Batman minifigures comparison + how to distinguish different manufacturers

Sup?

Today I'm gonna compare Batman minifigures from the latest Batman movie. And I'm gonna use Pogo pink rubber band with studs for that.

Our contestants. Yup, that many of them, but actually there are only 5 brands here.

Left to right:

Lego, Lego, Lego, Lepin, Lepin, Sheng Yuan, Xinh, Pogo, Pogo (custom cape), Pogo (custom cape)

Okay, closer look. First 6: Lego (Mr. Freeze attack), Lego (Joker's Baloon escape), Lego (Lego magazine bonus), Lepin (Batcave Break-In), Lepin (Batmobile), Sheng Yuan (Clayface Splat Attack):

So yeah considering previous Lepin and SY versions, they can only be purchased with sets. As Lepin doesn't produce minifigures separately from sets (actually does, but not much, and sorta custom series). SY produces minifigures, but they skipped Batman in Batman movie set for some reason.

Okay, next. First one is a repeat - it's SY. Then goes Xinh version and next 3 Pogo Batmen, last 2 with custom capes.

Let's just cut the brands to 5 by removing same brands:

We have left to right: Lego, Lepin, SY, Xinh, Pogo

Even closer look. It is not an illusion, SY batlogo looks more colorful comparing to Lego version.

Lego, Lepin, SY, Xinh, Pogo

Inspect utility belts.

Lego, then Lepin. And if you ask me, I would pick Lepin or SY belt versions instead of Lego one (they are more 3d to me).

Sy, Xinh, part of Pogo

Xinh, Pogo

Pogo loses here in the terms of quality - objectively the worst here. Xinh is so so.

Capes.

Lego has very soft cloth material, but also solid.

Lepin is very very thin, feels more like plastic than cloth (worst here).

SY has typical SY cape, material is pretty nice.

Xinh is velvet and collects dust just perfectly.

Pogo has the most dense material of all, it's pretty strong, but as I've mentioned I used custom capes on other Pogo Batman minifigures.

Lego, Lepin, SY, Xinh, Pogo.

Cowls off.

Only Xinh looks different from them. Others are pretty close to Lego.

Lego, Lepin, SY, Xinh, Pogo.

Second faces:

Again Xinh is different, doesn't have second face at all (the worst here).

Lego, Lepin, SY, Xinh, Pogo.

But also there's additional contestant, which I decided not to include in the comparison above, because it's made with mistakes. It's LELE. As you can see minifig has 2 utility belts: printed and real one.

Besides the head is from the other model and printing is not so nice.

So if you ask me, whom I would pick, I would say SY was one of the closest to Lego, besides I like SY utility belt more than Lego one and the batlogo is more colorful than Lego. UnfortunatelySY minifig was bought in the set and is not sold separately yet, but I hope they'll make a new Batman Movie set soon.

The most interesting part goes here.

The differences in molding or how to distinguish different brands.

First I have to say that we're gonna skip legs as they are almost identical (since we don't have Decool here - there's no point in it).

So let's start with torso or how torso docking part looks (where you attach legs).

Lego, let's call it criss cross

Lepin, almost empty

Sheng Yuan, little plastic stripes, that divides torso in 3 sections.

Xinh, criss-cross, Lego-like

Pogo, something special actually (Btw KL has same shape of leg docking, so it's one more proof that KL belongs to Pogo)

Lele, like SY, but thicker. 3 sections

As you can see, all manufacturers are different. But there are more differences. Let's look inside the torso and at the hands connect to it:

Lego: the hole for arms is not cross-cutting, the torso is whole inside. 

Lego. The hand connects to the torso with round connector, which has small gap in it.

So what about chinese brands?

Lepin: the hole is torso is cross cutting, hand connector looks like a screw cap for a flat blade screwdriver.

SY, looks like Lepin. Bit t has very thin stripes on the inside, just looks at another angle and you'll see them.

Xinh is different, the hole is torso is more "half-shut". Same not Lego-like hand connector

Pogo tries to be Lego-like, not cross cuttng hole and round connector with smal gap.

Lele has hole, but round with gap hand connectors.

So summing up. They all are different, but still distinguishable. But remember that this is only about latest minifigures. For example, Pogo itself had changed torso docking mold at least twice. I'll try to make a whole new post where I would include more manufacturers and their differences along with how they've changed.

Also at first I wanted to compare more Batman movie minifigures - Joker, Robin, Batgirl, but the post already is way too big for that. So was it interesing, any advices?

Review: The Joker Notorious Lowrider (Lepin 07046)

The Joker Notorious Lowrider (Lepin 07046), copy of 70906

I am finally able to write a review, since I was waiting for spare parts to arrive. Seller that sold me Lowrider sent missing parts with my next order. Good to know there are honest sellers.

I've paid 25$ for this set, but looks like now it costs even less. Package contined 10 packets + 1 ziplock bag with guns, stickers and a cape. There was no assembling sequence.

Pretty nice build of you ask me, looks decent, has no loose parts. Front glass is okay.

Tyres are okay. Those 4 golden sticks on the sides are actually guns. And the funny thing Lepin has strange mold combination for guns. This set requires 8 golden guns, each of them was included in pad which had 4 guns, only 1 of each pad was correct. Now I have 3 * 8 golden guns of different types left. Where am I supposed to apply them?

The rear glass is pretty dim, just like the majority of Lepin glasses that doesn't come with new 2017 logo, that guarantess assembling sequence and quality improvements.

