What if… Deadpool & Wolverine was actually a LEGO movie? Well, it would probably look a little something like this.
Disney and Marvel Studios dropped the first trailer for Deadpool & Wolverine – this year’s only MCU movie – during the Super Bowl, and one intrepid animator has already reassembled the entire two-minute-plus clip with CGI LEGO bricks and minifigures. That’s everything from Wade Wilson’s birthday party to the tiniest tease of Wolverine right at the end.
“I felt compelled to recreate the Deadpool 3 trailer the moment it dropped,” says Trevor Carlee, who has built a steady following on YouTube by recreating movies and TV shows with LEGO. “I know it's outside my usual LEGO recreations but I wanted to challenge myself this week.”
The LEGO-fied trailer mostly recreates the real deal shot for shot, but there are a couple of cute LEGO-specific touches, like Wade’s wig retaining its structural integrity when a TVA agent walks over it. Carlee has also published a side-by-side comparison of the official trailer and his LEGO remake, which you can check out by clicking here.
It's already going down a storm, too – not least with Shawn Levy, the director of Deadpool & Wolverine, who gave the clip his seal of approval by tweeting: "This. Is. INCREDIBLE." It's also racked up more than half a million views in just three days on YouTube.
Carlee’s other videos include recreations of shows like Fleabag, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Atlanta, Mr. and Mrs. Smith and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. He’s not the only one working on a LEGO Deadpool 3 trailer, though: teenage Spider-Verse animator Preston Mutanga is also busy putting the finishing touches on his own version of the MCU teaser, so keep an eye out for that one soon.
As for official LEGO Deadpool 3 sets… well, don’t hold your breath. Disney seemingly hasn’t toned down Ryan Reynolds and company for their first superhero movie under the Marvel Studios banner (the first two films arrived through 20th Century Fox, now owned by Disney), so it’s not what you’d call a family-friendly property.
The best we can likely hope for is that the character shows up in a tangential LEGO Marvel set, as he did all the way back in 2012’s 6866 Wolverine’s Chopper Showdown. That model now fetches an average of £147 new and £76 used on BrickLink, so a remake would be very welcome indeed.
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