One of the most talked about 2015 summer LEGO sets has been the #76035 LEGO Super Heroes Jokerland from the DC Comics universe. The set is big, bad, and incredibly fun. Plus there are eight minifigures; several of them unique to the set. So let’s take a closer look. Here is the official description of the set: Rescue rookie heroes from the horrifying Jokerland! The Joker and his team of villains have transformed Gotham City’s amusement park into the nightmarish Jokerland and trapped Starfire, Beast Boy and Robin. Drive to the rescue with Batman in the awesome Batmobile. Dodge the cannon and target the clown robot with the shooting missiles. Then it’s time for some serious super-jumping action to bring down the villains. Bopple The Penguin from his podium. Waunch a perfectly aimed jump to release Robin from his upside-down bike ride with Harley Quinn. Pake down Poison Ivy from her swinging branch. Finally, knock The Joker from the clown’s mouth down the slide and into the poison pool chamber! I
ncludes 8 minifigures with assorted accessories: Batman, Robin, Beast Boy, Starfire, The Penguin, The Joker, Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn. 1rice: $119.99 – BUY HERE Basically what we have here is an amusement park that has gone bad, which actually opens up the opportunity to place this set right into your LEGO City layout. The fact that the various rides are separate units allows you to put them in whatever configuration you want – making the set extremely versatile. It would be quite fun to mix the LEGO Super Heroes Jokerland with the #10247 LEGO Creator Ferris Wheel and the #10244 LEGO Creator Fairground Mixer for a huge fairground with hidden evil rides. J There are four rides in the set, and again, you can configure them any way you want. The Joker ride features a clown face with tilting hat, rolling eyes, mouth with podium for The Joker, slide, poison pool chamber and a mirror house. It is the largest of the rides and measures 11” (29cm) high, 9” (23cm) wide and 3” (9cm) deep. As
you will see in the video-review below by JANGBRiCKS it is full of fun play-features. The Poison Ivy ride features 3 seats, man-eating plant with snapping jaws, and handcuffs. The Harley Quinn ride includes a motorbike in a new color, attachment underneath for captured passenger, handcuffs, Super-Jumper-activated bike launch function, and garbage cans on fire! The Penguin ride features rear-wheel-operated rotating duck seats, The Penguin’s podium with Super-Jumper-activated-toppling function, penguin, handcuffs, 3 dynamite sticks and hidden sharks. There is also a clown robot with a firing cannon, 3 cannonballs and a dynamite stick. If that’s not enough, the set also includes a really good looking Batmobile with opening cockpit, two spring-loaded missiles, two rear stud-shooters, and giant batwings. The Batmobile is quite large at over 2” (7cm) high, 9” (24cm) long and 2” (7cm) wide. JAGNBRiCKS mentions he doesn’t like the round piece at the front that hides the stud-shooters, but I think it looks great. If
you don’t like it, you can also take the pieces off and the stud-shooters will still work just fine. The minifigs in the LEGO Super Heroes Jokerland are excellent. There are eight minifigs in total: Batman, Robin, Beast Boy, Starfire, The Penguin, The Joker, Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn. Several of the minifigures are unique to this set, while others are variations we haven’t seen before. Batman has legs with two color plastic that represent boots, and Robin has two color plastic on his arms for shirt-sleeves. Starfire and Beast Boy are completely new characters, with Starfire having some really nice metallic printing on her arms. Seven of the eight minifigs have alternate faces and they all come with front and back torso printing. As you can see, LEGO did an excellent job on all of them, which should make collectors very happy. All in all this set is a great combination of fun play-features, versatility, interesting elements, and a great selection of minifigures. DC Super Heroes fans probably get it right away, and as I mentioned it can also be interesting for LEGO City fans as a unique addition to their city layout. Th
e price is on the high side, but it is not unreasonable based on the piece-count. There are so many exciting new LEGO sets in this price-range however that I think it will come down to which one do you like the best. The #76035 LEGO Super Heroes Jokerland is definitely a strong contender and there is really nothing negative I can say about it. The set is available under the LEGO DC Super Heroes section of the Online LEGO Shop. So what do you think? How do you like the LEGO Super Heroes Jokerland set? Are you planning to add it to your collection? And what do you think of the minifigures? Feel free to share your thoughts and discuss in the comment section below! 😉 And you might also like to check out the LEGO Super Heroes section for more news, reviews, and discussions, or select from the following recent posts:Lego Superhero MocSuperhero MashHero LegoCity SuperheroesSuperheroes FightExplosion SuperLego ExplosionAwesome CheckFreakin AwesomeForward#LEGO Super Heroes. Boys are going to love this one!
