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Batman: The Classic TV Series Batmobile

The gloriously campy 1966 Batmobile in nearly 1,800 bricks of black.

Set 76328 · 2024

Pieces1,822

Minifigs1

Year2024

Set number76328

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The verdict

If you grew up with (or just love) the Adam West show, this is an easy yes.

It's a big, accurate, great-looking display piece at a genuinely fair price for a licensed 1,822-piece LEGO® set. Just go in knowing it's a shelf model first: there are no play functions to speak of, and you only get one minifig. Buy it for the nostalgia and the shape, not for swooshing.

Best for: Adult fans of the Adam West Batman who want a display car, not a toy

The full review

What it is

Let me tell you why this one puts a grin on so many faces. It's the Batmobile from the 1966 Adam West show, the campy one with the bubble windshields and the red pinstriping, recreated at a proper big scale (about 50cm long). This is unashamedly a nostalgia set, and it knows exactly what it is. If you remember Batman and Robin sliding down the Batpoles and that theme song rattling around your skull, the shape alone is going to do a lot of work on you. LEGO went for accuracy over gimmicks here, and the profile really is spot on: the long swooping nose, the finned tail, the twin cockpit bubbles. Park it on a shelf and it reads as that car instantly.

The catch

Now the honest bit, because a good mate tells you the catch. First, the minifigs. You get exactly one, Adam West Batman in the grey and blue suit with a new double-sided head (a smile on one side, a snarl on the other), and he sits on a little display stand. There is no Robin, which feels genuinely odd for a two-seat car that had Burt Ward riding shotgun for three seasons. Second, the stickers. There are a lot of them, and a chunk of the interior detail (all those fun labelled dials and switches, plus the info plaque) comes from decals rather than prints, so the build keeps pausing for sticker application. And third, functions: there basically aren't any beyond an opening boot and rolling wheels. This is a display piece, full stop.

Who it's for

So who should grab it? If you want a handsome, accurate 1966 Batmobile to sit on a shelf and spark conversation, this is a lovely set and, at 150 dollars for 1,822 pieces of licensed nostalgia, one of the better-value big cars going. Fans of the show and adult builders who like a clean bodywork build will be very happy. Who should skip it? Anyone hunting for play features, a crew of minifigs, or a sticker-free build. It is also worth knowing this one is on its way out of production, so if it's calling to you, don't sit on it too long. For the right person though, this is an easy recommend.

The parts story

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

The build is a bit of a slow burn that pays off. You spend the early bags laying down the chassis and the guts of the interior, then the whole thing gets more fun as the sculpted bodywork goes on and that unmistakable shape appears under your hands. There's a decent variety of angle and curve work to keep you engaged even though you're swimming in a sea of black, and shaping those long fenders and the finned rear is the satisfying stretch. Fair warning again: the frequent stops to apply stickers do interrupt the flow more than you'd like.

Piece nerds get a few nice things. The set introduces a new mould for the uniquely shaped bubble windscreens, and you get two pairs of them (Windscreen Rounded 6x8x3 2/3 and 6x6x3 2/3, both in trans-clear). There are recoloured masonry bricks used for the interior seats that look great, and a tipper-truck end panel repurposed as the angled rear lights, which fits scarily well. Batman himself brings a new alternate-expression head and dual-moulded legs for his boots, plus the newer rubber cape piece instead of fabric. At roughly 8 cents a piece for a licensed set this size, the part-count value is honestly one of the set's strongest arguments.

Fun facts

01The real 1966 Batmobile was built by customiser George Barris from a one-off 1955 Lincoln Futura concept car, and he reportedly turned it around in just 15 days for around 15,000 dollars.
02The Futura donor car originally cost about 250,000 dollars to hand-build at Ghia in Italy, roughly 3 million in today's money.
03The set is big, about 50cm long, 19cm wide and 14cm tall, which is close to matching the presence of LEGO's other large-scale Batmobiles.
04Batman's fabric cape got swapped for a rubber cape piece that first appeared in the 76274 Batman & Bat-Pod set.