Lego Unikitty! Explained

Lego Unikitty!
Subject:	Unikitty!
Characters:	Beatsy, Beau, Brock, Burger Person, Buzz, Cloud Berry, Dino Dude, Dr. Fox, Fee Bee, Hawkodille, Kick Flip, Master Frown, Penny, Puppycorn, Richard "Rick", Square Bear, Sssnake, Stocko, and Unikitty
From:	2018
To:	2019
Sets:	9
Website:	https://www.lego.com/en-my/themes/unikitty
Tvseries:	Unikitty!

Lego Unikitty! (stylized as LEGO Unikitty!) was a Lego theme based on the animated television series of the same name. It was licensed from The Lego Group and Warner Bros. Animation for Cartoon Network and the series starred the character of the same name from The Lego Movie^[1] and its sequel, . The theme was first introduced in August 2018. The product line was discontinued by the end of December 2019.

Overview

See main article: Unikitty!. Lego Unikitty! was based on the animated television series. The product line focuses on Unikitty and her friends in Unikingdom. As the ruler of Unikingdom, Princess Unikitty has various misadventures in her land with her brother Prince Puppycorn, scientist Dr. Fox, bodyguard Hawkodile, and advisor Richard. They also deal with the threats of Master Frown from the neighboring Frown Town. Lego Unikitty! aimed to recreate the main characters in Lego form, including Unikitty, Puppycorn, Dr. Fox, Hawkodile and Richard.^[2]

In April 2016, Christoph Bartneck built a life-sized model of Unikitty from the Unikitty! animated television series. The Unikitty contained a total of 30,000 Lego bricks and was six feet tall.^[3]

Development

Lego Unikitty! was inspired by 2017 TV series Unikitty!. The construction toy range was based on the TV series and developed in collaboration with Warner Bros. Consumer Products. The construction sets were designed to recreate the story and characters of the TV series in Lego form. The first appearance of Unikitty on the big screen was in The Lego Movie (2014).

During the development process of the Lego Unikitty! theme, Lego designers Yi-Chien Cheng and Janko Grujic explained the concept of the Lego Unikitty! theme. Yi-Chien Cheng explained, "It’s a unisex theme, for both boys and girls. I know Unikitty is pink, so that looks girly, but she's a very active character and there's a very exciting story. So we tried to use lots of colours and lots of crazy ideas, and created lots of cool characters with the new printed elements. So we hope the fans can use these to create something more. We look forward to seeing that!". Janko Grujic explained, "There's a lot of simple bricks, because we wanted to inspire kids to build, we wanted to inspire creativity, and to build in the simplest ways: Just stacking bricks. As Yi-Chien said, we definitely didn't want to exclude anyone, so there are sets that appeal more to the girls and sets that appeal more to the boys. But overall, we were trying to make something that would be for everyone."^[4]

The initial concept for the theme originated in a rough sketch created by Ed Skudder, Lynn V Wang and Aaron Horvath in January 2019. The sketch reveals how Unikitty! was developed for television and how the character was refined to transform from 3D to 2D animation on screen.^[5]

