LEGO Extended Universe

The LEGO Extended Universe (LEU) is an American media franchise and shared universe based on Lego construction toys. Its produced mainly by LEGO Studios and Warner Animation Group and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and Universal Pictures. The LEU was originally planned to focus on separate spin-offs from The Lego Movie, but Warner Bros. scrapped that idea to focus on a shared nature in 2018.

The LEU began with the 2014 film The Lego Movie, which was directed and written by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and was followed by the Wave One films, culminating in The Lego Dimensions Movie. These films were followed by Wave Two and the franchise will continue with Wave Three movies, starting in 2030 with various projects scheduled for their 2031–2033 film slate.

As of the release of " Unikitty!" developed by Warner Bros. Animation in 2017, the universe expanded into television series, continuing with Girls Rule in 2022.

The LEU has been commercially successful, received generally positive critical reception, and has collectively grossed at least $ 8.9 billion at the global box office, making it the fifth-highest-grossing film franchise of all time, the flagship franchise of Warner Animation Group and one of the largest and most important Warner Bros. Pictures.

Feature films

 * Main article: The Dimensions Series.
 * See also: LEGO Extended Universe: Wave One, Wave Two and Wave Three

Upcoming
In the long term, a linear story with movies and other projects is envisioned through 2038, with a production cycle of one to three movies a year, with increasing acceleration "from 2031" thanks to co-production by Warner Animation Group and LEGO Studios. On April 1, 2033, it was announced that a process of slowing down film production would at some point begin, focusing on an estimated "one film a year". At Comic-Con 2032 it was announced that there are additional undisclosed release dates for the unannounced films that are part of a future Warner Animation Group and LEGO add-on Wave that will begin sometime after 2038.

Warner Bros. has scheduled additional release dates for unannounced films on May 5, 2034, August 11, 2034, November 3, 2034, February 9, 2035, November 22, 2035 and June 6, 2036

Other
Main article: Unrealized and other LEU projects

HBO Max
Main article: LEGO's HBO Max television series

The waves of the franchise also include as canonical external material the television series that are broadcast on Cartoon Network and HBO Max. The series have been in continuous production since 2017: ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unikitty! Unikitty]! (2017), Girls Rule (2022), Lord and Rings (2026) and City Undercover'' (2026). Two one-hour specials exclusive to HBO Max were included in Wave Two; Wyldstyle in 2024-2025 and City Undercover Hallowen Special in 2027.

A LEGO Shorts
Main article: A LEGO Short

A LEGO Short are a series of canonical shorts for the franchise, computer animated and produced by Warner Animation Group. They are included as shorts in other studio feature films, released online, or as additional features in LEU films. Shorts include The Master (2016), Cooking with Alfred (2017), Emmet's Holiday Party (2018), Agents (2019), Unikitty Daily (2021), Wyldstyle's Easter Eggs Game (2022), Worlds (2022), Ninjago Apple (2023), Metalbeard New House (2025), I am Batman (2025) among others.

Box office performance
As of 2029, the first 15 LEGO Extended Universe films have collectively grossed over $9.2 billion at the worldwide box office, making it the highest-grossing animated franchise of all time, as well as the seventh highest-grossing film franchise. box office in the world in general behind the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Star Wars films, DC Extended Universe, Wizarding World, James Bond, and the Spider-Man films. Almost all of the fifteen films emerged as commercial successes at the box office with most of the films grossing between $400 million and $600 million at the worldwide box office (Ninjago: The Movie, Harry Potter, Monkie Kit and the Born Hero and Break the Rules - Episode 1 entering the 30th, 27th, 20th and 12th positions among the 50 highest-grossing animated films) with Break the Rules - Episode 2 grossing over $1.1 billion becoming the 8th highest-grossing animated film of all time, the highest-grossing film in the franchise, the second-highest-grossing film of 2029, the foruth-highest-grossing film released by Warner Bros., as well as the 24nd-highest-grossing film overall.

Timeline
Main Article: Timeline of LEGO Extended Universe

During the production of the Wave One films, he lined up some of his films' stories with references to each other, though at the time they had no long-term plan for a likely shared universe timeline. The Lego Movie Sequel is set 3 1/2 years after the events of The Lego Movie, and shortly after the events of The Lego Batman Movie according to comments made by Alfed and Batman. In writing The Lego Dimensions Movie, Lord and Miller tried to follow the established "real time" logic and explicitly set it "in 2022" accommodating all previous movies in the process, with The Lego Ninjago Movie happening in 2019 and The Billion Brick Race serving as a prequel by being set in 2014 before The Lego Movie.

Linear history writers wanted the Wave Two movies to continue to be set in real time, mentioning dates and putting years on screen, relating to the events of The Lego Dimensions Movie: The Lego Movie 3 takes place "two years" later, in April, 2024; The Lego Batman Movie: Villains takes place three years later and you can see how the reconstruction of downtown Metropolis is still continuing; The Lego Chima Movie is set before that chronologically, but it takes place in its dimensions in the 6th Millennium, in the year 5050. Ninjago: The Movie takes place almost seventh years after the 2018 movie, but being an independent sequel and soft reboot it is almost autonomous. The Lego Harry Potter Movie takes place in the 90s, but it happens chronologically nine months after Ninjago: The Movie, and only one year before Episode I that together with Episode II take place throughout 2028 with the final scenes in early 2029. With both Monkie Kit and the Born of a Hero and Wyldstyle set earlier in the timeline; the latter set in mid-2013.

The series produced have interconnectivity with feature films, with the first season of Girls Rule setting a month after the events of The Lego Dimensions Movie, and setting directly with The Lego Batman Movie: Villains in season five; Lord and Rings is set in real time since The Lego Movie 3, positioning it more specifically at the end of 2026 and extends until the beginning of 2028 where it is related to The Lego Dimensions Movie: Episode I. The first season of City Undercover begins in the middle of 2013 and in the book "LEGO Extended Universe Ultimate Timeline" it is specified that it begins immediately after Wyldstyle in June 2013, in addition, during its fourth season an allusion is made to the events of The Billion Brick Race, confirming the exact dates of several of some movies, such as The Billion Brick Race in January 2014, The Lego Movie in February 2014, The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part in February 2019, and The Lego Batman Movie in May 2017.

Other

 * 1) List of Post-credits Scenes
 * 2) List of Dimensions