The LEGO Batman Movie Batsuit Build – Supports

Batman’s impressive wardrobe is given a scale like never before in The LEGO Batman Movie, which inspired this build project to re-create the character’s impressive Batsuit rack with real LEGO bricks

The Batsuit build is almost complete. Before we can hang up the suits, we need supports for the conveyor belt to run on. The height of these can be adjusted to whatever suits your needs best. I have sized the one shown here to match the runway. The number of these supports will also be determined by the shape you want to achieve. I needed four of them for my Batcave.

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These are designed to have some ‘give’ to them. The weight of the suits requires that the conveyor not be completely rigid or it will pop off.

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The Supports

Once you erect your supports, you will need to construct an internal support structure between them. That is what the open connector at the apex of the support is for. I used a combination of connectors and bars as shown below. This must be customised to meet your needs but the following can give you an idea of what is needed.

Finally the mechanism can be motorised by extending an axle down from one of the gear shafts. Conversely, if you don’t want to motorise yours, remove one of the dishes and add a gear or some other part which is easily held to facilitate turning the conveyor by hand.

Tomorrow: The Conveyor

Check out the Batsuit build project so far here.

The LEGO Batman Movie is in cinemas February 10. The LEGO Batman Movie range of LEGO sets are currently available to buy at shop.LEGO.com.

Check back regularly at Brick Fanatics for plenty more The LEGO Batman Movie content, including the rest of our Batsuit build project.

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Daniel
When I was 3 years old my dad bought home 6659 TV Camera Crew as a gift — he had no idea what he had just unleashed. Three decades and no dark age later, I am still going strong. My love of LEGO led me to a career in Civil Engineering and I am now raising three budding LEGO lovers with my lovely wife who is, bless her, a huge supporter of my brick addiction. When not writing for Brick Fanatics or fulfilling my duties as the U.S. Editor of Blocks Magazine I enjoy collecting, MOCing, exhibiting, as well as running, climbing and home improvement.

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Daniel

When I was 3 years old my dad bought home 6659 TV Camera Crew as a gift — he had no idea what he had just unleashed. Three decades and no dark age later, I am still going strong. My love of LEGO led me to a career in Civil Engineering and I am now raising three budding LEGO lovers with my lovely wife who is, bless her, a huge supporter of my brick addiction. When not writing for Brick Fanatics or fulfilling my duties as the U.S. Editor of Blocks Magazine I enjoy collecting, MOCing, exhibiting, as well as running, climbing and home improvement.

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