Rocketmen vs. Robots

Rocketmen vs. Robots is a 2001 science fiction brickfilm by David T. Krupicz. It is set in the future and is about a race of killer robots, the Killbots, waging war on humanity as the Rocketmen attempt to stop them. It is an early example of a fully CG brickfilm, although only the human character models are based on LEGO. It is the first film in the Rocketmen vs Robots series, and it was followed by Rocketmen vs Robots Episode 2: Rocketmen Space Patrol in 2003.

Plot
After a patrol ship disappears in the 48th sector, an abnormally high amount of Killbot activity is detected in the region. Admiral Gold, commander in chief of the Rocketmen, has Captain Green and Crewman Red sent to scout the area without landing on any planets. When they pass a planet not on the maps, they are pulled towards it by an electromagnet activated by Evilbot, the leader of the Killbots. They crash land somewhere on the surface of the planet.

A scan reveals signs of human and gelatinous cube lifeforms nearby through a canyon, but no Killbots. The Rocketmen go through the canyon and shoot gel cubes that try to eat them. They find one of the missing patrol ships destroyed with an unconscious Rocketman and Killbot debris nearby. A taxi responds to the Rocketmens' tracking beacon and rescues the three of them, but what they don't know is that the Killbots implanted a homing beacon in the unconscious one.

Admiral Gold calls a meeting that decides to send a strike force to combat the Killbots. Meanwhile, the tracking beacon reveals the location of the Rocketmen home planet to the Killbots and they prepare to invade. An army of Rocketmen arrive on the Killbot planet and are overwhelmed by Killbots with advanced shielding. They begin to realize they must shoot the Killbots' eyes, but more Killbots surround them and destroy their ships, and a gel cube is set free on captive Rocketmen. Back in Rocketman Capital City, a scientist unveils a new weapon, a small electromagnet powerful enough to wipe out the memory core of a Killbot.

With the Killbot attack imminent, Captain Green and Crewman Red are sent to infiltrate the Killbot command ship and take out Evilbot. They get in using a captured Killbot UFO, as war breaks out on the planet below. War devastates the planet and remaining Rocketmen concentrate on protecting the main reactor. Green and Red locate and battle Evilbot and manage to plant the electromagnet on him, which leads to the Killbots deactivating, saving the planet. Green and Red are rewarded the highest military honor.