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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.

As far as things somehow returning in Star Wars go, another Razor Crest is by far the instance that strains credibility the least, and is probably the least creatively bankrupt and easiest to explain of the storytelling decisions. (Death Star --> Death Star II --> Starkiller Base --> Final Order fleet) (Palpatine --> returned) (How does Luke know how to build a lightsaber offscreen between ESB and ROTJ?) (How does the Resistance rebuild and resupply offscreen between TLJ and TROS, when they literally have no ships, personnel, or materiel left at the end of TLJ?) How does Din Djarin get another Razor Crest offscreen between Mando s3 and TMAG? He does some jobs, clears some cash for carbonite, and heads to a classic car auction.

To be fair, it's not trying to do that.

Would you mind posting screencaps of the Kilmer and West cars from the game, please?

* Bat-vigilantes have hockey sticks instead of guns because Lego weirdly decides to get squeamish about guns for this one set for no reason that anybody in the know can/will explain to LAN members

The $650, 6838-piece set is now rumored to be sculptures of Bulbasaur, Squirtle, and Charmander. Why in the world aren't they releasing those as three separate sets? Each one would still be $200+ and 2000+ parts, which is not a small set. Surely they would sell more sets and bring in more revenue if the paywall for your favorite starter Pokemon was $200 instead of three times as high, and if you didn't have to buy the ones you didn't want at the same time. It reminds me of when the DC Super Heroes D2C for 2019 was rumored to be a $500 set with both the 1989 Batmobile and the 1989 Batwing, and those were eventually released as separate $250 and $200 sets in 2019 and 2020, respectively. That made sense. This does not.

Sorry, I haven't watched that Tom Hanks movie so I don't know what to say to save myself!

Honestly, this sounds great to me. I'm one of those folks who buys all the Batmobiles and doesn't have much interest in the more comics-based sets with wider casts of characters. Blame me!

"Them's fighting words!" - Redbeard and Tattooga

Well, it's a little bit longer and somewhat taller. The New Barracuda is bow + four center segments (three + brick built stern), while the New Pearl is bow + five center segments (four + brick built stern). So about eight studs longer, which isn't immediately noticeable in most comparisons.

(Never mind.)

How about a playscale Gozanti with four microscale TIE Avengers carried under the wings or a playscale Arquitens with two nanoscale TIE Avengers to launch out the front? Man, that playscale Gozanti was so cool.

Actually, come to think of it, it's actually Commodore Schmidlapp's dehydration ray invented for use in his distillery. It's the dastardly United Underworld that twists that useful, peaceful invention to nefarious ends!

It ain't that kind of movie, kid. As for the ending, it's supposed to be a comical, funny, slightly wistful ending with the moral "wouldn't we all get along better if we could just communicate with each other and put ourselves in each other's shoes?" It's the Joker's dehydration ray, Batman just hooks up an ordinary garden hose to the vials of dust that hold the dehydrated hope of humanity. But yes, Batman '66 is the GOAT, thanks for pointing that out :)

Boardroom meeting suggestion meme: Panel 1, chairman: We need some ideas for how to make the most money with our new Pokemon license! Panel 2, first speaker: Make desktop sculptures for office drones having a midlife crisis! Panel 2, second speaker: Make a couple of enormous coffee-table sculptures for the one percent! Panel 2, third speaker: Why don't we make a line of affordable playsets for kids that's sustainable for decades? Panel 3: Chairman glares at third speaker. Panel 4: Third speaker is thrown out the window of a tall building.

Sort of like the trademark squatting that led to the Razor Crest set initially being called "The Mandalorian Bounty Hunter Transport" in Europe.