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The LEGO Batman Movie summer sets review

by on June 4, 2017
in LEGO Super Heroes

The second wave of The LEGO Batman Movie sets were released just a few days ago, including a couple of sets that I would consider some of the best Batman-related official LEGO models of all time. There are five sets in the collection, and they are full of interesting details and play-features. I think Batman would be proud. I will share some of my thoughts on the sets, and I have also included video-reviews by JANGBRiCKS, so you can check out all the details and functions. So let’s take a look. 🙂

➡ #70913 LEGO BATMAN MOVIE SCARECROW FEARFUL FACE-OFF: This is the smallest amongst the summer sets, but it comes with some interesting parts and two great minifigures. I especially like that the set offers an additional module to the power plant that we have gotten parts of in the #70900 LEGO Batman Movie The Joker Balloon Escape, the #70901 LEGO Batman Movie Mr. Freeze Ice Attack, and the #70910 LEGO Batman Movie Scarecrow Special Delivery. And it’s also nice to be able to get Scarecrow in an inexpensive set. Here is the official description: Team up with Batman to stop Scarecrow spreading fear in this action-packed The LEGO Batman Movie set. The Gyro-Copter features 2 spinning rotors, an adjustable rudder and 2 bomb-drop functions to drop the included fear gas bomb elements. Attach Batman’s jetpack with Batwings and adjustable boosters, and arm him with the grappling gun to role-play an aerial battle. The set also features a power plant mini build with an explode function for added jeopardy. Includes 2 minifigures: Scarecrow and Batman. 141 pieces. Price: $14.99 – BUY HERE

➡ #70914 LEGO BATMAN MOVIE BANE TOXIC TRUCK ATTACK: The obvious main attraction of this set is Bane himself, as this is the first time we get a bigfig version of the character. The second main attraction is of course Bane’s cool looking and fully armed orange truck. Here is the official description: Stop Bane and Mutant Leader’s toxic attacks with Batman in this exciting The LEGO Batman Movie set, including Bane’s Toxic Truck, Batman’s Whirly-Bat flyer and a toxic waste mini-build with explode function. The 6-wheel truck features rear 4-wheel suspension and a mounted 6-stud rapid shooter and detachable toxic tank element. Toxic Truck measures over 4” (11cm) high, 6” (17cm) long and 3” (9cm) wide. Includes 2 minifigures: Batman and Mutant Leader, plus a Bane big figure. 366 pieces. Price: $49.99 – BUY HERE

➡ #70915 LEGO BATMAN MOVIE TWO-FACE DOUBLE DEMOLITION: An armed-to-the-teeth tractor? Yeah, sure, bring it on! Yes, there is also Batman and the Batcycle, but it’s really the excavator that’s the star here. I could very well see this vehicle in all kinds of post-apocalyptic settings! Here is the official description: Stop the mighty Two-Face Excavator with Batman’s Batcycle in this thrilling The LEGO Batman Movie set. The Two-Face Excavator has a minifigure cabin, operational excavator arm and bucket, articulated design for smooth steering. It might look like a normal digger from one side, but check out the ‘bad side’ featuring spikes on the huge wheels and a 6-stud rapid shooter. The Batcycle features an opening minifigure cockpit, rotating double stud shooter and rotating flick missile shooter. Two-Face Excavator measures over 4” (12cm) high, 11” (29cm) long and 5” (15cm) wide. Includes 4 minifigures: Batman, Two-Face and two GCPD officers. 564 pieces. Price: $59.99 – BUY HERE

➡ #70916 LEGO BATMAN MOVIE THE BATWING: This is one of the sleekest sets in The LEGO Batman Movie collection, featuring an extra-large Batwing with a sharp design, great color-scheme, and extra cool transformational features. The vehicle is also quite swooshable, if you want to fly it around. It’s also worth noting that the windshield is a printed piece, and could be used for other applications (like spaceships!). Here is the official description: Fly high above Gotham City in the Batwing and battle against Harley Quinn with Batman and Robin in this cool The LEGO Batman Movie set. The Batwing features an opening dual minifigure cockpit for Batman and Robin, rotating boosters, adjustable wings for flight and landing modes, 2 spring-loaded shooters, 2 disc shooters and an opening rear compartment with a car inside. Harley Quinn has a mobile cannon with a 6-stud rapid shooter. Batwing measures over 5” (15cm) high, 12” (31cm) long and 18” (48cm) wide in flight mode, and over 3” (9cm) high, 12” (31cm) long and 20” (53cm) wide in landing mode. Includes 3 minifigures: Batman, Robin and Harley Quinn. 1053 pieces: Price: $89.99 BUY HERE

➡ #70917 LEGO BATMAN MOVIE THE ULTIMATE BATMOBILE: This set features the biggest, baddest, ultimate vehicle for Batman; the Ultimate Batmobile. It’s basically the black version of the #70816 LEGO Movie Benny’s Spaceship, Spaceship, SPACESHIP! (because Batman only works in black and sometimes very-very dark gray). The Batmobile can be split into four separate vehicles for the ultimate battle scene. I highly recommend checking out the video-review on this one, as the features are very interesting. Here is the official description: Team up with The LEGO Batman Movie characters Batman, Batgirl, Robin and Alfred Pennyworth (in Batsuit) to give the Super-Villains quadruple trouble with The Ultimate Batmobile! This amazing model divides into 4 separate vehicles: the Batmobile, Batwing, Bat-Tank and Batcycle. The Batmobile features foldout boosters and 4 stud shooters, while the Batwing has foldout wings and 2 spring-loaded shooters. The Batcycle has foldable wheels and the heavily-armored Bat-Tank boasts 2 hidden 6-stud rapid shooters. The Ultimate Batmobile measures over 4” (12cm) high, 14” (37cm) long and 6” (16cm) wide. The set also includes the rotating Bat-Signal with a LEGO light brick, Polka-Dot Man’s flying disc, plus 8 minifigures: Batman, Robin, Batgirl, Polka-Dot Man, Alfred Pennyworth (in Batsuit), Wicked Witch of the West and two Flying Monkeys. 1456 pieces. Price: $139.99 – BUY HERE

In the video-player below you can find reviews of all five sets by JANGBRRiCKS. You can watch them one after another, or use the drop-down list in the upper left-hand corner to select the review you would like to see.

