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I'm not interested in the house, but the car and the van are great! Hope I can get them separately on eBay or something now that Pick a Brick is dead.

Oh, so that's why I can't access my Amazon orders page or comment on Reddit. Good to know.

That is a surprisingly apt description of the logo set.

If you're tired of the talk about a TIE Avenger by Lego, would you care to purchase for @CloneCommando99 a TBF Avenger by Cobi? It's a pretty good kit, and it's the same thing. Just a few letters changed. You know, like those Star Plan sets by L*pin. %7BfileStore.core_Attachment%7Dmonthly_2025_10/image.jpeg.71e78a43c50a045add3e10e42915c9d6.jpeg

UCS BvS or Reeves cars, maybe. UCS Flying Lobster, probably not. UCS Batpod, definitely not. They already did that and it was 40% off last weekend.

I started reading Eurobricks forums in 2005 and I didn't make an account until 2016 or 2017!

It's there to trick unsuspecting passersby into thinking that Superman is on the way, when in the grim darkness of Gotham City there is only Batman.

Actually, you know what, I was wrong. The B&R car is actually the perfect size. The prop car is 30 to 33 feet long, depending on who you believe, and the Lego set is just shy of 30 studs long. So, that's pretty close to my preferred 1:38 scale (1 stud = 1 foot). It's a little short of the usual 1:35 scale of minifig-scale military builders and it's a good deal short of the usual ~1:25 scale of 8w Speed Champions, but it's not shrunk down to kiddy size for the sake of the playset.

All three Batmobiles are must-buys for me, but at 20% off, not on day one. The DuckBricks hands-on video shows there's a big 2x4 empty space inside the B&R car. I wonder if that's intended to accomodate a Smart Brick? If so, I'm glad the car isn't overtly, outwardly compromised for the sake of that feature, like the Pikachu and X-wing are. I'd assume we'll get more with the same "Legendary Batmobiles Collection" branding in early 2027, but probably not in 2026. I imagine even TLG realizes that 3 playscale Batmobiles in one year is enough.

Mark Stafford openly spoke of having Speed Champions envy when he talked about designing the Forever Batmobile last year, which I thought was funny because the set was scaled much larger than the preceding Batmobiles since 2021 that were more or less in Speed Champions scale. Now that the Speed Champions envy is in the open with three $30 cars next January, I think it's deliciously ironic that the Forever car, as a strangely large set, is followed by the B&R car bludgeoned into scale as a kiddy car, when the prop car is fifty percent longer than the 1989 prop car so it could legitimately hit an overpriced ninety buck price point if it were done to scale at Speed Champions standards. Not that I'm complaining. That's one car where I'd much rather have a cute little playset than a larger display model stuffed with gonzo building techniques.

The Reeves car looks really good. It's a solid improvement on the old set in proportions and details, makes good use of new parts, and it's at a good price. The BvS car is a mixed bag. The color is an improvement, and the construction of the front wheel armor is much better, but the old dedicated element worked better for the windscreen than this generic printed element. The price should be $20. The B&R car is, you know what, it's cute. I don't like the movie car and I wouldn't like a larger model that was to scale with the 1989 or TAS cars, but I can dig this set as a cute little version of a 4+ Batmobile at a slightly higher age rating. It should still be $20 though. The shape of the logo is great, but it should be smooth and ungreebled and sold at half the price. This is one thing that doesn't need greebling all over the place. And Golden Batman is just weird and tacky.

My list of Castlemax projects has 77 entries, and there are 436 entries in Series 9, so that's about 18% of all submissions. If I counted Castle-themed entries in the 2000-3000p range too, that would probably come out to about 25% of all entries as medium-large or max-size castles.

