve seen the movie and you know how it ends. If no, stop reading, go and see the movie and then come back here and read. I’ll wait for you. Everything is NOT awesome. Well, not in the Lego Movie, that’s for sure.
I loved the movie, I really did. I loved it despite this problem I had with the movie; The Only Problem With The Lego Movie. And whilst I have only watched it twice, I have listened to the movie a thousand times because my kids have had it on high rotation on the DVD player in my car. I thought the movie was well written. The story line was great. And when it turned out that the movie was simply all in the imagination of a boy, well that was just the best twist because as someone who played out a million scenarios with my own Lego when I was young, I could relate. I used to have my Lego guys explore “the real world” and interact with other toys and inanimate objects and the major “plot” of my storyline might have been their interaction with these things. If I was the boy in the movie you’d see me playing with the 1980-Something Space Guy or to be more accurate, the Blue Classic Spaceman as it’s known on Brickipedia.”I here you ask. You don’t need to use that language here.
No, let THEM explain; Welcome to Brickipedia, a free online LEGO encyclopedia written collaboratively by its readers known as Brickipedians. The site is a Wiki, meaning that anyone, including you, can edit almost any article right now by clicking on the Edit link that appears at the top of a page. With 27,630 pages and 342 active users, we are Wikia’s largest LEGO wiki, founded on January 29, 2006. This wiki is based on the MediaWiki software used to run Wikipedia, and with the help of editors like yourself, we strive to be the best LEGO reference site out there. That’s from the home page of Brickipedia. Although “Wikis” especially Wikipedia cop a lot of flack for being an unreliable source based on the fact that anyone CAN add their own information and the information doesn’t have to be true, it can be a great starting point for further investigation into a subject. When it IS fleshed out with correct information with citations by way of links to verified sources, Wikis can be websites you can have some faith in.
And it’s what I read about certain minifigures that are now on sale based on The Lego Movie that I discovered this plot hole. It started with Wyldstyle. At the bottom of each Lego minifigure’s page on Brickipedia it gives some information about them. The sets they appear in, the similar features or bit they have to other Lego minifigures. Or – and this is where the penny dropped for me – the exclusive parts that they have. For Wyldstyle it mentions this about her; “Her appearance is similar to the Skater Girl‘s.” So naturally I was interested in just how close to Skater Girl this minifigure of Wyldstyle is. The answer to that is “close, but no cigar.” Oh sure you could pretend Skater Girl is Wyldstyle, but she’s not. She doesn’t have the blue streak in her hair. She doesn’t have the black gloves (which one could take from another minifigure, so that’s not such a problem). And she doesn’t have that crazy design on her (what looks to be) one piece hooded jump suit.
So I kept digging. Emmet Brockowski is the main character or protagonist if you will in this movie. When he’s not wearing his pyjamas or standing naked in the shower (or even walking out his front door in the nude) he is dressed in his construction worker uniform. The construction worker minifigures have been available since 2005, but not with a construction hat that has hair attached to it as Emmet’s has. Before he gets into his uniform, Emmet tries on many outfits as you can see in this official clip posted by Warner Bros. UK. Those outfits that he tries on are all from the Lego theme; Minifigures (also known as Collectable Minifigures). Let me just explain that. Lego “themes” are a way of classifying groups of Lego sets by the subject matter. Space, Castle, Pirates, Western (Cowboys and Indians), Town (more commonly known as City today), and the licensed sets including DC Comic, Marvel Comics, Harry Potter, Star Wars, Lone Ranger, TMNT, and (my personal favourite) The Simpsons.
The Collectable Minifigures were released in 2010 with there being 12 series of sets, each with 16 characters per set being released. The Series 6 set is where you’ll find the character known as Sleepyhead who is wearing pyjamas and has bed hair. This minifigure’s pyjamas and hair are used by Emmet in the movie but it’s not Sleepyhead that you see in Emmet’s apartment as the minifigure himself (Sleepyhead that is) appears in a scene that Emmet appears in later in the film. Series 6 is also the same series that Skater Girl was part of. For Finn (that’s the name of the boy in “the real world” scenes in the movie) to be playing with Emmet as Emmet appears, and for Wildstyle for that matter, the outfits that they are wearing must have been available before the movie takes place. These outfits were created as part of the merchandising of the movie and therefore can’t exist before the movie takes place. Further, whilst many of the “extras” in the movie are minifigures that have been available for years, some of the extras in the movie were released after the movie as part of a Lego Movie sub-themed Collectable Minifigures theme including Larry the Barista, Abraham Lincoln and William Shakespeare, Gail the Construction Worker, the aforementioned Emmet with his hard-hat complete with hair
, and the only minifigure that I have actually purchased for my kids, the Taco Tuesday Man with his poncho and plate of tacos. Now for me, the “pièce de résistance” in this discovery has to be our main protagonist’s antagonist; Lord Business and his alter ego, President Business (or is that the other way around?) In Lord Business’ profile (also that of President Business) on Brickipedia is mentions that; So because these characters weren’t available before the movie was released, Finn could not have been playing with them to “make” this movie. Finn couldn’t have made many of these characters as well because some of their parts including President Business’ hair did not exist until the film’s merchandise sets were released. Once this movie brought the characters into the “real world” it puts the movie into a grey area inline with the whole concept of the “suspension of disbelief” where we are expected to assume that Finn has all these characters and parts at his disposal even if the parts and characters can’t exist in his “universe” until the movie is played out and then Lego creates them to support the movie’s merchandise interests.
I could go one step further and state that having Will Ferrell play “the Man Upstairs” means that in the universe that Finn and his dad and their Lego sets exist in, Will Ferrell and his movies can’t exist, but then we’re just heading down the road of The Tommy Westphall Universe Hypothesis. “But your just over-thinking it…” I know you’re going to write in the comments section below. And it’s you’re, not your. If YOU’RE going to come here and start pulling this apart, please get YOUR spelling right. No I’m not over-thinking it. The concept of the Master Builder exists in the real world as is evident in Lego’s own Master Builder Academy series. And whilst Master Builders in real life or in the movie are those who can take a look at existing pieces and turn them into something great, that’s just the thing; they need to have existing pieces at their disposal, NOT new pieces that suddenly appear to make a new character or an item. Now we’re just heading down the path of “deus ex machina.”
There are many other characters from this move that have exclusive body parts, facial designs, and accessories that didn’t exist before the movie and therefore should not have been used in the movie. The movie technically should have only used parts and characters that were released before the movie was filmed. Emmet could have been played by any of those construction workers that have been available since 2005. Skater Girl could have been the side-kick/”other protagonist” and Lord Business could have been played by this guy; Oh sure, they had to make some exclusive sets otherwise who would have bought the Lego Movie themed sets? Umm, me for one. My kids not having been born back in 2005 when the first construction worker was released and therefore they haven’t got that set. If they had of just used existing characters from their wide range of minifigures released before the movie was filmed, that would have made the “real world” seem more like, the real world.