Loved the 80s spaceman guy, basically everything I built with lego as a kid was a spaceship.
― Plasmon, Monday, 17 February 2014 20:22 (ten years ago) link
My son is singing "Everything is awesome" too!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 17 February 2014 21:37 (ten years ago) link
'80s spaceman guy was the only time my nostalgia bells rang (in a good way). I totally had '80s lego spaceman, complete with cracked helmet. When he finally starts jetting around yelling "spaceship!!!!" my daughter totally lost her shit.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 17 February 2014 22:32 (ten years ago) link
Speaking of which, internet tshirt companies ahve been quick on the draw, and this popped up:
http://www.bustedtees.com/spaceship
$20 + shipping, but give 'em your email and they'll knock 40% off your first order.
http://1.media.bustedtees.cvcdn.com/5/-/bustedtees.f64d3115-9cff-4317-8aa6-e3c9a2f3.jpg
I'm still looking for a proper blue lego space shirt
― President Frankenstein (kingfish), Monday, 17 February 2014 22:53 (ten years ago) link
I just bought the hell out of that shirt for my wife.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 17 February 2014 23:02 (ten years ago) link
cracked helmet : perfect.my heart just went all gooeey everytime 80s spaceman was on the screen.i sooo want that t-shirt.
― mark e, Monday, 17 February 2014 23:47 (ten years ago) link
Oops, we hit a snag while processing your order.
The shipping phone number entered is invalid.Shipping method does not exist.
fuck
― mark e, Monday, 17 February 2014 23:54 (ten years ago) link
dear god.
i am uk'r wanting a sodding t-shirt.
its not build a rocket science.
― mark e, Monday, 17 February 2014 23:57 (ten years ago) link
eBay.uk has some good looking blue classic space logo shirts, too
― President Frankenstein (kingfish), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 00:01 (ten years ago) link
As I understand it, only the Spaceship! Spaceship! Spaceship! Spaceship! t-shirt will get you laid.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 00:03 (ten years ago) link
salt. open. wound.
trying all manner of variations.
fuckers aint wanting my ca$h.
― mark e, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 00:08 (ten years ago) link
thank the lord that i have rediscovered mickey newbury tonight to keep me on the path of righteousness.
― mark e, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 00:10 (ten years ago) link
uk based groove !
http://ih1.redbubble.net/image.15905279.5835/fig,black,mens,ffffff.u1.jpg
this may do me ..
― mark e, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 00:26 (ten years ago) link
Jesus, they've been busy lately:
http://www.redbubble.com/shop/recent+lego+t-shirts?ref=sort_order_change_recent
― President Frankenstein (kingfish), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 06:13 (ten years ago) link
Oh and as far as enabling links go, the fact that you can bid on cheap lots of Lego from Goodwill might cause issues for some people.
― President Frankenstein (kingfish), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 06:15 (ten years ago) link
this is cool
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1214729/James-May-size-Lego-house-wants.html
― *plop* son (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 15:05 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, if you dig around on youtube, or...other sources, you can find that ep. Stephen Fry shows up.
They made a neat little book about it I got for Christmas last year.
― President Frankenstein (kingfish), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 16:49 (ten years ago) link
saw this late but I really enjoyed it! it helped that the main voice cast was like 90% people from NBC comedies. also lol'd at will arnett's batman being essentially the same character he played in hot rod .
― reddening, Friday, 28 February 2014 19:39 (ten years ago) link
Or anywhere? He's pretty much got the arrogant buffoon down.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 28 February 2014 20:37 (ten years ago) link
Anthony Lane's review distills the movie's gist down to Marxism.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 28 February 2014 20:41 (ten years ago) link
That was Fox News iirc.
― Eric H., Friday, 28 February 2014 20:50 (ten years ago) link
xp mostly it was arnett's tendency to say "babe" a lot
― reddening, Friday, 28 February 2014 23:37 (ten years ago) link
Mark Mothersbaugh?!
― the ghosts of dead pom-bears (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 2 May 2014 21:19 (ten years ago) link
what about him
― PLATYPUS OF DOOM (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 2 May 2014 21:28 (ten years ago) link
obv this is no Rugrats wrt subversion of capitalist imperialism but
― Gritty Shakur (sic), Saturday, 3 May 2014 10:36 (ten years ago) link
Mothersbaugh is not exactly choosy when it comes to his soundtrack work
― Number None, Saturday, 3 May 2014 11:36 (ten years ago) link
Hah I was drunk last night so I can't remember exactly why I posted that, but I'd forgotten he did Rugrats and most of his 90s stuff tbh. Been in a bit of a Wes Anderson bubble wrt that stuff - though ILX prob prefers Crash Bandicoot to WA anyway.
