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Originally Posted by Starscream Gaga

How is it lazily designed? It looks exactly how a LEGO Batmobile should and was a decent build as well,

No, the first Batmobile is how a Lego Batmobile should look. The new one is just uninspired with none of the cool design aspects of the original. It's basic, lacks the sleak low-riding design with the sunken-in canopy or tubes running along the side to make it look more streamlined.

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especially considering it's working with a lower piece count then the first.

You say "working with a lower piece count" like that's not a problem in itself.

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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.

I'm not saying all the regression lies in the DC line, just used that one example.

And my point wasn't even regression, That's just worst case, but the STAGNATION and the stubborn, outdated mentality that refuses to recognise that times have changed. Lego has not improved their builds or sets in a long, long time. Like I siad, compare Halo warthogs and the improvement is staggering. Compare Lego Batmobiles and it's depressing. Same goes for a lot of their sets. They still haven't made a Star Wars walker that doesn't look weird. And like I said, they still pull the cheap trick now and then with larger builds being technic frames with plates hanging off them. Again, to put it in comparrison, theturbo tank was a $100+ item when it came out. it was hollow, ugly on the inside and just all around nothing spectacular. Then take the Halo Phantom, a set that's not even recent, and it's basically a brick with the only hollow parts being the cockpit and the troop bay... which is still bricks on top of bricks for that bullet-proof feel. And the Phantom was only $90.

Hell, take the last Lego set I ever bought, the Bounty Hunter Dropship. That thing is flimsy and wobbly and does an okay job of looking like the source material. I mostly got it for the Embo figure... which doesn't even have unique armour and looks really cheap because of it. It was $70, but for $30 less I got the Halo Falcon, a set that's not only larger, but way the hell more solid. It again, is plates on top of plates for a super strong feel. The Halo (that's the Dropship's name. Kind of funny in this context) is mostly empty space, designed for minifigure occupation... but fails completely because no minifigure is capable of sitting in the lower section because there's not enough height. Meaning that area's just empty space for no reason. Space that could've been used for adding structural stability. Add to that the doors being held on by a paltry four studs and the things on the thrusters always getting knocked out of alighnment and it feels like a haphazard MOC then an official set.

It's like Lego is trying to make their sets more toy-like and less model... but they fail as toys as well because they're not strong enough for play and the minfigs are archaic and boring. Meanwhile Halo Megabloks nails that medium with it's minifigs and sets like cement blocks.