[PRESS RELEASE] 76161 1989 Batwing

[JintaiZ]

The newest addition to the Batman line has been revealed - The 1989 Batwing. Gotta say, this looks awesome!

Photo: Brickset news

The price will be 199 USD/199 EUR/179 GBP - seems quite reasonable for me.

What are your thoughts? Let me know in the poll or the comments :)

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[MAB]

My thoughts? I thought Batman was DC.

 

 

[Good old Lego builder]

It does look nice, certainly cool to display on the wall. It doesn’t seem to have many functions, so I’m curious. Looking forward to a review. Is it more than a bat-shaped disc?

[JintaiZ]

22 hours ago, Good old Lego builder said:

It does look nice, certainly cool to display on the wall. It doesn’t seem to have many functions, so I’m curious. Looking forward to a review. Is it more than a bat-shaped disc?

Well, it's targeted at adults...

[Good old Lego builder]

I’m an adult. What I mean: the batmobile has steering, the mechanism for the guns, the nicely moving roof. This one..... opening roof?

 

[JintaiZ]

On 9/22/2020 at 3:42 PM, Good old Lego builder said:

I’m an adult. What I mean: the batmobile has steering, the mechanism for the guns, the nicely moving roof. This one..... opening roof?

 

Yes, opening canopy. Not sure about any other functions...

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[JintaiZ]

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[SteamSewnEmpire]

Eh. All it does in that movie is crash. 

[Lionbear8]

To top it off the 89 Batcave, with Wayne Manor,  miniature scale like the Harry Potter hogwarts set. 

[JintaiZ]

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[kevin8]

I'm a little upset. It seems to me to be a little cropped. I mean, the body is not proportioned to the wings. The wings should have been larger.

[JintaiZ]

4 hours ago, kevin8 said:

I'm a little upset. It seems to me to be a little cropped. I mean, the body is not proportioned to the wings. The wings should have been larger.

Think you could easily MOD it to make it bigger ;)

[kevin8]

Surely I can, but why Lego itself did not?

[JintaiZ]

On 10/2/2020 at 11:16 AM, kevin8 said:

Surely I can, but why Lego itself did not?

My best guess would be that they tried to complete it in a short time because it was revealed on batman day

[kevin8]

Sure, but Lego makes sets in almost 2 years before putting in shops.

[JintaiZ]

On 10/6/2020 at 4:04 PM, kevin8 said:

Sure, but Lego makes sets in almost 2 years before putting in shops.

They are clearly trying to make this set the same scale as the batmobile, so I'm assuming that's the way it has to be...

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[astyanax]

On 9/19/2020 at 5:41 PM, JintaiZ said:

What are your thoughts? Let me know in the poll or the comments :)

"Hey, but that should just have been the B model of set 76139! I bet you can make this Batwing design using just the parts of the big Batmobile."

That was my first thought. After all this time I still haven't seen anyone else express the same idea. Weird. It seems so obvious to try and build it from the Batmobile...