Our infatuation with Legos stretches back many years.  First there were  the stop motion animations in grade school:

First Movie (17.0MB)
Second Movie (9.58MB)

In college, the technology improved and the virtual world started to take shape:

Test of Virtual Legos (5.42MB)

The last production before work on the movie began, was a spoof of a Budweiser commercial:

Wazzabi (2.52MB)