New polybag sets

Over on lego.com they post instructions for sets (so, for instance, when my son tore up the instructions to his new Cars set, we can still build it). Anyway, yesterday they added a bunch of new instructions, including for the upcoming polybag sets 30160, a Bat-jet-ski, and 30161, a micro-Batmobile. No release date on these yet, or even official names, but you can already download the instructions for 30160 and 30162. There's nothing too rare there, except of course the minifig, so you could probably build these today with your existing collection.




BTW, given the value on Bricklink for some of the original Batman run, and just the general collectible nature of Batman stuff, these polybag sets might be a great value to store a few copies away for resale in a few years. Personally I've never been a collector/investor in LEGO, I've pretty much only bought things I wanted for my own building. The one small SW promo set that I stashed away thinking I might resell later was found by my kids, who opened it up to play with. Oh well, it's not like that one set would have ensured their college fund.

Wheels of Justice

During my near-month-hiatus from blogging, I totally missed the Wheels of Justice contest over at FBTB, that challenged people to build cars for the Green Lantern and Batman. Entries are now closed, and it doesn't look like voting has started, but two of my favorites include Cole Blaq's Emerald Thunder and SPARKART's Electric BATWInG Batmobile.

Batmobile

Lil grizzle made shows us another version of the Batmobile

Nananananananana Batcave!

Orion Pax made this amazing rendition of the Adam West Batcave. Also take a closer look at his Batmobile.

Riddle me this, Batman

Indyman09 brings us a re-imagined Riddler.



He also made this little speeder.

Batpod

Casey McCoy made this great Batpod, and he's planning on using it for a stop-motion film.

Batmobiles

Flash made several variants on the Batmobile.

Wayne Tower

Brucewaynelego made this Wayne Tower and Batmobile.

Batmobile

Sebulba56 made this Batmobile.

On the road with a big rubber duckie

Dave Smith made a number of vehicles for Batman and friends.

Coolest car in the universe

Digging a little more into Havoc's LEGO creations, we find a great Batmobile.

Justice League

Finally from Baronsat, Eric Druon also took on the Justice League with the Metro Tower and the Javelin.

Batmobiles

Eric Druon also recreated more than a dozen versions of the world's coolest car, the Batmobile, as it has appeared in various incarnations over the years.

Help me, Mr. Batman

When he's not battling the Joker or other master villains, Batman also rescues cats, according to Crises.

Archie

Pate-possu has his own version of Archie, Nite Owl's ship from the Watchmen.

Flower power

I'm not much of a gamer. We have a WII, but it gets very little use as a game console, mostly just for streaming our Netflix account. Anyway, I did recently get the Batman game, but haven't played it much. Eventually I'll get a chance to do so and will post more about that in the blog (seems silly to post a 'review' as it's been out for a couple of years). Anyway, o0Randal0o has made some of the vehicles that appear in the game, including this car for Poison Ivy.

Archie and Jughead

Um, no, different comic book Archie - this one the Night Owl's ship from the Watchmen series. Be sure to click through all of those pages, as Chris Doyle made a few variations and also detailed the interior.