Can we all agree 2016 was a very mediocre year at the movies? The blockbusters were a bust (everything bar Marvel and Disney), big name directors like Steven Spielberg stumbled (The BFG) and potential awards winners struck out: Nate Parker’s hackneyed Birth Of A Nation was DOA at the box office and if there’s a duller movie this decade than Martin Scorsese’s Silence I’ll eat my rosary. Only animation provided a guaranteed good time with the likes of Zootopia, Moana and The Secret Life Of Pets. Oh, and Dwayne Johnson. Central Intelligence was a hoot. So how is 2017 shaping up? Is Hollywood on an irreversible slide towards tedious spectacle geared at the international marketplace (thank you China) or are there slivers of hope? The good news is that this year the blockbusters should be much better. Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk promises to be that rare thing: an original blockbuster about a weighty subject. The evacuation of Allied forces from the beaches of France in 1940 “is one of the greatest stories in human history, untold in modern cinema” says the Brit.
You can’t fault the man’s ambition. He’s even trying to launch Harry ‘One Direction’ Styles’ movie career, casting him alongside heavyweights Kenneth Branagh, Mark Rylance and Nolan regulars Tom Hardy and Cillian Murphy. War For The Planet Of The Apes should also be a blockbuster with a brain, continuing the smart reboot of the franchise, this time with Woody Harrelson as a Colonel Kurtz-like elite commando. Writer/director Matt Reeves cites Paths of Glory and The Bridge On The River Kwai as inspirations. No harm in that. #WarForThePlanet is taking over #NYCC2016. A post shared by War for the Planet of the Apes (@apesmovies) on Oct 6, 2016 at 10:30am PDT The jury’s still out, however, on Kong: Skull Island, a questionable King Kong reboot set at the tail end of the Vietnam War with Tom Hiddleston mixing it up with Brie Larson, John Goodman and John C. Reilly. The latter looks like he’s over-acting while ropey special effects and cheesy tone suggest it’s a contender for the so-bad-it’s-good category.
Is there a more flogged to death franchise than Alien? After 2012’s damp squib prequel Prometheus director Ridley Scott is promising a much more terrifying follow up in the form of Alien: Covenant and there is plenty of gore in the trailer. But why does Michael Fassbender have to star in everything these days? Ridley Scott is also behind Blade Runner 2049, sequel to his 1979 sci-fi classic but with Arrival’s Denis Villeneuve directing and Ryan Gosling joining Harrison Ford as another Replicant hunter. Does the world need it? We’ll find out in June. Of the superhero movies, we can count on Marvel with Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 which introduces Kurt Russell as the long lost father of Chris Pratt’s Star-Lord. The super fresh-faced new Spider-Man played by 20-year-old Tom Holland in Spider-Man: Homecoming should also deliver, boosted by the mentoring presence of Robert Downey Jr’s Iron Man. Sony is co-producing with Marvel Studios for the first time after reaching a shared “joint custody” arrangement.
Warner Bros is hoping Wonder Woman can restore some lustre to DC Comics after the panned Batman Vs Superman and Suicide Squad. Fanboys have already fallen for Gal Gadot’s heroine. But the First World War setting doesn’t suggest many laughs. In the ‘who cares?’ category file Pirates Of The Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge, Wolverine flick Logan and The Mummy in which Tom Cruise goes all Mission Impossible against some ancient Egyptians. Most intriguing sequel of the year is Trainspotting 2—oddly being marketed as T2. Danny Boyle has finally buried the hatchet with Ewan McGregor (they fell out after Boyle cast Leonardo DiCaprio in The Beach nearly two decades ago) and reassembled the original cast. Only very loosely based on Irvine Welsh’s 2002 follow up novel Porno, it has the potential to be a cracking mix of nostalgia and acid contemporary commentary. Robert Carlyle says John Hodges’s script made him blub: “I’ve never cried when I read a screenplay before.