Lego The Batman Batmobile (76181) Modification

 

I couldn't believe I bought this Batmobile set. Actually, I didn't think it was a good Batmobile but I had to say it's a good muscle car model. The original Lego model had two shooters at the front. Buttons were placed on the hood between the 2 bigger grey stripes. The car top was replaced with smooth tiles too. (I think no one likes studs, right?)

To be honest, I don't have any expectation on the up coming The Batman movie. No matter what I will watch it and buy the Bluray when it's available like the previous Batman movies.

I removed the buttons and the shooters and replaced the grey stripes with a smaller slope and height. The hood became smoother.

I also modified the car front side. I extended the lights and fenders by one plate thickness. 

One of the best feature of this set is the engine design. I like it very much and I will not change anything on it.

I like the recent 3 Lego Batmobiles a lot however, I still don't have a place to display them inside the display case.

LEGO Batmobile 76119 Modification

Finally I built/modified a set of Lego after pandemic started. First of all, the set was originally looked like below. What was wrong with the original set to me? I didn't like the front bat plate. The top front of the car wasn't "round" enough. The back of the car was too "blocky". And I didn't like the "engines" on the sides. I liked the yellow wheel covers from this set therefore, I took them away for other builds. This set gave us extra bat logos and I'm "SUPER LOVIN IT!". Thank you Lego!

What I will do next when I have time: I will find a longer wheel axis to make the back of the batmobile wider by one block each side.

My first thing to work on was the front engine if I removed the front Bat plate. This engine design was my old one from a bat motor bike. I moved it from the bike to this 76119 model. I might change it into black later if I had time to search for the parts.

The next thing was the blocky back. I wanted it to be more streamline and looked like the back of a bat.

Side view: I will change the side when I have time.

The top of the car changed too. The original top was light grey with a hotrod engine.

The top of the front above engine was updated to be more rounded. Now is more similar to the classic one in 1989 movie version.

Size comparison with other Modified Lego Batmobiles 

Lego Justice League Batmobile Modification

Justice League movie is coming very soon after Wonder Woman's. Out of my expectation, Justice League's batmobile is almost the same as Batman Vs Superman version. The main difference is Justice League version is a bit taller. The front twin machine guns becomes a rocket launcher. Both sides have two long machine guns and a cannon on the top beside the driver side.

Lego's original BvS version doesn't have the front wheel guards (lazy...) and the upcoming JL version won't have it too (From the leaked image). If you google that leaked image, you will see JL version batmobile is in a largest set. It's pretty unbelievably... bad. Although I think Lego people won't spend a second in my blog from a nobody fan, I really want to say Lego is not making nice sets recently. When Lego's competitions are so weak (MegaBlcks and Kre-O), it really has no need to make things nicely especially the cheaper sets.

(Question pops up... There are so many good MOC people out there. Why don't Megablcks and Kre-O hire them? And why designers at Lego's competitions are so bad?)