Random minifig of the day: bat008

@LuvsLEGO_Cool_J:
He doesn't have a very croc-like face. That's the plus side of TLBM or Leatherhead. They both have very obviously crocodilian heads.

Never have seen any Batman story involving this guy (aside those like 2 seconds he appeared in the Lego Batman Movie...). Still like this figure a lot.

He was the first to have a head in "proper" green, right?

@WolfpackBricksStudios said:
"https://brickset.com/minifigs/sh0321/ is the only Killer Croc figure I will ever accept"

Amen, especially since that figure was the last use of the classic dragon/crocodile upper jaw piece.

Was it? Oh, hey, appears so. Three year gap following TLM, and an even longer gap before that. Everything since is the more detailed, alligator-like head.

One time I made a red recolor of this figure in Mecabricks. He is my original character.

Yesterday I watched the B:TAS episode where he escaped into the wilderness and was adopted by circus performers. Great timing.
Most of the Batman I figs heavily remind me of their animated series counterparts, but croc is a weird case where the fig isn't like that design at all. He also might be a bit too detailed. And he's a lot greener (he'd have to be light gray or sand green white in 2006 colors).

Overall, I absolutely dispise how quickly Batman I became unoptainably expensive when the sets were great for their time ad the figs are in some cases amongst the best iterations (two-face) or rarely ever done again (Bane, Alfred). I get why. But I don't like how we've had more than a decade of Batman II and things just have never gotten that close since.

Take the set this minifig came from. The speedboat used by croc can dock on the batboat, as can the bat-speedboat. There's also turning turbines and even storage containers. It's just a good complete set. Many of the theme also featured gadgets built into the vehicles and hidden weapons. You don't see that much anymore on minifig-scale stuff.

@Binnekamp said:
"Yesterday I watched the B:TAS episode where he escaped into the wilderness and was adopted by circus performers. Great timing.
Most of the Batman I figs heavily remind me of their animated series counterparts, but croc is a weird case where the fig isn't like that design at all. He also might be a bit too detailed. And he's a lot greener (he'd have to be light gray or sand green white in 2006 colors).

Overall, I absolutely dispise how quickly Batman I became unoptainably expensive when the sets were great for their time ad the figs are in some cases amongst the best iterations (two-face) or rarely ever done again (Bane, Alfred). I get why. But I don't like how we've had more than a decade of Batman II and things just have never gotten that close since."

Super Heroes in general went a very weird way IMHO.
Not sure if this was dictated by the licence owners or not (even if, why would the owners want this???). Having a more unified style approach could tie this whole thing way better into both itself and Lego City. So why go for that hap-hazard movie tie-ins other than corporate stupidity?

@Rob42 said:
"I used this figure's head on a custom Star Wars Bossk for years, before there was an official Bossk figure. Not entirely accurate but it sure gets the point across."
I use the head and torso for a fantasy lizardman: https://brickshelf.com/gallery/AmperZand/Fantasy/lego-goblin-orc-lizardman.jpg. Later, he became the Lizard King: https://brickshelf.com/gallery/AmperZand/Fantasy/lizardman__army.jpg .

@Ridgeheart said:
" @Trigger_ said:
"One time I made a red recolor of this figure in Mecabricks. He is my original character."

I wasn't expecting one of the reasons why I hate the Sonic fanbase to pop up in an article about a Batman-baddie. Don't worry! The list is long."

TT Games when designing "Yeti" for the LEGO Batman videogame: "Yeah, that but white."

I thought it was one of spiderman's enemies.

@BaconKing said:
"I thought it was one of spiderman's enemies."

That's the Lizard. You've got the wrong reptile.

@TheOtherMike said:
" @BaconKing said:
"I thought it was one of spiderman's enemies."

That's the Lizard. You've got the wrong reptile."

I know that, but they look so similar. lol

@BaconKing said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
" @BaconKing said:
"I thought it was one of spiderman's enemies."

That's the Lizard. You've got the wrong reptile."

I know that, but they look so similar. lol"

One wears a lab coat and has a tail, the other doesn't have that coat and also typically lacks a tail. Otherwise, they are very much the same.

@brick_r said:
""I THREW A ROCK AT 'IM..."-Killer Croc (Batman the Animated Series):D"

"It was a big rock..."

the first Pokemon evolution stage

@zipper:
And that's one of the reasons the episode's one of my top 10...maybe top 5...:)
And for who don't know, check Batman: The Animated Series episode "Almost Got 'Im". Basically five of Bat's foes are hiding from the police in a villains-only bar ('The Stacked Deck') and start telling stories of how close they came to beating/killing Bats. They are:
-Two Face
-Poison Ivy
-Killer Croc
-Penguin
-Joker
Stories go in order listed, until...nah, too good to spoil, even this many years later.:D

Hey, I have this guy--if I find and reassemble his parts. His set was a "sorry you broke your leg" gift from my Mom when I was in college, and MIGHT just be the last LEGO she ever gave me.

Alas, but I never really cared for Batman/Superhero LEGO of any sort, so I think parts of him, at least, are a troll/ork warrior.