Characters

• Princess Unikitty: The princess of the Unikingdom who is a cat/unicorn hybrid. She is very happy, playful, cute, and upbeat, but has an angry side that she sometimes struggles to control. She was previously voiced by Alison Brie in the original film. Voiced by Tara Strong.^{[6] [7] [8]}
• Prince Puppycorn: Unikitty's little brother, a pug/unicorn hybrid. He is sometimes clueless and dimwitted, but is also loyal and good-hearted. Voiced by Grey DeLisle.^[9]
• Dr. Fox: A red fox who is the castle's resident scientist whose experiments and inventions can both create and resolve problems. Voiced by Kate Micucci.^[10]
• Hawkodile: Unikitty's trusty hawk/crocodile hybrid bodyguard who has a "macho" personality and has a crush on Dr. Fox. He trained to be a fighter in the Action Forest and has a rival named Eagleator (voiced by Keith Ferguson), who was his former best friend and an eagle/alligator hybrid. Voiced by Roger Craig Smith.^[11]
• Richard "Rick": A grey 1x3 Lego brick who is Unikitty's royal advisor and the castle's property caretaker. He speaks with a dull monotone voice and is often the voice of reason, though the others find him boring to listen to. Voiced by Roger Craig Smith.^[12]
• Master Frown: Unikitty's archenemy who comes from Frown Town at the other side of Unikitty's kingdom. He is one of the Doom Lords that spread pain and misery throughout the world as he wants to impress the other Doom Lords. This often causes him to suffer the wrath of Unikitty, who wants to spread fun and joy. Voiced by Eric Bauza.^[13]
• Brock: An anthropomorphic headstone with a neutral personality who is Master Frown's best friend, sidekick, and roommate. Brock would often hang around his apartment playing video games rather than help Master Frown with his plots. The only time he gets angry is when Master Frown neglects his part of the chores. He is also Crankybeard's son. Voiced by H. Michael Croner.
• Beatsby: A boombox with tiny-rounded arms and legs. His toy counterpart has no arms and legs.
• Beau: A rectangular creature with short legs and armless hands. Voiced by Tara Strong
• Burger Person: A cheeseburger citizen of Unikingdom who dislikes being eaten. Voiced by Tara Strong.
• Buzz: A creature with a blue square head and a yellow rectangular body who moves around on a skateboard.
• Cloudbarry: A cloud citizen of the Unikingdom. He is spelled "Cloud Berry" in the toyline.
• Dino Dude: An Australian-accented Tyrannosaurus with wheels instead of legs. Voiced by Grey Griffin in 2017–2018 and Eric Bauza in 2018.
• Feebee: A Southern-accented flower/bumblebee hybrid who runs "Feebee's Flower Shop." Her name is sometimes written as 'FeeBee'. Voiced by Grey Griffin in a Southern accent.
• Kickflip: A pink skateboard-riding square. Voiced by Tara Strong in most episodes and Grey Griffin in "Little Prince Puppycorn".
• Penny: A green creature in full gray-armor who works at the Unikingdom's Toy Zone.
• Sssnake: A snake in a bowler hat made up of rectangles with a triangle-tipped tail. Voiced by H. Michael Croner.
• Stocko: A teal rectangle with arms and a bowler hat. Voiced by Kate Miccuci.
• Squarebear: A brown bear with a rectangular body, slope-shaped ears, and rectangular feet. There is also a pink variant of Squarebear.

Toy line

According to BrickLink, The Lego Group released a total of nine Lego sets and promotional polybags as part of Lego Unikitty! theme.^[14] It was discontinued by the end of December 2019.^{[15] [16]}

Construction sets

In 2018, The Lego Group partnered with Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Network. The Lego Group announced that the first wave of sets based on Unikitty! animated television series would be released on 1 August 2018.^[17] The seven Lego sets^{[18] [19]} released included Dr. Fox Magnifying Machine, Unikitty Cloud Car, Prince Puppycorn Trike, Party Time, Dr. Fox Laboratory, Unikingdom Creative Brick Box and Unikingdom Fairground Fun.^[20] In addition, two polypag sets released as a promotions were Unikitty Roller Coaster Wagon^[21] and Castle Room.^{[22] [23]} Each of the sets featured seven core characters, named Princess Unikitty,^[24] Prince Puppycorn, Dr. Fox, Hawkodile, Richard, Master Frown and Brock. The sets were designed primarily for children aged 5 to 12.

Collectible buildable figures

Unikitty! blind bags series 1 - Complete was released on 1 August 2018 and included 12 characters based on the Unikitty! animated television series. The twelve collectible buildable figures were Rainbow Unikitty, Angry Unikitty, Shades Puppycorn, Dinosaur Unikitty,^[25] Shades Unikitty, Dalmatian Puppycorn, Dessert Unikitty, Camouflage Unikitty, Alien Puppycorn, Sleepy Unikitty, Queasy Unikitty and Dessert Puppycorn.^{[26] [27] [28]}

Web shorts

Fourteen web shorts have been released on YouTube for the Lego Unikitty! theme.

