THE DARK KNIGHT RISES - Chrysler IMPORTED FROM GOTHAM CITY Batman Movie Contest!

Warner Bros. and Chrysler are teaming up for a very cool The Dark Knight Rises contest! In fact, just this afternoon we received these Exclusive "Top Secret" Photos revealing what the special Chrysler 300 S Car they created for this film promo is gonna look like. OK, they are more like "Teaser Photos", but you get the idea, ha! Also, please be sure to stay tuned to the Bat-Blog.Com because as we will get more pics ( and hopefully some video ) you'll get to see those too. In the mean time, here's their Official Press Release:

The
Dark Knight Rises and Chrysler are teaming up to bring you the
opportunity of a lifetime. Create a TV spot featuring these two iconic
brands and enter for a chance to win a trip to Hollywood to produce your
spot alongside a professional editor before traveling to NYC to attend
the red carpet premiere. And if the stakes weren’t high enough already,
director Christopher Nolan will be personally selecting the winning
entry, which may air on national TV.

Oh Yeah, Also be sure to visit the Official IMPORTED FROM GOTHAM CITY Website on June 15th, 2012 for more details. Hey, as of this writing, that's tomorrow! They will also have Special Graphics, Video Clips, Music, etc... that YOU can use to create YOUR very own Bat-Video!

THE TUMBLER TOUR! See The Original DARK KNIGHT RISES Movie Batmobile Prop Car in Your Town!

Hey Bat-Fans, Warner Bros is doing something really cool for THE DARK KNIGHT RISES Movie. They're sending the Original TUMBLER BATMOBILE Film Prop-Car out on tour! Yes, they're calling it THE TUMBLER TOUR!! In fact, the event starts today, May 12th, in Bentonville, Arkansas! Yes, this is the first stop on the Tumbler Tour! Go to the Wal-Mart on Walton Blvd from 10AM - 3PM to
see the Dark Knight’s Vehicle up close & personal! 

Now, Here's a List of other Cities and Dates:

5/12 Bentonville, AR

5/15 Tulsa, OK

5/19 Overland Park, KS

5/21 Kansas City,  MO

5/23 St. Louis, MO

5/25 Chicago, IL

5/27 Washington, DC

5/28 Baltimore, MD

5/30 Philadelphia, PA

6/1 Buffalo, NY

6/7 Toronto, Canada

6/10 Montreal, Canada

6/12 Purchase, NY

6/13 Columbus, OH

6/15 Lansing, MI

6/16 Detroit, MI

6/17 Brooklyn, MI

6/19 Indianapolis, IN

6/21 Nashville, TN

6/22 Knoxville, TN

6/23 Atlanta, GA

6/25 Dallas, TX

6/27 San Antonio, TX

6/29 El Paso, TX

7/1 Albuquerque, NM

7/2 Phoenix, AZ

7/7 Los Angeles, CA

BATMAN ALWAYS WINS!

This post is a quick shout-out to our good buddy Louie who recently entered his 1966 Batmobile Replica Car and won the "BEST OF SHOW" Award at the Cranford, NJ Street Fair Car Show. Louie is the guy on the right, holding the Trophy. Congrats Dude!!

WHEELS AND WISHES 2012 FUNDRAISER - New Jersey Batmobiles!

Last weekend, well, Friday and Saturday to be exact, the MAKE-A-WISH Foundation of New Jersey held a Charity Event called "WHEELS AND WISHES 2012". It was held at the Wesfield Armory in Westfield, NJ. Basically, it's a huge Charity Dinner, Car Show and Auto Auction to help raise money for this great organization. Seriously, they do wonderful work! Now the cool news, and a story we're pretty proud about here at the BAT-BLOG, our Friends BatDave, Louie, and Detective Genaro Ortiz were there for support. 

Genaro is the grim Essex County Dark Knight who recently marked 20 years of suiting up as The Batman, trying to keep inner city children keep away from gangs and off of drugs. He brought his Customized Batman-Themed Car to the event ( 1st and 2nd photos ). Then, long time Readers of the Bat-Blog will know our Good Buddy Louie! This Guy has a sweet 1966 Batmobile Replica that he carts around to various Charity Events. He's a Batman Fan who has done a lot of positive work for his community. BatDave was there to lend support and help with set-up. Plus, he got us these great pics, ha!



Yes, The "BAT-CARS" were there and both Children and Adults alike just went completely wacko-crazy when they saw "The Batmobiles"! Check out that photo of the Father and Son getting to see Batman's Car in real-life, that's GREAT!

