Lego’s 1989 Batmobile immortalises the Tim Burton movie’s iconic car in bricks – 3306 of them

Say what you want about Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, but the tank-like Batmobile was a bit rubbish. If you’re of a certain age, there’s only one true car for a masked vigilante with a Chiroptera obsession: the ‘Burtonmobile’. With Lego 1989 Batmobile (£219.99, available 29 November), that iconic movie vehicle has been remade in Lego form. Its sleek curves require 3,306 pieces, and the 3kg 60cm-long monster comes complete with grappling hooks, hidden hood machine guns, and Bat emblems on the wheel trim. You get a trio of exclusive minifigures too – so a tiny plastic Joker can kidnap a tiny Lego Vicky Vale, before being rescued by a tiny minifig Batman. Then they can all look at the nearby colossal Batmobile and wonder if they’ve slipped into a parallel universe where cinemas are showing Lego Honey, I Shrunk The Batman.

Craig Grannell Contributor

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I’m a regular contributor to Stuff magazine and Stuff.tv, covering apps, games, Apple kit, Android, Lego, retro gaming and other interesting oddities. I also pen opinion pieces when the editor lets me, getting all serious about accessibility and predicting when sentient AI smart cookware will take over the world, in a terrifying mix of Bake Off and Terminator.

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