(Very) quickly tested: 5004929 The LEGO Batman Movie Cave Pod

Let's take a look at this rather special bag, bearing the reference 5004929, whose packaging is quite distorted by its contents. Initially sold at prohibitive prices, its price on the secondary market has dropped significantly in recent weeks due to massive availability in the USA via the Toys R Us brand. It is currently found at less than € 15 on Bricklink. Still no information on a possible availability in France.

Tip of the day: Wait a little longer, even if you're itching, the price of this polybag containing an exclusive minifig should drop a little further and we are not immune to a surprise arrival of this bag on the LEGO Shop.

Thanks to Julien who generously sent me a copy.

In the bag, a minifigure but also a strange plastic box in which the character is housed. As some of you already know, the Batman costume, commonly known as Tiger tuxedo, is here inspired by that of singer Richard Cheese who with his group Lounge Against The Machine also makes an appearance in the film in her favorite outfit.

Beyond the minifig supplied, we find in this small box a mini-Batcave with Bat-grappling hook, Batarang and a pad-printed control console which is not new because already seen in two sets of the LEGO Juniors range (10720 Police Helicopter Chase et 10735 Police Truck Chase). It's simple, almost simplistic, but difficult to do better with the available space. I note that the box can be closed with the entire contents in place. Convenient.

For the minifigure, it's still Batman but it's impeccable. Beautiful pad printing on the chest and on the arms with patterns that occupy a large area on both arms.

Black pants with jacket overflow on the hips of the minifigure, it's clean, although again applying yellow directly on the black background without an undercoat of white helps to slightly tarnish the bottom of the jacket . A white or yellow stripe on the side of the legs would have been welcome for maximum "Tuxedo" effect.

The box in which all these items are stored is nothing exceptional, and is more of a gadget than anything else. On the one hand a Plate glued round accommodates the dressing of the mini-Batcave, on the other a paper insert serves as the bottom of the minifigure which is plugged into a Plate. Convenient to store, but nothing to cry out for creative genius.

The two notches under the box remind us that it is a LEGO product: they allow you to plug everything into 8 Studs, but without Clutch Power.

More interesting for collectors: We know that LEGO will decline this concept with at least two other ranges : The reference 5004914 in the range Nexo Knights with a knight, his armor, his sword and his shield equipped with a Nexo Power and the reference 5004920 Friends with a mini doll and his ski equipment. While waiting for the same thing with Ninjago or Marvel sauce ...

Note: We do as usual, you have until June 17 @ 23:59 pm to manifest yourself in the comments.

Update : The winner was drawn and notified by email, his nickname is indicated below.
If I do not get a response from him to my request for contact details before June 25, a new winner will be drawn.