So The LEGO Movie was number one this week, for the third time in a row, and its worldwide gross is now 275 Million dollars.
Its budget was 60 million.
This movie is making an insane profit.
Really makes me wonder what the movie is going to pull in from the merch. Cause I know I spent more on a couple of lego sets then I did on the ticket to see the movie.
Probably enough money to actually buy a country and change it's name to Legoland.
It's a shame that Legoland itself is actually really lame
Also, is there any real way of judging what they pull in from merchandise? Any Lego sets not directly related to The Lego Movie can't really be judged as movie merchandise
You know what I'd really love to see? Is just how well the Lego video games do
Obviously they do well enough that they keep making them at the rate of roughly one-to-two a year, and they keep locking down new licenses for them
But on the other hand they always drop in price incredibly fast, and they never crack the NPD top ten lists either
Well obviously if they didn't sell they wouldn't keep making them. I mean they're all the same basic gameplay but I guess it's good enough and you'd only really get burned out on them if you bought every single one of them and played them to 100% completion. As far as tie-in games go you can do a lot worse.
Hard to get raw numbers of sales data on any video games
I wonder why that is, sometimes
It's not like it's hard to get accurate box office numbers
Well it's a different business, film and video games
I know, this industry is a strange industry
But tons of other commercial industries keep track of their sales, and film is the closest analogy, having studios and distributors and all
I just wonder why games don't do it when everyone else does
Oh, they keep track of them. They just aren't public.
Mainly because companies like to say units shipped are units sold. For companies like EA this is how they justify their stupid high dev costs that dont really turn a profit
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You know what I'd really love to see? Is just how well the Lego video games do
Obviously they do well enough that they keep making them at the rate of roughly one-to-two a year, and they keep locking down new licenses for them
But on the other hand they always drop in price incredibly fast, and they never crack the NPD top ten lists either
Well obviously if they didn't sell they wouldn't keep making them. I mean they're all the same basic gameplay but I guess it's good enough and you'd only really get burned out on them if you bought every single one of them and played them to 100% completion. As far as tie-in games go you can do a lot worse.
Lego Pirates of the Caribbean was the best PotC game to come out until Assassin's Creed IV was released.
I took my 4 year old son to see this on Saturday. It was the first movie he's ever seen in a theater. I got a sinking feeling in my stomach while we were waiting to buy our tickets when he started bouncing up and down and telling me how excited he was. I let him pick out a candy (Red Vines; ie fake twizzlers), and got the large bucket of popcorn. Turns out he didn't like the candy, but his eyes almost popped out of his head when he saw the size of the popcorn bucket (it must have been like a gallon and a half). When we got to the top of the ramp leading to the theater and he got his first look at the size of the screen, he just kinda stood there and stared at it of a moment trying to soak it all in. Then he drug me up the stairs.
He was great once the movie started though. Sat through the whole thing, didn't talk loud, and payed attention far more intently than I was expecting. When we got home he didn't even have his coat off before he started asking to play his "Iron Man game" (aka Lego Marvel Super Heroes).
Personally, I thought the movie was pretty good but not great. I laughed a few times but was expecting it to be much more joke-dense. I don't know if it was because I was seeing it with my son or not, but the reveal at the end got me kinda choked up.
But I like Black Liquorice
It's quite nice for a treat to get now and again
Sadly it's also a rare thing to find
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In the mid-90s, a wise man spoke on this:
"The only real Delta factor, the element which can truly alter your perspective on the moviegoing experience, making it a positive one or a negative one, is this question, this factor alone - do they have Red Vines or do they have Twizzlers? I have never actually tasted a Twizzler. I've never purchased Twizzlers. I've never opened a package of Twizzlers. I've never chewed on Twizzlers. I don't go for Twizzlers. Why? I am a Red Vine man. Twizzlers might be delicious, they might be delightful . . . they might even be good for you. But I will never know. Because I am a Red Vine man."
And that is why Tom Hanks is my spirit animal.
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Guys I can't find any freaking minifig blind bags by me. Its really infuriating
Check target / wal-mart toys r us. I havent had trouble finding them in cleveland. usually on an end unit so may not be directly with the lego movie toys, but more to the side.
Yeah the Wal-Mart and Target out here are sold right out
I came close to buying whatever Lego Movie Lego set I could come across yesterday while I was in Target, but they didn't have anything. I was going to buy a mini-fig as a cold comfort, but they were out of them too.
