Minifigure Showcase: Joker, Penguin, and Scarecrow
What would the Caped Crusader be without his Villains? Indeed Batman’s rogues gallery are a large part of what has kept his character alive for over 80 years. Of course most anyone can recognize icons like Joker and the Penguin, thus it is only appropriate to translate the notorious baddies into LEGO form… with some modifications of my own of course.
Joker
The Clown Prince of Crime sports perhaps the most deceptively custom minifigure of the collection, because at first glance he looks like any number of Joker minifigures released during the early years of the LEGO DC Superheroes lineup. However what sets him apart are A: his torso, exclusive to the Joker from the UCS 1989 Batmobile. And B: A custom coattail piece cut out of the LEGO Batman Movie’s Joker, made far shorter to better resemble Alfred’s coattails from the same wave. Top it off with an original design for his BANG! gun, and generic purple legs, and the Dark Knight’s arch nemesis is ready to represent in my collection!
Penguin
Oswald Cobblepot a.k.a the Penguin is among the more underrated villains in Batman’s lineup. He can be as conniving as he is cartoonish, so I wanted his minifigure to match that sentiment. My Penguin uses the Hat, Fur collar, and Torso from the LEGO Batman Movie Penguin minifigure (which in my opinion is the best minifigure to represent the character), not to mention the newer black umbrella element. His head however is replaced with the head of the more commonplace Penguin minifigure, to maintain his human aspect. Finally, his short black legs are replaced with dark bluish grey Mid-legs and his hands made white to represent his gloves.
Scarecrow
Scarecrow has been my favorite Batman villain since I can remember, perfectly juxtaposing the Dark Knight while still bringing out a truly “Halloweeny” theme. My minifigure representing the character has been among the oldest of my custom figures, and fortunately not that hard to make! Simply take the LEGO Batman Movie Scarecrow (found in set 70913) and replace his printed sand blue legs for non-printed dark brown ones, to unify his color scheme. And for some reason, every Scarecrow minifigure since 2006 has had “miscolored” hands, meaning hands that just didn’t match the color of his mask. This is probably supposed to represent his fear-toxin-spraying gauntlets but who knows. Anyway just replace them with tan colored hands and there you go!
All in all Batman’s villains have been a large part of my collection. As time goes on I’ll probably do more posts showcasing more of my custom Batman villains, but I just wanted to get the most important ones out of the way first. Let me know what you think!
I like this a lot, ty for sharing the info and thoughts! The figs look great and now I wanna start collecting again xD
