The Penguin

Ladies and gentlemen! ) I'm proud to present you my Gothan Villains collection! Some time ago I posted Gotham Heroes, so this topic is a kind of a continuation..... My Batman Universe minifig collection is steadily growing and new minifigs (and their description and background) can be seen in The Penguin's Batman minifigs topic. So, without further explanations I invete you to the grim world of Batman's deadliest enemies..... The Joker and Harley Quinn. ) (HQ in her usual and Arkham Asylum outfits....) The Riddler. ) (Riddle me this: One supervillain and three minifigs???) Two-Face. ) (And six people on the photo!) Catwoman. ) (Two classic and one modern. 21 lives! ) Poison Ivy. ) (Before and after.) Clayface. ) (Wet and dry. ) Scarecrow. ) (From left to right: Johnatan Crane, LEGO version, Arkham Asylum one, my own (my precious!).) Mr. Freeze. ) (20-s style and Oky Wan Kenobi who got caught by Russian winter.) Black Mask, Rupert Thorne and Mocridge. ) (A serial killer, a mob boss, and Riddler's boss.) Mad Hatter. ) (60-s and modern one. ) Ras Al Ghul, Talia and Nyssa. ) (Father and his two daughters. ) Dracula and Mad Monk. ) (There are actually 2 vampires in Gotham!) Clock King. ) (60-s and BTAS ones. ) Bane. ) (With and without a backpack. ) Firefly, Ventriloquist and Maxie Zeus. ) (The Good, The Bad and the Ugly.) Tweedledee, Tweedledum and Zsazs. ) (Really creepy villains.....) Creeper, Vertigo, Crock and Baby Doll. ) (Fan fact: Crock and Baby Doll used to have a love affair. ) Deacon Blackfire, Mirror Man and Romulus. ) (Less-known villains. Actually, if I'm not mistaken they made only one appearance, each.) Solomon Grundy, Humpty-Dumpty, Deathstroke and Mr.Toad. ) (A zombie, a maniac, an asassin and a toad.) Roxie Rocket, Deadshot, Red Claw, Lock-up, Max Shreck. ) (Actually shreck should 've been somwhere between Thorne and Mocridge.) And now it's 60-s villans' time! Yay! ) Olga, Black Widow, Crazy Quilt and Stingaree. ) (Olga being a female of my real life name.) The Puzzler, Mad Stampman, Diamond and Tut.) (I strongly suspect that The Puzzler may be a relative to the Riddler.) Bookworm, Egghead and Lord Pfogg. ) (Egghead is one of the best villains ever! ) Simon The Pieman! ) (He deserst deserves his own pic! ) My lovely bodyguards. Raven, Doris.... ) (I can never remember the third name!) Me in all my glory! Penguin: "Comrade-villains! The time has come to conquer Gotham once and for all!!!!!" Penguin: "Cha-a-a-a-arge!!!!" The end. 83 minifigs in total! ) I hope you liked them! ) Any comments, please? ) Good day, ladies and gentlemen! )

I welcome you to have a tour to Gotham City Lighthouse. I hope you'll like it..... Any comments, please? Good day, ladies and gentlemen! )

Ladies and gentlemen! ) I'm proud to present you my latest custom fig Ursula the Sea Witch from one of the greatest cartoons of all time 'The Little Mermaid". ) I'm quite sure that all of you are familiar with that charactewr, but nevertheless I'd definitely recommend you to watch that lovely episode. That's a woman of a dream! ) My version: Please, note the earrings and that lovely mottle near her mouth. ) Ursula with a certain scared Mermaid. ) I hope you liked her! ) Any comments, please? ) Good day, ladies and gentlemen! )