Consecutive Years without Lego Purchase: continues to climb into 20+ years
For my birthday my younger brother built me a LEGO pirate landspeeder, complete with a pirate captain who's half cyborg and has flames shooting out of his hat.
Coincidentally, he's going to see this movie with the rest of my family and myself tomorrow, so I think he'll get a real kick out of it.
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I did my first real custom building in... a long time after I saw the movie.
Got the lego wolf set, tore up the model on the box, and rebuilt it into a hovercar and a little robot.
I like to think they'd be good enough for the back of the box in the old days.
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Probably enough money to actually buy a country and change it's name to Legoland.
Also, is there any real way of judging what they pull in from merchandise? Any Lego sets not directly related to The Lego Movie can't really be judged as movie merchandise
Obviously they do well enough that they keep making them at the rate of roughly one-to-two a year, and they keep locking down new licenses for them
But on the other hand they always drop in price incredibly fast, and they never crack the NPD top ten lists either
Well obviously if they didn't sell they wouldn't keep making them. I mean they're all the same basic gameplay but I guess it's good enough and you'd only really get burned out on them if you bought every single one of them and played them to 100% completion. As far as tie-in games go you can do a lot worse.
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I just want like, raw numbers is what I'm saying
I know they're good games, I loved Marvel and The Lego Movie
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I wonder why that is, sometimes
It's not like it's hard to get accurate box office numbers
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Well it's a different business, film and video games
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Get ready for half a dozen sequels!
I know, this industry is a strange industry
But tons of other commercial industries keep track of their sales, and film is the closest analogy, having studios and distributors and all
I just wonder why games don't do it when everyone else does
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Oh, they keep track of them. They just aren't public.
Mainly because companies like to say units shipped are units sold. For companies like EA this is how they justify their stupid high dev costs that dont really turn a profit
Valve is also private so we never see what kind of revenue Steam generates fro them.
Lego Pirates of the Caribbean was the best PotC game to come out until Assassin's Creed IV was released.
Yes I am still bitter about that
He was great once the movie started though. Sat through the whole thing, didn't talk loud, and payed attention far more intently than I was expecting. When we got home he didn't even have his coat off before he started asking to play his "Iron Man game" (aka Lego Marvel Super Heroes).
Personally, I thought the movie was pretty good but not great. I laughed a few times but was expecting it to be much more joke-dense. I don't know if it was because I was seeing it with my son or not, but the reveal at the end got me kinda choked up.
All in all, a pretty great dad-day.
Twizzlers are fake Red Vines
The LEGO Movie game so far is easily the best for me.
I checked before I wrote that. Red Vines have been around since the '50s. Twizzlers were started in '29.
Not gonna deny having some real devotees to them though.
I ate the whole package.
and finished the popcorn, too.
I still don't think I've ever actually seen any
Nothing but Twizzlers around these parts
But licorice is disgusting no matter its form so it's irrelevant
But I like Black Liquorice
It's quite nice for a treat to get now and again
Sadly it's also a rare thing to find
"The only real Delta factor, the element which can truly alter your perspective on the moviegoing experience, making it a positive one or a negative one, is this question, this factor alone - do they have Red Vines or do they have Twizzlers? I have never actually tasted a Twizzler. I've never purchased Twizzlers. I've never opened a package of Twizzlers. I've never chewed on Twizzlers. I don't go for Twizzlers. Why? I am a Red Vine man. Twizzlers might be delicious, they might be delightful . . . they might even be good for you. But I will never know. Because I am a Red Vine man."
And that is why Tom Hanks is my spirit animal.
Nah man, you're thinking of So-Crates
Yup. It was awfully dusty in that theater, lemme tell you.
*bites the inside of my cheek*
Not in front of the boy, dammit.
Check target / wal-mart toys r us. I havent had trouble finding them in cleveland. usually on an end unit so may not be directly with the lego movie toys, but more to the side.
I came close to buying whatever Lego Movie Lego set I could come across yesterday while I was in Target, but they didn't have anything. I was going to buy a mini-fig as a cold comfort, but they were out of them too.
Consecutive Years without Lego Purchase: continues to climb into 20+ years
Coincidentally, he's going to see this movie with the rest of my family and myself tomorrow, so I think he'll get a real kick out of it.
Got the lego wolf set, tore up the model on the box, and rebuilt it into a hovercar and a little robot.
I like to think they'd be good enough for the back of the box in the old days.
Why I fear the ocean.