Why LEGO Didn’t Really Want Those Cameos In The LEGO Movie 2

One sequence in The LEGO Movie 2 deals with time travel, and pulls in several time travel themed pop culture properties. Some, like Back to the Future and Doctor Who, are perfectly family friendly, but others, like Terminator and Hot Tub Time Machine, are R-rated films that the target market for LEGO toys has hopefully never seen. As such, it seems that LEGO wasn’t excited by the idea of their inclusion, but in the end relented. The references are brief and meant with the same fun as the others. The fact that these titles are more mature is never referenced.

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