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If
you haven't seen the "true" version
of Batboy: Return of the Joker, you don't know what your missing.
God is in the details my friends, and Warner Bros. attempted to
kill God by removing these great details. Some of those details
include the whooping Bats takes at the hands of the Joker. At one
point, he gets knifed across the chest, stabbed in the leg and
blood trickles from his mouth.
For the most part, this is a repaint of one of many versions of
the posed Bats figure, now having been released by Hasbro numerous
times. The tear along his chest is a piece of styrene. (For the
record, this tear and the blood along it do appear in the "real" version
of the film for a few frames. However, a few seconds later the
tear seems to have miraculously mended itself.) The knife in the
leg is a small piece of metal dowel rod with a Kneadatite handle.
I drilled a small hole in Bat's leg, thus allowing the knife to
be removable.
I swapped out the standard Bats head with the head from a "Jungle
Tracker Batman," as this was the only new school bats head
sculpt I knew of that featured an open mouth. (Again, thanks to
Yer Pal Boneyard for the help!) Using this sculpt made the trickling
blood appear to make sense.
A nice paint job and Detective Bats cape and Flashback Bats is
ready to uh, er, fight back.
Casimir
Summer 2001
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