Ladies and Gentlemen! ) First of all I would like to say, that I've decided to open this topic on Minifig Customisation Forum in order to post all my Batman custom minifigures. I used to do it in Licenced Forum (my MOCs and MODs threads), but I have a feeling that it's more correct to post them here. While my MOCs and MODs will still be posted there. ) I would like to start by posting some of my ild creations here. Please feel free to check: My Gotham Heroes. ) My Gotham Villains. ) My Gotham Citizens. ) My Battle for Gotham. )Part 1. Part 2. My Grand Penguin Armada. ) My other creations here. ) Thank you for your attention, ladies and gentlemen! )

I agree. The Duckmobile is hardly a good choice of vehicle for Penguin. I'd rather he had a car, or limo, or at least another sub. And I agree that the ski-jet could've been dropped for the sake of making a bigger boat. Like this one: Still I hope that the deep dive Batman figure will be interesting enough to make for the ski-jet. But what we really need is a new top hat mold. The bowler one is amazing, so it's high time we got a proper top hat one! Good day, ladies and gentlemen! )

Thank you. Erm, I was so eager to post the figs, that I totally forgot to take pics of him! Consider that as a teaser for the upcoming batch, which is almost ready. ) I really loved their version of Pyg: he's moderately sadistic, moderately insane and has great taste in clothing! And how can one not love this dialogue: Mr. Toad: Care for a bisquit? Prof. Pyg: I really shouldn't..... *looks at his belly* Mr. Toad: They are really good, you know. Prof. Pyg: Oh, maybe, just one! They cancelled the show already?! Never heard of that! Good day, ladies and gentlemen! )

Long time no see, ladies and gentlemen! ) Another batfigs batch from me today. I hope you'll like it! Good day, ladies and gentlemen! )

One from me: Good day, ladies and gentlemen! )

This thread is dedicated to Batman, as he's depicted in comic stories, games and our imagination. However DC universe is far bigger than Gotham, so other DC characters are also welcome here. Good day, ladies and gentlemen! )

I've just watched 9 episodes of Beware the Batman. And I hated it! i just don't know where to start! Everything about it seems so wrong! The voice acting, the 3D models, Alfred..... Gotham looks so artificial, like only several people live there..... Why are they doing it? Good day, ladies and gentlemen! )

Indeed he is. Aquaman definitely deserves a bigger placed in DC animated, movies and games universe. I just love the new 52 version of him. BBB definitely had some awesome episodes. Music Meister one, for example. Pure genius! Good day, ladies and gentlemen! )

The problem with BBB for me me is that it is cheesy for the sake of cheesyness itself, if I may say so. It lacks a certain charm for me and I can hardly imagine who would be a great fan of the show. Either it is a hardcore fan of old comics or a kid who just likes the fun and action of the show. Practically each episode makes reference to old comics or some inside fan jokes, which can hardly be appreciated by fans of a younger generation (like myself). I am looking forward to watching the new series. I hope they'll return Batman to his Hamlet-esque world. Which can hardly be the case with Mr. Toad around! Good day, ladies and gentlemen! )

I'm here! I just love the old show, and ther new comic series as well! Though I never liked BBB for some reason. Good day, ladies and gentlemen! )

Indeed, it looked like him, which made me feel sorry that he appeared only in two episodes, On topic: I was rather disappointed by Kraang Prime. First of all, I don't quite understand why it should be female. I guess the idea was to make Prime sound both male and female, but for me it sounds definitely female. I hated the suit. Even those small hints to 1980-s cartoon do not help here. It doesn't look scary, it doesn't look absurd (like the old one was), but it doesn't look useful as well. And why should it be of this gigantic scale? Bigger=meaner? I suppose she would have looked better in ordinary size and in, perhaps, some kind of bigger android. Good day, ladies and gentlemen! )

