My daughter recently declared that two of her favourite superheroes are Batman and Robin. As luck would have it, a few days later this was delivered.
We set to building it right away!
The first thing we noticed about this set is that it is almost like a series of LEGO play sets, which made it great fun to build and to play with.
The story behind ‘Jokerland’ appears to be an ordinary theme park has been taken over by the clown prince of crime and some of his villainous allies. Each of them has their own twisted theme park ride to torment our heroes.
The set has eight minifigs in total – Batman, Robin, Starfire, and Beast Boy are the heroes, while the villains are The Joker, plus his accomplices Harley Quinn, The Penguin, and Poison Ivy.
There are also a couple of bonus figures – a freaky clown robot and a penguin with some dynamite!
The Joker’s theme park is made up of these four main ‘attractions’:
My daughter and I construct these big sets in a few sessions, each one usually just one numbered of the bags these sets are divided into. That usually means we end a building session with only a part of the vehicle/set constructed.
While this set has over a thousand bricks, four of the six numbered bags contain one attraction each. We built a bag a session initially, so what was nice about this set was that each one ended with a finished attraction.
My daughter’s singing “I want to build the Batmobile! I want to build the Batmobile!” Oh, alright then 😊 #jokerland pic.twitter.com/sPE63Kah5b
— Man vs Pink (@ManVsPink) August 29, 2015
The exception is the Batmobile, which is two bags. We saved this one until the end as it was the most complex build.
A rainy bank holiday Monday morning – perfect LEGO building time 😊 pic.twitter.com/Y0Qfg1Hwri
— Man vs Pink (@ManVsPink) August 31, 2015
She’s only 3-years-old, and this set is recommended for 8-14, so it is pretty advanced for her age. But with a bit of guidance and encouragement (as well as patience!) from me, she eventually put together her very own Batmobile.
Overall, this set was a really fun build that was a great joint activity for us – especially on a rainy bank holiday Monday.
It has great playability when completed. Each attraction has interactive elements – The Jokerland slide into the Toxic Tank, as well as revolving eyes and tilting hat; Harley’s motorcycle launches down towards the flaming barrels; the Penguin’s Deadly Duckies turn; Poison Ivy’s ride falls suddenly to the ground when triggered; and there’s a cannon that fires cannonballs – or the Joker’s custard pie! Oh, and the Batmobile had spring loaded missiles too.
Jokerland’s also a playset – so it’s a great environment for children to create stories with the characters. We’ve had everything from Batman arriving to rescue Robin, to everyone enjoying a day trip to the theme park. Another big attraction for us was the number of female character minifigs included – even just one in a superhero set is a bonus, so getting three is fantastic. My daughter loves having more female characters to us with her LEGO.
“Everyone’s happy in Jokerland” stated my daughter. Not sure that was the Joker’s intention, but we’re very happy to have added this set to our LEGO collection.
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I think it’s important for boys and girls that female characters are included in merchandise like this superhero LEGO set. What do you think?
Man vs. Pink 
of course it’s important. all aspects of society should be represented equally. if female characters are included in the comics, movies, books etc, then they should all feature in merchandise. and this is important for everyone to see.. it should be normal. large parts of our population shouldn’t be missing!
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It’s so important that sets are unisex, both my children love LEGO
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I think it’s really important to include female characters in these sets. My daughter loves them! My son loves that it encourages her to play superheroes with him as well!
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Yes, it’s really important to include female characters in play sets, but as equally important characters not just a token pretty/useless female. I liked the STEM range that came out – the superhero range is sadly lacking in females. I don’t know if anyone saw that Black Widow’s character was replaced by Captain America on a doll and bike toy (wasn’t Lego btw) even though it was one of her main cool scenes. Really sad 😦
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I agree. Female superheroes teach my daughters they can be anything they want to me and the old man at work women at home days are gone!
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I agree. I think it’s important for there to be both male and female superheros to help make equality a normality, as it should be!
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Yes definitely!! it goes without saying.
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Defo- we also think that toys shouldn’t be colour coordinated .. pink for girls and blue for boys… my daughter hates pink!
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Definitely – everyone can be a superhero!
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I definitely agree! I love that both female and male characters are included to make a good balance and impression for younger minds!
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I agree some of my sons favourite characters are the female ones
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My daughters love superheroes, and it’s good that there are some who are both female (and even wearing more than a hanky…)
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Im tired of the whole boy toy / girl toy thing, my daughter prefers ‘boys’ toys, and family look confused when i ask for lego or postman pat (or other ‘boy’ cartoons) things for xmas, or they see her playing football, whatever makes her happy is fine by me.
