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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This giveaway has now ended, but the LEGO Batman – Jokerland set (76035) has a RRP of £89.99, and can be purchased from Amazon.
Or, enter our giveaway – please see below (UK residents only).
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Disclaimer: While I was not paid to write this review, we did receive this LEGO set free of charge.
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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 
I don’t like the whole boys/ girls toys stereotypes at all. I think it’s important that kids play the way they want not the way adults expect them too
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Of course you need female Lego characters. In Batman over the years, there were numerous female villains and heroines including a Batgirl, Catwoman, Poison Ivy and a Batwoman too
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I absolutely agree, I loved Lego as a child, still do!
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It’s never occured to me before but I absolutely agree that their should be female characters in the lego sets
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YES! As a child I had a lot of issues with lego as I wasn’t bought any even when I begged to have some. it ‘wasn’t for girls’. I was really upset about it for many years and i think it’s important to have girls in lego sets especially when females are in the movies or games!
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I love when toys such as Lego remember there’s more than one gender. The character variety in this set is nice, but I do wish Catwoman was included. Guess the Joker didn’t want to risk being overshadowed!
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I agree. Boys and girls should be encouraged to play with all toys and manufacturers should try to avoid gender stereotyping!
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Absolutely – both girls & boys have to be able to identify with the characters on some level. This looks like a brilliant Lego set; real value for money with over 1000 bricks, and such a rewarding & fun experience to build it together with mum or dad. ( try stopping us!) My youngest daughter & I have happy memories of building the Harry Potter sets around Christmas & birthday times ( as well as many other occasions!)
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Gosh, yes, female characters should be included! There’s still a long way to go with gender equality and toys is a good place to begin.
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Without a doubt. Wonderwoman set next please Lego!
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Of course, and poison ivy is my favourite character from batman!
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agreed – theres some great comic female characters like black widow, wonder woman, scarlett witch etc. so no excuses!
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I don’t think it’s IMPORTANT to have girls in it, but it makes it more fair and equal. Important denotes that anyone would even notice if female super heros/villans were in the set, which I think is highly unlikely for the age group. Non the less, I’m glad they did include them 🙂
Great giveaway.
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Definitely! It’s not just boys who play with Lego so what are you supposed to say when little girls playing ask where the girl Lego is? If boy lego why not girl I say
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Definitely girl lego should be included. Just as many girls play Lego as boys so shouldn’t be sexist and have just boy charachters
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I completely agree and when there are female characters they shouldn’t automatically be in pink or unrealistically proportioned!
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I absolutely agree!
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Playing with things like Lego helps build skills key for development of both genders. Both should play with it!
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Totally agree!
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to be honest, I never grew up feeling inadequate for not having a lego woman ‘me’. Trendiness and feminism has a lot to answer for. My kid now needs an inspiring female Lego woman that represents her.
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very important – the old style sets always seemed to imply that it was a mans world and women couldnt be firefighters or police officers or whatever. And although it isnt an obvious message to a child the message is still there
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Definitely agree I think it helps the bond between boys and girls as they grow when they see that items such as lego include both
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i had lego as a kid, even technic lego and i loved it. My daughter is 10 and she loves lego as much as my 7 year old lad, they play great together with it and actually makes them play better together (less squabbling for me to hear!) I don’t think it has ever been made to be gender specific, it’s just how the world sees things now compared to 23-30 years ago. Girls can be engineers too in life so left them be creative and fuel their imagination.
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Yes girls love playing with lego just as much as boys 🙂
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i agree, i had a HUGE tub of lego as a kid and played with it all the time, my little girl recently enjoyed building ariels lego, so hopefully it has piqued her interest in more to come!
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Lego is a great learning tool for both sexes .. And it’s so much fun, they don’t realise it’ educational, too xx
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Both my girls love lego, although i’m not sure they notice the sexes of the figures, except in lego friends
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I totally agree with you! I don’t think that they should only be in pinks & purples either xx
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Yes – girls and boys should be able to play with any toys they like! Just because someone is a girl, doesn’t mean they can’t play with construction sets and the same goes for boys, they can play with dolls if they want to! Too many companies aim at a single market – it should be dual market. Make construction sets attractive to girls and dolls attractive to boys!
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Completely agree
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I agree, my daughter loves to play with lego
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Yes of course it is. our society is still so wrapped up in the idea of gender norms, its way more than boys can’t like pink and girls have to like playing with dolls. too many young girls grow up in a world that subtly pushes them away from careers in science and STEM, so many are told that to not have children is somehow a failure as a women, too many boys are forced to hide in faux masculinity because men don’t cry and so when later in life they are a victim of domestic abuse they hide it to avoid being week. These days almost everything is reinfornced with gender. I can only speculate how difficult it must be to grow up questioning your gender in a world where every item of clothing has a gender. Why does a dress have to be for women and a bow tie for a man? It’s about time toys stopped being targeted at specific gender and we are no where near to achieving that but this is progress, small yes, but progress.
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Yes, although I don’t think it’s a big deal either way.
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I agree completely and i think toys now are played with by both girls and boys and should equally show this within their toys as it shouldn’t just be gender specific.
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It’s critical to include female characters so that young girls get the idea that t heir gender isn’t a barrier to participation in anything, be it LEGO sets or science. The gendering of toys seems to be a more recent phenomenon and it seems to me that it’s pushing equality back in time. We (women) don’t need “princess sets” or any nonsense like that. Our girls need toys that are fun, interesting and exciting and that show women in the same roles as men.
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Yes i totally agree they should have mixed gender with lego its fun for all ages and i would hate for lego to be gender related people saying oh its a boys toy why are they playing lego thats awful im glad lego has a massive range of products now!! When i was young I would build houses for the lego people And my brothers would be building cars bike planes etc i dont think you could put a stamp on what gender lego is for x
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Definately it’s good to show girls can be bad ass too
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yes i agree completley
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i agree. boy and girls should be able to feel that all toys are suitable for them
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I feel that lego sets are better when they include both male and female characters
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definately! it gives more of a normal world view!
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I think it so old fashioned for toys to be either ‘boys’ or ‘girls’ toys. Lego should be aimed at all children & when it comes to superheroes they are both male & female & as long as they are relevant to the specific set it doesn’t matter what sex they are.
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I love Lego. It really gives you some quality time with your kids. Although I do tend to take over. I would love to win this for my son and ME x
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Yes I do think there should be male and female characters in playsets (just wish there had been a female superhero in this one!) With a little girl who hates pink, purple, flowers, princesses etc, I love that she has refused to follow the rules of ‘boys toys’ and ‘girls toys’ and I have noticed that her generation are much happier to play in mixed groups where my own was very much ‘boys play with boys, girls play with girls’ which may be because of the change to how toys are advertised as suitable for all. I wish clothes manufacturers would be as forward thinking as Lego! Some girls want to wear a batman top and some boys want to wear a frozen top!
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Yes I agree, I have 2 daughters one of which is very girly the other calls herself a tomboy
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I totally agree both boys and girls should play with Lego and both sexes should be included as standard, gone are the days where the driver was always a man! It makes for a more sociallyrounded child when they are encouraged to explore new toys they normally wouldn’t touch…my dad bought me Mechano and I loved it.
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I agree it encourages siblings to want to play with games together x
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I agree, but actually I don’t think my daughter ever noticed that they were only boys
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I definitely agree. I think it’s great at the end of the day lego is for everyone. Lovely set.
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I don’t think it necessarily is related to sex, its about an individual child and what THEY like.
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