- Commissioner Gordon to Batman! Do you copy? Two-Face has stolen an armored bank truck! I’m following him on a chopper…. - Don’t worry, Commissioner, I’m following the truck. - What? Where? I can’t see you….. *BANG!* - What the heck was that, Batman?! - I blew up the truck. - Sir, car 1356 reports that some lunatic has just blown up a cash transit truck near the docks. - Dammit, Batman! (The pic is an official box art one.) Set Number: 7781 Name: The Batmobile: Two-Face's Escape Theme: Batman Year of Release: 2006 Pieces: 394 Minifigs: 3 Price: $30 USD Brickset, Bricklink, Peeron parts inventory All images can be found in my brickshelf folder. The time has come for my third Batman review. Today I would like to present you easily one of the best sets of the whole line “The Batmobile: Two-Face's Escape”. When the set came out it immediately became one of my most favorite not only because it featured my second favorite villain in Batman universe, but it also had the iconic Batmobile and some great scenery. But I fear I’m getting a bit ahead of myself. Let’s have a look….. The Box Despite the fact that the set is almost twice as big as the previously reviewed Croc one, the box is not much bigger. It’s 28,5 x 38,5 cm, which I find to be quite a reasonable size. Surprisingly, out of 7 sets I got back then, only two (!) were in undamaged boxes. One of which has been sold with a considerable profit, and the other was left to be reviewed for our glorious EB community. When I got 3 sets off Briclink later, again two were damaged! The box art is done in a nice black-purple-gray color scheme, which doesn’t quite suit BTASesque Two-Face, but looks perfect, nevertheless. I guess making it black and white would’ve been better, but perhaps it wouldn’t catch the eye on the shelf that way. Another thing which I’d like to draw your attention to is the road on the box art picture. It’s all wet as if after a heavy rain. For some reason I really liked such meaningless but lovely touches made by the artist. In the top right corner(like in all previously reviewed sets) we see a 1989 Batman symbol. Though unlike Catwoman and Croc sets it actually corresponds with the one on Batman’s chest. On the right bottom corner again we see a DC symbol. The side of the box shows the minifigs in their actual size. Batman has some quite weird shape of his cape. Perhaps it just got battered in the fight. Two-Face is obviously trying to shake your hand with his “good side” and holds an armed Tommy gun in his “bad” side hand. I can’t but point out that on the pic he looks quite peachy and healthy! The bank robbery was quite a success, it seems! And as a bonus we get a generic Two-Face’s goon, wielding a uzi gun. I tend to think that all those goons in Batman theme are either brothers or go to the same stylist. TLC could’ve given us some different faces I guess, but did not for the sake of keeping them “generic”, so to say. The back of the box shows us so-called playing features of the set. The standard set of guns and bat-gadgets is also included. There are supposed to be two (yep, Two-Face would be happy!) major features: the opening cockpit and firing Batmobile’s engine cannon. Since I highly doubt that putting Batman in and out of the vehicle (meanwhile torturing his cape) is a playing feature, I’ll skip to the firing mechanism. I sure hope that the size of the missile, flying from the Batmobile, is an exaggeration, since it could easily blast not only the back door of the truck but the whole truck with Two-Face and his goons to bits! Ah, no! Here’s another playing feature: the opening missile hatches on each side of the truck. Though the designer thought it does not deserve its own picture. Perhaps, he’s right. As in each and every Batman set we get a lovely comic story. This one tells us about Two-Face robbing a bank. The plot is pretty plain and standard (somewhat even cliché-like), but shows the characters quite well. An interesting thing I noticed is that there’re two goons in the bank and only one in the set. Perhaps, Two-Face left the second one to cover his escape, or just shot him because the coin told him to do so. Who knows? On the first pic Two-Face is laughing maniacally while throwing his coin up. I find quite dangerous, since he can easily lose the one, among all those lying all over the floor. The second pic shows us Batman jumping from Batwing to Batmobile, which indicates he’s having a pretty tough night. Robin must be on vacation or something….. The third pic shows us how cool it is to have the Batmobile, when Two-Face is trying to shoot Bats through the glass. The fourth pic shows us Two-Face flying “towards the camera”. I feel a bit sad for him, though it’s his own fault. If you want to rob a bank in Gotham, do it at daytime! Interesting and unusual parts The set provides us with a nice selection of interesting parts, such as the rare-in-2006 “tooth” bricks, silver stud for Two-Face’s coin, a pillar in dark gray and some nice pearl gold bricks. Sticker sheet The sticker sheet is perhaps the main disappointment in the set. Everything that could’ve been printed is stickered here! The glass, the roof, even the controls in Batmobile! The second thing I find odd is the fact that