{"id":46799,"date":"2026-04-02T18:37:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T13:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=46799"},"modified":"2026-04-02T18:45:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T13:15:28","slug":"did-ronaldo-messi-mbappe-and-vinicius-jr-actually-film-the-lego-ad-together-the-truth-might-surprise-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/did-ronaldo-messi-mbappe-and-vinicius-jr-actually-film-the-lego-ad-together-the-truth-might-surprise-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Ronaldo, Messi, Mbapp\u00e9 and Vin\u00edcius Jr. actually film the LEGO ad together? The truth might surprise you!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"auto\">The internet is obsessed with LEGO\u2019s stunning new World Cup advert \u2014 but one big question is on everyone\u2019s mind:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><strong>Did the four superstars actually shoot the commercial together?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbapp\u00e9, and Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior appear side-by-side in the cinematic LEGO ad, sitting around a spinning table fighting for the LEGO World Cup trophy\u2026 until a young kid steals it at the end. The wholesome twist and star power have made it one of the most shared football videos of 2026.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">But was it a real group shoot\u2026 or clever editing and separate filming?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We have got a NEW Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo advert\u2026\ud83d\udc4f\ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n<p>This LEGO advert features Kylian Mbappe and Vini Jr too for the upcoming World Cup. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/slFYj87KVA\">pic.twitter.com\/slFYj87KVA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 george (@StokeyyG2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StokeyyG2\/status\/2039646343359000930?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3 dir=\"auto\">What We Know So Far<\/h3>\n<p dir=\"auto\">LEGO has not released official behind-the-scenes footage showing all four players on the same set at the same time.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">The ad itself uses high-quality mini-figure representations of each player, with realistic face scans and signature celebrations. Messi even posted the video on his Instagram with the now-famous caption: <strong>\u201cHonestly it\u2019s not AI\u201d<\/strong> \u2014 confirming the visuals are real, not generated.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">However, many fans and football insiders believe the four stars <strong>did not film the scene together<\/strong> in one location.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Reasons why:<\/p>\n<ul dir=\"auto\">\n<li>Scheduling conflicts: Ronaldo (Portugal\/Al-Nassr), Messi (Argentina\/Inter Miami), Mbapp\u00e9 (France\/Real Madrid), and Vin\u00edcius Jr. (Brazil\/Real Madrid) have extremely packed calendars.<\/li>\n<li>Different clubs and countries make a single group shoot logistically very difficult.<\/li>\n<li>The ad has a stylized, dimly lit \u201csecret meeting\u201d aesthetic that is easy to achieve by filming each player individually and compositing them later.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Similar big-brand campaigns (including the 2022 Louis Vuitton chess ad with just Ronaldo and Messi) often film athletes separately and stitch everything together in post-production.<\/p>\n<h3 dir=\"auto\">Internet Reactions Are Split<\/h3>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Fans are divided online:<\/p>\n<ul dir=\"auto\">\n<li>\u201cNo way they got all four in one room \ud83d\ude02 Logistics would be insane!\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cLEGO pulled off the impossible. Respect if they actually met!\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cDoesn\u2019t matter if they shot together or not \u2014 the ad is pure fire \ud83d\udd25\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cMessi\u2019s \u2018not AI\u2019 caption was the perfect troll. Still looks too good to be true!\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Some TikTok and Instagram creators are already doing side-by-side comparisons, pointing out slight lighting and shadow differences that suggest separate green-screen or studio shoots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The internet is obsessed with LEGO\u2019s stunning new World Cup advert \u2014 but one big question is on everyone\u2019s mind:\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":46800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5086,239,4057],"class_list":["post-46799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-mbappe-and-vinicius-jr","tag-messi","tag-top-stories"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46803,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46799\/revisions\/46803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}