There are only a few professional dancers among the principal cast, including Paul Mercurio, Todd McKenney, Antonio Vargas, Sonia Kruger, and Leonie Page.
The Lego Movie - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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When in the Octan tower, Wyldstyle (Elizabeth Banks) goes off and tells them to wait for her signal. When she gives it, it's the "Super Secret" signal from Team America: World Police (2004).
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Chris Pratt (Emmet) and Morgan Freeman (Vitruvius) appeared in Wanted (2008).
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Batman (Will Arnett) frequently exclaims "Oh, come on!" during the film. This is the same catchphrase of Arnett's character Gob Bluth on Arrested Development (2003).
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The hyperactive spaceman's name is appropriately "Benny", which is a slang abbreviation for Benzedrine, a commercial preparation of amphetamine.
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The movie showed a couple of references to Fabuland, most notably on the shirts of a couple of Minifigures (possibly alluding to "throwback" shirts). Fabuland was LEGO's "transition" storybook line that existed from 1979 to 1989.
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Morgan Freeman (Vitruvius) and Dave Franco (Wally) appeared in Now You See Me (2013) and Now You See Me 2 (2016).
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Cloud Cuckoo Land is represented in the real world by the box of pieces, with which Finn's (Jadon Sand's) father gave him to play. It says "Cloud Brothers Movers" on the side of the box.
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The first animated film since Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) to win the Saturn Award for Best Animated Film without being nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
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"Emmet" is an archaic word for "ant", an insect well known for being a construction worker that works in a team. Similar Hebrew word: "Emeth" (Reality) is also known in pop culture as a magic word, written on the forehead of a doll in order for it to live as the if it were a real man.
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Lord Business (Will Ferrell) is President of Octan, a fictional gas station brand, that first appeared in 1992, and has since been featured in numerous Lego sets.
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Not counting follow-ups, this is the sixth film to use character cameos, in this case LEGO cameos. The others are Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) (cartoon character cameos), Toy Story (1995) (toy cameos), Shrek (2001) (fairy tale character cameos), Ice Age (2002) (prehistoric animal cameos), and Wreck-It Ralph (2012) (video game character cameos).
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As Emmet is yelling at Wyldstyle to stop as they flee Bricksburg, the rotating street sign turbines of their improvised escape vehicle all momentary line up on "STOP".
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When the Master Builders are being brought to Lord Business (Will Ferrell) after Bad Cop (Liam Neeson) tracks Emmet (Chris Pratt), there is a shot of Wonder Woman (Cobie Smulders) being handcuffed, to which she replies sullenly. This may be a reference to her older comics, in which her established weakness is having her hands bound by a man. This weakness has been phased out of more recent comics.
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Was number one at the U.S. box-office for three straight weeks.
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In early development, the movie was titled "LEGO: The Piece of Resistance", and had dozens of differences. One of which was that Emmet lived with his mother, Doris, who got kidnapped by robot ninjas.
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When talking about the different LEGO worlds, a very quick slideshow plays as Wyldstyle says "a bunch of others we don't need to mention". This contains images of Fabuland, a storybook-style range aimed at young children that ran from 1979 to 1989, BIONICLE, LEGO's successful action-figure and multimedia franchise, 2001 to 2010, and 2015 to 2016, LEGO Friends, a theme aimed exclusively at girls, 2012-, and Speed Racer, based on the Speed Racer (2008) movie, all themes whose style didn't fit in with the movies, and couldn't be incorporated into its story. However, a Speed Racer Minifigure does appear later on as part of the pirate crew.
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Anthony Daniels (C-3PO) and Billy Dee Williams (Lando Calrissian) reprised their roles from the original Star Wars trilogy. Daniels also provided C-3PO's voice in numerous Star Wars animated series, and previous LEGO Star Wars movie productions.
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Denzel Washington was considered to voice Vitruvius.
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The first animated film to use the CGI sketch, followed by The Peanuts Movie (2015), The Lego Batman Movie (2017), The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017), Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019) and The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (2020). Speaking of the CGI sketch, the sketches were made in both 2.39:1 (scope version) and 1.37:1 (alternate flat version), just like the film itself.
The Lego Movie - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Lego Movie - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Lego Movie - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Lego Movie - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Lego Movie - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Lego Movie - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Lego Movie - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Lego Movie - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Lego Movie - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Lego Movie - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Lego Movie - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Lego Movie - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Lego Movie - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Lego Movie - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Lego Movie - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Lego Movie - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Lego Movie - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Lego Movie - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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