This Batmobile is built of 500,000 Legos

He may not be fighting the bad guys at night with this contraption, but New York-based brick artist Nathan Sawaya apparently has made one of the greatest replicas out there. Even though he’s been doing similar projects for ten years, he still needed three months and the help of acclaimed DC Entertainment Co-publisher Jim Lee to pull this gig off.

You may have heard of the Art of the Brick exposition, a place where Sawaya hosts multiple projects that all use Lego pieces. What for most of us are regular toys, for this creator are means of taking art to new heights. He has transformed bricks into whimsical and awe-inspiring creations, and this Batmobile makes no exception and is no different from his previous work.

However, the 18-foot-long Batmobile here is special in its own way, as Sawaya is taking the Caped Crusader’s hero car to Art of the Brick: DC Comics. According to Damn Geeky, the event is a global exhibition run by Warner Bros. and DC Comics that will take place in Sydney, Australia, in November. Some of the world’s most impressive Lego constructions will be there, but we’re sure this particular breed will stand out.

As we mentioned above, the brick artist was lucky enough to get some help from one of the Batmobile professionals – if that job even exists at all. To bring the sculpture to its current shape, Sawaya worked closely with acclaimed DC Entertainment Co-publisher and artist Jim Lee.

As to what exact model this is, we’re going to count on your help. It does seem to takes some design features from both Tim Burton’s movies and the comics sketches. Here’s how the Lego Batmobile’s creator describes his projects:

“These works are very personal to me since they reflect my growth as an artist as I strove to discover my creative identity,” says Sawaya. “The museum exhibition is accessible because it engages the child in all of us while simultaneously illuminating sophisticated and complex concepts. Everyone can relate to the medium since it is a toy that many children have at home. But my goal with this exhibition when it first debuted in 2007 was to elevate this simple plaything to a place it has never been before.”