Nanananananananana - Bat Theme!

Between 2006 and 2008, LEGO released 13 sets in the Batman theme. One of the first released, and, at $10, a cheap way to get Batman himself, was 7779, Catwoman Pursuit



As a building set this was not great. The dragster was kind of silly, based mostly on the long curved wedge element and the large bat wing. The gatling gun on the front is kind of nice, though that design was around in MOCs before this set. Also Catwoman's motorcycle is just your basic one-piece (well, more like 6 piece) design, even though you can make an amazing motorcycle using LEGO elements. For me this set was all about the figs. These are great renditions of both Bruce and Selina. Okay, I'm not thrilled about these being flesh-toned rather than yellow, but I'm over that by now. Also, due to the placement of the eye-holes in the cowls, you can't easily interchange with another head, but you're pretty much going to use these figures as originally built rather than as fodder for making your own characters. It's also nice that Catwoman's head is double-sided, so you can view here with or without her goggles.

You can view the inventory at Peeron, the instructions at LEGO.com, or buy a copy at BrickLink. (Holy cow! It starts at $80. I'm very tempted to sell mine now.)

Vulture

Nelson Yrizarry has made a great number of scenes staring Spider-Man and foes such as the Vulture.

Dark Knight

Alex Schranz built this Dark Knight as a reinterpretation of Fredoichi's bust that I blogged a few days ago.

Spoon!

Adrian Drake built a bust of the spoof-hero, the Tick.

Iron Man

The Arvo brothers made this awesome Iron Man.

What's the worst comic-book movie ever?

Catwoman certainly has to be up there on the list. Anyway, Teti-tots came up with a cube-dude version of Batman's felonius feline foe. Holy alliteration, Batman!

Caped crusader

Fredoichi made this great Batman bust based on the animated TV show version.



Via the Brothers-Brick.

Emblematic emblems

Michael Taylor made a series of iconic superhero emblems.

This little light of mine

Dawn of the Brick modified minifigs with working lights to make Tony Stark and Whiplash.

Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stranger

BlockoLUG presents Heath Ledger's Joker, disguised for the bank robbery scene in the Dark Knight.

Dark Knight

This was a photo I just quickly threw together for photo captioning over on Classic-Castle.

Presto changeo

In another new MOC, BlockoLUG captures Clark Kent in the act of changing out of his suit and tie.

In brightest day, in blackest night

Ring need charging? Use JustJon's Green Lantern Power Battery. It's even got a light-up power function. (Another fairly recent MOC, btw - see, I'm not just all about dredging up old MOCs.)

Mr. Sandman, send me a dream ...

Okay, this is a different kind of comic, but my favorite graphic novels are by far the Sandman tales penned by Neil Gaiman. Shane Larson made a great series of MOCs based on these haunting stories.

Look! Up in the sky!

It's a MOC by me. Some time ago now I made this Superman. Notice, I don't personally do customization, so if you look at this from a different angle you'll see that Clark is sporting a plane blue torso rather than his signature S.

New Gothopolis

Here's one that really takes me back. About ten years ago, Tim Saupe, creator of FBTB visited LEGO's North American headquarters. While there he saw a great creation sitting on the desk of Master Builder Erik Varszegi, New Gothopolis. This 48x48 baseplate was packed with buildings from both the Marvel and DC universes, like the Daily Planet building and Dr. Strange's mansion. Of course it was also populated with custom figs, ranging from Two-Face to Galactus and Thor to the Flash. Doors pop open to reveal furnished interiors, and there's even Clark Kent changing to Superman via a revolving door. Follow the link to see all the great details.





A big thanks to Ace Kim, admin over at FBTB, for re-uploading these pictures for me.

Ooh, new Spidey

Another brand new MOC, a builder named 'Okay' gives us a street battle featuring our favorite web-slinger, his darker side Venom, and foes Doc Ock and the Green Goblin.

Happy Halloween

Aaron Sneery's Ghost Rider is an appropriate character for Halloween. Hope you have a spooky one.

Micropolis

The members of TwinLUG, a LEGO Users Group based in the Twin Cities, pioneered the micropolis standard. This set of standards allows different builders to make microscale (that is, much smaller than minifig-scale) units and then fit them all together to make a collaborative city layout, such as this one. Why feature this, you ask? Look closely and you'll see both the Superfriends' Hall of Justice and Fantastic Four's Baxter Building. Universes collide!

Phantom Zone

The first few posts I've put up have delved back into past MOCs, as I'm trying to establish this blog with some of the best, but one of the coolest comic-themed MOCs I've seen is quite recent, and was the thing that finally got me moving on this blog I've been contemplating for a long time. Chris Doyle presents a mosaic of the Phantom Zone with General Zod and friends from the Superman II movie.