Ed's 2010 Batman 5-Pack

 Woodsy, 

As a follow-on to Paul Adam's 2026 Mattel Batman vehicle 5-pack post, here's my only set. It was a 2010 issue that I bought perhaps ten years ago.

From The Vegas Batcave

Ed

The Noir Knight

https://youtube.com/shorts/GOqpdtN8dSM?si=k_TRIg7BBswFjLCp  

hi woodsy check out this Batman film Noir short i created with some black and white photos i took recently,  somehow the ai took it upon its self to add dialogue 😀  who knew 😀 

Have a great Christmas 

MJSCB 

MJ's Batmas

hi Woodsy, the holidays are coming,  the holidays are coming..

https://youtube.com/shorts/HE9FKyAC6_E?si=Nxns6R9ts7A5IX0N  

Marky Bats

Southcoast Base

Let's go to war.....

http://youtube.com/post/UgkxyVBoRbY9_CaJ_PkGNJLQpNuyYTSJJxKu?si=BFGqHmYfWxlR__ZG 

In the pipe 5x5!

MJ

Terranova47's Attic Finds 2

DC Comics; STAR TREK NEXT GENERATION (F)

DC Comics; STAR TREK (G)

CLASSICS Illustrated; THE RAVEN (H)

BATMAN (I & J )

Batman V. Alien!

https://youtube.com/shorts/KfE_9VFvD9I?si=LJaID2KZ89rdmMMu 

check this out!!!

MJ

Marx Batman: the Wet Knight

 

(Image: AJ, Facebook)

I've been interested in Batman collectables my whole adult life and a few have always remained a mystery.

The Marx Batman carded figure is such a one, an unusual set.

First up, the bat mask looks more like a salad bowl than his classic cowl. I guess the shape is to fit the swimming goggles over his face.

But then, yes, there's the whole underwater theme, what with those air tanks, which look like something from another set. Batman wasn't well known for his swimming, so it's an odd theme for a toy contemporary with the Adam West TV series.

Did Marx rush to get this out?

Anyone got one?

Knock it Off Batman!

hi Woodsy

check out this short of a CT Toys Batman. This figure is a knock off, I know everyone loves a knock off on this blog 😀

https://youtube.com/shorts/lhqBdtbz-BE?si=Bisp7krfz6GH8qTi

What do you think?

Regards MJ

Knock off Base!!

The Brave and the Bold

 This old Batman figure line is not one I know really, the Brave and the Bold. It's even more stylised than Batman Animated, which I adored, both cartoon and the figures.

Here we have the big Batmanesque Rubberneck and Kanjar Ro.

Excuse my grainy pics.

There are neat plugs on the back of Rubberneck which allow Kanjar Ro to be slotted on. This may apply to all the figures.

All in all I like the design and look of these figures. 

Do you?

PS.

Here's the TV ad for the Rubberneck figure, which came with Batman and Plastic Man.

https://youtu.be/Y8lYmxWlplg?si=E-LhGj2A1GsZz_2s

Marky Bats' Robin

https://youtube.com/shorts/H775PSCldWc?si=_TlfJ_2nkSVqCUdF

Hi Woodsy

Every Batman needs a Robin, well almost...

Again with a traditional custom paint finish on this, a background generated by youtube and an AI flourish to finish,

I hope you all enjoy this.

Regards MJ

Southcoast Base

MJ's AI action figure Creations

Hi Woodsy,

Here's a couple more links to shorts I've made.

Would the readers consider using these AI apps for their model work?

Regards

MJ

Southcoast Base

http://youtube.com/post/Ugkx6ApbGA70CvLKNnpiEsOE8yeRgOMS1rKH?si=_J8_4DEw7grB6LmA

http://youtube.com/post/UgkxFiY4iZEZPfB0lbPWvgbIwnjxv_Oq8HPS?si=mbdrT3mtSbwxzsHn

Batman Beyond Custom Figure Doodle

Hi Woodsy, 

 many many thanks for posting my work on MB central.

Here's a little doodle as such using an AI app. Maybe readers would like to try it for the models they make?

Regards

 MJ

South Coast Base

http://youtube.com/post/UgkxnPKwK1qrL7fFgWZxblCkv4Gd4ghpLLXX?si=anEvueRjZJh7U2cl

Josman Space Suit

 

I saw this fab kids costume on Todocollecion. It looks so damn good in that big window box. 

Made by Josman, I reckon it's from a TV show, but it's not one I know. You?

As an aside, I once found a Josman Batman set at the local Co-op in the 1990's. It was the best Batman Animated mask, armour and weapon set I'd ever seen.

Brian's Tudor Rose Men in Space

Woodsy

Here's another unusual Tudor Rose space toy: Men in Space Flying Platform. 

It's one of those spinner launcher toys, but it has a delightful twist: two small hard plastic Tudor Rose figures standing inside a basket affair.

 I think the Americans first came up with the idea - you can see spacemen attached to spinners on a couple of early space guns. 

If my childhood experience is anything to go by, the spinner would have lasted just a couple of hours before it landed on a neighbour's roof.

There's a Batman version of this toy that goes for silly money.

Cheers

Brian H

From MJ, Birthday Boy!

Hi Woodsy

a cheeky little birthday share....

MJ

http://youtube.com/post/UgkxY9I056vgFukH2WJHZFjcvu9rc-llOgaN?si=C6a3r65OKDagh-Q3

Gone for a Burton: Batman Forever

Having watched the first two Tim Burton Batman movies again, on DVD, I've been basking in late 80's - early 90's bat-glow.

And then I watched Batman Forever. Oh dear! 

