Super Heroes DC

Joker's Trike Chase

A scrappy little chase set that gives you two vehicles for the price of one and doesn't pretend to be more than that.

Brick Rated Score

3.7/5

Set 76159 · 2020

Pieces440

Minifigs4

Year2020

Set number76159

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The verdict

This one won me over with the trike before I even got to the Batmobile.

The chattering, grinning mouth on the front of Joker's three wheeler is such a silly, perfect touch that I found myself rolling it back and forth on the table just to watch the teeth clack. The Batmobile is the more serious build of the two, with a cockpit that pops open and an engine block you can pull straight out the back, and together the pair make for a genuinely fun tabletop chase scene. It's a set built for play more than display, and it knows it.

Best for: kids who want two chaseable vehicles to act out a Batman-versus-Joker scene, not display-shelf collectors

The full review

What it is

Joker's Trike Chase is one of those sets that doesn't try to dazzle you with scale, it just wants you to play. You get a small but sturdy Batmobile for Batman and Robin, and a three wheeled trike for the Joker that has one genuinely brilliant feature: a grinning mouth on the front grille that opens and closes as the wheels turn. It's a tiny detail, but it's the kind of thing that makes a seven year old shriek with laughter, and honestly it got a laugh out of me too.

The catch

I'll be straight with you about where this set falls short. The minifigures, four of them including Batman, Robin, Joker, and Harley Quinn, lean on prints and molds we'd already seen plenty of by 2020, so if you're buying this for the figures alone you may feel a little shortchanged. The vehicles themselves are compact, which keeps the price reasonable but also means neither one feels like a hero piece on a shelf. This is a set that plays bigger than it displays.

Who it's for

Get this one for a kid who wants to act out chase scenes on the living room floor, stud shooters blazing, rather than for the adult fan hunting for a statement Batmobile. If you already own a few Batman sets and want new figures specifically, look elsewhere. If you want a fast, funny, affordable two vehicle showdown, this delivers exactly that.

The parts story

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

Building this one goes quick, which fits its identity as a play set rather than a display piece. The Batmobile goes together first and is the more considered build of the two, with a hinged canopy over the cockpit and a rear section that separates to reveal a pull out engine. The trike is more novelty than engineering, built around the mechanism that links the front wheel to the opening jaw, and it's honestly the more memorable build of the pair even though it's the simpler one.

At 440 pieces for around fifty dollars, the part count sits in reasonable territory for a two vehicle Super Heroes set, though you're paying partly for the minifigures and the gimmick mechanism rather than for a pile of useful bricks. Nothing here is a rare or exotic new mold, this is very much a parts bin of standard Batman theme pieces, but the mouth mechanism on the trike is a clever bit of function built from ordinary Technic pins that's worth studying if you like seeing how LEGO designers solve a problem with simple parts.

Fun facts

01The set released in mid 2020 and was retired by the end of 2021, giving it a shelf life of about a year and a half, fairly typical for a mid tier Super Heroes set.
02The Joker's trike mouth mechanism is directly tied to the wheels, so the faster you roll it, the faster the teeth chatter.
03Since retirement the set has held its value reasonably well, trading modestly above its original retail price on the secondary market.
04This was one of several Batman movie tie in sets from the 2020 DC Super Heroes wave, alongside other vehicle chase sets built around the same Batmobile and villain vehicle formula.