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I'm pretty sure you can just ask to buy a full set of the toys. Or does that not happen any more?

I had this problem as well, also on PC. It kept not working, then suddenly one time it did. I didn't do anything differently, it just worked. So I'd just suggest you just keep trying and it'll work eventually.

Yes. If that's the Joker's cosen origin story on that given day, that is. Her father is the Cluemaster, a criminal who basically stole Riddler's gimmick. Unfortunately he's not very good at it, and always gets caught. Anyway, Steph turned to crime-fighting as Spoiler to thwart her father's crime career (spoil it, if you will). Batman refused to endorse her, but Tim started helping her in secret, giving her equipment and help. They became close, and entered into a relationship, but Tim refused to reveal his real identity. He also helped her when she became pregnant by an ex-boyfriend, and she decided to give him up for adoption. Shortly after, Tim went missing in the mountains somewhere, and a concerned Steph helped Batman track him down. But Batman had to reveal Tim's identity in order for her to do so. Tim was a little cross, but soon got over it, and the relationship continued. Jack Drake, Tim's father, found out his son was Robin, and forced Tim to quit and Bruce to accept it (at gunpoint, no less). Batman was without a Robin, and Steph volunteered herslf. After some initial disapproval from Batman, he accepted her, seeing that he could at the very least train her to be a better crimfighter. It was suggested that he took her in only to make Tim jealous (his girlfriend stole his job). She proved a mostly able Robin, but in a battle with the dangerous armoured assassin Scarab she directly disobeyed his orders. He told her to wait in the Batplane whatever happend, while he took on Scarab. Steph saw that Batman was in danger, and left to help him. Scarab took Steph as a hostage, and made her escape while Batman rescued her. Batman then fired her as Robin, and forbade her from being Spoiler, especially in his city. In an attempt to win back Batman's approval, she implemented one of his 'War Games', a scenario designed to unite the Gotham mobs under the control of one man: Matches Malone, secretly Batman. She set up the meeting designed in the plan, but Matches didn't show. She didn't know that Matches was actually Batman. Tensions escalated, and one of the mob bosses was killed by the others. A full-scale gang war erupted across Gotham, which led to Batman being disavowed by then-Commissioner Michael Akins, when Batman took over the GCPD. In the course of the war, Black Mask took Steph hostage and tortured her. She escaped and made her way to Leslie Thompkin's clinic, where she later died from her internal injuries, but not before Batman told her that she was Robin. In the course of the war, Tim returned as Robin, and shortly after he lost his dad to Captain Boomerang and his best friend Superboy to Superboy-Prime. Anyway, Batman discovered that Steph could have survived if she'd had proper treatment, but Leslie withheld it and let Steph die in an attempt to show Batman that drafting kids into his war is dangerous. Batman told her to get out of the city, and not come back. However, it recently transpired that Steph was actually alive, and Leslie had only faked her death. Her identity exposed by Black Mask, she was in danger from the other Bat-villains. Leslie did it to try to help Steph (and Batman to a certain extent), and took her to Africa when she left Gotham at Batman's behest. Batman revealed he had lingering doubts about whether Steph had actually died, and that's why he never (save a few occasions) had a trophy for her in the Cave. Um... that was actually all from memory. His very first episode (and the first of the series) he wears a green and purple suit and tie for a bit. It's funny how things work out isn't it. 'Best laid plans' and all that. I'm hardly small at around 6ft, but one of my mates is 6'2" and most of the others are a similar height to me. It's funny, most of my family are quite small... Aw, thanks. Case in point, just above. Yes, that's very true. Anyway, I've sent #3, #4 and #5 so check your emails. There're also a slew of accompanying notes. I... um... kind of had to borrow 50p. She did, I agree. She wasn't quite as, what's the word, drippy this time around. I've got that taped somewhere, I really need to dig it out and watch it sometime. Arkham has stalled temporarily, for no apparant reason. The Batcave hasn't progressed much either. Then again, I am currently working on a special MOC that'll serve as a sort of tribute to my friends, but in a really OTT, fun, silly way. And don't worry, a certain comic-geek who dresses like a bat will make a small appearance. I thought you'd done 4 already? Because you're one ahead of me, so this next one will be 5. Won't it? As for Wayne Manor, I can't wait to see it. Doubly so, as I'll likely never get round to making one of my own. If I did it'd have to go on top of the Batcave, and then it'd be ridiculously big to not look out of place, and would need to be quite high up to allow room for the Batplane on the top shelf.

