A new minifigure-scale Batman Forever Batmobile will be making its debut in the upcoming LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight video game.
LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight launches next month and brings with it more than 70 years of Caped Crusader content. For instance, players can expect to add multiple vehicles to their customisable Batcaves, such as numerous versions of the iconic Batmobile, including a new minifigure-scale version of the crimefighting car from Batman Forever.
The distinctive movie ride debuted in a recent Xbox Podcast video and represents a smaller take on 76304 Batman Forever Batmobile, a 909-piece LEGO DC set released last year. While the latter managed to successfully capture the look of the film’s car, its complicated and organic shape came at the expense of the build being compatible with more minifigure-sized sets such as 76331 Batman v Superman Batmobile, 76332 The Batman Batmobile and
Those three vehicles are all unlockable in LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, alongside the latest iteration of the Batman Forever Batmobile. The latter tweaks the look of 76304 Batman Forever Batmobile though, altering its proportions and losing some of the details of the larger LEGO DC model.
That includes reducing the number of ribs on each side of the car to four, shrinking the size of the rear fins, adding in a different canopy, replacing the brick-built exhaust with what looks to be a single piece and taking the length of its wheelbase down considerably in order to align the Batman Forever Batmobile to the scale of rest of the video game’s driveable vehicles.
However, LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight’s version of the car does at least retain 76304 Batman Forever Batmobile’s printed trans-blue front element, alongside the vehicle’s four eye-catching Bat logo hubcaps.
In a roundtable interview with fan media last year, 76304 Batman Forever Batmobile’s designer Mark Stafford talked about why the LEGO DC set wasn’t minifigure-scale and how the decision to make the first-ever brick-built version of the film vehicle to date the size that it is came to be.
“The scale was dictated by the wheels and the arches over the wheels,” explained Mark. “We didn't have elements that were bigger that we could make the wheel arches with. So going to a larger scale wouldn't really have worked.
“This is the very first sketch model that was made for this car and it was built by [freelance designer) Ed Lawrence. The scale was set by these arches, these wheels. It’s been updated a little bit. I put the new logo on it, but that was the first version.”
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You’ll be able to drive the minifigure-scale Batman Forever Batmobile in LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight next month when the game is released for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store on May 22. Early adopters of the Deluxe Edition will be able to access the game a whole three days earlier though on May 19.
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