Anyway I was just surprised because I'd been finding "Everything is Awesome" singularly annoying through the course of the movie. Which is the point of it, I concede. And it is kinda Devo to write a pumping anthem for the brainwashed corporate dystopia, to be reprised with varying levels of sarcasm throughout.
― the ghosts of dead pom-bears (a passing spacecadet), Saturday, 3 May 2014 14:54 (ten years ago) link
Its a beautiful world
― PLATYPUS OF DOOM (Shakey Mo Collier), Saturday, 3 May 2014 15:04 (ten years ago) link
Mothersbaugh only produced the song. Lonely Island + 3 others (I think?) wrote it.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Saturday, 3 May 2014 15:30 (ten years ago) link
I like Tegan & Sara's processed vocals. Yeah, Mothersbaugh didn't write the song, and according to the wiki:
Also included is the song "Everything Is Awesome!!!" written by Shawn Patterson (El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera and Robot Chicken), Joshua Bartholomew and Lisa Harriton (Jo Li)[59] and performed by Tegan and Sara featuring The Lonely Island, which has also been used in the film's marketing campaign
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Saturday, 3 May 2014 18:01 (ten years ago) link
this was pretty cute i guess. really exhausting though. kids really sat all the way through this? wreck-it ralph felt a million hours long too.
― slam dunk, Saturday, 3 May 2014 23:24 (ten years ago) link
definitely the best morgan freeman performance in years.
― slam dunk, Saturday, 3 May 2014 23:25 (ten years ago) link
I loved this movie but didn't like the "male lead proves that he, not the self-assured manic pixie dream girl, is the real hero" aspect of the plot.
― smhphony orchestra (crüt), Sunday, 4 May 2014 00:06 (ten years ago) link
Dragging a bit, but Lego finally put out Benny's spaceship:
http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Benny-s-Spaceship-Spaceship-SPACESHIP-70816
http://www.bricksandbloks.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/LEGO-70816-Bennys-Space-Ship-LEGO-Movie-Summer-2014-Sets-e1396661618955-640x371.jpg
A hunnerd bucks American at 940 pieces, I believe its the biggest Classic Space-style ship they've ever produced.
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 05:57 (nine years ago) link
Also, it never occurred to me that he's called "Benny" because he acts like he just downed a handful of them.
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 05:58 (nine years ago) link
One of my new favorites to watch high as shit
― Dreamland, Saturday, 14 June 2014 17:00 (nine years ago) link
Can't believe they turned the Matrix Reloaded into a watchable movie
― 龜, Saturday, 21 June 2014 03:35 (nine years ago) link
This was great
The Lego set I always wanted as a kid but never got but knew someone who did was the Pirate Ship
I remember that it cost ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS (or maybe fifty) and that was an unbroachable price point
I'll probably never watch this movie again though
― 龜, Saturday, 21 June 2014 03:36 (nine years ago) link
I ordered the deluxo set off of Amazon today. Hell, I have enough Amazon cards from staying in hotels so much, so I figured why not
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Saturday, 21 June 2014 04:49 (nine years ago) link
i loved the explosion effects in this, i'd watch hours and hours of just lego flames.
― Merdeyeux, Saturday, 21 June 2014 04:53 (nine years ago) link
The water & bubbles were great. Very funny, I was pleasantly surprised.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 22 June 2014 21:38 (nine years ago) link
And there's the bit where falling pigs explode into sausages
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Sunday, 22 June 2014 22:50 (nine years ago) link
GET THAT DAMN SONG OUT OF MY HEAD AAAAAAAAARRRGHHH #weekendwithchildren
― the Bronski Review (Trayce), Monday, 23 June 2014 01:45 (nine years ago) link
So you're saying everything isn't awesome?
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 June 2014 01:50 (nine years ago) link
watching this again for the third time (first time at home) still funny
― akm, Monday, 23 June 2014 02:46 (nine years ago) link
Thought the plot was pleasingly weird, the switch to reality towards the end almost reminded me of something out of a Grant Morrison comic.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Monday, 23 June 2014 10:12 (nine years ago) link
Switch to reality was where is went from awesome to shitty imo. Would have much preferred it to have carried on implicitly being childs play without suddenly the film being about a bad father.
― DISMISSED AS CHANCE (NotEnough), Monday, 23 June 2014 10:22 (nine years ago) link
The shift from from general anti-hegemony theme to overly-specific Lego Sets are Bad and Stifling Child's Growth just seemed like needless lurch.
― DISMISSED AS CHANCE (NotEnough), Monday, 23 June 2014 10:39 (nine years ago) link
when do we get a playmobil movie
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 23 June 2014 15:09 (nine years ago) link
Overly-specific Lego sets ARE bad.
― schwantz, Monday, 23 June 2014 17:18 (nine years ago) link