Thanks for that. The best bit of the article? The bit where it says they have a genuine Bat-fan on the team. Yes! That means this game will be packed with stuff Batbrick and I can enthuse about. Fair point. And no, I don't have it yet. I can't find that either. The bit that got me was Riddler trying to get up that ladder. Or not trying to get up that ladder as the case may be. But, Joker, Riddler and Penguin are probably the most prominent Bat-villains, and are the most well-known to non-fanboys and casual fans. It makes sense to have those three lead the villains. Argos in the UK says the game's out on September 26th, so I'd imagine it'll be around those two dates sometime. I shouldn't think so. It's probably just a free play thing.

Yes thank you, Mr Pernickety. What he meant there was: Please! Give us pictures! Please! Yes, I'm sure they'd be laughing as well... Oh that's a point. Or the Batcave, as an intruder alarm. Yeah, just a bit.

I think I'll wait until we see some proper pictures to make an informed judgement. If they're proper Lego, then good, they'll be worth checking out. If they're not, no big deal, move on. I'm with Dadster- let's wait and see.

How times have changed... Indeed. On both counts. Plus Gorshin gave us the first use of the green Riddler-style suit. The modern costume, that is. My mate calls anything flirting. Seriously, all any of us need do is open our mouths in someone else's presence and he says we're flirting. And I know what you mean about height. But then, I am quite tall, so it's not really a problem I come across. A jazz version of Flight Of The Bumblebee. How inspired! Yes, alright, no need to keep reminding me. Thanks. But I think we'd better shift this to PM, and you can give me your thoughts there. Like you did with #1. We wouldn't want to take this thread too off-topic, ould we? I did. The first time I was spotting all the little comics references and the like. This time, I got to just sit back and watch, with fanboy-mode turned off. Well, I got to relax until about half an hour from the end when I realised I hadn't checked I had enough for the bus fare home. It was 11:00pm. Yeah? Was it on offer? I might have to look into collecting the movies as well then, if I can find them. I bet HMV has them...

But because it's Lego, it's perfectly alright. I see what you mean though, it does look to have some dark bits. I wonder if we'll see Batbrick's eponymous prostitute at all... No of course, I accept that. But it's always bothered me that a man obsessed with duality and the difference between his two halves carries twin guns, rather than two different ones. I'd so like to say that it's always good to see new footage, but the second two are quite difficult to see, and that first one is really quite boring in parts...

That good, huh? Today I finally got my braces off. It feels really weird... I have teeth again. I also picked up the local paper and found it full of people I know. I was in for the A-/AS-level results, both in writing and in a group picture. On the opposite page was an advert for my college with some of the new pictures from the new prospectus... One of which I was in. My mate was in that picture with me, and he was also in the picture below. Elsewhere in the paper he was in for the Duke of Edinburgh award, with two more of my friends. I swear, it's a coup.

Currently dividing my time between my Arkham revamp (still), my Batcave shelf (again) and a special MOC based on my friends and I. I'm only part way in, but if it turns out as well as I hope it does it should be quite good.

Hmm... no box shot though.

Wow, nice. It's well-constructed, well proportioned and well-armed. The yellow looks rather nice, and the whole thing is nice and smooth. I like how you've managed to get different angles in for the body. It's also good to see that there's room for a pilot, especially within such a tight construction. Plus we always need more quadrupeds. Nice work.

I'd imagine they'd be very... careful... when... moving... Nice, thanks. I may not keep the gate up when I get this set, so I might have to find an excuse to use the siren elsewhere. And once again, not in ours. I think it's unlikely that TLG would announce future figures in such a way, but I guess you never know. Like Skinny Boy said, some pictures wouldn't go amiss if possible.

Oh God, yes. Why on earth did they put that one in? I don't think it ever will... Oh, I used the plural where I really shouldn't have. I meant make friends with her, and get her number as a friend first. I'd say it with the plural, and I type as I talk. Good luck though. Well... yeah. But I did also watch the opening titles on Youtube. Well... they're dealing with crime rackets, so I'd imagine there to be a certain amount of noir to it. Yeah, so did I actually. It's locked as far as me making changes are concerned, but please feel free to make suggestions that I can apply to later issues. Like you did last time. Anything you particularly liked, anything you didn't, that sort of thing. When you've done, I can send you the draft of #3 (and maybe #4) And Bruce Wayne IS Batman! But I agree, stupid idea. He was better dead. I actually cam out of the pictures assuming he was alive, because they wouldn't kill Two-Face, would they? Went to see it a second time last night, with my mate, loved it. It's such a great film.

