Lego One Piece is an unreliable retelling of the live-action show, and Netflix just dropped its first full trailer
Netflix’s One Piece live-action adaptation is expanding its multimedia footprint with Lego One Piece, a new two-part special that recaps the events from the show’s first two seasons. The special reimagines the Straw Hat pirates and their adventures in Lego brick form, offering a humorous take on the live-action narrative.
Netflix released the first full teaser trailer on Monday, providing viewers their first comprehensive look at the Lego-based special. Rather than delivering a straightforward recap, the special employs a comedic framing device: Usopp, the sharpshooter character from the series, serves as narrator but tells an intentionally unreliable retelling of events. This approach allows the special to play with viewer expectations and inject humor through deliberate inaccuracies and embellishments.
The trailer showcases this unreliable narrator angle with humorous moments, including an exchange where Usopp asks about a character, prompting Zoro to respond “I never said that!"—a joke that plays on Usopp’s tendency to exaggerate or misremember. This format offers fans a lighthearted, comedic perspective on the first two seasons while maintaining the Lego universe’s inherently playful aesthetic.
The Lego One Piece special represents another expansion of the franchise into different media formats, continuing Netflix’s strategy of extending popular properties through creative collaborations and spin-offs.