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I totally agree. We need positive role models that teach girls that they are equal to boys and can compete with them
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def important. its good to show both are role models and women are just as brave!
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its important that boys know that girl characters can kick ass just as much as the boy characters lol
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I’m not sure I’ve ever thought about it, I grew up just fine without knowing that certain toys represented ” men or woman ” to be honest
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definitely agree kids should be free to make their own choices!
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I agree fully
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I agree as long as it isn’t tokenism. I’d like to think the girl figures are as exciting as the boy ones!
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Totally – I always wanted to be Wonder Woman!
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Completely agree, very important that kids see male and female heroes and villains.
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I agree that girls should be able to play with the same toys and identify with female heroes and positive characters.
Having said that, I do quite like the Lego Friends sets, but I don’t like the fact that the Friends characters are made in a different style to the traditional Lego people. They should be the same, so that sets are more interchangeable.
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I agree my nieces love lego as did I but people still think it’s a “boys” toy. I have a boy but he can play with whatever he wants to play with
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i agree also good to have females in mostly make dominated roles
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I feel it is important for male and female to appear in boys and girls toys
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I agree. Go female characters and role models are important or both boys and girls
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Yes, I totally agree. Having a daughter myself, I think strong, female characters are essential in what would normally be classed as “boys toys”.
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Female superheroes definitely need to be included. How can we teach our kids that we all have a shot in the special power stakes if we only see male characters saving the world 😄
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i agree it is right that female as well as male characters are included in toys
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I’ve not thought about it because it shouldn’t be an issue anyway. My kids aren’t bothered (boy and a girl), they simlpy make their own people up out of other lego to suit the game, sometimes there are males and females, sometimes not. They love making their own custom characters, guess thats the point of lego 🙂
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I’ve never thought about it, I guess I think it shouldn’t be an issue. My kids (boy and girl) just make their own people depending on the game they’re playing, sometimes male and female, sometimes not, sometimes it’s just robots and dogs! They love making custom characters and using their imagination, guess thats the point of lego 🙂
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I completely agree….there aren’t enough female superheroes around…girls need to have a female superhero to look up to just as much as boys. This Lego set looks amazing 🙂
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i agree u’d be surprised how many wee girls play with these and most of the time its all male characters to have female ones is a bonus
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I agree.
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It’s definately important to have female characters…..who wouldn’t want to be Catgirl or Storm or Supergirl (Wonder Woman in my day). All our little girls need to know we are equal. We can be firemen, soldiers, construction workers, engineers etc! 😍 x
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I do agree, there are so many superheroes/villans that are female, why shouldn’t they be included. Both my daughters love superheroes(as do their brothers), it seems to becoming more popular now for girls to want/be interested in toys that were, at one point aimed specifically at boys.
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Absolutely. It’s important for both girls and boys to grow up without thinking there are predefined “roles” for each gender so anything that moves away from the boys playing with Thomas and the girls the toy Henry vacuum cleaner is a good thing.
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I grew up wanting to be Mr T so agree that there should be equals in all superhero set ups! One thing that the Avengers do well is have male/female characters and that’s great to see
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I agree, the Avengers have a split of female/male characters which is a healthy mix, plus I grew up wanting to be Mr T so it doesn’t hurt to take inspiration from all characters
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Girls can be super heroes too
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Yes, I agree. My daughter loves superheroes and I think it’s important that she isn’t made to feel that it is a “boy only” thing.
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Boys and girls should equally be not pigeonholed, according to gender stereotypes.
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It’s always good to let little ones believe that male and female characters are of equal importance
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to be honest im not really bothered and i dont think my daughter would be too. she loves lego, she has a few lego friends but she plays will all of the lego aswell. If its relevant to the theme then no problem, but if they had to go from the theme to make it P.C then i dont see the point in it.
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It’s healthy for children to play with any toys that fire their imagination…I don’t believe in gender specific toys.
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I agree, kids need both male and female role models
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I agree, and I think that there are too few strong female characters out there, heroes and villains 🙂
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I agree 🙂
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Definitely agree! As a tomboy I was always frustrated with how toys were often spilt into ‘boys’ and ‘girls’ categories and with how females were under-represented in lego sets. Superheroes are fun for everyone!
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