LEGO just had the nerdiest August in years, and the Batmobile is not even out yet.

E.T., The X-Files, Pokémon minifigs, and a September 4 Batman Returns car. The brick company is printing the 90s back into the living room.

August’s LEGO calendar looked like a sleepover I would have designed at thirteen. An E.T. statue with a light-up finger. An X-Files house that wants to be a shrine. The first official Pokémon minifigures. Then, on September 4, a 2,269-piece Batman Returns Batmobile for $230. That is not a kids’ aisle. That is a memory palace with a price list.

I am not allergic to expensive bricks. I am allergic to expensive bricks that do not earn the footprint. The Batmobile will earn it if the sculpt remembers Burton’s toy-fair wrongness — the long nose, the black-and-chrome funeral energy — instead of becoming a generic dark sports car. The X-Files set already won by being specific. Specific is the whole job.

Nostalgia sets work when they are objects, not homework.

There is a collector risk here. When every franchise gets an ‘18+’ display piece in the same quarter, the living room becomes a mall. Buy the one that still surprises you when the bag is open. For me that is the alien with the glowing finger, because it is a sculpture first and a license second.

The rest can wait for a sale, including the car. Keaton’s Batmobile has survived worse than a delay.