LEGO Batman: The Movie: A look at the Clark Kent Minifigure.

Last week (26/06/2013) was the release of  LEGO Batman: The Movie DC Super Heroes Unite on Blu-Ray and DVD. Big W are selling this version with an exclusive Clark Kent Minifigure. The movie runs for just over 70 minutes and my kids were glued to every scene! They loved it so much they watch it straight after the first viewing. To keep the kids quite for 2 hours and 20 minutes is a bonus in this house. What I saw of the movie seemed very entertaining. I will need to sit down and have a decent look at it.

Of course Daddy got to keep the Minifigure. :-D   Lets give you a closer look at the Clark Kent Minifigure!

 

  A Close up of the exclusive Clark Kent Minifigure in it's packaging.

Out if it''s slip case. The packaging is much the same as the Star Wars and The Hobbit versions.

Lets zoom in on Clark in his blister pack.

Front and back shot of Clark out of his blister pack. Single face print and no printing on the back of the torso.

Close up of the face print

A close up view of the torso print. The tie is a bit out of proportion. The red blue and yellow are nice and rich in color. Some of the ones I looked over were very dull indeed.

A comparison shot of Clark Kent and The Man of Steel! When taking the photo I did notice Superman is slightly taller then his alter ego Clark Kent, all due to the hair piece.

When I went to purchase the Blu-Ray, I had to search through a few of them to find the best one. A lot of them had real dodgy looking prints on them. So take the time to look at them all and find the best one for you.

Tell us what you think of the Minifig in the comments.

That's it for now, thanks for reading...

Tan Tile flying off... to save someone in need...

The Lone Ranger LEGO 79109: Colby City Showdown Review.

Today I had the opportunity to sit down and build The Lone Ranger LEGO 79109: Colby City Showdown.

Whilst I haven't seen the movie yet I thought I would pick this up at the Myer Toy Sale.

I love westerns and this is my first western set ever. I was still in my "dark age" when the first western theme came out.

The set contains 587 pieces and retails for $89.99, a bit steep IMO. I picked it up for $59.37.

Comes with 5 Minifigures: Bank and a Sheriff's office.

On the back of the box art the images show all the play features including: A hidden firing canon, an exploding goal cell wall, a falling chandelier and another exploding wall to get to all the goodies in the Bank safe.

When you open the box you will find 4 numbered bags. Each bag will build a level of both the Bank and the Sheriff office. There is a sticker sheet containing 9 stickers to apply. 2 instruction books, one for each building and a 8 x 16 tan plate. All floating loose in the box.

A close up of the sticker sheet.

The contents of bag 1. This will build the ground work for the sheriff office. Again with the larger sets you get a orange brick separator. Funny thing is up until last year I only had 2 old green brick separator in my collection. I have lost count how many I own now. We also have 3 revolvers and 2 rifles. Something that LEGO don't do very often, unless it's a licensed theme. 

A close up of both Minifigures. The Lone Ranger himself and what I assume to be a "bad guy" named Frank. It's the dynamite that gave it away.  :-)

The foundations of the Sheriff office.

A simple gun rack.

 These final 3 images show the end of bag 1. It's a compact little building perfect for the kids. A little a harder for me to get my hands in. I really like the look of the tan and dark tan color combo.

Front of the Sheriff office.

The back end, showing a table, chair small counter with a cup and the gun rack shown earlier in it's place.

There is a ladder to access the soon to come roof.

Side view to see the window shutters, barrel and the goal cell door with hanging key. A bit to close to the door if you ask me.

Leftovers from bag 1.

On to bag 2. It will finish off the roof on the Sheriff office. A few pages into building the roof we start applying the first lot of stickers.

 

The Tonto Minifigure has a double sided face print. A calm smile and a "i'ma going to crap my pants look"

Tonto with his headgear on including the new crow mold that can be removed.

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A Shot of the Stickers applied, 7 in total.

The front view. The finished look of the Sheriff office

As you pull down the 4x8 black plate, out slides the hidden cannon. Ready for an ambush.

Side View.

A shot with the play features. Dynamite at the ready to blow the wall out!

 BOOOM!!

End of bag 2 and you have these left over.

Next up is bag 3. Time to start building the Bank.

This Minifigure is named Ray. Not sure if he is a bad guy or a disgruntled bank teller. He comes with a revolver and the new Santa sack from the Series 8 collectible Minifigures line.

A Little wagon with 2 green printed $100 notes and a clear bottle.

First level of the Bank with the contents of bag 3. Highlights are the light bluish grey brick profile 1x2 bricks. One of my favorite newest pieces. I like the dark green bricks too.

Rear of the Bank. You can see that inside the Bank there is a teller window to make a withdrawal or a deposit. The use of wedged plates and plate swivel hinges give this its angular look.

 spares of bag 3 so far we have 2 spare revolvers... sweet!

4th and final bag to complete the rest of the Bank.

Dan Reid the sheriff! I love the reddish brown cowboy hat! Great looking Minifigure too!

The safe doors open

The safe doors closed.

 The completed Bank front. While I was building this, it slipped off the table and smashed everywhere. It's amazing where Lego bounces off to. I reckon it's worse then spilt milk. Took me 10 minutes to find all the missing pieces.

Rear of the Bank with the safe in it rightful place. Not so squeezy for the Bank teller.

Side view before showing you the play features

Play features include a falling chandelier; The Bank signage falling and an exploding front/side wall to get into the big black safe!

