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  1. verdict (ranking): Barbie → The Lego Movie. Barbie sits at the top of the toy-movie heap, along with the first Lego Movie.
    “Barbie, obviously, I think now sits as like, arguably the top of the heap, along with, I would say, the Lego movie, the 1st Lego movie”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:30:19 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (ranking): Barbie → The Lego Movie. Of the whole toy-movie canon, only Barbie and The Lego Movie came from a cynical place and ended somewhere fairly pure.
    “And then you're like, really, it's only Barbie and Lego movie that came from the cynical place and ended up somewhere fairly pure.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:40:04 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (lineage): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → The Lego Movie. Same claim: the Lego movie's self-aware tone follows Scott Pilgrim.
    “Deadpool, for example, can't happen or like the Lego movie can't happen or into the Spider-Verse.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:17:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (lineage): The Lego Batman Movie → The Lego Movie. The Lego Movie is where the earnest-Batman bit started, and the hosts doubted it could sustain a whole movie.
    “It's the thing that the Lego movie lashes onto, but you felt unsustainable for a whole movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:03:41 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. craft (craft): The Lego Batman Movie → The Lego Movie. Warner wanted redesigned Lego figures; Lord and Miller insisted on honoring the real pieces' movement limits.
    “we want to actually limit them to the way the characters could move.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:11:32 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  6. verdict (verdict): The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part → The Lego Movie. The sequel is a fun but big step down from the original.
    “It's a big step down.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:22:12 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  7. people (people): The Lego Batman Movie → The Lego Movie. Liam Neeson gives one of the all-time great Lego performances in the first movie as Good Cop/Bad Cop.
    “Liam Neeson, one of the gives one of the all-time great Lego performances.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:46:06 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  8. verdict (verdict): The Lego Batman Movie → The Lego Movie. The first Lego movie remains the pinnacle for Griffin, a brilliant, clever movie.
    “Lego movie is still the pinnacle for me, though.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 1:38:30 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  9. craft (craft): Chris Pratt → The Lego Movie. Pratt's key is being a little boy in a hunk's body, which is what works in The Lego Movie and Guardians.
    “The key to Pratt is that he's like a little boy.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:07:43 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)