Board Thread:Inclusion debates/@comment-4028641-20170222073756/@comment-4028641-20170225052909

A solid point, but I think that element has easily become heavily unimportant since the first film, and it's quite quite vague.

I think it's pretty clear that the spin-off media have played off of that aspect and left it up to interpretation. It's hard to play the entirety of Lego Dimensions while thinking "Oh, this is all being done by kid from the first movie, whose father is presumably incredibly incredibly rich. Also this kid knows a lot about pop-culture I guess."

I certainly doubt that they go into every movie with the mindset of that still being true. Lego Batman never references this, and I doubt something like Lego Ninjago will either.

"Damn, the child from the first movie must have spent hours building these sets."

Also, the twist in the first movie is certainly not that it's all in the kid's head. The Pratt Lego is still sentient during the LA sequence, and he even moves. It's just another universe.

If anything, you can probably just interpret the Ferrel-verse as just another universe that LD is connected to. You could even look at it as the franchise's equivalent to stories like The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who. Sure, there's a world where the Doctor/the LEGO people aren't real, and the actions of actors/children in that universe seem to directly effect the actions of the "the main setting," but it's just another universe in the scheme of things. It doesn't really trap the franchise in any way.

I mean it's that, or the kid is some sort of Haruhi-god character who creates entire dimensions and sentient life at his own will. That'd be dumb.

My over-all point is that it's vague, it could mean a billion things, and most of the products in the franchise ignore it.