#2007:
Lego Executive 1: Alright, we’ve got this whole underwater thing planned as a follow-up to last year. Set designers, strut your stuff.
Lego Set Designer: Well, they’re underwater, right? How about silver tubes, like, you know, SCUBA stuff.
Greg Farshtey: This invalidates the Mask of Underwater Breathing. How about it be a part of their armor, not the tubes?
Lego Executive 1: I see your point. The tubes are what make them breathe underwater. Set designer, put it to print!
Greg Farshtey: But I…
Lego Executive 2: ROBOT MAN WITH ROBOT DOG.
Lego Executive 3: Should I even bother voicing my concerns at this point?
Lego Executive 1: You may try.
Lego Executive 3: Well, since people liked the music by All Insane Kids and All-American Rejects, I recommend continuing down the path of alt-rock. Help set the darker tone of this year’s story.
Lego Executive 1: That might be the best idea you’ve ever had! Certainly better than that secret agent stuff.
Lego Executive 3: Rest in peace, Alpha Team…
Lego Executive 1: Yes, yes, all well and good. What you’re saying is kids like bands that start with the word “all?”
Lego Executive 3: Wait, no that’s not-
Lego Executive 2: WHYYYYYYYYY MUST I FIGHT TO STAYYYYYYYYYYY ALIVVVVE
Lego Executive 3: Why do I still work here.
2008:
Lego executive 1: Alright guys, so the edgy theme worked great, but we killed off Matoro, so we need to replace him somehow
Greg Farshtey: Well, with Matoro dead we could always go back to the Toa Nuva
Lego executive 1: Ok, good thinking. We haven’t seen anything from them in years.
Lego executive 2: We should have BATS THAT DROP BALLS FROM THEIR CHESTS
Lego executive 1: Brilliant!
Greg Farshtey: What if instead of bats, we brought in the brotherhood of Makuta
Lego executive 2: and theY DRoP BALLS FROM THEIR CHESTS AND THEYRE BATS
Greg Farshtey: but Teridax wasn’t a ba-
Lego executive 2: AND THE ROBOTS CAN FLY AND SHOOT LASERS AND STUFF
Greg Farshtey: They still aren’t robots but I could make that work
Lego executive 3: so I’ve got this song Gravity Hurts by Cryoshell
Lego executive 2: and also CLOOOSER TO THE TRUUUTH bcause its edgy
Greg Farshtey: hey remember that pill idea Christian Faber had?
Lego executive 1: yeah good one. Ooh and at the end we can completely abandon this part of the story and go somewhere else
Greg Farshtey: wait wha-
#2009:
Lego Executive 1: Ok, we have wiped the slate clean, what do we do now?
Greg Farshtey: I was thinking that Mata Nui guy, you know, basically God, what if we gave him a set?
Lego Executive 1: Great idea! Those kids will eat that stuff up!
Lego Executive 2: HOW ABOUT ROBOTS THAT RIDE?
Lego Executive 3: Because that worked so well ten years ag-
Lego Executive 1: PERFECT! But in the summer.
Greg Farshtey: So Mata Nui comes to a desert planet after being expelled from the robot, and he meets Toa there who help him get back.
Lego Executive 1: The Toa are so overdone.
Lego Executive 2: I READ HISTORY YESTERDAY, HOW ABOUT DESERT BABYLON FIGHTING PEOPLE!
Lego Executive 1: You mean gladiators?
Greg Farshtey: I’m pretty sure gladiators were Roman…
Lego Executive 2: BYE BYE BABYLON!
Lego Executive 1: Great Idea! And Greg, love the input, let’s push it back six months, ok?
Greg Farshtey: Fine. But give mata Nui a good set.
Design Team Head: Hahahahaha!
Greg Farshtey: I hope next year is better.
Lego Board of Directors: We’ve got some bad news…
2010
Lego executive 1: …
Lego executive 2: …
Lego executive 3: …
Greg Farshtey: …
Lego executive 3: dear God what have we do-
Lego executive 2: ROBOTS THAT DO ABSOLUTELY NOTHIIIIIING
2011:
Lego executive 1: Hey let’s do bionicle again.
2012:
Lego executive 2: Hey let’s do bionicle again.
Lego executive 3: Yeah, but don’t invite greg until 2013.
2013:
Greg: This looks fine.
Lego executive 3: Can we not credit you at all?
Greg: I mean only credit me in the end credits of the animations.
Lego executive 3: ok
2014:
Lego executive 2: Man I hope we don’t leak anything.