We adore Legos, so naturally we recently watched the new Lego Movie. Our whole family loved it! It has great characters, and a fantastic theme about using Legos for creativity while not being held down by the enclosed instructions.
It’s a theme that sounded a little…um… familiar to us, here at ThriftyRambler.
We write frequently about the importance of creative thinking and play, and how our family finds that Legos encourages both pursuits. We use the Lego instructions as starting points to learn new ways to fit the pieces together, and then we pretty quickly set them aside and start building our own buildings, vehicles and people.
So we loved seeing this film with it’s push for creativity vs. following the instructions. It’s just that….
Look. We’re not saying anyone from the Lego Movie stole the idea for the spirit of the film from us. No. We’re not saying that at all. It’s just quite interesting that our post on Instructions appeared eighteen months before this Lego movie opened.
Let’s just say, “Great minds think alike!” And we’ll leave it at that.
Tip: To be very clear- we’re kidding! We don’t believe that anyone from the Lego Movie got their awesome idea from us.
We love that Lego made a big budget movie for the masses about ignoring instruction sheets and making your own constructs and story to go along with your creations.
We greatly enjoyed the Lego Movie and we’ve watched it several times in the first week that we’ve owned it. Each viewing is followed by a rousing call to go build with Legos!