**šØ UNREAL. This Is What Passes for "Fun" These Days? My Kid Begged Me for the New **Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight** Set. Figured It'd Be a Safe, Wholesome Toy for a Rainy Sunday. Instead, What Did I Get? a 1,200-Piece Lesson in How Our Tax Dollars Are Wasted. š”**
šØ UNREAL. This is what passes for “fun” these days? My kid begged me for the new Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight set. Figured it’d be a safe, wholesome toy for a rainy Sunday. Instead, what did I get? A 1,200-piece lesson in how our tax dollars are wasted. š”
Let me break it down with some good old-fashioned COMMON SENSE:
- Missing Pieces? Noāextra pieces. For a āBatmobileā that looks less like a car and more like a dystopian torture rack. Whereās the trunk? Whereās the cup holder? You canāt even fit a Lego Alfred in there.
- The “Dark Knight” Minifig: Itās not Batman. Itās a scary, over-armored monster with glowing red eyes. My 8-year-old asked if it was a villain. Common sense says: If your hero looks like a nightmare, youāve lost the plot.
- The Price Tag: $149.99 CAD! For plastic bricks that donāt even come with a proper Joker? Thatās a weekās grocery budget. Weāre out here struggling with inflation, and Lego thinks we want a grimdark Batman that teaches our kids āvengeance is justiceā? No thanks.
Hereās my fix:
- Give us the 1992 animated series Batman. Blue cape. Yellow belt. A smile.
- Stop with the ālegacyā nonsense. Thatās just code for āwe ran out of ideas and jacked up the price.ā
- And for the love of all that is holy, include a Lego Bat-credit card so Bruce Wayne can pay for the damage he causes.
**Call me old-fashioned, but a toy should be FUNānot a lecture on how the world is broken. My kid