The Lego Movie - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[jesus]

This film makes Will Arnett the first Canadian-born actor to play Batman/Bruce Wayne in a motion picture.

[kristen]

The line that Virtuvius states at the beginning of the movie, "Hold on to your butts", is a famous line uttered by Samuel L. Jackson, playing the role of Ray Arnold in Jurassic Park (1993).

[fred]

The numbers seen with the pieces when Master Builders were assembling their free form models, are the official LEGO Element IDs (or part numbers) for each of the components used in each of the models.

[veronica]

The characters of Green Lantern, Superman, and Metal Beard are voiced by Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, and Nick Offerman, respectively, who also teamed up in 21 Jump Street (2012), also directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.

[michele]

The minifigure used to represent Green Lantern was never released in any retail LEGO Set. The figure was given out with raffles at New York Comic-Con and San Diego Comic-Con in 2011, to coincide with the re-release of LEGO Superheroes. The figure is one of the most expensive LEGO minifigures on the market. The figure was also given out at the same events as the Comic-Con exclusive Batman suit, which is seen hanging in the Batcave as an alternate suit for Will Arnett's Batman in The LEGO Batman Movie (2017).

[eli]

After the first "Everything is Awesome" sequence, the title card that says "5 Hours Later" in LEGO, is a photograph of real LEGO, and one of the few non-CGI LEGO shots in the movie. The ending credits are also real LEGO pieces, animated by stop-motion.

[sara]

This movie marks the first time that Chris Pratt distracts his enemy by dancing and beat-boxing, this time while in disguise as a robot with Wyldstyle. He did it again in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), during the ending fight with Ronan, played by Lee Pace.

[carla]

The second Warner Bros.' animated film to be released in February, after Clifford's Really Big Movie (2004).

[clayton]

Wyldstyle's previous names as Vitruvius' insecure student are "Darkstorm", "Geminizzle", "Neversmile", "Freakface", and "Snazzypants".

[oscar]

The colorful alien bricks at the end of the film are part of the Duplo sets, which are oversized bricks for children ages three and younger.

[kim]

Emmet's name isn't said for the first twelve minutes of the film.

[violet]

Indiana Jones was originally going to be a central character. He can still be seen briefly building the secret tunnel out of Bricksburg, losing his hat in the process, and only grabbing it just in time (Indiana's signature move).

[christina]

Upon its release, this movie became the most commercially successful animated film made by Warner Brothers Pictures, besting Happy Feet (2006), as well as the most critically acclaimed animated film made by the studio since The Iron Giant (1999).

[oscar]

Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, George Clooney, and Christian Bale at one point were considered to reprise the role of Batman.

[kristen]

Benny, a.k.a. the "1980-something space guy" (Charlie Day), a minifigure from LEGO's classic Space line, has a broken helmet and a worn-out, scuffed logo on his suit, similar to how many real-life Space minifigures look after being used. The helmet is even shown to be cracked at the same spot where the real-life LEGO piece would usually break.

[russell]

There is a statue of a skeleton with a cowboy hat atop a horse in the old west saloon with a plaque that says "Bob & Skelly", visible when Wyldstyle and Emmet first enter the saloon. This is a nod to the characters of Bones and Skelly from Lego: The Adventures of Clutch Powers (2010).