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LEGO Batman: The Animated Series Gotham City (76271)

Name: LEGO Batman: The Animated Series Gotham City
Brand: LEGO
SKU: 76271

A 76cm Gotham skyline packed with 15 secret panels and a huge hit of nostalgia.

Brick Rated Score

4.2/5

Set 76271 · 2024

Pieces4,210

Minifigs4

Year2024

Set number76271

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The verdict

If the moody Art Deco look of Batman: The Animated Series still lives rent free in your head, this one is an easy yes.

It is a display-first LEGO set with 15 panels that pop off to reveal Wayne Manor, the Batcave and Arkham, plus dozens of little character cameos tucked inside. Just know it leans hard on stickers and it is a serious chunk of change, so it lands more as a collector centerpiece than a casual pickup. Now that it is retired and creeping up in value, TAS fans should grab one while they still can.

Best for: adult fans who grew up on Batman: The Animated Series

The full review

What it is

The thing that makes this one special is how completely it captures the show. It is a giant buildable Gotham skyline, roughly 76cm wide, styled to look like it walked straight out of Batman: The Animated Series. That 90s Art Deco moodiness, the dark stone, the blood red sky, the retro-future shapes, is baked right into the design, and once it is assembled and up on a wall it genuinely looks like a frame of the show frozen in brick. This is a display piece first and a playset second, though there is a lot more hiding in it than you would guess from the front.

The catch

Here is the clever bit that won me over. The whole facade is made of 15 panels that lift away to reveal the interiors: Wayne Manor, the Batcave underneath, Arkham Asylum, and a bunch of little scenes with villains getting up to no good. Poke around and you will find dozens of cameos and Easter eggs from the series, so it rewards a proper look rather than a glance. You also get a compact Batmobile and Batwing you can perch on the model, plus four minifigs (Batman, the Joker, Harley Quinn and Catwoman) all styled after the cartoon.

Who it's for

I'll be straight with you about the caveats, because they are real. First, the stickers. There are a lot of them, and the frustrating part is that nearly all those brilliant hidden character Easter eggs are stickers rather than printed tiles, which stings on a 300 dollar model. The build itself can get fiddly and a touch repetitive across all those panels, and reviewers flagged that the instructions occasionally leave you guessing where a piece actually goes. And while four figures is fine, plenty of fans felt the roster could have been richer given the price and how many great TAS villains got left out. If you love the show and want a statement display with genuine depth to explore, grab it, especially now that it is retired and edging up in value. The Brickset community landed it at a healthy 4.4 out of 5, so most buyers clearly felt they got their money's worth. If you are after a hefty figure collection, a swooshable playset, or you break out in hives at the sight of a sticker sheet, this probably is not your set. For the right fan, though, it is one of the most characterful DC displays LEGO has made.

The parts story

What the build is actually like, and the pieces worth knowing about.

Building this is a marathon, not a sprint, somewhere around 9 to 12 hours. It is split so two people can build side by side from two instruction booklets, which is a nice touch and genuinely speeds things up. You work through it in sections: the towering skyline panels out front, the hidden interiors behind them, and the little vehicles and vignettes. A lot of the technique is layered, sideways SNOT work to get those crisp Art Deco facades and the illusion of depth, which reviewers loved, though the sheer number of small repeated panels can wear on you toward the end.

On the parts front, the appeal is more about color and printing than exotic new molds. There is a moody palette of dark grays, blacks, sand and gold accents that nails the show's look, and you will pull out plenty of useful tiles, arches and detail elements for your own city builds. The catch, again, is that the character Easter eggs are stickers, so the printed-piece haul is lighter than you would hope at this price. As a value story, 4,210 pieces for 300 dollars works out around seven cents per part, which is fair for a licensed display set of this scale, and its post-retirement climb means it has held its worth better than most.

Fun facts

01At 4,210 pieces this was the largest LEGO DC set ever released when it launched in April 2024.
02It borrows its framing from LEGO's Art collage sets, designed to hang on a wall like a picture yet still open up into full 3D interiors.
03The 15 removable panels hide Wayne Manor, the Batcave and Arkham Asylum, cramming a shocking amount of scenery into a display piece.
04It retired in December 2025 and quickly started rising above its 299.99 dollar RRP on the secondary market, a common fate for big licensed display sets.