LEGO Movie Maker

This is a fun combination of LEGO building and movie-making that will be perfect for fans of The LEGO Movie 2. Older kids might be a little disappointed in the functionality of the Movie Maker app, but it's easy enough for younger kids to use and quickly make their own LEGO movies. more less

This is a fun set, and your creative child can make some great movies, but be prepared for a ton of frustration trying to view or copy those movies. And all of the special effects you can add are great, but once you "finalize" the movie there is no going back to add or change them. For serious (10 y.o. level) lego stop-motion video making, you're going to need to find another app. We already lost 1 masterpiece at the 59th second and have numerous shorter videos stuck in the approval process for about a week through all kinds of troubleshooting and trying multiple devices (apple & android). more less

This set was very fun to build and see the characters being put together and had some play features I wasn't aware of. The characters in this set are: Emmet (with a new face and the scratched printing); Lucy/Wyldstyle (with no new prints or pieces); Rex Dangervest (with a new face print); Sweet Mayhem (unfortunately without her helmet or wings); Queen Watev'ra Wanabi (a micro build with 2 new printed 1x2 bricks, one happy and one angry); Ultrakatty (in a very bizarre but very articulated form, again, with a new face print); a small Duplo invader (with chomping mouth); a big Duplo invader (the one who says "We are from the planet Duploh and we are here to destroy you", again with an opening and partially closing mouth). There are also three vehicles included, all in micro scale (Sweet Mayhem's ship, Rex's ship and the escape buggy.) All of the things have clear rods attached to them (except the minifigs) which are useful for making the movie. The actual set where you can make the movies is quite a fast and basic build, with the main part being a big cardboard sheet of either Apocalypseburg or the Systaar System. There are 2 very neat builds where you attatch a minifigure to a jumper plate and then, using a handle off set, you can move them around and make it look like they are walking. Also, at the top of the set, there are places where you can attatch Sweet Mayhem's ship on one side and Rex's on the other. This allows you to move around the spaceships without having to hold them. Sweet Mayhem's can go up, down, left and right whereas Rex's can only go side to side. The build for the phone holder is very neat too. It has three different stages depending on where you want the camera to be showing and an adjustable part at the top so that it can fit any size (not tablets though!) It can also clip onto three parts of the set so that you can get different angles. Overall, I really enjoyed building this set and also making movies with it. Unfortunately on the Movie Maker App you can only make movies of 1 minute or less. I still really enjoy it though! more less