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1	Hide and Go Sparkle with Unikitty^[29]		LEGO Unikitty	stop motion series
2	A Ruff Race with Puppycorn^[30]
3	Mad Science Fun with Dr. Fox^[31]
4	Boppin’ and Bashin’ with Hawkodile^[32]
5	A Day in the Life of Richard^[33]
6	Bumpin’ Around with Master Frown^[34]
7	Snack Shack Snack Attack with Brock^[35]
8	Making Stop-Motion Videos^[36]
9	Evil Unikitty, Lab Experiment Gone Wrong^[37]
10	Evil Unikitty, Party Crasher^[38]
11	Evil Unikitty, Unikingdom Park Under Siege^[39]
12	Evil Unikitty, Fairground Frenzy^[40]
13	Unikitty vs. Evil Clone, Final Showdown^[41]
14	Throwing Down^[42]

Unikitty! TV series

See main article: Unikitty!. In May 2017, Warner Bros. and Lego announced that Unikitty, a character from The Lego Movie, would get a spin-off animated television series on Cartoon Network.^{[43] [44] [45] [46] [47]} For the show, she was voiced by Tara Strong. The premiere date was January 1, 2018 and the show's executive producers were Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Dan Lin, Roy Lee, Jill Wilfert and Sam Register. Ed Skudder (creator of Dick Figures and co-creator of Dogsnack) and Lynn Wang (co-creator of Dogsnack) were producers, while Aaron Horvath was supervising producer.^{[48] [49] [50] [51] [52]} The series aired a Halloween special/sneak peek entitled "Spoooooky Game" on October 27, 2017.^[53] The series aired a second sneak peek titled "Sparkle Matter Matters" on November 17, 2017, and a third and final sneak peek/Christmas special titled "No Day Like Snow Day" aired December 1, 2017. On August 27, 2020, the series concluded with a two-part finale entitled "The Birthday To End All Birthdays".^[54]

Publications

In November 2018, a book titled Unikitty: Unikitty's Guide to Being Happy based on the Lego Unikitty! theme was published on 1 November 2018 by Scholastic.^{[55] [56]}

In 2019, Independent Published released several coloring books from the Lego Unikitty! such as Unikitty Coloring Book : Coloring Book for Kids and Adults,^[57] Unikitty Coloring Book : GREAT Coloring Book for Any Kid with HIGH QUALITY IMAGES and EXCLUSIVE ILLUSTRATIONS!,^[58] Unikitty! Coloring Book for kids ages 3-12^[59] and Unikitty Coloring Book : An Amazing Coloring Book For kids Of Unikitty.^[60]

Reception

Unikingdom Fairground Fun (set number:41456) was listed as one of the Bullseye's Top Toys of 2018.^[61]

See also

• The Lego Movie (Lego theme)
• The Lego Movie
  • • The Lego Batman Movie
• The Lego Batman Movie (Lego theme)
• The Lego Ninjago Movie
• The Lego Ninjago Movie (Lego theme)
• The Lego Movie Videogame
• The Lego Movie 2 Videogame
• Lego Dimensions
• The Lego Ninjago Movie Video Game
• Mixels
• Lego Scooby-Doo
• Lego The Powerpuff Girls

