The chassis takes on a U shape as the center is left open for the Batcycle to slot in later.Ī backward-facing new-style X-wing canopy in transparent yellow makes an excellent sleek cockpit. Unsurprising to anyone who’s built a large LEGO vehicle in the past five years, the car is designed around a solid frame of Technic beams plastered with an array of SNOT elements. The other wholly new elements are all in the minifigures, so we’ll cover those later.īag 1 jumps right in with the primary Batmobile, which is positioned as the front vehicle in the freeway pileup of bat-named vehicles that makes up this crime-fighting conveyance. It’s used as one of the connections between modules of the Batmobile, where it pairs with clips for a sturdy coupling. It’s not exclusive to this set, having previously appeared in a few other sets this year, but will likely be new to most builders. One of the few new pieces is this light bluish-grey modified 1×2 brick with a handle on one end (element 6156663). There’s not much in the way of new elements in this set, though that doesn’t detract from the build quality. Most are subtle details showing rivets and panel lines or red stripes.

The sticker sheet is quite large, and with 41 individual stickers, you’ll get lots of practice applying them. There’s no premium content in the instructions like in a UCS set, with the manual diving straight into the construction, nor is there an info placard. Although the UCS moniker was applied to a Batmobile in 2006 and arguably the Tumbler from 2014, this Ultimate Batmobile set is just a really large set from the standard theme. Despite the word ultimate in the set’s name, don’t confuse this with the Ultimate Collector’s Series of sets. Inside the box are nine numbered bags and a sealed bag containing the instructions and sticker sheet. The back shows all the constituent vehicles that make up the Ultimate Batmobile. The box uses the same bright yellow graphics as the previous wave of The LEGO Batman Movie sets, and is sized on par with other similarly-priced sets at about 23 inches wide. The set includes 8 minifigures, along with a light-up Batsignal. By far the largest of The LEGO Batman Movie sets, The Ultimate Batmobile has 1,456 pieces and will retail for $129.99 USD and should be available June 1. It’s a massive creation from the film’s turning point that features a Batmobile, Bat-Tank, Batcycle, and Batwing all joined into a rolling fortress for Batman and his cohort. The flagship of this wave is 70917 The Ultimate Batmobile, which we got our first look at in February at the New York Toy Fair. Many of the sets this time around feature some of the more spoiler-ish elements of the movie, but nothing that will ruin the movie if you haven’t yet seen it.

Even though The LEGO Batman Movie has been in theaters since February, LEGO Batman is back this summer with a whole new wave of sets.

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