OK, so right now the box office is aflame with Avengers hype, but Warner Brothers would very much like superhero fans to realise that it’s got a little movie coming out in a month or two as well.
Super Heroes and Musicals don’t typically go very well together — just look at Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark for the classic example. This fan produced Batman… sorry, for the sake of legality, B@man musical isn’t the worst thing I’ve ever seen on a stage.
Most of our childhoods were spent alternatingly dressing up like superheroes and playing with action figures in their likeness. Now you can combine the two by actually getting your own head on the body of your favourite superhero, like Batman or Superman, on one of these custom action figures.
Even the Tim Burton-era Batman films look a little campy compared to Christopher Nolan’s take on the Dark Knight. But it’s hard to argue that the Batmobile driven by Michael Keaton wasn’t iconic, which makes this incredibly detailed model hard to pass up.
Batman has always marched to the beat of his own drum, but as Superman points out, it might be time for him to trade in his home grown bat-gear for something a little more off-the-shelf.
Many years ago Saturday Night Live created a commercial for the fictional toy line available for the Tom Hanks’ film Philadelphia. It was of course completely inappropriate for the tone of the film, just like this Dark Knight-themed Potato Head.
They’ve been around for at least a year now, and all my research points to obscuring your brake lights as being very illegal. But I don’t care. This is the closest my hatchback will ever get to being the batmobile.
Holy bootleg spoiler alert Batman. We’ve seen the official teaser, now here’s the official full-length TDKR trailer. Yes it’s bad ass. And yes it’s our best look yet this side of the 5-minute prologue I’m hearing is shown before Mission Impossible 4 on IMAX.
I’d imagine this is the sort of thing the Dark Knight would use as a last resort. If the Batmobile, Batwing and even Batpod were all out of commission, he’d still be able to run down baddies at 20 MPH using this gas-powered motorboard.
