I remember there being a flying Bad Cop car. I don't remember it including the broken train trellis.

I've been looking forward to this day since I realized that TLM turns ten this year. I'm just glad that we got at least one set from the movie this year.

@Halex16: Whereas I got every set except for the polybags and 70810.

@StyleCounselor: I'm assuming your kid was unattended when he took that bubble bath.

Five years old then, fifteen years old now, going to college next year at age sixteen ... congratulations, you have a pretty smart kid. I bet he has a bright future.

This set is strangely nostalgic for me, I used to spend ages looking at TLM sets in the Lego Catalogue. I was fortunate enough to get Benny's Spaceship, but this would have been a very nice set to get as well. The fact that the side panels opened up and hidden weapons could be exposed just seemed so cool. And also that the tracks could collapse. In other words, it seemed like it had cool functions.

@StyleCounselor said:
" @Lego_Lord_Mayorca said:
"I loved "The LEGO Movie"... Might start with Benny's Spaceship, Spaceship!, SPACESHIP!!! first, though."

That's a great place to begin. Spectacular set! Hope you got 10497 to go with it. Hope you got 70810 because it's so sweet."
Completely agree. Though unfortunately I missed out on the Sea Cow, what an awesome looking set.

Come to think of it, 70816 is the only TLM set I got.

The police alligators cracked me up.

The movie and the theme came out during my dark ages so sadly I don't have any of the sets. I watched it years later though and I enjoyed it.

@AustinPowers said:
" @StyleCounselor said:
" @Lego_Lord_Mayorca said:
"I loved "The LEGO Movie"... Might start with Benny's Spaceship, Spaceship!, SPACESHIP!!! first, though."

That's a great place to begin. Spectacular set! Hope you got 10497 to go with it. Hope you got 70810 because it's so sweet."
Completely agree. Though unfortunately I missed out on the Sea Cow, what an awesome looking set.

Come to think of it, 70816 is the only TLM set I got. "

TLM was the catalyst for Lego's attack on my wallet. Before, I was strictly a Star Wars collector. TLM was the beginning of expansion to TLotR/Hobbit, HP, Ninjago, Modulars, etc.

Some of those (Harry Potter) were difficult/expensive because I was buying retired sets. Then again, they were far cheaper than the prices today.

Seeing trailers for The Lego Movie in late 2013 brought me out of my 10-year dark age and that's when I discovered Brickset to help organize the newfound interest in my childhood collection. I can't believe it's been 10 years now!

The car and the crocs are great, the choice for a side-build isn't. It makes sense when you want to depict the specific scene, but in play, it's so uncomfortably detached from everything =(

Lego Movie sets look like excellent play sets. I wish I had couple of them, including this one. Openning gun port... nice...

Never felt much for this set. The main reason is that the car is not a 2-in-1! They would later release the non-transformed version, but that's just cheating!

@TransNeonOrangeSpaceman said:
"The last time we saw those og crocodiles/alligators :'("

Oh wow. 20 excellent years of croccing.

I did find parts of this set in a lot, kept the crocs and now I'm glad I did. I don't have them in dark green in any other set, so they'll make a nice contrast to the original green.

I don’t think I have the whole set, just the cop car itself which is a nifty little speeder, very sleek and swooshable, and great backup for the police dropship we also got from TLM. Think I stored both with my Space Police III stuff, it’s a very similar vibe

About the only line I remember from the movie is ‘…his mind is so prodigiously empty…’

@BaconKing said:
"Everything is Awesome! That song is still stuck in my head."

Wrong Lego Movie but... "This song's gonna get stuck inside your he-e-e-ad..."

MeisterDad said:"About the only line I remember from the movie is ‘…his mind is so prodigiously empty…'"

I can remember a lot more lines than that. But then, I *did* see the movie six times in the theater...

@Andrusi said:
" @jkb said:
"The car and the crocs are great, the choice for a side-build isn't. It makes sense when you want to depict the specific scene, but in play, it's so uncomfortably detached from everything =("

That's why, in the spirit of the movie, I disassembled it and made an airplane. The girders paired up were questionable in how well they'd work as wings, but why worry about that when it was equipped with dual croc-bombs?"

Please detail dual-croc bombs. I might have a slightly different idea what they could be, so I wanna be sure =)

This is so sweet--thank you for sharing!

