The Lego Movie Movie Facts, Easter Eggs and hidden details
50 of the most interesting The Lego Movie easter eggs you didn't know about. Handpicked and verified, these little-known hidden details can be obscure enough most people will miss. These behind the scene easter eggs and hidden messages will give you another view of The Lego Movie movie message.
An ordinary LEGO construction worker, thought to be the prophesied as "special", is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil tyrant from gluing the LEGO universe into eternal stasis.
Genre
Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Director
Christopher Miller
Stars
Will Arnett, Elizabeth Banks, Craig Berry, Alison Brie
IMDB score
7.7
The Lego Movie Movie Trivia
Benny the spaceman has a broken helmet. This used to happen to the original Lego pieces. Picture of my 80s spaceman to the right.
The movie features some strange cameos, including basketball legends Gary Payton (Seattle legend) and Sheryl Swoops (who played for Seattle in 2008). both director Chris Miller and star Chris Pratt are from the greater Seattle area.
The Lego Movie Movie Easter Eggs
Lord Garmadon's book closely resembles Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's infamous Dianetics
John Bender from The Breakfast Club can be seen skipping school
The end credits has Lego figures of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton holding hands.
The street sign in the family photo says "Crime Street." This photo was taken the night of his parents murder.
Emmet has a poster for "Macho and the Nerd" - this is the Russian title for "21 Jump Street", directors Lord and Miller's previous movie.
The slide behind the police commissioner lists ninjutsu as part of the four point program
Joker tells Batman about how they have been fighting for 78 years, which is completely accurate, seeing as the 80th anniversary of Batman was two years later, in 2019.
Many buildings in Bricksburg are modeled off of real LEGO sets. For example, the blue building on the right is set 10190 Market Street.
There is a scene where a wall of a house falls down through someone, just like in Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928), only this stunt wasn't successful.
A blurred plaque in the saloon scene appears to say Bones & Skelly. While it is probably referring to the names of the skeleton and horse, it is also a reference to Bones and Skelly from Lego: The Adventures of Clutch Powers (2010).
Omega, from The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017), is heavily implied to be the same unseen Omega from Lego: The Adventures of Clutch Powers (2010), who was responsible for Powers' father disappearance in the movie. Clutch also cameod in the Ninjago TV series, showing both are set in the same universe
Garmadon's story about how he became evil from getting bitten by a snake is from the actual show. Garmadon became evil from the bite of a snake called the Great Devourer.
One of the songs that Robin suggests in the final scene as background music is Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley.
Accuracy details in The Lego Movie
The numbers that appear with the various parts are the real world piece numbers. 3795 is a 2x6 plate, 56145 is a wheel, etc.
Costume details in The Lego Movie
. In a scene where they show Emmet in the real world, he's white instead of yellow.
The Lego Movie movie hidden details
During a chase scene a pig falls towards the ground and on impact turns into sausages.
Wonder Woman is the only one put in handcuffs when all the super heroes are captured, because that's her only weakness, bondage.
After the Batmobile drives through a puddle, we see water bricks out of focus on the screen.
Lord Business's cape & helmet are in the shape of a necktie in a Windsor knot.
The Batcomputer runs the same pre-flight check for the Batmobile that Robin used to do in the 1960's
When Bruce Wayne is distracting Lord Business, you can see he left his Batman suit out in the hallway.
The Duplo aliens has finger prints on it
the real world, Cloud Cukoo Land is the box of Lego that the Man Upstairs leaves for his son to play with.
Metalbeard's other Rules Of The Sea can be glimpsed briefly before the camera zooms into the lower left rule.
The transition '8 1/2 years later' is to signify that Finn, the child who is imagining the whole movie, is 8 1/2 years old
-Everything before this slide is from the father's imagination before he had his son. Everything after this slide is from his son's imagination.
One of President Business's robots is playing solitaire on his computer
The song Vitruvius is playing on the piano in the old west saloon is a honky tonk version of everything is awesome
Calculator Man's visor displays his pain after Batman kicks him.
Vitruvius's staff is actually a half eaten lollypop.
When Batman is talking to his parents portrait, the street behind them is "Crime Alley"
During Emmet's visions (when first touching the Piece of Resistance), the boy can be heard saying, "It's your turn to be the hero" -- implying this is not the first time Finn's played this game among his father's sets.
During the aerial combat around Wayne Manor, we hear "pew pew" instead of machine gun and rockets sound effects. The Lego Movie series is supposed to be about people playing with their Lego sets.
This relic scanner's screen changes between several stickers, as if they are being swapped.
President Business says to an aide thst he wants to meet Bad Cop on 23 seconds. Exactly 23 seconds later, an aide tell President Buisness that Bad Cop is waiting in his office.
Batman has a special trophy room in which he stores confiscated items. Later on in the movie, the Batcave is taken over by the Joker and in a brief shot, the sign has been changed from Trophy Room to Toy Room.
LEGO Ninjago - A so-fast-that-you-miss detail: all the swords trails are made of horn/tooth LEGO pieces.
The LEGO Ninjago Movie features real Lego part numbers on certain items such as Sensei Wu's hat.
The ending credits are copied from an 80's aerobics dance video.
Batman watches the portion of Jerry Maguire in which he states "You complete me", the same line the Joker says to Batman in The Dark Knight
The directors used an Emmet figure with a magnet built in in order to move him in the real world. The person moving the magnet from under te table is none other than director Phil Lord.
Whenever Emmet is digitally animated, you can see a seam in the middle of his hair, but whenever they used a live action figure, the seam is not visible.
- Abraham Lincoln is voiced by Will Forte, who also portrayed a separate rendition of the character in the animated series Clone High. Both were directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller.
When describing the eternal abyss that could destroy Gotham City, a clip from The Lego Movie (2014) is shown.
When Wyldstyle's relic detector levels change, so does the texture as they are technically only stickers/printed on IRL.
When Emmet touches the Piece of Resistance, you can faintly hear Finn say "It's your turn to be the hero" near the end of his psychedelic trip. Later in the movie, just before Emmet sacrifices himself to save the Master Builders, he says a similar line to Wyldstyle.
one scene in The LEGO Ninjago Movie, Kai strikes his hands together like flint and steel when he uses his fire powers.
No one that Emmet greets on the street in the morning calls him by his name.