Lego Batman

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LEGO Batman is a theme of LEGO building sets based on the comics, films, and cartoons featuring the DC Comics superhero, Batman.

Currently into its second wave, the sets feature vehicles, characters and scenes based on their standard accepted appearances in the comics. Many characters, such as Nightwing, Robin and Alfred have made their appearances in the sets so far, usually paired with vehicles such as Joker's helicopter, the Penguin's submarine, Scarecrow's biplane and Killer Croc's speedboat.

Batman is given a wide range of vehicles, their appearances resembling their accepted forms. A new vehicle, in the form of the "Batman Dragster", has also been introduced. The Batmobile appears similar to the way it does in the 1989 film, while the Batboat takes on a hovercraft-like form. All the set-boxes feature a comic strip by artist Greg Hyland at the back, featuring stylised versions of the set in action.

Lego has obtained the license to produce sets based on all available mediums in which Batman appears.

Notable Batman Lego in the Media

Motion pictures

The first Batman LEGO Fan Film to hit the internet circuit was the 2003 fan film production Batman: Revenge (The Batman LEGO Film), although it did not utilize any of the official products as it was created nearly three years before the official line was released. Official films include the Cartoon Network Lego movie to promote their lego line, as well as several shorter videos for the same promotions, which can be viewed at Lego's official Batman website listed below. Students of the digital animation institution DAVE School created a CGI animated fan-film entitled Batman: New Times in the style of Minimates, but with Lego bricks comprising the backgrounds. There is also a gaining popularity among directors to make Batman LEGO Fan Films since the release of the official product line. An animator Richard Lewin who was creating a Lego Batman series has now cut down his 16 episode series to just 6 short movies and the first up is a film using the new Bane and Riddlers hideout set. Another LEGO Batman fan film in production from Pyromaniac Studios will also utilize the new sets, and will also feature high end 3D graphics.

Video game

A new video game based on the theme has recently been announced as in production by Traveller's Tales, the creators of the Lego Star Wars video game series.[1] Warner will release it in 2008 on multiple consoles. It has been confirmed that the Joker will be a playable character.[2]

External links

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