LEGO Batman Movie comic on the way
Posted by Huw,
A The LEGO Batman Movie foil-pack containing a Batman minifigure has been discovered on eBay.fr by Hoth Bricks.
As Will there suggests, this almost certainly points to a kids' comic being published to tie-in with the film, like the Star Wars, Friends, Elves, Ninjago, Nexo Knights and Bionicle ones that can be purchased in newsagents in various European countries.
I have no idea if it is a unique figure; I suspect someone will enlighten me in the comments...
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It looks almost similar to the one in Clayface Splat Attack, but it might have a unique face printing on the other side of the head. In my opinion, though, it´s a bad decision to have such a generic fig to come with a comic. I believe most of the people who buys it already have at least one Batman fig, but I haven´t (!) so I´ll buy the comic for the fig if it´s not too expensive.
At Fanwelt two weekends ago in Köln I saw one vendor that had about 20 of these packages. I wanted one but could not justify the price they were asking!
Is there no such thing as kids' magazines in the UK? Because that's what those would be called here! Comic would just refer to, well, a comic with panels and word bubbles.
The minifig looks great, but 1.) in this packaging and through this means, it probably won't be sold here and 2.) I'll be amounting so many similar or exactly-the-same Batmans (Batmen?) when I get all the sets...
A 'magazine' implies to me something to read and learn from. These are definitely comics: comic strips, puzzles and pictures and nothing of any educational or enlightenment value.
@The creative box, I think you're right. From the picture, I think it's the same minifig as the one in the movie sets: 7090 -0, -1, -3, -4, -5 and -7.
I'm really hoping this is part of a series of Batman movie magazines each with a different minifig. It would be very cool indeed if you could get other characters from the sets such as Penguin and Riddler that won't be part of the CMF line.
If this magazine is like others published by Lego, it will be £3.50 in the UK which is a bit expensive just for a minifig, but not outrageous. Unlike CMFs, at least it's not blind bagged. When I get Lego magazines for other ranges such as Ninjago, I carefully remove the baggy and donate the magazine to a local charity shop.
Agreed with TheBrickPal. Here in the United States most of these series would be called a "magazine" (regardless of educational merit or lack thereof), while a "comic" or "comic book" is primarily sequential art stories with MAYBE some ads or puzzles in the middle or back of the book. Compare with the LEGO Club Magazine, which tends to have similar content to these theme-specific series. The LEGO Club Magazine usually contains several one to four page comics, but would not itself be called a comic or comic book.
For what it's worth, even the publisher of these British LEGO series, Immediate Media, refers to them as magazines! http://www.immediate.co.uk/immediate-media-launches-lego-nexo-knights-magazine/
Curious how many issues this one will get. Since it ties in with a specific movie, it'd probably make the most sense for it to be a limited series with two to six issues, rather than a full monthly series like the Ninjago, Star Wars, Friends, and Nexo Knights series.
I actually just saw a Chima magazine here in Germany. Bought it to send to my nephew.
It has already ben discussed on Eurobricks, but this appears to be the same mini figure that appears in the Mr freeze set. It is only limited edition as it contains two batarangs (different weapons)
Being from the US as well, the term "Activity Book" comes to mind. It would probably be ideally called an "Activity Magazine". But I'd only read it for the articles. ;-)
^^^^ Seems most likely this won't be a regular magazine so I'd agree with you there, but it would be nice to be proven wrong (because we'd get more foil packs).
@TheBrickPal & @Aanchir
Ignore Huw, the rest of the UK is fully able to distinguish between comics and magazines. Unless I've been buying Playboy comics all these years. These Lego magazines may have some comic strips in them but they're still magazines.
Yes, I regard them as magazines too. Heck, the Daily Mail publishes a magazine on a Saturday but there's nothing to learn from in there.
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What I heard, two issues of the magazine are planned, at least for Germany. It's published by the same company who does all the other Lego magazines.
@Huw, If/when this publication is released in the UK and other countries, can you please ensure it gets a mention in the front page's news section? I wouldn't want to miss it.