Customer Reviews

Batman Batcave with Minimates

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(15)

 

 

Stay away! Don't even think about buying this thing. It is the biggest joke! I don't think that anyone bothered to try to put this thing together before they marketed it. It does not go togehter like legos--the simplest pieces will just pop apart! I had to use crazy glue to try to keep the pieces together. Even with the glue the pieces starting coming apart.

I rate this toy R because building it may produce foul language and violence. I'm just glad I attempted it when my daughter was at school. [...]With much perseverance and a little filing it can be done, even without superglue(of course warping and shodding manufacturing may vary)! However, at present this is pretty much only a display piece. R is also for repair kit. [...]

We had previously purchased one of the Harry Potter Lego kits (Dumbledore's Castle), and this seemed quite similar, so I purchased it for my son's birthday. The directions are quite confusing, and it took 4 hours to correctly assemble. Pieces are not at all secure, and come apart at the lightest touch. Because the batcave is multi-story, the floors need to be attached - the problem is that nothing stays level, nor does it stay together. Basically, it has become a "look but don't touch item" - what a waste. A huge disappointment - (...)to boot! Save yourself the aggravation and avoid at all costs - very poorly manufactured.

As an avid toy buyer with two kids, I saw a lego-like Bat set as a sure fire Christmas gift winner..now 2 months later the batcave is in several pieces as we have finally decided the only way our 7 year can ever play with it is if we super-glue all the pieces together. This toy started with a great concept but horrible, horrible execution...the instructions are bad, the toy falls apart even as you try to build it, and even with both my wife and I working in tandem, it's never been completely together at any one time...saddest of all, my 7 year old has yet to play with it. I would encourage others to write Art Assylum and ask for their money back. They could have made a great toy, and instead all they made was an expensive rip-off!

My 5 year old received this as a gift but it took his Uncle around 10 hours total to assemble it. It has around 26 stages of instructions and around 400 odd pieces but the main thing is it is so fragile. After assembling the base and trying to put the next level on top the whole thing collapsed. This happened 4 or 5 times. There is no way anyone under 12 could figure out how to assemble this. It looks nice when it is all finished but one touch and it falls apart. We are tempted to glue the pieces into place so it stays up permanently.

I am a Lego expert, but I found it really hard to build, If it was hard for me, it was really impossible for my children. The only nice thing yoú'll get are the nice miniature characters which are not worth the price.

I ordered this toy for my nephew who was turning 6. It was a disaster! My brother (who built his house from the ground up and has an engineering degree) was totally frustrated tyring to put this thing together. The spent hours trying to fit all the pieces together using glue and quite a bit of perserverence. I think they made it to the 3rd floor and gave up. My younger nephew (the birthday boy's brother) uttered his first curse word during the building of the Batcave from HELL! I don't recommend it.

This was the worst toy ANY of my kids received EVER! I have never felt complelled to write a reveiw...even when the toy might have had some problems. How this got out of its manufacture's R&D dept is beyond me.

My son has other batman items from this line, and didn't have this problem. The problem seems to be with only with this model. The first sign of problems ahead is when the directions have an adendum added on a white piece of paper inserted in the directions booklet vs manufacture reprinting entire booklet.

The directions themselves are confusing. The blocks all come in about 12 different bags. None of the bags block pieces are oranized in steps, so you have to have most of the bags open at once... resulting in many little parts all over.

Once you get the right pieces organized to build, the blocks DO NOT stay together (doesn't matter how hard you push them together) and the batcave crumbles. Some of my pieces may have been a bit warped but this still shouldn't have happened to this extent... I spent over an hour trying to constuct this and never actually got it to stay together. Never actually completed the task. Ended up tossing all the peices in the box and taking it back to the store. If you end up getting this and want to keep it, buy some super glue and advil before you build it and hope you have extra time to rebuild it for your child when it crumbles before their eyes. Quite disappointing.

I love building bricks. I love Batman. I HATE THIS SET. This was the most disappointing "kit" I've ever had the misfortune to purchase. I complained directly to the manufacturer about their ill-fitting bricks, but naturally never heard back. Most of the bricks fit together loosely causing them to pop off at the most inopportune times. The flat base pieces are made of poor plastic and too thin, so unless you are on a very flat very hard surface (and sometimes even then), the bricks pop off. The floor on the "upper level" was completely warped because the bricks were so poorly shaped and fit together so badly.

Thank goodness LEGO got the Batman license and built a decent kit. It is too bad about the this set, the building plan was nice and the design was nice. But it wasn't worth the frustration nor the price. Not even having the mini-figs was worth it.

And what's up with the freaking LAVENDER bricks anyway? I don't recall that being a Batcave colour. UGH UGH UGH.

Bought this and several other Minimates for by son's birthday. As we are huge Lego fans, I thought this would be a great compliment. The "lego-like" bricks are ill fitted, either constantly coming undone or never being able to fit together at all. This caused great frustration and unhappiness. We finally had to hide the entire lot from my son too keep him from breaking down everytime he or another family member tried to put the Batcave or any of the vehicles together. Do not buy. I would like a full refund and an apology from Amazon for carrying such an afwul quaility toy, and from the creator of the Minimates. Ugh!