In the car trunk there are 2 spring shooters, so when you press the button in the car interrior they obviously shoot. They actually work (in another car set that I have they don't work). And Ha-ha-ha.

The Lowrider function. Should I say it doesn't work well?

The lowering mechanism is simply 2 pairs of rubber bands. I guess it's exactly jist like the original works. Still using rubber bands, huh?

This one work not for very long and now very well. No big deal for me.
upd. Seems like original Lego version doesn't work well too.

Minifigures are the fun part here.I'll compare them to other manufacturers. I think that's pretty interesting. So Harley.

Left to right: Lepin, Pogo, Xinh.

Xinh has the most colorful print and the most accurately printed hairpiece.

Lepin has right hand issue that I've already encountered with previous set: hand doesn't fit completely in the arm.

Despite having most vivid colors Xinh doesn't print legs' sides. Kudos to Lepin for correct mold of hairpiece (but all have correct molds actually). And there's no big defference between those 3.

Batgirl

Left to right: Lepin, Pogo, Xinh, Lego. Skintones are different. And Pogo used incorrect color for batarang.

Both Lepin and Xinh has failed with hair color. Pogo's color is close to Lego. Also Xinh didn't print leg sides, again.

Cape materials are different. I can't say which one is better. To start with I don't even like Lego version cape, but it's best here without a doubt.

Jokes aside, despite the fact that Xinh has really bad arms printing (see Joker minifigure) and don't print leg sides, they actually do dual legs molding on some minifigures, just like Lego. At the moment other manufactirers can't do dual molds.
Left to right: Xinh, Lego.

Joker, Joker, Joker. Lepin has failed with Asylum sets, where almost no one has correct hair molds so they've repeated mistakes here.

Left to right: Lepin, Pogo, Xinh.

Xinh has incorrect color, while Pogo and Lepin are pretty close to Lego. And how Xinh prints arms is a disaster. It's just the same on their other minifigures - just one stripe of paint and that's all. Others do round print as they can't dual mold hands.

So, what I can say? I liked assembling this set. Overall it looks pretty good, but the lowering fuction of the car doesn't work properly (yup, just original).

Minifigures are decent, but you may wanna to correct some details for your set. Looks like almost correct minifigure can be conjured by mixing Pogo and Xinh.

Thanks for reading till the end.

Review: Arkham Asylum (Lepin 07055)

Heyo, I've finally assembled Asylum several days ago, was going to do Lowrider review first, but decided to wait for Lowrider's spare parts from seller first.

I've bough this set for 78$. It had 39 packets so I had to sort details first. The assembly took me 3 days, about hour-two each day.

So when I finished I realized the tower doesn't fit in my shelf at all.

So I had to reassemble it to make it actually fit. Luckily I've got plenty spares left. So it gonna look like that. But I'll put it behind the Asylum anyway.

The wings of the building are connected to the main hall with connectors, but there is huge fail. Used connector are cross shaped from both sides and the building wings actually have round holes so connectores don't hold properly. And it's like this in the Lego instruction as well.

I had to dig my spare pile to find needed details, so it gonna look like that. This time it works properly. However I've decided not to use them at all to freely positioning parts of the building due to lack of place on my shelf.

So in the end it looks like that from the inside. Pretty detailed if you ask me (ow especially food station, yum pretzels). But honestly detailing could be done better, I mean playability of set suffers.

I had plenty of spares left after building - this pile includes leftovers from removing one floor of tower, still a lot of stuff, though I was missing 1*1 piece, which is pretty common and I had plenty of those.

Now to the more surprises, the set has 1 syringe in Dr. Quinzel's locker and I received 2 pads of different medical stuff that isn't used in the set. Even stethoscope. Okay why there's 2 pair of unused hairpieces? Well it's about minifigures quality.

Straigh to minifigures. Two words - not perfect. Batman and Robin are pretty ok, as they were in Batmobile set. Joker's hairpiece is wrong, Barbara's hairpiece is wrong (the ones from set are on previous photo) so I had to use ginger ponytail from my spare pile, Dr. Quinzel hairpiece is wrong, though close to the original, Aaron Cash has Supermas's hair actually, which is also wrong. 

Riddler has just a hat with no hair and as he has double face prints technically he's second two-face here, Ivy's hairpiece is wrong as well and Two-face's hair too. GCPD officers and Catwoman are surprisingly fine.

Most likely I'll leave positioning like that. Honestly, the police car looks unecessary in this set, its blue color stands out. As well as I removed the gym accessories and put the tower on the background.

The question to Lego as it's their design about the playability of this set. It's made cool, but it's also very tiny (despite big size in general). Look at those prison cells or the laundry - there's not much place in there to actually play with the set.

Or this metal detector. The stickers are glued on the sides so you can't actually play with that withought putting it out. Oh and Lepin has to improve glasses transparency.

So I've bought it for 78$ and the original costs 150$. Set has 1628 pieces, while original Lego Detective's office for example costs 160$ and has 2262 pieces or Parisian Restaurant (160$ as well) has 2469 pieces. Both are 65$ by Lepin. So I consider Asylum overpiced and I mean both Lego and Lepin versions. Worth only for fans.

I'm waiting for Lepins and Decools copies of old Asylum that were announced recently to be out. I haven't decided yet what brand I'll pick. But I certainly need that Asylum.

And for the last, Hello from Robin.

Thanks for reading till the end. Previous Batmobile review is here.