Needs Batman to recreate this dialogue:
Bad Cop: 'Batman!'
Batman: 'Pleased to beat you!'
Bad Cop: 'The pleasure is all spine!'
Batman: 'Guess what, you big dumb baby? Your car is a baby carriage!'

(The TLM Batwing / Batmobile would have been nice to have...)

@Trigger_ said:
" @GSR_MataNui said:
"You know I always found it weird that the little glider they use for 10 seconds in this scene was made into a set, but not the western themed car they used for the entire rest of the chase "

It could’ve been the reverse— LEGO designers designed this set first and there was an obligation to put it in the film (it does seem to have almost the same if not the same design in the film). Would also explain why we got so many 2-in-1 sets that appear for seconds at the most yet something as important as the submarine didn’t get a set."

Oh it is definitely the reverse, but given the seeming flexibility of content for these kind of lines and how well the movie did it's odd they didn't have a third wave in reserves, or even do Legacy sets a few years down the line. It's not unheard of for a show exclusive character or build to get a set a year or two after its onscreen debut if there's enough demand.

Ninjago Movie only got a wave and a D2C while Batman Movie got three waves. I always assumed that had to do with sales so it's odd they didn't try to get something more out to capitalize on the first film back when it was popular. Maybe they just really underestimated it's performance and had no other sketch models or prototypes laying around in Feb 2014 when the box office results came in, but the amount of times we've seen a Power Miners prototype crop up in Atlantis or an unreleased BIONICLE part recycled for HERO Factory I doubt that's the case.

Darn, when did we start getting RSotDs that were less than 10 years old? Because there's just no way in the world The Lego Movie was 10 years ago. That's simply not possible. Uh-uh.

@Trigger_:
TLG shares IP ownership with WB, but a story I read about TLBM makes me pretty confident that WB handles story generation, and TLG just has to approve stuff that’s likely to end up in a set. They wanted to give Batgirl and/or Robin shiny yellow capes, and TLG resisted because they knew they’d have to make minifigs of those characters. They either didn’t want to touch shiny material for capes, or didn’t think it would be possible (no idea which). Ultimately, both got shiny capes, in the film and in real life.

Regarding the other stuff, just because they get to approve all the designs doesn’t mean they know during set development how significant each will be to the story. They also have predetermined price points that need to be designed for, and early in the design phase they crank out more stuff than they can ever release. Which of those models eventually get released is determined by a combination of which price points are still available, which models pass muster with the Design Department (just because it looks cool doesn’t mean it’ll make a quality retail set), and which models they favor over others.

@MCLegoboy:
Hrrrm. There’s no info on who designed this one.

@TheOtherMike:
Saw a sneak preview. Watched it twice opening weekend for giveaway items. Watched it at Brickworld Chicago with hundreds of other AFOLs. Did an outdoor show in Campus Martius in downtown Detroit when they picked it as one of their free kids’ movies. Did an indoor show at a super tiny indie theater that I think showed it four times. And then played the console game, which feels very much like watching the film. So by the time I got my hands on a physical copy of the film, I don’t think I opened it for at least 2-3 years because I got kinda burned out on it.

@Andrusi said:
" @Trigger_ said:
" @GSR_MataNui said:
"You know I always found it weird that the little glider they use for 10 seconds in this scene was made into a set, but not the western themed car they used for the entire rest of the chase "

It could’ve been the reverse— LEGO designers designed this set first and there was an obligation to put it in the film (it does seem to have almost the same if not the same design in the film). Would also explain why we got so many 2-in-1 sets that appear for seconds at the most yet something as important as the submarine didn’t get a set."

The submarine? The one whose whole narrative purpose was to be a poorly designed, unstable piece of crap that no one should want?"
I kinda assumed that might be the reason why it didn’t get a set. Although the western car didn’t have a much better or more stable design.

I just watched the movie last weekend, and my biggest take away from watching the film again is this:

"First law of the sea: Never place your rear end on a pirate's face."

That line amuses me in so many ways, due to a game I once played as a child with a pirate, and an incident involving a rear end on said pirate's face.

Also, Blacktron parts pack.

@ElephantKnight said:
"That line amuses me in so many ways, due to a game I once played as a child with a pirate, and an incident involving a rear end on said pirate's face."

If that's not some Monkey Island reference that I'm just not remembering, I don't think anyone wants any further explanation.