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The long-awaited LEGO Batman Arkham Asylum acceptable is yet here, and it’s 1 of the astir important DC-themed builds LEGO has enactment retired successful years. With 2,953 pieces and a whopping 16 minifigures included, this isn’t a speedy physique to instrumentality connected the shelf.
You’ll find Batman, Joker, Harley Quinn, and a big of Gotham’s astir infamous villains each packed wrong the box, on with the elaborate bricks to conception the iconic Asylum itself. It costs $299.99, was released connected September 9, 2025, and is disposable to bargain astatine the LEGO Store close now.
LEGO Batman Arkham Asylum
As if that wasn’t enough, LEGO has besides lined up a retro gaming dainty that makes the timing adjacent better. A brand-new SEGA Genesis controller physique is disposable arsenic a limited-time "Gift With Purchase", and it adjacent hides a Sonic the Hedgehog easter ovum inside. It’s not thing you tin bargain outright, though, and that’s wherever things get somewhat much complicated.
The SEGA controller acceptable is lone being offered until September 17, and you’ll request to walk astatine slightest $130 astatine the LEGO Store to qualify. GWPs similar this person a wont of vanishing aboriginal erstwhile banal dries up, and this 1 is restricted to in-stock sets only, truthful preorders won’t trigger the offer.
The threshold is technically $130, but the IGN Deals squad person already tested it and to corroborate a $129.99 acceptable inactive works. That tiny loophole could marque each the quality if you’re conscionable connected the cusp.
SEGA Genesis Controller
Only disposable 9/8 - 9/17 with purchases $130+. Not sold separately.
It's a shame that, dissimilar the much reasonably priced LEGO Game Boy acceptable astatine $59.99, this 1 requires a $130 walk astatine the LEGO Store to unlock.
But, of course, plentifulness of LEGO sets already stroke past that terms constituent these days. And if you were already eyeing Arkham Asylum astatine $299.99, you’re not lone covered but besides walking distant with 1 of the champion freebies LEGO has rolled retired successful immoderate time.
If Batman builds aren’t your thing, though, determination are plentifulness of different ways to deed the $130 minimum. Below are a fewer standout sets presently successful banal that suffice for the Genesis controller promotion.
One reminder: arsenic I've mentioned, preorders don’t suffice for a GWP, truthful the LEGO Game Boy and the upcoming Willy Wonka acceptable won’t work. But if banal holds, the Genesis controller should besides beryllium disposable alongside Jack Sparrow’s Pirate Ship erstwhile that launches aboriginal this year.
The LEGO SEGA Genesis Controller acceptable (try saying that 5 times fast) is made up of 260 pieces and, conscionable similar the LEGO Game Boy, is aimed squarely astatine the 18+ property category, marking it arsenic different 1 of LEGO’s increasing lineup of show pieces designed for adults.
With a buildable basal included, it’s meant to beryllium proudly connected a support alternatively than beryllium picked up for play. The extremity effect looks remarkably adjacent to the iconic controller you astir apt retrieve spending hours with backmost successful the day, close down to the acquainted fastener layout.
Robert Anderson is Senior Commerce Editor and IGN's nonmigratory deals adept connected games, collectibles, trading paper games, and more. You tin travel him @robertliam21 connected Twitter/X oregon Bluesky.
This nonfiction contains contributions from Chris Reed.
Originally posted:
Sep 9, 2025 10:12 am
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