Grandson Moonbase Junior is just batty about Batman like his batty old Grandad.
He's got two ERTL die-cast batmobiles from 1989 and loves to phone Batman on his McDonalds Batman/Wonderwoman mobile phone communicator.
Thinking ahead I've been wondering whether to get a proper batphone for him so I can ring him up on it when he's at home.
I always loved the little red batphone in my Corgi Batmobile, based on Adam West's original car, so I was thrilled to see that a version is commercially available! Alas its just a money bank! Drat!
But holy smokes, there's a proper working version of the Commissioner Gordan rotary dial phone actually ready to ship right now from Gotham City! Now how cool is that!
There's even an online shop that stocks loads of these different batphones and they've even sold one to Adam West! How's that for life imitating art!
But to be honest the batphone I still like the most is the stuff released in the Sixties by Marx and Remco. I didn't have one and I'm unsure if they made it to the UK.
REMCO made a lovely rotary phone like Commissioner Gordon's
but the one I'd like the most is this clunky red 'Hotline' handset by Marx from 1966!
What a Gotham beauty!
It looks huge, like an army field phone, but it isn't. Its quite small as I've discovered from pics on the net. Nevertheless it actually talks and it has ten different sayings you can hear!
Moonbase Junior wants to hear that batphone talk!
Which Batphone would you choose readers?
I like the REMCO rotary versions
ReplyDeleteThey pretty darn cool Ed I agree. We had some toy rotary phones rigged up when I was a kid, upstairs to downstairs! Mum could phone me and tell me tea was ready!
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