Lego Batman is returning to Arkham Asylum in a huge new set with 16 minifigures

The Dark Knight has risen once again, with a huge new Lego set recreating Arkham Asylum and all of its miscreant inmates and would-be jailors.

Batman’s love of gadgets means he’s always been a good fit for Lego, with many different sets over the years, from a giant Batcave to a homage to The Animated Series, and even his own movie.

Things have been a bit quiet on the Batman front recently, with no new movies to motivate interest, but as Superman starts a new DC cinematic universe, so it is that Batman has been given a major new Lego set, featuring Gotham City’s psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane.

The set is 25cm wide and 32cm high and can be connected up to other Lego modular buildings or left as a standalone tribute to one of the greatest rogues gallery in fiction, let alone just comic books.

Included in the set are 16 minifigures, featuring Batman, Batwoman, Batwing (the son of Bruce Wayne’s confidant Lucius Fox), Robin, and two security guards.

In terms of supervillains, you’ve got The Joker, Harley Quinn, The Penguin, Mr Freeze, The Riddler, Poison Ivy, Catwoman, Scarecrow, Bane, and Killer Croc.

Like most modular Lego buildings, Arkham Asylum is split into three sections, with a removable first floor, second floor, and roof. This allows you to play around in the detailed interior, that includes opening prison cells, a security entrance, and psychiatry room. There’s even a van for moving inmates around in.

The whole set is made up of 2,953 Lego pieces, which is a lot and means the whole thing will take quite a while to build. But it has a neat extra feature in that the pieces come in 24 separate bags, and the idea is that you can use them as an advent calendar, completing one each day in the run-up to Christmas.

What you’d be getting for Christmas, if this was only the lead in, is hard to say but with 65 stickers, most of which feature references to obscure Batman lore, this is definitely going to please any fan of the Caped Crusader.

Naturally, it’s not cheap, at £269.99, but it’s not out until 12th September, so you have time to save up or you could just pre-order it right now from the Lego website.

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