Notes and References

1. Web site: Lego Systems, Inc. Introduces Hundreds Of New Building Sets To Inspire Creativity In Children Of All Ages . . February 16, 2018.
2. Web site: LEGO.com updated with Unikitty! sets - more revealed . Brickset . 16 May 2018.
3. Web site: Life-size Unikitty uses 30,000 LEGO bricks and is 6 feet tall . brothers-brick.com . April 22, 2016.
4. Web site: LEGO UNIKITTY: YI-CHIEN CHENG & JANKO GRUJIC INTERVIEW . New Elementary . 3 January 2019.
5. Web site: Unikitty! producers share unseen development art from The LEGO Movie spin-off series. Brick Fanatics . 16 January 2019.
6. Web site: The LEGO Movie's Unikitty Gets Her Own Cartoon Network Series . Comingsoon.net . 10 May 2017 . 10 May 2017.
7. Web site: LEGO Unikitty Panel Confirmed for SDCC 2018 . thebrickfan.com . 29 June 2018 . 29 June 2018.
8. Web site: UNIKITTY. 2021-06-15. Behind The Voice Actors. en-US.
9. Web site: PUPPYCORN. 2021-06-15. Behind The Voice Actors. en-US.
10. Web site: DR. FOX. 2021-06-15. Behind The Voice Actors. en-US.
11. Web site: HAWKODILE. 2021-06-15. Behind The Voice Actors. en-US.
12. Web site: RICHARD. 2021-06-15. Behind The Voice Actors. en-US.
13. Web site: MASTER FROWN. 2021-06-15. Behind The Voice Actors. en-US.
14. Web site: BrickLink Reference Catalog - Sets - Category Lego Unikitty!. 2021-04-08. www.bricklink.com.
15. Web site: Be Sure To Check Out These Retiring LEGO Sets That Will No Longer Be Produced After 2019 . The Brick Show . 19 December 2019 . 19 December 2019.
16. Web site: Unikitty! LEGO Sets. 15 June 2021. BrickEconomy. en.
17. Web site: Unikitty sets confirmed . Brickset . 17 February 2018.
18. Web site: Unikitty! sets revealed . Brickset . 22 April 2018.
19. Web site: Free LEGO Unikitty! Castle Room Set Now Available. Bricksfanz.com . 1 August 2018.
20. Web site: LEGO Unikitty! 41456 Unikingdom Fairground Fun revealed . Brick Fanatics . 17 May 2018.
21. Web site: LEGO Unikitty Roller Coaster Wagon (30406) Polybag Found at LEGOLAND polybag set have been released as promotion . thebrickfan.com . 7 May 2018.
22. Web site: LEGO Unikitty! 5005239 Castle Room coming in August. Brick Fanatics . 2 July 2018.
23. Web site: LEGO Unikitty! 5005239 Castle Room shown in clear image . Brick Fanatics . 3 July 2018.
24. Web site: UniKitty! Meet The Cast. Bricksfanz.com . 5 March 2018.
25. Book: Farshtey. Gregory. LEGO Minifigure A Visual History New Edition. Lipkowitz. Daniel. Hugo. Simon. 2020-10-01. Dorling Kindersley Limited. 978-0-241-50202-0. 223. en.
26. Web site: LEGO Unikitty! Sets & Collectibles Revealed . Bricksfanz.com . 23 April 2018 . 23 April 2018.
27. Web site: Unikitty! blind bags: first pictures . Brickset . 11 May 2018.
28. Web site: Minifigure Maddness offers for August . Brickset . 27 August 2018.
29. Hide and Go Sparkle with Unikitty - LEGO Unikitty - Character Videos. May 21, 2018. YouTube.
30. A Ruff Race with Puppycorn - LEGO Unikitty - Character Videos. May 21, 2018. YouTube.
31. Mad Science Fun with Dr. Fox - LEGO Unikitty - Character Videos. May 21, 2018. YouTube.
32. Boppin’ and Bashin’ with Hawkodile - LEGO Unikitty - Character Videos. May 21, 2018. YouTube.
33. A Day in the Life of Richard - LEGO Unikitty - Character Videos. May 21, 2018. YouTube.