Two-Face has his coin drawn on Gotham City Bank truck in three places: on the roof and on each side of it. Why would he do that, anyway!? The sticker that is applied to the windscreen of the truck looks just awful and doesn’t give the impression of it being armored at all. Looks more like a decoy to me. Instructions booklet I got a slightly curved and battered booklet, but it’s really ok. Just the same box art on it. Nothing really special here. He’s a random instructions page. The build may seem a bit boring for some, especially when it comes to Batmobile, but I really did not mind. The set itself is just so good, that you do not even notice such minor flaws. As in every Batman set we get an alternative models page, which is definitely worth showing. Again, like Croc, Two-Face is attempting to shoot down some nice-looking Bat-flyer! The Minifigs As said in previous reviews, practically every Batman set has a unique minifigure in it. This set has two. (Have you noticed that the number two is constantly appearing in the review? ) Batman in this set finally appears not in his BTASesque outfit as in the Catwoman and Croc sets, but in his black leather costume, inspired obviously by 1989, 1993 Tim Burton films. Which I find to be a very nice variation for a change. However, I personally prefer the BTAS one. Now, Two-Face is one masterpiece minifigure. No, really. I consider him to be one of the best and most accurate licensed figures so far. The figure back in 2006 was innovative in two ways: 1) the way it’s been painted, 2) the new hair mold. Two-Face’s tricky costume was no doubt a hard task for the designer of the set. Not only should he have looked “split in two”, but his “good” and “evil” sides should’ve been strikingly different. And the task has been solved exemplary. He had not only his suit painted, but the back as well. Not to mention the minifig’s “belt”. And that was an extremely rare occasion back then. The fig also had a new revolutionary hair mold. I’m no expert, but it’s been made using some different hard plastic, a very nice choice if we compare that with some Exo-Force ones. As far as I know it has been the first case of such a complicated new hair mold and its painting. And if you look carefully you’ll see that the “good side” hair looks pretty much like standard LEGO’s wig, as far as the “evil side” one, looks all messed up and even somewhat menacing. His face(s) also look(s) revolutionary. Never before has a LEGO minifigure received such a complicated and gruesome head. Scarred, deformed and burned “evil” side has been very innovative. Not to mention the fact that it completely killed LEGO’s “non-violence” policy. It may sound odd, but I really find his face a bit scary even now. Just like in the comic stories and BTAS series. (Actually he’s been done exactly like his BTAS counterpart. You can see that on the fourth picture.) Now to criticism. What I really don’t get about the figure is the hand. Why would he have a dark gray hand? Either he should have been given two flesh hands, or one black, one white, or something of this kind. Still, I’ve noticed that in the theme practically all villains got quite odd hands, so, I guess there must have been some logic behind that. The second point is the coin. I agree that expecting a new mold of scarred coin would be too much to ask from LEGO, but I guess they’d better not given him any then. Because I really hate the silver stud that is meant to be used as his coin, I just pretend that it’s not there. Just some spare part. Though to be fair I should say that silver back then was a very rare color, so I guess TLC tried their best. Well, the goon has no comic or animated counterpart, so I presume he’s just supposed to be some random Gotham mob without any interesting back-story or major role. The only interesting thing about him is his two-sided costume that may be used for some City or even Castle custom figures. I do not like the boring and generic face, so there’s really not much to say about him. Two-Face’s armored truck Earlier I have showed my doubts about the stickers, so the truck may look less imposing without them, but it’s still a very nice vehicle. As said before Two-Face has painted it to match his duality, and I must say that was a very unreasonable thing to do. I mean, does he really expect to just take the van and be riding it all over Gotham City without being noticed? I mean, every cop or just ordinary citizen will recognize him, not to mention Batman. Perhaps there’s just no drama in my soul. Interesting that the truck is actually not black and white but dark gray and white. I find that pretty nice, since I guess originally the bank truck was dark gray and half of it just got painted white. Very economically efficient! For some reason the front lights are trans-neon green. I can’t really understand why not yellow or say, just transparent, but it still looks good. Here’s one side of the truck. As you can see the truck has a rocket-launcher installed. (I wonder if it has been there before Two-Face stole it. Kind of a new Gotham Bank security system!) For some reason unknown it has yellow cone cylinders, which I find pretty disturbing for the eye, if we take into consideration the general