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'The Lego Movie' Wins the Box Office: 7 Other Toys & Games We Want Transformed to Film
In case you missed it, The Lego Movie continues to smash box office competition. The Lego Movie has raked in well over $120 million in just two weekends which is huge for an animated film...especially one that was released in February. Despite the historically cold and snowy winter we've been having, audiences are going out in droves to see The Lego Movie . Maybe we all just needed a little reminder that despite our collective cabin fever that, "Everything is Awesome."
With the massive success of The Lego Movie, it won't be long before movie companies begin expanding on the childhood-toy-turned-feature-film genre. Here at Bustle we have a few suggestions for Hollywood of our favorite toys and games that would make excellent movies. And no, it's not just The Lego Movie 2 (which will definitely happen and will definitely be awesome). Here are our picks. Enjoy!
'You're Right! I Really Like You!' The Dream Phone Movie
We can finally find out for real who who who has a crush on you. Think of all the exotic locations we’d see: the mall, the beach, and school. Maybe Channing Tatum will or will not be wearing a hat. I’M ALREADY DYING TO SEE IT.
Image: Milton Bradley
'The Weeble Wobble Movie'
The comedic potential for near-falls is endless.
Image: Playskool
'Camp Lincoln Logs'
Written by and starring Amy Poehler, she leads a rag-tag group of young female adventurers in the summer of their lives!
Image: K’Nex Brands
'Goldieblox in the Future'
A live-action film about women who meet at a science club in elementary school and trace their friendships and careers in engineering, math, and chemistry. A real tear-jerker that most certainly includes a scene where all of the women dance around a kitchen table with wine glasses in hand.
Image: Goldieblox
'(un)Happy Meals'
There’s an animated war between “boys” kids meal toys and “girls” kids meal toys which eventually resolves in the fact that it’s insane to have gendered kids meal toys.
Image: McDonald’s
'Welcome to Play-Doh Ville'
Written and directed by Tim Burton, this stop-motion animated film takes us into the colorful and wild world of one art teacher’s classroom. Watch her students’ creations come to life and threaten to take over the town until the mis-shapen monsters and people make friends with the school kids and the whole village transforms into a Play-Doh world.
Image: Hasbro
'Hippos'
The Hungry Hungry gang dissolved after the yellow hippo and the green hippo got divorced. Can these four friends reunite for one last Hungry Hungry championship? The Hunger Games has nothin’ on these hippos.
Image: Hasbro
