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Here Are The Number Of LEGO Bricks It Took To Make 'The Lego Movie'
Here Are The Number Of LEGO Bricks It Took To Make 'The Lego Movie'
Kirsten AcunaFeb 7, 2014, 20:45 IST
YouTube / Lego Movie featuretteThe Lego Movie is out this weekend and is expected to make more than $50 million opening weekend.That would give it the largest opening of 2014 so far. If you're taking the kids to see it this weekend, here's something to ponder while the opening sequence pans over an elaborately-made virtual Lego world.There are a total of 3,863,484 unique Lego bricks in the movie. According to the film's production notes, many of those bricks were reused to create many of the film's scenes.However, if you wanted to recreate the entire movie, you would need 15,080,330 Lego pieces.In addition, a total of 183 different types of Lego minifigures can be seen in the film.YouTube / Warner Bros.Of course, the movie wasn't made out of physical bricks. Instead, production designer Grant Freckelton and his team used virtual bricks through free software LEGO Digital Designer to bring the movie to life.Here are a few visualizations of the world depicted in the film:YouTube / Warner Bros.YouTube / Warner Bros.YouTube / Warner Bros.
