LEGO Group teams up with Aardman Animation to launch stop-motion storytelling

When two giants of creativity collide, the results are rarely quiet. The LEGO Group and Aardman Animation, the studio behind Wallace & Gromit, have joined forces to bring stop-motion animation into the world of LEGO® play. Their first output? A quirky one-minute short introducing Boop the Alien, a little green visitor who depends on brick-built stop-motion to tell his story. It’s not just entertainment though, it’s a challenge, almost an invitation for kids and, let’s be honest, adults to start experimenting with bricks and cameras.

Boop takes the stage

Boop isn’t alone for long. Aardman has also produced five bite-sized stop-motion challenge films, like Build Your Own Boop, set to roll out monthly. Each one ties into the refreshed LEGO Play app, which now includes simple tools to let anyone shoot their own stop-motion clips. You build, you frame, you animate. Suddenly that pile of bricks becomes a stage.

Play turns into stories

The clever twist here is that the partnership doesn’t just show you what’s possible, it actively nudges you to try. The LEGO Play app has always been filled with games and activities, but with stop-motion baked in, it feels like a playground for storytelling. A child might build a castle, then film a dragon attack in 10 seconds of shaky but brilliant animation. That kind of hands-on storytelling is exactly what both LEGO and Aardman are built for fans to encourage.

Not their only team-up

This isn’t a one-off. A LEGO Ideas Wallace & Gromit set is also confirmed and will reach shelves soon. That tie-in makes sense. Wallace tinkers, Gromit fixes, bricks click together. The DNA overlaps nicely. Seeing Aardman’s charm cross into plastic bricks feels natural, almost overdue.

So what’s next?

Will kids create endless alien escapades? Probably. Will adults quietly download the app and test how smooth a chase scene can look with minifigures? Definitely. The beauty is that both are possible at the same time. When you swap bricks for frames and imagination for storyboards, you get a cycle that never really ends. Build, film, laugh, repeat. Or as both LEGO and Aardman might say, play builds stories, and stories build play.

Are you going to try your own Boop stop-motion? Or maybe something stranger? I’d love to hear what you’d animate first.