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Mar. 20th, 2019 07:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
leeshajoySo I just saw The Lego Movie 2: the Second Part this afternoon. I re-watched the first movie just before, and it holds up beautifully; I had forgotten how much I enjoyed it. The sequel is a very different kind of movie, but just as much fun, and the two films slot together perfectly, as one would expect for a movie about construction toys.
The dynamic between the "boy" and "girl" Lego sets made me nostalgic for playing with my little brother when we were kids. Legos weren't really a gendered toy back in the 80s and early 90s, but we had plenty of toys that were gendered, and we combined them with reckless abandon. Apparently at one point we staged a wedding between Optimus Prime and one of my My Little Ponies. I have no memory of this happening, but my dad vividly remembers walking in to see the ceremony all laid out in the playroom.
On a different note, I am fascinated by the interplay between the "real" world and the world that the Lego-people inhabit. (I initially wanted to call it L-Space, but that's already a thing. Brickspace, maybe?) I might just write up a whole cosmology of their reality.
The dynamic between the "boy" and "girl" Lego sets made me nostalgic for playing with my little brother when we were kids. Legos weren't really a gendered toy back in the 80s and early 90s, but we had plenty of toys that were gendered, and we combined them with reckless abandon. Apparently at one point we staged a wedding between Optimus Prime and one of my My Little Ponies. I have no memory of this happening, but my dad vividly remembers walking in to see the ceremony all laid out in the playroom.
On a different note, I am fascinated by the interplay between the "real" world and the world that the Lego-people inhabit. (I initially wanted to call it L-Space, but that's already a thing. Brickspace, maybe?) I might just write up a whole cosmology of their reality.