There will be an upcoming LEGO DC Comic Super Heroes set coming out this summer that will be unlike any set that we’ve seen before in this theme. According to Zusammengebaut, it looks like we’ll be getting a LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes App-Controlled Batmobile (76112) which is reported to use the new Power Functions 2.0 that was revealed at the 2018 Nuremberg Toy Fair. This set will make use of a smartphone or a tablet to operate the Batmobile by the way of Bluetooth. The cost of the set is said to be at a 99.99 Euros price point with a August release.
Note: Image above is not the design style of the App-Controlled Batmobile.
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I hate apps. Guess I won’t be buying would be an awesome remote-controlled set.
It’s unfortunate, but true. Whenever I see “app”, I read “won’t work in 4 years when we decide it isn’t worth the cost to maintain”. I’d much rather pay a little extra for a hardware remote that I know will work 20 years down the line.
Ha, didn’t even think of that. I just don’t like apps. And I’m not even an grumpy old man who wants you off his lawn!
I don’t generally have a loathing for apps (as long as I’m not expected to pony up for them…with the sole exception at this point having been a BttF Flux Capacitor/map app that I last used to “time travel” to a showing of BttF2 on October 15, 2015 where I got to sit in what is believed to be a lost screen-used DeLorean at the precise moment that Doc and Marty arrived in the “future” over in California…_so_ worth it).
But all we’ve heard is that PF2.0 will have app-based control support, not that it will _not_ have IR remote control support. Granted, you may have to buy an IR receiver of your own to supplement the set (and a controller, and batteries, etc.), but I doubt they’ll just shut off compatibility with the millions of dollars of PF gear that they have to have sold by now. And in the worst case scenario, you can probably just sub in _all_ PF1.0 electronics and thumb your nose at the app. Or bite your thumb at it.
If it looks like the ’66, Burton, or Batman The Animated Series Batmobile, then this could be great. If it looks bizarre or like they normally do (like something out of Batman and Robin/Batman Forever) then it’s an easy pass.
Also…remote control cars break apart to easily when they aren’t made from hundreds of separate pieces designed to come apart…I guess at least it will be easy to repair.
I had read somewhere that the app-controlled Batmobile was going to be $200 US, but 99.99 euros is only about $125US, and usually it seems the euro price equals the US price, so if it’s around $100 may be worth getting.