12 Years Ago Today, One of the Best Animated Movies of the 21st Century Released & It Had No Right Being So Good
When Warner Bros. announced The LEGO Movie, many people doubted it would succeed. LEGO bricks are known for inspiring imagination – kids build whatever they dream up – so a fixed storyline seemed to go against the brand’s spirit. However, when the movie came out on February 7, 2014, it was a huge hit with both critics and audiences, earning over $470 million worldwide. Its success came from a clever, self-aware story and a groundbreaking animation style that brought the unique look of LEGOs to life.
![Within a closed anti-de Sitter (AdS) universe, the expectation value and its square for a patch operator demonstrate inherent properties of the spacetime geometry, revealing how quantum fluctuations manifest within this constrained cosmological model [latex]AdS[/latex].](https://arxiv.org/html/2602.05939v1/x2.png)
![The convergence of [latex]\mathcal{Z}(g\_{\text{YM}},\phi)[/latex] and [latex]\mathcal{Z}\_{\text{ScYM}}(g\_{\text{YM}},\phi)[/latex] is dictated by rotational symmetry-a φ rotation of the integration contour induces a corresponding rotation of the divergent region, expanding until, at [latex]\phi=\pi/4[/latex], divergence dominates the second and fourth quadrants, after which convergence is localized within figure-eight domains through continued rotation beyond [latex]\arg(a)>\pi/4[/latex], with the formal sum of residues converging within the shaded regions and mirrored across the yy-axis for the negative contour.](https://arxiv.org/html/2602.05733v1/x4.png)
