Game Guide - General tips The LEGO Movie Videogame Guide
Last update: 11 May 2016
For some players the game may seem easy. There are, though, some things that you should pay attention to in order to complete 100% of the game.
As soon as you unlock Virtuvius character, go to Bricksburg to do the side quest for the red brick which grants you x2 stud multiplier. This will allow you to collect much more studs even in early game stages.
Once you purchase any bonus (red bricks), remember that every time you start the game, you need to turn on selected bonuses in the pause menu - Extras -change their status to active.
Gold bricks are awarded to you for completing missions with "The Special" status and finding all the collectibles on a given level. The remaining 10 collectibles are in the "Bonus Room"
You do not always have to try to achieve "The Special" status (for collecting a given number of studs). Once you unlock some stud multipliers, collecting enough studs will be much faster.
Do not try to find all the collectibles at the first play (pants and manual pages), since this is impossible. You will only be able to do that on replaying the mission in Free Mode, where you can use all the purchased and unlocked characters at any moment.
Take on some extra challenges while playing the main story line - these will help you to complete the game faster and more effectively.
Save your studs. If you want to buy characters and you have only few studs, wait. In order to accomplish all side quests and find all collectibles you will mostly need these characters which are unlocked along with the progress in the story mode, so you do not have to buy them. However, some are not, such as Lord Business, who is required to accomplish most side quests and unlock red bricks, and he costs 1,000,000 studs.