What does it actually sound like? Besides a siren, I mean. Yeah, but it's £5 over-priced in comparison to S@H. Yes, of course. But then that would have been four words.

Yeah... um... that's what I meant... sure. Today I went to pick up my AS results (from the end of the first year of college), and ended up on the local independant radio station.

Oh yes, I remember it now. Thanks for reminding me. Huh, I have to buy that now as well... I am missing the riddles a bit though. He doesn't really get much of a chance to use them now. Still, like you say, it's a nice take on the character. It's always good to try something a little different. Q: "What weighs six ounces, sits in a tree and is very dangerous?" A: "A sparrow with a machine gun." Sorry, but that's really quite funny. In a cruel way, sure, but still funny. I get round it by making friends with them first, get their number as a friend, then ask them out. From what I've learned, the Green Hornet is newspaper publisher Britt Reid (who is related to the Lone Ranger, I think he's his grand-nephew or something), and Kato is Reid's manservent. Called Kato. Yes, that's right, his codename is his real name. The only people who know (in the series) are Reid's secretary and the Police Commissioner. But he was introduced near the end, and his secretary didn't know from the beginning. Because the Green Hornet is a vigilante, he became thought of as a criminal. Reid decided to use this, and masquarades as a criminal in order to expose gangs and rackets and such. Sure. I'll send it today. Some. If you like your crime fiction, then it's a good read. I think Rucka's written some crime fiction, so some of that experience seeped into the stories. In A Death In The Family, the Joker killed Jason Todd. Good, I thought. Because I hate him. Then in Hush years later, Jason is seemingly returned from the dead and fights Batman, but it is revealed that that is actually Clayface. But where's the body gone? Shortly after, in As The Crow Flies Batman gets a dose of natural Fear Gas from the Scarebeast, the mutated form of the Scarecrow. He halucinates and fights Robin (Tim) believing him to be and older Jason. At the close of the story, Alfred finds a domino mask in the Batmobile that doesn't belong to Tim... The story culminates in Under The Hood, where the new Red Hood tackles Black Mask's ruling of the Gotham mobs. He uses vigilante methods and isn't afraid to kill. The Red Hood also beats the Joker with a crowbar. A fight with Batman reveals the new Red Hood to be Jason Todd. Batman conducts DNA tests that prove conclusive. Regardless, Batman keeps the costume in the Cave. Bad, I thought. I hate him. In Infinite Crisis (the second crisis), it is revealed that Superman and Lois Lane of Earth-2, Alexander Luthor of Earth-3 and Superboy-Prime of Earth-Prime survived the restructuring of the Multiverse into one universe at the close of the first Crisis, the Crisis on Infinite Earths/Multiple Earths. They've watched over the DCU for years, and seen it spiral downwards from the promising start- Superman's death, Knightfall, Jason's death, etc. Angry, Superboy-Prime began punching at the walls of their pocket reality, in an attempt to break through to the DCU and 'make the world better.' Each of his punches, however, had a knock-on effect on the main DCU, changing times, and explaining away all the retcons and inconsistencies. That included the resurrection of Jason Todd, now as a young adult. There are alternate Batmen, all across the Multiverse, just as there are alternate Supermen, Wonder Women, etc. We don't see alternate Batmen in either crisis because the Earth-2 Batman died before the Crisis happened on his wrld. He married Selina Kyle (Catwoman), they had a daughter called Helena who became the Earth-2 Huntress, then he passed away. Well, at no point is it explicitly stated whether he's dead or alive at the end, so we may well see him return if there's another film. I think I'm going to see TDK again tonight, in fact.

What the? That's exactly the same as all his other roles! When I said that they were the only roles he could get, it was supposed to be a joke... Um... But at least it means we get Detective Batman for a change. He's all too easily forgotten sometimes. Which Joker picture would that be? I will agree with you there, it was better that he knew. Especially now he's supposedly gone straight, with his private detective agency. Well... sort of. There is this one girl who I quite like... There's also someone else who liked me, and I liked her. But she said she wasn't looking for anything serious when I asked her out, so... Oh yeah, the Black Beauty was in. It made a brief appearance in the Batman cross-over, but only really brief. And we only saw the front half of the car. The best thing about the Green Hornet though? Those ridiculously simple costumes he and Kato wore. A green suit, a green hat and a mask made from a pair of sunglasses. Then Kato wore a driver's uniform, and the same type of mask. Thankfully I've not yet got to the stage where I can name all 52 earths! It's in my sent items box. 09/08. I can send it again if you want.

