McFarlane DC Lucius Fox & Tumbler Batmobile
While the box is big, it’s actually pretty compact compared to most vehicle packaging in the market. The box measures roughly 19 x 11 x 7 inches in dimension.
This top area of the box is where Lucius Fox is packed away in.
Lucius Fox
Head of Wayne Enterprises’ Applied Sciences division, Lucius is indispensable to Batman’s crusade as the one providing and upgrading Batman’s tech and weapons for his war on crime.
The likeness of actor Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox is decent on most angles of the figure.
He stands roughly about as tall as Batman, which is roughly 7 inches tall.
The figure comes with a gadget meant to replicate Lucius’ latest invention for mapping out an environment using sonar. The goober is permanently sculpted onto his hand.
Lucius also comes with the alternate phone we see in the movie, which he checked in at Lau’s tower in Hong Kong, designed to remotely scramble Lau’s security and electrical systems for Batman.
The set also comes with a weapons crate full of Batman’s gear. While the gear isn’t removable, at least it’s something cool to place next to Lucius when not next to the Batmobile.
The bottom side of the crate is hollow, though.
Some very nice tooling with the equipment crate.
The Tumbler
Batman’s heavy-armored, all-terrain tactical vehicle. Originally designed by Lucius Fox for military applications, mainly as a “bridging vehicle” meant to leap over rivers with its afterburners with cables in tow to set up suspension bridges, Bruce Wayne repurposes the machine for urban use in his war on crime.
As indicated on the box, the Tumbler spans roughly 18 inches in length.
Vector-controlled jet engine on back of car for speed boosts and “rampless” jumps
Despite its bulk and mass, the Tumbler could actually go into “silent mode” by switching off its lights and instead, run on an alternate electric motor, making it virtually undetectable in the cover of night.
Lots of weathering details. I really wonder if McFarlane will release a “clean” version later on?
The dorsal flaps are fixed and non-movable.
Really big, rubbery tires!
Opening canopy hatch
To open the hatch, just press the release button the front of the vehicle.
Seats and details.
The control panels are all just stickers. Which is par for the course when it comes to McFarlane vehicles.
Despite the height of Batman’s “ears”, he fits in the seats with lots of height clearance to spare.
With the canopy down, you can’t really tell if Batman’s inside the thing or not. Which is kinda like in the movie, I suppose.
Thankfully, unlike some of the other McFarlane Batmobiles, this one is actually a two-seater! Batman and Lucius fit right in, no problem.
For weaponry, the Batmobile features Twin forward-firing machine guns and a rocket launcher, both located at the front center of the vehicle. The vehicle also featured explosive mines that could be deployed against pursuers.
Interestingly, there were supposed to be more additional weaponry options mounted on the back of the Tumbler that were prominently featured in the “Dark Knight Rises” film, the retractable dual-barreled cannons and multiple-tube missile launchers used by Bane’s men. For whatever reason, these were only mounted on the desert camo variants of the Tumbler and never on Batman’s black version.
I really wish McFarlane Toys included some clear parts for the headlights here.
After the Tumbler is destroyed following a direct bazooka hit from the Joker in the Dark Knight, its two front wheel sections eject to form the Batpod cycle, becoming Batman’s new land vehicle for the rest of the Nolan trilogy.
Overall, pretty great! I always loved the Tumbler in the Christopher Nolan/ Christian Bale Batman movies and I considered it one of the best and most practical Batmobiles around. Thankfully McFarlane did this one right and gave us a two-seater unit instead of the usual cheat of making it just a one-seater.
While there was no way McFarlane could’ve worked in an ejecting Batpod into this toy without breaking the bank, I do wish it had the ability to allow the Tumbler go into “weapons mode” for Batman just like in the movies. But it is what it is.
Funfact: This vehicle is never called the “Batmobile” in the Nolan movies. It’s only referred to as “the Tumbler”.
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