Just for fun I'm going to make a list of the Castlemax (castles and forts about the size of the LKC, ~3000-4000p) submissions in BDP9 to see how many there are (77!): Alliance of Light (Griffins) An Abyssal Knights World - Legends of Wreckstone (Krakens base w/Horses and Griffins too) Brick Monarch's Castle (Griffin Knights) Castle Evermore (Griffins and Krakens) Castle in the Sky (Griffins) Castle Keep at the Shore (Krakens) Castle of Roses (Paradisa - built and titled like a castle but it's a modern resort?) Citadel of the Snake (Snakes) Cliffside Sanctuary (Griffins) Cloud Kingdom (Griffins) Dark Castle (Krakens, Griffins) Darkspire Citadel (Frights) Deep Sea Citadel (Krakens) Desert Fortress (Snakes) Dragon Spire (Griffins) Dreadmoor (Snakes) Driftwood Keep (Krakens) Eyrie Castle (Griffins and Krakens) Fortified city with inn and bank (Krakens) Gilded Island Keep (Krakens) Griffin Keep (Griffins) Griffstone Castle (Griffins) Hydra Shipyard (Griffins) Imperial Guards Star Fortress (Imperial whitecoats) Inn at the Crossroads (Griffins) Japanese Castle (tourists) King’s Castle (Horses) King’s Mansion (Horses) Knights’ Sanctuary of Valor (Horses) Medieval Cathedral (Horses) Medieval City Port (Griffins and Krakens) Medieval Guildhall (a little smaller, faction unclear) Medieval Hamlet (Griffins) Medieval Town Hall (Lions) Medieval Town Hall (Griffins) Medieval Village (Griffins, Horses, Snakes) Mistguard Castle (Griffins and Krakens) Mistspire Tower (Griffins) Nightstone Citadel watchtower (Snakes, Griffins, Horses) Noble Knights’ Castle (Griffins) Octopus Gate (Krakens, a little smaller) Orc Village (Orcs) Outlaw Outpost (Wild West) Paladins’ Temple Fortress (Snakes) Port Fenzance (Imperial tancoats) Rockspire Castle (Griffins) Royal Nest (Griffins) Sea Haven Stronghold (Krakens) Seacliff Castle (Griffins) Shadow Stone Manor (Snakes) Silverwood Crossing (Elves) Squid Island Castle (Krakens) Stonepeak Stronghold (Griffins) Stormcairn Fortress (Krakens) The Aerie Citadel (Griffins) The Castle Gate (Horses) The Corvids Nest (Griffins with Raven shields) The Crooked Tower (faction unclear) The Dark Village (Snakes) The Emerald Abyss (Krakens) The Forgotten Tower (Griffins) The Fortress (Krakens) The Island Castle (Griffins) The Libertalia Fortress (Pirates) The Northern City Gates (Griffins, Krakens, Horses) The Scarlet Bastion (Griffins) The Squire (Griffins) The Stone Crown (Griffins and Krakens) The Temple of Grail (Griffins) Town Hall (Horses) Town Hall and Belfry (Snakes and Horses) Trade Outpost and River Barge (Griffins and Krakens) Viking Shipyard (Vikings) Wagon Fort (Griffins, a little smaller) Watchers of the Midnight Sea (Krakens) White Shark Imperials Prison (Imperial tancoats) Wild West Fort (Wild West) That's a lot of Castlemax builds! May the best one win. These are the BDP9 submissions I marked as "Like It": Alliance of Light Alien Discovery Ancient City Brick Studios Canal Houseboat Citadel of the Snake Countryside Farmhouse Darkspire Citadel Dragon Spire Dreadmoor Edward the Friendly Pirate Egyptology Expedition Griffin Keep Kita Castle Lifeguard Tower Medieval Village Mistguard Castle Outpost Battery Packet Ship Albatross Port Fenzance Road Work Ahead Royal Nest The Corvids Nest The Old Garage The Royal Convoy Vikings of Krakheim These are the BDP9 submissions I marked as "Love It": Golden Age Aviation Japanese Castle Oakwatch Tower Post Office and Stagecoach I marked everything else as "Not For Me.” I limited my “Love It” ratings to only the three smaller sets that would be instant buys if released, and only the Japanese Castle in the Castlemax category. The other Castlemax builds I liked are in the “Like It” category. I suppose I might go back and change some of them from “Like It” to “Love It” later.

Last I saw the progress bars showed Outlaw Forest Den just having crossed the funded threshold, and nothing else funded yet.

My cart had errors for about twenty minutes, but I was able to check out with the Outlaw Forest Den and the Off-Road Adventure.

The prop car for the Batman and Robin Batmobile was 30 feet long, fifty percent longer than the prop car for the 1989 Batmobile. There's no way the Lego set will be fifty percent longer at the $30 price point than the overpriced car at the $48 price point, but that's ok. As a single seater vehicle, the 1997 car is one Batmobile that can easily be scaled down without losing any essential features. Would have been good to have Robin's motorcycle as part of the set though. One set from the movie called Batman and Robin, and it doesn't even have Robin. That's pathetic.

The most I've spent on a single minifig was about $20 on a 2006 Boba Fett to go with a 2006 Slave I that I bought without minifigs. That's one of the few sets in my collection that I would be happy to sell off. I didn't really like it once it was all together.