34. Bumpin’ Around with Master Frown - LEGO Unikitty - Character Videos. May 21, 2018. YouTube.
35. Snack Shack Snack Attack with Brock - LEGO Unikitty - Character Videos. May 21, 2018. YouTube.
36. Making Stop-Motion Videos - LEGO Unikitty - Behind-the-Scenes. May 21, 2018. YouTube.
37. Evil Unikitty, Lab Experiment Gone Wrong - LEGO UNIKITTY - Story Video 1. July 30, 2018. YouTube.
38. Evil Unikitty, Party Crasher - LEGO UNIKITTY - Story Video 2. July 31, 2018. YouTube.
39. Evil Unikitty, Unikingdom Park Under Siege - LEGO UNIKITTY - Story Video 3. August 1, 2018. YouTube.
40. Evil Unikitty, Fairground Frenzy - LEGO UNIKITTY - Story Video 4. July 27, 2018. YouTube.
41. Unikitty vs. Evil Clone, Final Showdown - LEGO UNIKITTY - Story Video 5. August 3, 2018. YouTube.
42. Throwing Down - LEGO UNIKITTY - Brotherhood Workshop Animation. October 21, 2018. YouTube.
43. Web site: The LEGO Movie's Unikitty to get own animated series on Cartoon Network . ToyNews . 15 May 2015 . 24 September 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200924185411/https://www.toynews-online.biz/2017/05/15/the-lego-movies-unikitty-to-get-own-animated-series-on-cartoon-network/ . dead .
44. Web site: Cartoon Network's animated Lego Movie spinoff doesn't have any actual Lego . Chaim . Gartenberg . May 10, 2017 . May 10, 2017 . The Verge.
45. Web site: Cartoon Network Greenlights "Unikitty!" Series from Warner Bros. Animation . warnerbros.com . 10 May 2017.
46. Web site: The Lego Movie's Unikitty gets CN spinoff. May 11, 2017. May 11, 2017. Jeremy. Dickson. Kidscreen. Brunico Communications.
47. Web site: The LEGO Movie's Unikitty Gets Cartoon Network Animated Series . . 10 May 2017 . 11 May 2017.
48. Web site: 'Unikitty' Animated Series Based On 'Lego Movie' Character Set At Cartoon Network . . 10 May 2017.
49. Web site: Unikitty From The LEGO Movie Getting Her Own TV Show. comicbook.com. September 5, 2017. September 5, 2017.
50. Web site: Cartoon Network to bow Unikitty! in January. December 7, 2017. December 7, 2017. Alexandra. Whyte. Kidscreen. Brunico Communications.
51. News: Nordyke. Kimberly. 'Lego Movie's' Unikitty Gets Animated Series at Cartoon Network. May 1, 2017. The Hollywood Reporter. May 10, 2017.
52. Web site: Comic Con San Diego 2017 - Unikitty - (Producers). GeekRock TV. YouTube.
53. Web site: Unikitty is premiering much earlier than expected, with a sneak peek/Halloween episode next Friday at 6:15pm!. CN Schedule. Archive. 19 October 2017.
54. Web site: LEGO Unikitty TV Series Ends . thebrickfan.com . 27 August 2020.
55. Web site: Unikitty: Unikitty's Guide to Being Happy. 2018-11-01. The Book Depository.
56. Web site: Unikitty: Unikitty's Guide to Being Happy. Scholastic. 6 July 2017.
57. Web site: Unikitty Coloring Book : Coloring Book for Kids and Adults. 2019-06-09. The Book Depository.
58. Web site: Unikitty Coloring Book : GREAT Coloring Book for Any Kid with HIGH QUALITY IMAGES and EXCLUSIVE ILLUSTRATIONS!. 2020-10-29. The Book Depository.
59. Web site: Unikitty! coloring book for kids ages 3-12. 2021-08-04. The Book Depository.
60. Web site: Unikitty Coloring Book : An Amazing Coloring Book For kids Of Unikitty. 2021-04-19. The Book Depository.
61. Web site: Target Expands Holiday Assortment to Offer More Than 2,500 New and Exclusive Toys . . 2018-09-04.