I can't believe it's a Tim Burton movie too! What was he thinking? Somewhere between Returns and Forever Tim lost his Mojo. Maybe he just ran out of steam and not having Keaton carrying on must have been a blow.

There was no subtle beginning, no introduction, just a messy, loud string if explosions and chases with Two Face chuckling throughout. There appeared to be no story until Wayne met Nigma.

I just feel the casting was all wrong. Val Kilmer is just too darn good looking for his own good and never seems to get riled. Chris's Robin is just too annoying to even write much about. And Nicole Kidman as Meridian Chase just didn't do it, her performance was neither here nor there.

But I've saved the worst till last: Two Face.

 Tommy Lee Jones was not the actor for Harvey Dent's bifurcated character. It was wishy washy at best and the make-up and clothing looked daft. I can't think of a single memorable line they gave poor Tommy to say.

Jim Carey did OK as the Riddler, a sort of Mask dry-run, but being a funny guy he was well, funny. Too much funny ruins Batman for me I'm afraid. 

Michael Gough's Alfred kept things on the straight and narrow when he could, but overall the complete carnage and cacophony around him was all we could hear.

The whole film was a bit of a mess but I'm glad I've seen it again.

Have you seen it?

Next up, George Clooney's Batman and Robin!

Keaton's Batman: it's Gothic Best

 With streaming a dear do and nearly everything I want to watch on NOW, which we don't have or needing to be rented on Prime or Netflix, despite paying for them already, I've bought my first DVDs in years.

Second hand in a charity shop, £2 for a boxed set of the initial four Batman films 1989 to 1997. Basically, Keaton to Clooney.

Having watched the Bale era trilogy, Nolans Dark Knight saga, last month, I've gone back to the beginning,nowhere the bat first flew again on the big screen.

Tim Burton's late-1980's Batman was an important moment for me, a knight of passage. I was 28, a young Dad, in very reflective mood and all the childhood nostalgia I held was welling up inside me and seeking some outlet.

Batman provided it.

This one film gave a name to my new obsession: 

toys!

The shops were full of Keaton's gadgets and gizmos. The plastic batarang, the grapple hook, the batmobile. It was the Sixtie's Adam West all over again, only better!

I wuz amazed and slowly began to remember all the toys I'd had as a kid. It was a revelation and the springboard to a lifetime of collecting, selling, reading about and ultimately blogging madly over ..., toys!

I re-watched Batman last night. 

Me, Michael, Jack and Kim.

It's simply divine film-making, Burton's gothic milestone, which will never be beaten. 

So, as the leaves fly as the Batcar zooms by, next up is .... Returns!

Did you like the 1989 Batman movie?

Now That's a Big Batmobile

 I saw this massive plastic Jada Batmobile in a charity shop. The 12 inch figure was sat at the wheel, so you can imagine how big it is.

I was sorely tempted at £3.50. this thing is even bigger than the fabulously big Mego batmobile.

I resisted ,(the one pictured is on eBay) but was reminded of the film The Batman, which I've begun watching for the second time.

It's a tough watch, simply because it's 3 hours long and filmed largely at night-time.

I'm plodding through. Two hours to go! 

 It doesn't help that the new Batman has a non-descript face under the mask and looks like a depressed teenager without it, floppy dark hair and all. It's hardly Affleck and miles off Keaton.

The whole hard-boiled noirness has gone into overdrive and everyone is subsumed into a Nirvana-hooked darkness, literally. Characters are blurry shadows in an endless wet night. No-one stands out, not the Penguin, Catwoman or Gordon. Not even the Riddler, all drowning in spilled ink.

Maybe it's just me. After all this flick reached the Oscars and promises a whole new Bat franchise, the Penguin riffing in his own series already and The Batman 2 coming out in 2027.

I dunno. It's just not DC. Maybe it's too DC. Come back Tim Burton, Gotham needs you!

What do you think readers?

I've gone to bed.

There's No Escape Batman!

 Tracking down clones or origins of Sixties TV character toy guns is fun.

Here's another.

Lincoln's cool Batman Escape Gun.

And here are it's clones or maybe origins.

Do you have any of these? 

Larami Space Shooter. Presumably a later clone.

Unbranded Satellite and Rocket Pistol. Could these be older than Lincoln's gun?

Images: courtesy of Ebay

SHEFFIELD CITY SHUFFLE

 Tother week the Missus and me had a day in the South Yorkshire city of Sheffield, known locally as Steel City and the home of the Master Cutler.

A beautiful place full of grand architecture and independent shops. Its gothic splendour is very atmospheric at night.

Alas, I shuffled round Sheffield with a limp on account of a terrible corn, which I'm please to say a wonderful podiatrist cut off today!

In daylight I spotted this fenced off pile, which screamed Hammer Horror to me! I could easily see Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee battling with stakes and crosses between the pillars!

Not sure what the building is.

It does remind me of the creepy mausoleum on the cover of Judas Priest's brilliant Sin after Sin LP!

In one of the many bigger shops I clocked this Batman Detective boxed Kit. I would have adored this as a kid. About 20 years ago I might have bought it as part of a growing Batman armoury collection I had but its since all been sold. Shame.

Do you like the look of this kit?

Its based on the latest BATMAN film post-Affleck, which alas, I've already forgotten. Come back Ben!

As part of my comics and radio rings research last month I spotted these in a small knick-knacks store, modern costume rings that were deadringers for Captain Planet rings!

In a cosplay shop I saw this Roam Sword, again a thing I would have loved as a nipper. I had a few plastic swords but I don't think I had a roman one. is is called a a Gladius or Clavius or similar?

Last but not least were these two old Barbie cars. Quite big to fit Babs, i think they're Golfs or Polo's.

I've never seen them before.

You?