dark atmosphere of the set. Nevertheless it is not something you can’t easily mod. What o really like about Batman sets is the fact that practically all vehicles are “compatible”, so to say, with the City theme. The truck is neither bigger nor smaller than the rest of the City vehicles, which I find a very nice and useful. I wish I could say the same about he Batmobile. The back of the van looks really nice with that round plates attached there which give an impression of some round safe door. Unfortunately you can’t open it and put some money inside, but still it looks good for the shelf. And if you’re eager to replay some scenes from the game, you can always mod it and install some doors in the back. Batmobile The Batmobile is something that makes this set a must-buy. I have no doubts that the designer(s) spent hours on that model, but the result was definitely worth that. It’s just amazing how detailed the Batmobile is for a relatively small vehicle. Speaking of sizes….. One of the main grudges I used to have against the set, as well as some other fans, was the size of the Batmobile, and indeed if we compare it to the truck it looks huge. I don’t suppose that Batman has any complexes about sizes, it’s just the Batmobile that inspired the LEGO version. It’s obviously based on Tim Burton 1989, 1993 films version, which looked to me like a mixture of some BDSM tool and a steam engine. Not that I didn’t like that! See what I mean? What? No!? You can see that they look fairly the same and I must say that I really like the fact that this model has been chosen. It would have been much worse if they used, say, 60-s version. However in that case the Batmobile would be for two people, at least! Not like that one which seems to have been designed specifically for Batman, and him alone. You can see that this Batmobile has some nice golden wheel discs. Pimp my Batmobile! Here we can see the Batmobile’s open-fire engine, which burns oxygen and clowns as I’ve shown in Catwoman review. Apart from the engine you can see some nice red stop-signal lamps which are supposed to warn the drivers behind that the Batmobile is going to stop. As if it has ever been in a traffic jam or you'll be able to see anything apart from the flames at night time! But let us remember “the only true Batman” Adam West: “Safety first!”. General view of the set Here’s the usual general pic of the set, includig some of the surroundings elements. We’ll discuss them later. What amazes me about the Batmobile is its maneuverability! I mean its somewhat twice as long as the truck and it can still move freely on high speeds without causing much damage: Well, relatively, of course! Play features When at the beginning of the review I said that the set was one of the best in the whole theme, I meant first of all its playability. Surprisingly, this set offers us not only one “right’ scenario, as shown on the back of the box, but also provides us with a lamppost, a toll gate and some spiky thing on a chain, the name of which I do not know in either of the four languages I speak, including the mother-tongue. (Actually, while the review was still in the Academy, I was told that it's called spike strip! Or ежи in Russian, which can be translated as "hedgehogs"! ) So there are at least three possible scenarios: 1) Batman pursuing the truck and firing his huge missile. (Damn you, Tim Burton with your perverted hints in Batman films! Those were my favorite ones when I was a kid! Look what you have done! ) 2) Some policemen throwing a spiky thing and thus stopping the truck. (Or better Batmobile! Ha!) 3) The toll gate blocking the way, or on the contrary, being crushed by the truck as it is shown on the box art. Apart from that we can see some pseudo-features such as opening cockpit of the Batmobile which is very comfortable and cosy-looking, like in the Batboat, and a very neat but somewhat small baggage compartment. You can’t even fit a person there! Bah, dilettantes! Ratings Design:5/5 Despite my slight grumbling about small design flaws and stickers it’s a great set from every point of view. The truck looks great with other City vehicles and the Batmobile is a great-looking vehicle on its own. Build: 4/5 The build is somewhat interesting when it concerns the Batmobile. The truck is pretty simple, but in no way boring or repetitive. Minifigs: 5/5 Perhaps adding another goon would have been better, but we get an awesome Two-Face. What else do we need? Playability: 5/5 – Three playable scenarios? Lots of features and surroundings? That set is just made for playing! Parts: 4/5 – A nice collection of useful parts, but the dreaded stickers spoil it all. And no really unusual or new parts apart from “tooth” bricks. Price:5/5 – $30 for such a set is just ridiculously cheap. I mean look t $30 sets now. See what I mean? Overall: 5/5 – This set is a must-buy for practically every LEGO fan. With the design of such a high level and price of such a low one, you should have bought at least one back then. If you don’t care for the set, get your Two-Face fig, which has been a revolutionary one in many kinds. If you care neither for the set, nor the fig….. Well….. What are you? A Megablocks fan!? Good day, ladies and gentlemen! )

