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6 MORE Licensed Properties That Need LEGO Love
I may never get over the fact that The LEGO Movie was snubbed at the Oscars this past weekend. I’m thinking of taking it personally. Maybe organize some kind of grassroots petition? Whatever I end up doing (probably nothing), I will always remain a lifelong LEGO fan. And to honor the best movie of 2014 — since the Academy wouldn’t — I’ve decided to do a sequel List of Six to one from a few years ago.
What new franchises need to be made into LEGO?
Consider this at the top of every birthday or Christmas list I’ll ever have going forward
Walk down the LEGO aisle at the toy store these days and you’ll see Avengers, Ninja Turtles, Jurassic World, Harry Potter and more. We didn’t have branded LEGOs when I was a kid, but I would have given anything to have a real, fully licensed Ninja Turtles van and Turtle mini-figs. I have a LEGO Batmobile on my bookshelf right now, and I bought that well into my 20s. And someday the LEGO Ecto-1 will join it.
But if I could choose any LEGO franchise in the world, what would I want? After these first six options, of course.
And please note, most LEGO pictures on this list are fan creations I found online. Those that are built by fans are linked to the fan’s webpages. So let’s give it up to the fans!
Enjoy Some Fan Trailer Wackiness
The intrepid people of the Internet are at it again! I found a couple of fun fan trailers to spruce up our Tuesday!
First up is a pretty neat LEGO trailer for Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice. It comes courtesy of Brickflix, who sound like this is what they do for a living, thereby making me extremely jealous.
Next up is a trailer for the Suicide Squad movie, done up by our friend and fan trailer aficionado Alex Luthor. It’s also pretty neat.
The important thing is that you enjoy this Tuesday. Of course, you might not all be as buried in snow and below zero temperatures as I am.
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The Honesty of The LEGO Movie is Hard to Admit
Fortunately, the good people at Screen Junkies are willing to look beyond the sheer awesomeness of The LEGO Movie and reveal what it’s really about.
Sigh, that was funny. That was a damn good video. But I won’t stop loving The LEGO Movie, I won’t! I want kids to get into LEGOs. By all means, buy your children LEGOs! Let them all in love with a quality movie like this and then buy them all the LEGOs they could ever dream of getting! The world will be a better place for it.
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Doctor Who LEGOs are Happening!
I asked for it years ago, but now LEGO is making it official: Doctor Who LEGOs!
Just like the Ghostbusters last year, this new set comes via the LEGO Ideas crowd-produced program. Basically, LEGO lets fans design and submit their own LEGO models, and then everybody votes for the ones they want. Any idea that reaches 10,000 votes then goes before the LEGO review board and they pick the ones they want to make
And Doctor Who has made the cut!
No details have yet been released, but this is still pretty awesome news!
Though I still haven’t bought that Ghostbusters Ecot-1 set yet…
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I Need About Tree-Fiddy
That’s $350, so I can buy the new LEGO Helicarrier from The Avengers. Behold its glory!
This insane piece of awesomeness is one of the largest LEGO models ever made, and will be nearly 3-feet-long on completion. It’s gone a ton of characters and jet fighters and Quinjets to hang out on the two runways. It’s a behemoth of epic proportions, and is once again something I’ll never be able to afford.
Why aren’t I rich yet?
Not that I would have anywhere to put the damn thing once it was built. But just knowing it exists, and looking at all of these pretty pictures, is enough to get me salivating.
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