Lego to get its own toy story movie

The enormous 100ft Lego tower thought to have broken the world record for the tallest tower was made from 500,000 bricks at Legoland, Windsor in 2008.


A 5,922-piece Lego replica of the Taj Mahal, considered to be so tricky that only those over the age of 14 are recommended to tackle it.


It's Salvador Dalí and his Lobster Phone by The Little Artists, who've also created other miniature artists like Damien Hirst and Gilbert and George.

Great moments in Lego history

Transformers sparked Hollywood's love affair with toy-based action movies two years ago, followed by current box-office hit GI Joe. Now another playtime favourite is to get the big-screen treatment – yes, it's Lego: the Movie.

The film is being put together by Warner Bros in association with the Danish toy manufacturer, Variety reports. Lego has famously been fiercely protective of its property in the face of regular Hollywood overtures, but warmed to the idea of a family-oriented flick embracing its key values of fun, creativity and boundless imagination.

The Lego System of Play was born in the small town of Billund back in 1955, but it wasn't until the patented studs-and-tubes mechanism that we know and love today was launched in 1958 that the toy really took off. It has twice been named Toy of the Century and today, seven sets are sold per second.

The Lego movie will be a mix of live action and animation – presumably CGI, though the idea of a stop-motion take has a certain appeal. Dan and Kevin Hageman, who wrote forthcoming CGI feature Hotel Transylvania, about a rooming house in which Frankenstein, the Mummy, Dracula and the Werewolf hide out after the 21st century casts them into irrelevance, are penning the script. There's no director yet attached and no cast, though the red spaceman from 1985's Lego Space Shuttle Fuel Truck Kit is said to be angling hard for one of the main roles.

Apart from Transformers and GI Joe, other toys set to invade the multiplexes (if Hasbro and Mattel have their way) include He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Monopoly, Candyland, Battleship, Stretch Armstrong, View-Master, Max Steel and Hot Wheels.

Guardian