It’s hard not to get excited when you see the tumbler. It’s really hard not to get excited when you see a LEGO built tumbler. But a LEGO built tumbler with spinning flames, side bombs, movable features, detailed cockpit and transforming Batpod? I defy you not to get excited. Flickr user Artifex creation offers up this excellent rendition of my favorite Batmobile.
Completely slipped my mind last month to check out September’s winners of LEGO’s Super Heroes Unite! contest until I caught wind that Mark (andertoons) Anderson took a second place prize pack of the complete 2012 LEGO Super Heroes: DC Universe collection for his stunning Cat Woman Line Art.
The first prize winners of all that DC Universe LEGO swag as well as a limited-edition hand-painted cold-cast porcelain maquette were Kyle Fleming’s LEGO Batmam: Return Of The Joker & Shelby Pritchard’s An Interview With Batman. Kyle’s video was created for a class, so I guess one way or another he got an A.
One of 4 third prize winners Ian Norris scored a brand spanking new Batcave set, LEGO Batman: The Videogame and a T-Shirt for his LEGO-fied comic cover for “The Man Of Plastic”.
Congrats to all the winners who you can check out here and don’t forget the contest continues until a grand prize is drawn in December so get your entries in! October’s winners should be posted soon.
2 Much Caffeine takes his battle with Lino to the streets of Gotham with this great bank robbing scene. I love the bank, but what drew my attention oddly enough was the use of the Exo-Force hairpiece on the Joker. It reminds me of the bare-foot, dreadlocked Joker from the cartoon ‘The Batman’.
I love the Tumbler, Batman’s kick-ass vehicle from Batman Begins and Dark Knight. Not only for it’s complex lines and aggressive posture, but from it’s concept as a converted military prototype. True that a vehicle of such special purpose and limited use would be unlikely to ever make it to prototype form…BUT IT’S SO COOL! This version by Flickr user ZetoVince captures everything I dig about it, and does so at pretty accurate scale and with excellent technique.
I have to admit, I’ve never heard of “mood scale” before I saw this pic, but I dig the concept. Building on what has classically been a mecha platform to create characters, I like it! Flickr user M<0><0>DSWIM brings us these sweet MOCs, and there’s more to view on his photo stream. After learning about it I also found this…
It’s got an awesome pose, great likeness and it’s an overall amazing MOC.
LegoManiac has been teasing this project for the last month and I highly suggest you take a look back through his photostream to check out his project’s evolution. I think the microscale cityscape is fantastic and he really managed to pull off some great effects without the use of photoshop (only the text is shop’d), even the bat signal is lego built. Nothing pleases me more than a creation that’s so well done that it outshines the minifig that inspired it.
In a recent article in the Los Angeles Times, the president of Warner Interactive revealed a few upcoming projects. One of the projects, which should excite fans of Traveller’s Tales LEGO Video Game series, is a sequel to 2008’s LEGO Batman: The Videogame. Not much else is known at this point and there is no release date yet, but with several LEGO video games due out over the next year, notably LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 (Nov. 11, 2011) and LEGO Super Heroes: The Video Game (June 2012), gamers should have their brick-loving hands full.
Though CubeDude fever may have cooled over time as fads tend to do, they still trickle in from time to time and some just can’t help but make you want build your own version. ThatGuyWithTheBricks has dropped a great pair of Dudes in our forums based on Batman & The Joker from The Dark Knight and I have to admit, even though that Joker is not my favorite this CubeDude version is spot on and I’d be surprised to see a better rendition. Feel free to prove me wrong though.
This new MOC from one of my newest, favoritest builders Fat Tony 1138 conjures up epic soundtrack music in my head, a need to smash some bad guys and all those wonderful toys.
Variety reported a few hours ago that LEGO now has the full DC Comics license. In short, expect to see LEGO sets based on their most popular characters including Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and villains the Joker, Bane, Harley Quinn and Lex Luthor.
LEGO will unveil the initial wave of sets at Comic Con which kicks off tomorrow night. 3,000 minifigs of Batman and Green Lantern will be given away “distributed”. FBTB will be there all week, so stay tuned for our full coverage.
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Warner Bros. has expanded its relationship with Lego, granting the toymaker access to DC Entertainment’s complete library of comicbook characters and stories to launch DC Universe “Super Heroes” as figures and playsets.
The multi-year licensing deal, made through Warner Bros. Consumer Products, will start rolling out the new line in January, starting with 13 characters, including Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and villains the Joker, Bane, Harley Quinn and Lex Luthor.
The first toys will be shown off at the Lego booth at Comic-Con Intl. in San Diego, where 3,000 exclusive Batman and Green Lantern minifigures will be distributed to launch a promo that runs August-December, enabling fans to create and submit videos, photos or illustrations of the characters to win trips to Legoland and Warner Bros. Studios.
WB and Lego had already been producing toys and videogames around the Batman franchise, and will launch a new set of playthings around next summer’s “The Dark Knight Rises” through the Lego Batman collection. The “Lego Batman: The Videogame,” published by WB Bros. Interactive Entertainment, has sold more than 12 million units since 2008.”This partnership gives builders a chance to recreate the characters, vehicles and worlds of some of the most iconic super heroes, so they can relive the action and even customize it, a proven and winning formula in Lego construction,” said Jill Wilfert, VP, licensing and entertainment for the Lego Group.