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Battinson-mobile: massive upgrade over the old one. Never much cared for the old one. Felt too chunky. Would’ve preferred a new cowl for the fig, but we all knew that wasn’t happening. Dawn of Garbage-mobile: kind of a lateral move from the old one. Better in some ways, worse in others. I never got the old one and this one is good enough to make me not bricklink it. Figure is alright. Batman and Robin and Governator-mobile: this one doesn’t quite work. I sympathize with the designers for having to get this thing to $30. Probably the best they could do given the constraints as well as the source material. The figure is BANGING though. Logo: Lol. Lmao, even.

I know I’ll get hit with the nerd cannon™️ by people on here, but Batman and Robin Batmobile is just too close to the Forever one to get so soon. UCS Pattmobile? Feel like they’ll save that for Pt. II but LEGO hasn’t been very rational about the decisions they’ve made with DC recently.

So which Batmobile are we thinking?

Did…did something good just happen to this theme?

Batwing with correct head is out there now

These look about as good as we could hope for. Joker hair is such an improvement.

God I hope not at this piece count. Would be weird to get a GCPD cruiser and no officer or Gordon either.

I get that it’s fantasy at the end of the day, and that there’s no logic, but I do love the thought of Arkham guards being like “alright Scarecrow, you gotta wear the orange jumpsuit, but you can keep wearing the mask.”

Yes, there will be a GWP with a third Officer Balls

Pretty funny that the only new fig is Batwing of all characters. Pretty meh list overall. Nothing to get overly excited about (although I’m praying for a cool Scarecrow) but considering the state of the theme, I was expecting way worse.

The theme's pretty damn dead but I'd still bet on a UCS BTAS Batmobile before we get an official funeral announcement.

Oh yeah true. Comic-based Batcave wouldn’t completely shock me, but yeah. I think we’re in agreement.

Yeah I mean not on the DC side. That’ll probably stay movies. I think they’d be willing to give generic Spidey sets a a go though.

That’s what I’m saying though, I don’t think either cinematic universe is hitting the 2010’s heights again anytime soon, even if they’re well made films. Batman, Spiderman, *maybe* Superman can hit a billion dollars right now. Doomsday probably will out of sheer curiosity. But I think Disney+ has taken a large wind out of the box office sail for the mid-level projects. Just from a personal point of view, I only go to the theater for the big ones now, where in 2017 I was there for almost all of them.

I think that would validate the current approach of putting out 1 or 2 higher quality Batman sets a year and calling it a day. I also don’t think one movie is gonna seriously change LEGO’s stance towards DC. If the rest of the DCU takes off then maybe, but I honestly think superhero movies have been passed by in the zeitgeist. Suspect the superheroes line is due to revert to something more comic based soon enough.