50 Fun Facts About The Lego Movie

What is the name of the ordinary construction worker at the centre of The Lego Movie?

He falls into a pit, touches the Piece of Resistance and wakes up with it stuck to his back.

Who provides the voice of Emmet?

In the sequel he also voices Rex Dangervest, a character built from his most famous roles.

What everyday object is the superweapon known as the Kragle?

The Piece of Resistance that can stop it turns out to be the tube's cap.

Who voices the villain, Lord Business?

He also plays the Man Upstairs, the father in the live-action basement scenes.

Which actor voices Batman across the Lego films?

He even sang his heavy-metal 'Untitled Self Portrait' at the 2015 Oscars in Val Kilmer's old Batsuit.

Wyldstyle eventually reveals her real name. What is it?

She is voiced by Elizabeth Banks, and in the sequel it emerges she was in the band that made Everything Is Awesome.

Which actor voices Vitruvius, the blind wizard who admits he made up the prophecy?

His spirit returns after his death to tell Emmet that self-belief is what makes him the Special.

Liam Neeson voices which two-faced character?

He also voices Pa Cop, the character's father.

Princess Unikitty, voiced by Alison Brie, is a hybrid of which two creatures?

She rules Cloud Cuckoo Land, the Master Builders' refuge, and later got her own TV series.

Benny the '1980-something space guy' has a deliberate defect in his design. What is it?

Real 1980s Lego space helmets often snapped there; director Chris Miller's own childhood Space Village set appears in the film.

Nick Offerman voices which pirate Master Builder?

He wants revenge on Lord Business for taking his original body apart.

Which basketball legend appears as a Lego version of himself among the Master Builders?

He turns up alongside two generic members of the 2002 NBA All-Stars.

Which actor voices Superman in the Lego films?

Jonah Hill is Green Lantern and Cobie Smulders is Wonder Woman.

What is the name of the boy playing with his father's Lego collection in the live-action scenes?

He is played by Jadon Sand, who returns as a teenager in the sequel.

Which invention does Emmet build to save the group when Cloud Cuckoo Land is attacked?

The other Master Builders had just rejected him for not being able to build anything.

What is used to reverse the Kragle's effects at the end of the film?

Finn's father agrees to let Finn and his sister play with the sets, which unleashes the Duplo invasion.

Who wrote and directed The Lego Movie?

They had made Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and left mid-production to shoot 22 Jump Street.

Which Australian studio animated The Lego Movie and its follow-ups?

The animation was made to look like stop motion, with rigs limited to the joints real minifigures have.

What was The Lego Movie's working title, revealed in March 2012?

Warner Bros. had green-lit the project in November 2011 with 2014 already pencilled in.

The 'Magic Portal' tube in the live-action scene nods to a 1989 short by which Australian filmmaker?

Fleay later worked at Animal Logic, though he left before the film began production.

Why was Superman left out of the film for a long stretch of production?

He was put back in at the last minute; Christopher Nolan and Zack Snyder were both consulted on the DC characters.

Which duo performs 'Everything Is Awesome' with The Lonely Island over the end credits?

The in-film version was performed by co-writers Joshua Bartholomew and Lisa Harriton under the name Jo Li.

Who composed the film's score, and later wore a Lego version of his Devo energy dome at the Oscars?

He had scored Lord and Miller's Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and 21 Jump Street.

Roughly how much did The Lego Movie gross worldwide?

Deadline put its net profit at $229 million, third among 2014's most valuable blockbusters.

The Lego Movie's $69.1 million opening was the second-biggest February debut ever, behind which film?

Its second weekend dropped only 28 percent.

The Lego Movie earned its only Academy Award nomination in which category?

Being left out of Best Animated Feature was widely called a snub, and host Neil Patrick Harris joked about it.

Which US senator complained that the film taught children that 'government is good and business is bad'?

His opponent Russ Feingold raised the comments during the 2016 Senate race.

The Lego Movie was the first theatrical feature from which newly formed studio label?

Warner Bros. had not made an animated film in-house since Looney Tunes: Back in Action flopped in 2003.

The Lego Movie 4D attraction, running since 2016, is at which theme park?

Patton Oswalt voices President Business's brother, Risky Business, in the 12-minute film.

Who directed The Lego Batman Movie?

He had been animation supervisor on the first film and cited The Naked Gun and Airplane! as inspirations.

Who voices the Joker in The Lego Batman Movie?

His feelings are hurt when Batman calls him a perfunctory presence in his life.

Which actor voices Dick Grayson, the orphan Bruce Wayne absent-mindedly adopts?

Bruce agrees to the adoption while distracted by the new commissioner, Barbara Gordon.

Where does the Joker recruit his army of villains from in The Lego Batman Movie?

The Zone's escapees include Sauron, Voldemort, King Kong and the Matrix's Agent Smith.

Ellie Kemper voices Phyllis in The Lego Batman Movie. Who is Phyllis?

Mariah Carey voices the mayor, and Ralph Fiennes is Alfred.

Which pop diva voices Mayor McCaskill in The Lego Batman Movie?

Billy Dee Williams finally got to play Two-Face, a nod to his Harvey Dent in 1989's Batman.

Which martial-arts star has a live-action role as relic-shop owner Mr. Liu in The Lego Ninjago Movie?

He also voices Master Wu inside the Lego world.

In The Lego Ninjago Movie, the 'Ultimate Weapon' turns out to be what?

The live-action cat, Meowthra, then wrecks the ninja's mechs.

The Lego Ninjago Movie made $123 million on a $70 million budget, earning what distinction?

A live-action Ninjago reboot is now in development at Universal.

Who directed The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part after two other directors were replaced?

McKay was moved to Lego Batman, and Schrab left in 2017 over reported creative differences.

What has Finn renamed Bricksburg by the time of the sequel, five years later?

Repeated Duplo attacks have flattened the place; only Emmet stays upbeat.

Which comedian voices the shape-shifting Queen Watevra Wa'Nabi?

Her name is a pun on 'whatever I want to be'; Stephanie Beatriz voices General Sweet Mayhem.

Who does the rugged adventurer Rex Dangervest turn out to be?

He ended up under a dryer, grew bitter and built a time machine to make sure Armamageddon happens.

'Armamageddon', the cataclysm Emmet fears in the sequel, turns out to be a pun on what?

Finn and Bianca's mother orders the Lego into a storage bin as punishment for their bickering.

Who voices Finn's mother in The Lego Movie 2?

In the first film the mother was heard only off-screen, voiced by Amanda Farinos.

Which action star appears as a Lego caricature of himself in The Lego Movie 2, in a running Die Hard gag?

Richard Ayoade voices a talking ice cream cone and Ralph Fiennes returns as Alfred.

What is The Lego Movie 2's deliberate earworm, which repeats a lyric about getting stuck in your head, called?

Dillon Francis performs it; Beck and Robyn also contributed songs.

What did the merged Lego universe get renamed at the end of The Lego Movie 2?

It mashes together Apocalypseburg and the Systar System after Finn and Bianca make peace.

Which studio picked up the Lego film rights after The Second Part underperformed for Warner Bros.?

Its first Lego film under the deal was Piece by Piece, released in October 2024.

The 2021 Lego set 'Everyone Is Awesome', named after the song, was the first to represent which group?

Its colours are the rainbow flag, the trans pride flag and black and brown.

Whose Batsuit did the voice of Lego Batman wear performing 'Everything Is Awesome' at the 2015 Oscars?

Questlove drummed and Devo's frontman wore a Lego energy dome.