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.The Lego Movie skips 8 1/2 years into the future because the kid controlling everything is 8 1/2 years old. FanTheories)submitted by The Lego movie starts with Vitruvius telling president business that a hero will one day emerge to stop him and his use of the kraggle, and president Business says that's just a bunch of hippy dippy baloney. The film then cuts to 8 1/2 years later. I thought this was an oddly specific number to throw out, until I realized that's about how old the kid in the live action parts looked.
I think the opening scene took place before Will Ferrell had a kid and the time skip was when his kid started messing with his Lego sets, since everything seems like it was relatively normal until he started throwing Wildstyle into the mix, gave Emmet his own story, and brought a bunch of random other characters into it as well. I feel stupid that it took me several re-watches to make this connection. π Rendered by PID 44667 on app-782 at 2017-03-02 22:26:25.426527+00:00 running b13bedd country code: SG.Want to finish watching this later? Sign in or Create a profile and we'll remember where you stopped. Don't show me this message again.Nothing is more invigorating than getting extremely angry at someone on the internet, which is why we purposely created “Kara Goldberg,” a fake author who dislikes everything you love. Can you feel your blood boiling? We don’t like it either.My name is Kara Goldberg and I hated The Lego Movie. Shockingly, everyone loved it, but it’s a bad movie and people are stupid for liking it.
Point-by-point, I am going to tell you why. Point: It Wanted Me To Like It From that Nyan Cat rip-off character to the quirky Abraham Lincoln references, this movie was DESPERATE for me to like it. It’s sugary, it’s twee, it’s overly-optimistic. And it looooves being that way. “But Kara, why are you being such a grouch about the movie being so nice?” Because I don’t buy it. Warner Brothers didn’t make The Lego Movie to inspire kindness and joy in others. It made The Lego Movie to make money. If you truly believe Warner Brothers cares about anything other than the bottom line, you’re as dumb as this scene. Here’s my impression of the executive who made The Lego Movie:“Hmm… what will make people like this movie? I know, put Batman in it. People think that liking Batman is so special and nerdy. Let’s add cameos by The Green Lantern and other comic book characters so the trolls will give us a good review on SpoiledTomatoes Dot Com!!!!” I mean, just look at the cast: the producers all sat around at a table and thought, “Hm… which celebrities is everyone obsessed with?
You know, the ones everyone is making single-serving Tumblrs of on the internet?” I mean for chrissakes they put Morgan Freeman in it. Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, and Elizabeth Banks, are you kidding me? They are PANDERING TO YOU. If you liked this movie it’s because you were too dumb to see that it’s because Warner Brothers pumped it full of PROCESSED WHITE POP-CULTURE SUGAR and shoved it down your throat. It’s a sheisty, money-hungry move and I saw right through it. Cats + Unicorns + Legos + Batman + Ghosts + Pirates + Astronauts = $$$$$$$!!!! The whole world went crazy for The Lego Movie, and The Lego Movie couldn’t be happier about it. Right now the producers of this film are all jerking themselves off in their jacuzzis, putting on face lotion made from stem cells, and cackling at all of us. The Lego Movie is what happens when you take Toy Story 2 and cut its balls off. Toy Story at least had some darkness and depth to it. Woody has a beautifully developed character with jealousy and control issues.
As opposed to the protagonist in this monstrosity… Emmet is, literally, a dumb piece of brick with no redeeming qualities. Why am I supposed to like him? Please tell me, because as far as I can see, he has done nothing but NOTHING to deserve my support. Oh, people are mean to him, you say? People are mean to everyone. Maybe there’s a REASON everyone in the Lego universe is mean to Emmet, you ever think of that? Why did we just assume that literally everyone else in this world is wrong and Emmet is right? Emmet is bad at his job and a non-contributing member of society. You know what happens when we encounter that person in the real world? Republicans scorn them and call them a freeloader who’s taking advantage of welfare. We like Emmet for the same reasons we like dogs: because they don’t have opinions that might force us to think about anything. Trust me, I would have preferred watching a Dalmatian take a poo. Point: It’s An Ad This movie is a 2-hour-long commercial that they made you PAY to watch.
Congratulations, you fell for it. Point: You Hear The Celebrities, Not the Characters I’m not a martian. I understand that you need celebrities to sell your movie. None of these actors even tried changing their voices even the TINIEST of bits. Every time Emmet spoke I pictured Chris Pratt wearing a baseball cap talking into a microphone in a glass booth. I could feel Elizabeth Banks turning the pages of her script as she read the dialogue. It made the characters completely unbelievable and prevented me from immersing myself in the film. Same deal with the rest of them. They made no effort whatsoever to change their voices, only FURTHER proving my point that the directors of the movie WANTED people to know, so badly, that they had “cool” celebrities in their movie. Point: I Liked The Lego Movie Better When It Was Called The Matrix We’ve seen this story a hundred times. Average white man has an average white life when one day, a woman comes from out of nowhere and tells him he’s special and so he goes off with her to save the world from imminent danger, ultimately finding out that he’s better than everyone at everything even though 24 hours ago he was a total bozo, and then saves the world and gets the girl at the end as his “prize.”