NovaBricks

After seeing some more clear images of the Penguin fig, I'm really not that enthused about the set. I realize Danny Devito poses some uhhhh..."challenges" in minifigure form, but it doesn't even look remotely close. I would bank on a super generic looking Alfred and and Catwoman and Schreck that are pretty lame.

I doubt it's canceled but would you be shocked about a delay?

We all ridiculed the guy who said that he had gotten a LEGO survey showing a BTAS skyline art set, and all had to eat crow on that one. Not saying it's gonna happen, but it wouldn't shock me at this point if the cave was delayed or canned after seeing how poorly the Batmobile thing was handled. The $300+ superhero sets have been a DISASTER recently.

I mean, I take your and @THELEGOBATMAN's point that LEGO shouldn't skimp for the price their asking. I just think we should see the design to see if it makes any sense to have an army of rocket penguins taking up space

Lol how many penguins do you want?

It's still so weird to me that we're getting a Batman Returns wave. Also, did I miss it or do we still not have news on the polybag? (or GWP, I forget which it is).

I’d be shocked to see the same Joker and Batman in both sets. Considering we know it’ll be the same (new) Batman, they’ll have to switch up the Joker. I suspect we’ll just get a rerelease of each version from UCS vehicles, although who knows which set will get which. It’s a shame we’re not getting a Pat Hingle Gordon with the Batmobile. He’s only one of two actors who spanned all four movies. And with Michael Gough coming in the cave, he’s also the only one we won’t get.

BB/TDK are my top two, and then a tier down is Burton/SM 1 and 2/Logan/X-2, then drop down a tier and you've got like Iron Man/Homecoming/The Batman. Then it just goes off a cliff for me . I get that I'm a bit more film snobbish than most but MCU stuff is just way too digital for me, and while the inter-connectedness is really cool, the novelty has worn off and it makes me not enjoy the films individually. There are some fun moments. But I prefer the trilogy format of the 2000's. I think you're right that The Flash will be No Way Home; fun in theaters with some cool nostalgia callbacks, but not a film I'm gonna rewatch. Hope to be wrong though!

I mean, there really aren't that many great superhero movies if we're bring honest. Glad to see this is getting good reviews, but I have a hard time believing this is going to be anywhere near approaching any of the Nolan or Burton movies. I hope I'm wrong.

Suspect they'll be the same as previously released. Would welcome the hair though.

Did you even read the rest of my post? I clearly would too, but we're getting what we're getting. I just think what we're getting still has the potential to look good despite the poor choice of source material.

I think there's some overreaction to the open/close mechanism on the Batcave. Like yeah it's an odd decision but I'll hold judgement. Could look really cool, especially with a light kit. To me what's stranger is the absolute necessity on LEGO's part to base everything these days on movies, particularly considering the one in question is 31 years old. I suspect LEGO took the wrong lesson from the '89 vehicles selling so well. Both of those are iconic and good display pieces, but the cave is not. Keaton's movies are definitely looked back on fondly by most, but I have a hard time believing this will sell better than a comics based one. Would the Bugle have sold better if it was based on the Raimi movies? I tend to doubt it, unless it was just collectors hoarding Tobey figs. Maybe LEGO is banking on Michelle Pfieffer and Michael Gough having a huge draw? Also, how do you not include Vicki Vale? I know she's from the first movie but there's a whole gag about Alfred letting her into the cave, and there's already a fig you could just reuse. And no Pat Hingle figure? Come on man.

I would take a BTAS Arkham, but yeah, I doubt we get two sets over $300 next year.

Not sure how I feel about this. The concept sounds cool with it swinging open, but no bat-boat and not a lot of figs has me ambivalent. As for the batmobile, not shocking that they repurposed it. Kind of glad we're getting it in the cave as well as I already have both 1989 UCS sets. I'm assuming the smaller, separately sold bat-vehicles will come with the purple suit joker in one, and the black suit with top hat one in the other. Please LEGO, for the love of God, give us a comics based Arkham with like 20 figs. PLEASE.

Brickfanatics is always late to the party. Nothing new here beyond what we learned on Monday.

Just thinking out loud here, but I wonder if this has less to do with Miller and more to do with how the sets were supposed to tie together. After seeing the uhhhh...."mixed" reaction to the Hulkbuster having a second set tie into it (even though the hate was more due to the second set requiring design compromises to the main set), I wonder if the cave was supposed to have the Batmobile and Batwing sold separately but tie in and when LEGO saw the Hulkbuster thing they went "Oh f#$& we can't sell a $450 set that doesn't even have a batmobile" and decided to merge them. They REALLY can't afford another swing and miss on another $400+ superhero set after the Hulkbuster and BP bust. Miller's extra-curricular activities have been known for a while now. LEGO has had ample time to switch the box art or pull his minifig if they were that concerned. This feels like something else to me.

This is a good point. Either it's a tie-in to the cave and it has to come out, or the cave is coming with a batmobile and bat-boat and the batwing is the only tie-in set.

LEGO seems to do reveals when they get boxed into it by leaks. Until we see anything if the Flash set, I don’t think they need to do a reveal until a week or two out.

After sleeping on this, it's even more of a baffling decision to me. Outside of the already existing "relationship" or whatever you want to call it between LEGO and the Burton-verse, this just seems like such a weird move. It's possibly the most basic cave depiction in media (tied with BTAS because it's clearly pretty much the same one), it limits the selection of figs, and it's based on a movie that's pretty strange and dark. And I think it's fairly obvious that those other sets are now going to compliment the cave in the same way the Iron-man figure does to the hulkbuster. So we're looking at a $450 cave with zero vehicles? This thing must be occupy a very large physical footprint to justify this. Maybe some lightbricks to give it a gloomy feel? There's something here we're missing. I know a lot of people who can afford this grew up with Keaton as their Batman, but I doubt any of those people would've scoffed at a comic or BTAS inspired set. This has to be a Flash tie-in. There's no other explination.

Just saw the penguin fig. Really low effort. I can’t imagine designing a $450 set based on a movie and missing that bad. That’s Danny Devito? Seriously?

Awful

I would not mind seeing it either for those more in the know than I

It was daylights savings in the US last night. Wonder if there was a mixup in the time.

Was putting together a $300 set this morning and it made me realize…$450 buys a lot of stickers. Like, I fear the cave is gonna have so many.

Lol we got a $500 Hulkbuster that looked TERRIBLE because they wanted us to buy a different Iron Man to put inside. We would be so lucky if LEGO barely did Ironman content.