Final lot of spares from bag 4.

Final group of photos all completed.

Close up of the Bank.

Close up of the sheriff office.

Finally a wide shot giving you a great look at what you get in the set.

Overall this was a great build and would recommend it to anyone. Being my first western set I absolutely love it. It would have been nice to have a couple of horses included so you could have something to get away on, after just robbing the Bank. Especially for the price they are asking for it. For the price I got it for I'm very happy with it.
I think I might try to MOC a salon to go with this and a little general store or... or... oh so many ideas! 

Well that's about it for this review. I hope you enjoy looking at it as much as i enjoyed building... probably not :-P

Let us know in the comments below, what you think of the set. I would love to hear others opinions on it.

Until next time this is Tan Tile riding off into the sun set... wait I have no horse... damn it!

LEGO Review of set 10233: Horizon Express X 2

For the last couple of days I have been building my Dad's LEGO set 10233: Horizon Express. I had shown him the Sets on the Sunday and said that he really liked the look of them. So after leaving our house he went straight to Myer and purchased the sets. He used my Myer one card plus the coupon to get the extra 10% off plus I get the points :-)

Yesterday I finally started building the first box. I forgot to take any photo's, but I did take photo's with the second box. :-) Here they are.

Lego set 10233: Horizon Express

After opening the box we have 3 lots of numbered bags, for each section of the train.You can see that there is a green brick separator. I guess LEGO did that to help you find it easier. In any other large set they give you an orange one.

Scan of the sticker sheet.

Here is the contents of the number 1 bags. They will make the main engine. There are stickers as shown above. Altogether you would only apply maybe 8. One for the front nose, a few numbers on either side and one inside for the control panel.

 The number bags 1 have the most amount of pieces in the set.

Like with every build I do, here is my son building the Minifigure. Jaspa was disappointed there was only one to begin with.

Front of the Minifigure.

Back of the Minifigure.

A few pages in. You can see that there is room later for Power Functions.

 I found the building of the arrows on the sides to be quite clever. Using 1x1 plates w/ clips and 1x1 cheese slopes to get the effect.
Love it!

A photo of the step by step process of the arrows.

Here is a close up of the arrows.

Building the nose of the Horizon Express.

Attaching the wheelsets.

 This is the dummy motor for extra detail if you don't have Power Functions. In my Dad's case he doesn't.

Engine complete! I really enjoyed building the undercarriage for some reason. The different building techniques for the bottom nose section is very well thought out, something I will keep in mind for future MOCS. 

Top View of the engine.

These are the spares leftover from bag 1.

The contents of Bags number 2. We begin building the first of 2 carriages in this set.

My son was much happier this time around having to build 2 Minifigures.

The front of the Minifigures for bag 2

The back of the Minifigures for bag 2

In this shot you can see the details of the inside of the carriage. 3 seats and what looks to be a toilet, there will be 2 inner walls and a sliding door to seal it in. There is also room for a couple of printed newspaper 2x2 tiles, and room for 3 brief cases.

 I really loved the SNOT (Studs not on top) work on the windows. Another technique I will add to my memory bank.

A better look at how the SNOT is done to make these windows stretch from one end to the other.

The first carriage complete. Overall some great building techniques throughout. Highlights are the SNOT windows and the undercarriage.

Looking forward to getting on board.

The spares for the number 2 bags. It's great that LEGO are now adding the 1x1 plates as spares into the newer models.

The contents for the final lot of number 3 bags. Time to start building the second carriage. These bags contained even less then the number 2 bags, because the other half of the wheelsets are on the first carriage.

Unfortunately by the time I got to these Minifigures my Son fell asleep, so he missed out.

The front of the Minifigures for bag3

The back of the Minifigures for bag 3

The inside detail of the second carriage. This also has 3 seats, a bar to serve drinks and a coffee machine.

Not much involved with building this carriage. Its pretty much the same as the first one. So lets have a look at it connected to the other half. 

Attached to the other half of the wheelset and now complete.

They look happy enough that it's all done and dusted!

Again the spares for the number 3 bags.

A close up of both engines. How good do they look side by side?

All the Minifigures from both models.

A shot from above, to show how nice the set is. Looks better with two!

 All connected. I had to put this monster on the floor because I had no room anywhere else to show you how all six are connected. Something I'll have work on before I get mine home.

Front end of the Horizon Express.

Side view.

Birdseye view :-D

The final shot! All aboard!!!

NOTE:
While I was setting this up I did notice, that when I tried to pull the train up into position along tracks, the engine came adrift from the first carriage. The magnets don't seem strong enough when all 6 are connected. When I held both the carriage and engine, the middle section came apart where the two sets join as well. It's just to heavy as a combined set.
So for any one thinking of putting Power Functions to this set. You will have to do some modding to help hold it together better.

Edit: Blogger Reader M. Johnson sent us a tip for keeping the whole train attached at the magnets: Quote: "you will notice that each magnetic coupling has a stud on top and bottom. You can stick a 2x1 plate or tile over them when they're connected. Easy as that!" Thanks for that great tip!

Other then that, this is a fantastic build and I cannot wait to get mine home from Lay-By.

I highly recommend getting the model just as a display piece. I imagine it would look even better watching this beauty go around on a track. I can hear the Mission Impossible theme now and picturing Tom Cruise holding on for dear life.

Let us know what you think of the Horizon Express.

Thank you for reading. Till next time...

Tan Tile signing out.