Lego Batmobile Pursuit of The Joker 76119 (76119)

thirtieth anniversary

The Batmobile Pursuit of The Joker is one of the most affordable yet most exciting LEGO releases of the second half of 2019. This construction set was released in honor of the 30th anniversary of the cult film "Batman" directed by Tim Burton, that is, the first appearance of the Man-Bat on the silver screen (twenty years before that, only a low-low-cost television series was released, which, however, also acquired cult status).

Hollywood stars

Recognizing the famous actors Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson, who played the superhero Batman and his main opponent the Joker, in minifigures is very difficult, due to the excessive abstraction of LEGO artists. But the design of the Batmobile copies one to one from the same 1989 film. Retro-style stretched bodywork, Batman-inspired wheel rims, tailpipe fire and a batwing spoiler (obviously using dragon wings borrowed from other LEGO series).

Tribute to the classics

The Batman figurine is dressed in an old-school grey suit (Batman wears all black these days) and a black cloth cape (LEGO fabric parts are rare and highly prized by collectors), and is equipped with a large set of Bat Gadgets. The Joker is also dressed in the classics: purple pants and a vest, and his hair is dyed bright green. This is clearly not a modern silent-gloomy Joker from a later film directed by Christopher Nolan, but a chatty merry villain, which is found, for example, in the Arkham series of computer games. For the most ardent Batman fans, we can also recommend the new and much larger LEGO Batcave Clayface Invasion set with as many as seven characters from this comic universe.