I went to see The Batman Part II too. I've got pretty mixed feelings about it. The score by Michael Giacchino was amazing, and there's some absolutely jaw-dropping cinematography and set pieces. I really liked all the startling and unexpected plot twists and character developments. [spoiler] But the second act was really slow, pretty much like watching paint dry. We didn't need to see fifteen minutes of Andy Serkis doing watercolors from his hospital bed while monologuing to Jeffrey Wright about solipsism and Nietzche. I don't think most people will like what Matt Reeves did with Commissioner Gordon's character or the way Selina Kyle was sidelined on a pointless trip to Monaco for most of the movie. [/spoiler] Overall, I really respect all the wild swings Matt Reeves took with the story in this chapter. There's all sorts of tonal and moral ambiguities that'll take ages to iron out according to anyone's vision of what Batman should be. I know I'll be thinking about this movie for a long time, and I think it'll provide scholars, critics, and superfans food for thought for years. I just hope the online backlash from people like @psqidexslizer doesn't mean the studio will force Reeves to backtrack on his entire vision for the next movie and just make some stupid brainless action movie that undoes everything good about this one with a bunch of WTF moments. Carmine Falcone is dead, people, get over it already. Edit - clearly I don't know how to do spoiler tags.

By Grabthar's Hammer, by the Suns of Warvan, we shall have a TIE! ... As soon as the Avenger appears in Ahsoka season 3, or randomly in ten years when everybody has forgotten about it except for we faithful few. The prophecy will be fulfilled on day #3650, give or take a few hundred.

I think the TIE Striker did a good job of having enough sand blue accents to affect the overall color without having so much sand blue that it's overwhelming. I wouldn't want to see a TIE fighter set with a lot more sand blue than that.

Yeah, while the proportions and details of your model are certainly more accurate to the movie prop, it looks like your model would be highly unstable if built in real bricks. All those ball joints are good for enabling prop-accurate thin links with wide ranges of motion, but there's no way they could support the weight of the build. A single unreinforced ball joint at the ankles is a recipe for disaster.

Thanks for the tip. Those both sound good to me. The rumored BvS Batmobile set has fewer pieces than the old set, but it has more than the Batmobile portion of the old set. So probably no side build and definitely worse value than the older set, but the Batmobile itself will probably be about the same size. The rumored Reeves/Pattinson Batmobile has fewer pieces than the old set, but the old set was too big anyway. So again, definitely worse value for money than the old set, but not too bad relative to Speed Champions at their 2026 price point. If it's the in-game model, that'll be great. The old set is one of my favorite Batmobiles, but the new in-game model is definitely more accurate to the car in the movie. I'll probably pick both of these up once they hit 20% off. I think it's a toss-up between the 1966 Batmobile and the Batman Forever Batmobile for the third playscale Batmobile next year. They both have in-game models, there hasn't been a playscale Forever Batmobile before, and there's plenty of precedent for Lego releasing the same thing in two different scales in quick succession. The 1966 Batmobile is generally more popular, but the in-game model has very few changes from the old set so there's not as much reason to re-release it.

Who's posted that they're confirmed? I haven't seen that yet.

Agree with the first paragraph, agree with the second. The TIE Avenger has always seemed to me like just another spikey super TIE. They're like the Death Stars of the starfighter world: the first one is really cool, the later ones are derivative and boring. Not to mention that the TIE Avenger is absurdly overpowered compared to the TIE Advanced that's five years later in the timeline. It's got the spiky wings! It's armed to the teeth with heavy weaponry! It can operate without a base! It can eat standard TIE fighters for breakfast! It has a hyperdrive! It has life support so our hunky hero can fly it without a big ugly helmet! And did we mention it conveniently has three seats so our hunky hero can save the day and fly away with his bodacious babe and his sidekick? Our rebel spy's stolen starfighter is ten times better than big bad Darth Vader's boring old ship, so take that! I'd be happy to have a TIE Avenger as a $70 starfighter set, because it would make a good playset and Lego has made plenty of playsets from pretty obscure Star Wars material, but I didn't like the ship in Andor season 2. It seemed like overpowered fan fiction narrative convenience, not something that actually fit with the setting. Pretty disappointing compared to how meticulously the rest of the Rogue One and Andor productions fit with the OT.

It's still speculation as far as I know, but it would be madness not to have a new playscale Razor Crest set to tie in with the movie.