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Originally Posted by SPLIT LIP

No. Sorry, but no. While yes the rest is up to opinion, you cannot seriously say the new Batmobile is better than the old. It looks lazily designed, has less parts, is smaller, and the set overall is just a watered-down version of the original hiding behind the excuse of being more "cartoony." There's nothing the new set does better than the old. It's not even as fun because it lacks the awesome rubber-thing launcher of the original.

How is it lazily designed? It looks exactly how a LEGO Batmobile should and was a decent build as well, especially considering it's working with a lower piece count then the first. Also, I was talking about the set as a whole is funner, with Two-Face's truck and the bank gimmick versus just a truck and a car. And eh, I actually thought the rubber launcher looked crap and liked that they removed it.

Either way that still leaves all the other sets which are either on equal standing or better then the old, with some exceptions being the Catwoman set, while the brand new sets are great, such as the Lex Luthor and Funhouse. Either way, I think saying the LEGO DC sets have regressed compared to the LEGO Batman sets is incorrect. I much prefer the LEGO DC sets.

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And that's not even mentioning sets like "The Bat." There's seriously no excuse for such a poorly made sets. Megabloks has inarguably been improving nearly constantly with it's Halo line as well as it's lesser known lines, (hell, compare the current Warthog to the original and it's like they're two differnet toylines) while Lego has not. And that's not opinion, that's looking at the sets and seeing the cold hard facts of less parts, flimsier and less accurate builds and less colour cohesion.

I agree the Dark Knight Rises set was a bit of a misstep, but that's one black mark in a stellar series.

And this is getting way off-topic, so I think I'll leave it at that.