Interesting. I can't say that I've seen many films with Affleck, but he seems to be a good actor to play Bats. He has mature, yet attractive looks and he seems to be quite fit. Good day, ladies and gentlemen! )

Penguin! I sure hope he gets a bigger role in this one than threatening kids and being scenery in challenge maps. ) Good day, ladies and gentlemen! )

Well, few people know that I am quite a big fan of TMNT, though have never really expressed it through LEGO before. The current show has not only revived my interest to the theme, but also inspired me to create this little mos. I hope you'll like it! Any comments please? Oh, and by the way..... You can call me Krangpeng now! Good day, ladies and gentlemen! )

WhiteFang, you are a marvel! Thank you very much for your outstanding review. Looking at those new figs sure inspires me to create more Bat-figs! Good day, ladies and gentlemen! )

Thanks! Yup Pengkrang sure looks grumpy! I actuaklly added a cigarette holder but forgot to take the pic. Thanks a lot! ) It is nice how the spanish helm suits the shape of the Kraang, isn't it? You're most welcome. ) Thank you, "mate". ) Thx. Thank you. Ah, initially I wanted to skip the "ancient" part and add a "space" one, but thought that in the TMNT show they were futuristic enough. I love you too, commodore_legolas. Being forced to eat all kind of seafood for an entire week, made me think of even weirder stuff! Good day, ladies and gentlemen! )

The figures look decent, but nothing more to that set. TLG in my humble opinion is making the same mistake that killed the previous Batman theme: they still produce vehicle vs vehicle sets. i am positively sure that even for kiddies a "stationary" set with some scenery and great figs is not less appealing than a "swooshable" vehicles one. I'm still waiting for a new Penguin's sub, though! Waugh-waugh! Good day, ladies and gentlemen! )

Indeed, but LEGO's version, even recoloured, is still far from perfection. Looking forward to seeing more from you. Good day, ladies and gentlemen! )

Vignettes are definitely my favourite type of MOCs. And the ones you presented are very good. My favourite of the bunch is the Quirrel one. I guess because I just like the character. And even faceless Georgew doesn'r scare me off. Good day, ladies and gentlemen! )

Oh, indeed it does! ) Never read the second part! Good work! Good day, ladies and gentlemen! )

Most amusing! I wonder why my car has a propeller at the back? I sure hope it means that m car is mphibious. So that I can make shortcuts by water buring the race and thus win! Waugh-waugh! Good day, ladies and gentlemen! )