The Batmobile takes centerstage in an all-new clip from Batman: The Long Halloween, Part One. Produced by Warner Bros. Animation and DC , the feature-length animated film will be distributed by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment on Digital and Blu-ray on June 22. Batman (voiced by Jensen Ackles) speeds the Batmobile through the streets of Gotham City in…
Toy Fair, the Toy Industry Association’s annual convention, has been held for years in New York City and offers purchasing agents from different retailers the opportunity to preview toys from different manufacturers. Retail buyers evaluate toys, games and “youth entertainment products” and place orders with their manufacturers for upcoming selling seasons. Having their orders in…
With Batman: The Complete Series now out and earning superlative reviews and blockbuster sales, the Warner Home Entertainment marketing machine is keeping things revved up with an array of video clips to whet the appetites of those who have yet to succumb to temptation. Pop Culture Batmobile https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt8wmRrSH10 Celebrity Villains Cesar Romero
Where does he get those wonderful toys? the Joker wonders in the 1989 Batman and it’s a pretty good question. Where did the Batplane come from and how does it happened to be equipped with exactly the hardware Batman needs to thwart the Joker’s mass homicide? And that line-shooting gadget Batman totes: a device that…
OK, honest confession time. The geek blogger extraordinaire for Chicago’s newspaper Red Eye, Elliot Serrano, posted on his Facebook page that there were three things he knew to be facts: Schroedinger’s cat was dead. There’s no air-holes in the box. Superman never kills. For any reason. The End. Batman would lose in a fight to…
A week ago today, Unshaven Comics popped our 2013 con cherry with a bang right in our own backyard. OK, not literally our backyard, but certainly close enough given how far we’ll end up traveling this year in the name of indie comics. Our first con? A return trip to Orland Park (a way-south suburb…
So, fanboy, you think you’ve got a cool mancave? According to the Greenwich Connecticut Time, a local resident in the mega-wealthy community is spending two million dollars to build himself a home theater. Yeah, I know. Big deal. Well… this home theater is built in the form of the Batcave. Or, given the multitude of…
In the movies, Batman fights crime with a collection of, to quote Jack Nicholson, wonderful toys. Hisham Awad, project leader of defense company BAE System’s future protected vehicles group, liked some of those ideas so much he used them to build an assault vehicle: While Awad was showing one of his team’s concept vehicles, the…
Do you know what $150,000 can get you? It can get you your very own Batmobile. One you can actually drive. No kidding. DC Entertainment has licensed a company to produce functioning life-sized Batmobiles. And not just any Batmobile, but the really cool one: the one from the 1966 teevee series. They build them from…
Yesterday’s news about the latest viral marketing campaign for The Dark Knight had fans running to mysterious locations. For what? Money? A party? Adam West trying to fit in the Batsuit? We guessed it had something to do with bowling from the clues in the message, and it turns out we were right. We should get a…
First, it was stately Wayne Manor, as seen in Batman Begins. Now it’s the Gotham National Bank, to be seen in the forthcoming sequel, The Dark Knight. According to The Chicago Tribune, the city’s former main post office – a 17-story building with an Interstate expressway running right through it – reported a roof fire…
