Review: LEGO Batman 76120 Batwing and The Riddler Heist

We continue to tour the boxes marketed on the occasion of the 80 years of the vigilante of Gotham City with a quick tour of the LEGO Batman set 76120 Batwing and The Riddler Heist, a box of 489 pieces sold at the public price of 54.99 €.

This set highlights a new bat-vehicle, the Batwing, but it also allows to assemble two other means of locomotion which guarantee a good playability to the whole. If we add the four characters provided, the inventory of this box seems to me rather balanced.

The main course of the set is obviously the Batwing delivered here in a new version which features two new cannons placed on the wings in addition to the usual ones. Stud Shooters present near the cockpit.

Impossible to miss these two new appendages launchers of Tiles 1x1 rounds whose integration lacks a little discretion for my taste between the gray of the barrel and the brown of the part that must be pushed to eject in turn the four projectiles stored inside the weapon. The mechanical operation of these Rapid-Fire Multi Shooters does not pose any particular problem. It's effective and you just have to think about renewing the stock of ammunition from time to time.

I find the Batwing very successful visually. The cockpit is spacious and can accommodate Batman without having to force the canopy, the wings take more or less correctly the shape of the emblematic logo dating from 1966 and present since on the majority of the derivative products and the two stickers to stick on the fuselage bring a appreciable finishing touch. The cockpit is dressed in a sticker that at least has the merit of being in the tone of the rest of the ship. The assembly is easy to handle by holding the vessel from below. Nothing falls, no part comes loose.

The enemy of the day, The Riddler, tumbles here in a pocket helicopter to steal a safe. Why not. The machine is in the colors of the villain with a perfectly assumed cartoon side. The whole thing lacks a little finishing especially at the level of the bubble which closes on the cockpit with some open spaces a little unsightly on the sides.

Two missiles placed just above the skates add a bit of playability to the machine which also has a chain to hang the safe coveted by the super-villain.

The safe received special attention from the designer. It is very well designed with a simple but effective mechanism disguised as a code system that allows the door to be locked. Too bad the sticker to be glued on the round piece is not perfectly centered, you have to compensate by shifting the sticker to obtain a convincing effect.

To assist Batman in his hunt for the Riddler, LEGO puts Commissioner Gordon behind the wheel of a Gotham City Police Department (GCPD). The vehicle is rather successful even if in profile it seems to me very crushed. Gordon has no problem at the controls, that's the main thing.

You don't reach the level of detail of a Speed ​​Champions range vehicle, but the finish of the car is very honest with a bull bar up front, a simple but effective grille and even a spotlight attached to the left mirror.

As for the color of the background of the stickers, it is almost in line with the color of the body parts. One more effort and there we are.

The minifig endowment is very correct here. The supplied Riddler is not exclusive to this box because it is also delivered in the set 4+ 76137 batman vs. The Riddler Robbery sold for € 9.99. If it's just this minifigure you're interested in here, better buy the other box. The realization of the torso is very clean with a beautiful black shirt effect under the green suit. The face has only one expression because of the bowler hat that leaves visible the back of the head of the minifigure. No regrets, the head of this minifigure is in my opinion particularly successful.

Shazam is identical to the version of the 30623 polybag, the distribution / marketing method of which is not yet known, but the character is here equipped with a white hood since he does not need to look like Zachary Levi. White cape, nice torso, two convincing expressions for the face, it is very correct.

Things get tough with Commissioner Gordon's minifigure, the upper part of which is however really very successful. Under the hairstyle also used in the LEGO Harry Potter range for Cédric Diggory, the two faces of the characters are superb and the torso benefits from a perfect pad printing, LEGO even managing to provide us with an almost white shirt under the jacket, as in the visuals set officials.

Unfortunately, the minifigure is a bit spoiled by the pair of legs on which the two sides of the jacket are pad-printed. It is neither seamed nor aligned with the torso and the effect in all cases only works from the front. Too bad, it was almost flawless.

Finally, we find in this box the inevitable Batman, identical to the one already seen in other boxes with its pale face and its too fine pad printing which is erased according to the manipulations of the mask of the minifigure. I understand the desire to keep a common thread from one box to another, but LEGO could have made the effort to provide us with different outfits for this character whose 80th birthday we are celebrating all the same this year.

In short, this box offers both something to have a little fun with two flying machines and a police car and enough to fill the Ribba frames of minifig collectors with three new characters out of four. It's already very good, especially since its selling price is already below 50 € on Amazon. I valid.

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