The Batmobile "Tumbler" from the movie Batman Begins
About this creation
 I hadn't touched Lego in 15 years and after playing the Lego Star Wars video game I became hooked again. Looking around on a few sites I found that my favorite superhero, Batman has his own line of Lego sets available, along with their own official Lego Tumbler set. I searched around and found a few photos of it and was disappointed enough that I decided to make my own.
 Using Lego's own Digital Designer Program, over a period of about a month in February/March 2008 I created my own Tumbler, smaller in scale and I believe more true to the movie version. A couple of hours here and there of constant refining, trying different techniques to define it's unique shape I finally was ready to order.
 Ordering the parts from Bricklink I was able to use more variety in parts than available in Lego Digital Designer. I switched out the round steering wheel for a plane style wheel, chrome silver hubs instead of light bluish grey and I was able to replace all the black 1x2 grill pieces with 1x2 tiles, which for some reason aren't available in LDD. I also picked up a Lego Batman minifig from ebay which fits perfectly inside the cockpit, cape and all.
Below are some better lit photos from all angles, including an example of how the roof of the batmobile opened giving access to the drivers seat.
        
 Finally, with it all complete, what else to do but pull it apart and see what else I could make with it? I decided to have a go at making an alternative build of an updated Batwing. If you recall from Tim Burton's Batman film from 1989, the Batwing plane is shaped like the bat emblem that is on Batman's chest. So with that in mind I tried to create a new version based on the bat emblem from Batman Begins. The batwing itself isn't terribly great, but I was quite happy with how it recreates the new emblem when viewed from above.
Online Instructions
Are Now Available!
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September 19, 2009 |
Sick ride. "I got to get me one of those" |
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August 16, 2009 |
can you put building instructions for the batwing |
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August 4, 2009 |
thats awsome just awsome |
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July 14, 2009 |
Hands down the best Tumbler onMOCpages and probably the world. My brother " accidentally" destroyed and lost my official Tumbler, so thabks for the instructions! |
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February 14, 2009 |
in a word, awesome. id love to see u make a TDK tumbler with the batpod inside it, but i think that would be pretty hard to do without destroyin the detail of ur version
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January 12, 2009 |
one of the greatest tumbler i ever seen! |
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December 30, 2008 |
nice were did yoy get the pieces that go over the windows |
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December 30, 2008 |
holy ...., i have just made it from your instructions and it looks great. but ofcause i made some special things so it dont look yours like brick.
thx for the instructions and keep up building so good:) |
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October 3, 2008 |
Hi I am going to buy your set via lego designer But I cant get the black window shield things from there , do you know what set to buy to get them? If you dont I will have to paint my two gray ones black. |
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August 21, 2008 |
Come on plzzz tell me where you got the 2 front windshields.... i can find it on lego designer but it wont let me send i to lego!!!! Plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz help me!!!!! |
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August 11, 2008 |
How did you get the front roof tile???
Lego wont let me buy it!!! Can you help me???
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August 7, 2008 |
This is a very scrumtrulesent piece of work. I like it so much Im gonna make my own. My favorite part is that it is very close to correct scale =D good job, keep it up. |
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July 24, 2008 |
i just think you should make it bigger for it to fit two people please go see my tumbler it's bigger and the wheels are gigantic it also has a robin minifig inside because he wanted to order a burger so batman locks joker up and can drive around town, robin receives a burger and joker gets bored in jail it's win ,win,lose |
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July 22, 2008 |
I'd say one of the best out there, especially your camo version. Now I think you've gotta make another one from the new movie! With the batpod and all. As soon as I saw the batpod come off of the tumbler I knew it had to be done, I'll take a stab at it, you should too! |
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July 21, 2008 |
why!!!! why do you have to live in Australlia! i found your creation but i cant order it because its in Australlia! |
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July 14, 2008 |
Can you please email me a link so I can buy and build this beautiful piece? I'm new and this is the first thing I want to try. |
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June 18, 2008 |
I recently saw Lego's official "Tumbler" on their website. Yours looks much better. |
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March 30, 2008 |
Hey man this is pretty cool as well! Another straight to the point no frills interpretation of the Tumbler in Minifig. Keep up the Good Work! |
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March 28, 2008 |
WOW! Dude that is awesome! I thought mine was good, but your's is true minifig scale. Great work, check mine out! |
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March 17, 2008 |
Wow. That's why I've always loved Batman, the technology. You represent one of the sweetest gadgets perfectly here, 5/5. |
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March 17, 2008 |
since finding MOCpages I've seen so many etempts at building halo warthogs and batman tumblers. But this is surely the best of the best!!
great job!! |
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