It's not like I have any excuses either, I was wearing my glasses and everything. "Ice to see you" for example. And Babs certainly became a whole lot less-fanciable in the film. Still, it did give us the Bat-nipples... Like always happens to me. A big lull in decent news for weeks, then as soon as I don't get on for a few days, boom! News galore.

Different continuities. BB and TDK are a re-boot and have absolutely nothing to do with Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Forever and Batman & Robin.

Two words: Dark blue. Thanks for that. The claw bit at the front. Does it look as much like a face IRL as it does in the pictures?

*checks birth certificate* He is. I don't much care for the show either, but after a quick information check he's playing a version of himself called Mayor Adam West. I also discovered he's apparantly done voice work for The Fairly OddParents, Kim Possible and Goosebumps... where he plays a fading superhero on the verge of retirement. So, not at all typecast. It is annoying. But I'm one of those guys who actually kind of likes doing the hoovering. You know, it's a gadget after all... And it's Zatanna. Supergirl: Power didn't have every DCU villain in it. True, it had every DCU hero in, but not every villain. I mentioned that casually to my dad when watching one of the 60s Riddler stories... and he couldn't fathom it. He couldn't understand how it stopped Riddler from telling everyone. Oh, damn you. I've heard bits, yeah. To be honest, I've never really come across the Green Hornet, but the more I look into him, the more I start to like him. Frankly though, it's worth it for the Black Beauty. Infra-green headlights! I still prefer this modern multiverse to the old one, that explained away the Golden Age. Never did like that idea. Then it started to get confusing... I haven't sadly, I can't seem to find it. Anywhere. Seriously, I've never seen it in either the library or a bookshop. And as if by magic... And I'm back. Sorry, I just got a bit distracted and ended up dancing around my room. Have you read Specials #2 yet, btw?

To be honest, I don't mind the visible legs bit. That's all part of the fun really. But the chest bit is a little annoying. I mean, sure, mine will likely spend most of the time in robot mode, but still. I was only going to get TFA Prowl, but I think I might have to get the Dinobots as well now. Grimlock looks fantastic, and Snarl and Swoop look pretty nice as well. Grimlock with that underbite...

Thanks theriddler. Now if only they'd given him two different guns... That really is sweet. So very Harley, yes, but so very sweet regardless. Actually, TLG's version is quite accurate to some versions/interpretations of the character.

What are you, my mother? Well yes, there is that. No, I think that's more to do with the fact that they're the only roles he can get. Yes, I believe I did think I liked the music when I watched it. I forgot to mention some timely interruptions when I was watching The Clock King. At 1:36, I had to pause the DVD when my mum switched on the vacuum. Shortly after it was turned off and I heard the plug come out the wall. 1:53 and the vacuum mysteriously starts again. Yes, I know. Dear, sweet Zatanna. 'K' is the title of the story. I probably should have made that clear. Especially as the trade is called Kryptonite instead. I do rather like him as a write. I din't mind Hush to be honest. Sure, it felt like a bit of a whistle-stop tour of the Bat-mythos at times, but the Riddler twist at the end, and I guess you could consider Hish himself as the first of the modern 'personal attack' villains. Disappointing that you've not found the film. Those bits are probably the ones that everyone remembers, just because they're so OTT. And I mean, the Penguin-sub was just awesome in and of itself. Tongihts episode was a special one. The one where Green Hornet and Kato come to town, with their simple and slightly rubbish, but effortlessly cool costumes. My only complaint is that we've not seen much of the Black Beauty (their car) yet. It was also played a little more seriously for a change, because The Green Hornet wasn't a spoof like Batman. You know, you really should have gone into comedy. You're wasted as you are... Elseworlds would be nice, they're always worth a read. Of course, with the 52 earths now, there are only a few left to fill. But never mind. Scarecrow does have a sort of origin, in that he delved into the study of fear after he was tormented by bullies as a younger man. Ivy has bits of an origin, both with and without Jason "The Floronic Man" Woodrue, and the best that Mad Hatter has is Robin: Year One. The Harvey Dent thing sounds pretty good. All we've got is a bit in Year One and then TLH.