Batman the Animated series stuff (pics added)

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signed by mark hammil...it has a replica storyboard and transfered cel onto cardboard like thingys..batman and joker pop out from the storyboard..kinda hard to see...only pic i had available

it was one of the first prototypes made......
 
B:TAS(along with Superman, the Animated Series) was a great cartoon, dark but not too dark for a lot of kids to enjoy. It was on when I was in high school, and I was unashamed to admit hurrying home to see it. The Bruce Timm versions of the characters are nice adaptations and I think they introduced a whole new generation to the DCU. The comics they did based on the series were pretty good too.
I'd love to see more props based on the Timm art. I've been reading a how-to book on ventriloquist puppets in preparation for my next project, and Mr. Scarface is on the short list. I just need to decide how big his head and body should be. There have been multiple versions, but I think I'm going with the earlier one that was on the show. He was destroyed or something for a while, and when they brought him back, I didn't like the way he was drawn quite as much. That might have been when they changed from B:TAS to Batman:New Animated Adventures, or whatever they called the later series.
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That Harley/Ivy statue is based off of an old Bruce Timm color drawing. I don't know if it was marker/watercolor or combo with pencil. Probably all three.

Harley reposing in vegetation (grass and flowers) is a DC Direct statue (again) based off of a Bruce Timm drawing. It's the closest we'll probably ever get to an official Poison Ivy maq. Sorry, but for many of the female characters and supporting male characters you have to commission an artist to sculpt a statue based off of Timm drawings or official series turnaround model sheets OR make them yourself if you're a competent sculptor and painter.

I'd say you'd be lucky if you can pay just $500 to get a really good artist to make an accurate maq for you. It's a one-off job for them and most of them will NOT make molds or produce more than 9-12 statues of a single character because of legal liability. They'd get their pants sued off if WB/DC caught them doing a mass run of these characters.
 
I loved the animated series. Always preferred the the original look to the newer movie versions of the costume.

I'd love to see someone do a retro Batman movie set in the 40s-50s.

My wife got me this years ago at City walk at Universal. Lights up. Big model. I hard wired it to be on all the time and he watches over me and has 17 years or more.

Steve
 
I have two of those figures I've always wanted to repaint it somwhat but it amazed me that was made as a toy. It's such a nice figure from the BTAS series. very cool!
 
SteveNeill said:
I loved the animated series. Always preferred the the original look to the newer movie versions of the costume.

I'd love to see someone do a retro Batman movie set in the 40s-50s.
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Steve
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The Batman animated design used in the 1992-1995 and the movies Mask of the Phantasm and Sub-Zero is probably my favorite Timm design. While I honestly am okay either the big black bat emblem or the smaller yellow oval emblem with the bat in it I was never fond of the black and grey OR fully-black costumes. I prefer a costume with dark blue/navy blue and grey. Never cared for those true blue and grey costumes, either.

I guess the closest to perfect depiction of the animated Batman was the very last maquette sold at the WB Studio Stores before they closed. That's the maquette with Batman's right arm raised to fire his grappling hook gun.

I have a strong feeling that the closest we'll see to a 1940s/1950s Batman movie or animated shorts is the animated TV series Batman: The Brave and the Bold. The design of Batman in that series is influenced by the Dick Sprang and Sheldon Moldoff Batman design used between 1944 and 1964 in the Batman comics. (Note that Batman in The Brave and The Bold series has the yellow oval emblem on his chest. The Golden Age designs used the big black bat emblem. Batman wasn't drawn with the yellow oval emblem until 1964. After 1964, the yellow oval was used as a point of identification between the "modern Earth Batman" and the "Golden Age Earth Batman" in DC Comics continuity.) They've also used the classic Golden Age Robin designs for flashback segments during the series. As much as I'd like to see full-animation theatrical shorts with the Golden Age Batman I just don't think it's going to happen any time soon. The Brave and The Bold is a nice substitute for a theatrical Golden Age Batman, though!
 
SteveNeill said:
I loved the animated series. Always preferred the the original look to the newer movie versions of the costume.

I'd love to see someone do a retro Batman movie set in the 40s-50s.

My wife got me this years ago at City walk at Universal. Lights up. Big model. I hard wired it to be on all the time and he watches over me and has 17 years or more.

Steve
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Very nice figure! I also love the BTAS.
 
I used to LOVE that show..I still have about 3 boxes full of the action figures I've been meaning to get rid of..
 
Batman: TAS probably still is my all-time favorite action/adventure animated series. It might be my favorite action/adventure series in ANY genre/medium, period!

Before this show aired in 1992, action/adventure -- especially superhero shows -- just weren't that intelligently written let alone designed well in most cases! They were awful because of preconceived notions about what kids could tolerate and the condescending views of the population at large towards comic book characters. In a word, pre-1992, animated superhero shows were mostly geared (it seems) towards retarded audiences! It was that bad...

Post-1992, we have much better-written animated adventure series as well as shows with distinctive art styles instead of the cookie-cutter stuff that had been going on since the 1960s.

Now, I'm a bigger fan of the '92-'95 Batman AND Mask of the Phantasm than the Batman that followed it. (I just don't like the 1997-1999 character re-designs much and the writing wasn't as consistent as the earlier series. Some good episodes, there, yes, but a few stinkers, too!) It really was a Golden Age for Batman in general and I like this version of the character far better than any of the live-action stuff since 1989 and far more than what's been in the comics (excepting the animated spin-offs!) since 1986.

As I said before and promised another guy in a PM, I will try to put up thumbnail links of the statues that I own now. I have all the official maquettes based on the Timm-designed series = Batman: TAS, Superman: TAS, Justice League/Unlimited. I also have the Fleischer Superman and Lois Lane that were released a few years ago, too..

As much as I liked Superman: TAS (1996), it still doesn't hold a candle animation-wise to the fantastically done Fleischer theatrical Superman series of the early 1940s. Media companies just don't want to put that kind of money into a superhero animated project which is why most production work is outsourced overseas... mainly with Korean animation studios now. Japanese studios were used for some episodes and a few of the movies in the 1990s but I haven't noticed that much Japanese work since then.
 
agliarept said:
completely forgot to post this as well. From one of my favorite episode in Batman animated history. "Beware the Gray Ghost".

I have to set this up with my signed Adam West GG picture and my custom Gray Ghost poster. here's a pic.

http://i55.tinypic.com/4g5kb5.jpg


a recreated a fictional poster seen briefly in the episode that Batman had in his collection room. Here it is linked from deviant account.

http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs50/i/2011/012/8/9/the_grey_ghost___batman_anim_by_agliarept-d2eppnx.jpg
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How did you get the poster without the watermark? Did you buy it somewhere?
 
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