If you are a Batman fan, and you can only get one set from this wave, I would highly recommend the #70917 LEGO Batman Movie The Ultimate Batmobile. It is probably the best version of the Batmobile LEGO ever released. It looks excellent, and is jam-packed with play-features. It’s really the Ultimate Batmobile in every way. If you can get two sets, pair the Batmobile with the #70916 LEGO Batman Movie Batwing, and you will have two of the best Batman vehicles of the entire collection. The smaller sets are also nice, but I wouldn’t consider them essential, unless you are looking for very specific parts or minifigures. Remember that the #70914 Lego Batman Movie Bane Toxic Truck Attack, is the only set with a large version of Bane, so you might be interested in that set as well. You can find all five sets, along with the previous releases, under The LEGO Batman Movie section of the Online LEGO Shop.

What do you think? How do you like the second wave of The LEGO Batman Movie sets? Are you planning to get any of them? Do you have some of them already? Feel free to share your thoughts and own review in the comment section below! 😉

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LEGO Ideas Old Fishing Store details

by on June 3, 2017
in LEGO Exclusives

During the recent fan media event at Billund, Denmark, LEGO officially revealed the upcoming #21310 LEGO Ideas Old Fishing Store. The model was originally submitted by Dutch LEGO fan Robert Bontenbal, it achieved the required 10K public votes, and was chosen by the LEGO Ideas team to be the next set in the collection of fan-designed models. Below are the details of the set, as well as the announcement from the LEGO Ideas blog. 🙂

Here is the announcement from the LEGO Ideas blog: Woahhh! We’ve reeled in a big one! It’s big, green, brown, and oh so fishy… ahem, we mean BEAUTIFUL! We’re thrilled to finally unveil the first official images of the charming #21310 LEGO Ideas Old Fishing Store designed by LEGO Ideas member Robert Bontenbal (RobenAnne) from the Netherlands. The Old Fishing Store officially opens its doors for business on the 1st of September, 2017 for a recommended retail price of USD 149.99 / EURO 149.99 / GBP 139.99. Weighing in at 2,049 LEGO bricks, this store will have plenty of space to stock all the fishing gear you need.

And here is the official description: Find all the gear you need for a fantastic fishing trip at the Old Fishing Store! Walk up the steps from the beach into the shop selling fishing rods, hooks, harpoons, diving equipment, oxygen tanks and much more. Climb the ladder to the top of the watchtower and look through the telescope to enjoy the view. Then relax and read the newspaper in the office. Just make sure the cat or seagulls don’t eat the freshly caught fish hanging outside! The Old Fishing Store is ideal for display and role-play, this model has 2 removable roofs, an opening back wall in the shop for easy access, 4 minifigures, cat and 3 seagull figures, as well as loads of other cool details and elements to fire up the imagination.

A bit more detail from the LEGO Ideas blog: Inspiration for LEGO Ideas projects often come from a very personal place, and Robert’s inspiration to build his Old Fishing Store certainly is no different from this observation. It’s that passion for something familiar that truly shines throughout his set and can be noticed in all the details. Robert elaborates on where this inspiration came from – “Fishing has always been my hobby. From fishing in the Caribbean, where I lived for a while, to fishing in Holland. So you could say that my interest in fishing and my job as an architectural draughtsman came together in this model”. He adds that “inspiration is very important, so was finding a theme that could help develop the model. I got my initial inspiration from the LEGO Christmas houses and sea villages. I started by doing some sketching on paper, then created a mood board to determine the details and color schemes. Especially the use of the right colors was important in my design”.

And some insight into the final design: When Robert’s Old Fishing Store was approved for production in the fall of 2016, LEGO designer Adam Grabowski took over the project “to make sure that the model lived up to LEGO quality”. It is often a challenging job to respect someone else’s design whilst altering it to fit LEGO guidelines, but Adam says he “tried to stay very true to the original design. That’s what got 10,000 votes and is what people want. I didn’t want to change much of the original look and there was no reason to do so”. Adam puts on the hat of an AFOL (Adult-Fan-Of-LEGO) and adds, “it was great to be able to bring back certain elements like the seagull, and use others like the lobster, that were only previously available in other sets”.

Beautiful set, isn’t it? And big! Notice that it’s on a 32×32 stud baseplate, which is the same size as the LEGO Modular Buildings. It’s interesting to note that this is the second very large LEGO Ideas set in a row that breaks both the price and piece-count threshold of the previous fan-submitted sets. It’s nice to see fan-designers getting so much support and recognition both by the company and the community. There are a couple of interesting interviews with Robert on the LEGO Ideas blog that you can read here and here, and you can check out his other projects here.

I can’t wait to get this set! The building techniques are very interesting, and the colors are beautiful! As mentioned above, the Old Fishing Store will be available in September, and in the meantime, you can check out all the other currently available fan-submitted models at the LEGO Ideas section of the Online LEGO Shop.

What do you think? How do you like the LEGO Ideas Old Fishing Store? Are you happy with the final design? And are you planning to add it to your collection? Feel free to share your thoughts and discuss in the comment section below! 😉

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