ALSO: This fundraiser marked the debut of Louie's sweet MOBILE CRIME COMPUTER!! "Gotham City Supercars Club" Genius, John Brown, built this from scratch. It was totally inspired by designs from the 1960's TV show. The details are insane and it's just a really fun item.

So, to wrap things up, the show went well and we also wanna thank the "Batmobile Guys" for lending their support to this great event. Now, for any Bat-Blog Fans out there who would love to donate some money to the MAKE-A-WISH Foundation, here's a LINK! Please give anything you can, every dollar helps and this is a great charity that does good work.

MESSERSCHMITT BATMOBILE - Custom Batman Car

OK, This car is both completely AWESOME & totally CRAZY! Of course, I mean "crazy" in a good way! Oh man, it's so cool!! This is a fully-customized MESSERSCHMITT Automobile made to look like a Batman Car! The custom work & paint job is beautiful. The appraised value of this car is only $75,000 which I think is way too low, it should be more in the 2-3 million range, ha! Please check out all the photos, you'll be drooling for days. Plus, if you would like to see this "Piece of ART" in real-life all ya gotta do is visit the Dezer Collection Museum in North Miami, Florida. For more pics & further info, click
HERE!

Custom 1966 TV Batmobile Spotted at NJ Car Show!

Here's a cool newspaper clipping sent in by our friend BatDave. It appeared last week in The SandPaper, a very popular weekly publication that highlights various South Jersey Beach communities. Basically it's about a Car Show that went on in NJ. Once again, a personally customized-replica 1966 Batman TV Batmobile steals the show, this time at a local scholarship fundraiser in Manahawkin, NJ!! I think the girl that wrote this article did a fantastic job. Very insightful bat-observations and you can tell she really did her research!! Be sure to click on it for a large "readable" version. ( Thanks BatDave )

Batmobilly's VINTAGE BATMAN POSTER Collection

I woke-up this morning to some very cool Batman pictures in my email box, that's always awesome! They were sent in by a Good Bat-Blog Citizen named Batmobilly. He shot some pictures of a few posters he has had professionally framed & they look really GREAT! ( Be sure to click on them for larger examples, they're really cool close-up ). The 1st one is a poster from Eskimo Pie & Welch's Fruit Pops when they had a tie-in promotion with "The Adventures of Batman & Robin" TV cartoon back in 1996. If you remember, you could get some trading cards on the back of the box & there were 12 different ones to collect. This poster was a mail-away item. I totally love the graphics on here because that TV series was so wonderful. The next poster advertises a Hot Rod Car Show event they had in Boston called "The World of Wheels". It's from 1993 & features a bold picture of the Batman movie Batmobile car! That would have been pretty cool to go to. Now, here's a unique piece of Bat-History, this poster was once accidentally shown on the "Home Improvement" TV Show. It happened when Tim Allen's character, while on a road trip, stops at a convenience store to ask for directions. The episode was called "You're Driving Me Crazy, You're Driving Me Nuts". Now, check out the last poster here. It's a comic book-style image of the 1966 Batman TV Show when they're firing-up the Batmobile. You know the scene, "Atomic batteries to power, turbines to speed. OK, ready to move out!". Wow! I wanna thank Batmobilly for taking the time to shoot these incredible photos. I gotta admit that I have never seen the last 2 posters here. But, sharing the love of collecting cool Batman stuff is really the main focus of the Bat-Blog!

George Barris Kustom 2010 Chevrolet Camaro "Spirit" to Premiere This Saturday

This weekend will mark the historical delivery of the first Barris Kustom 2010 Chevrolet Camaro "Spirit" to a Chevrolet dealership in the USA. This long awaited American automobile industry event will be held Saturday, April 10th, at Community Chevrolet in Burbank, California. George Barris, "King of the Auto Kustomizers" and American icon, will drive the 1st car into the dealership himself immediately following the 2010 Annual Burbank on Parade. George Barris and the new Barris Camaro "Spirit" are a major feature in this year's parade. Along with other unique kustom cars, the famed Barris 1966 BATMAN TV Show Batmobile will also be on display. Yeah, you read that right! If you go to this event you can see one of the original '66 Batmobiles in person! ( Now, something to keep in mind is that George Barris will ONLY be available for autographs between 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm ). Awesome! So, if any Bat-Blog Readers go to this thing then please send us some pictures!!

SMART BAT: Custom 1966 Batmobile Eco-Car

Awhile back, here at the Bat-Blog, we featured a humor photo of this funny "1966 Batmobile-Inspired" Smart Car. It's totally customized to look like the 1966 Batmobile originally designed by George Barris for the 60's Batman TV Show. Well, our good friend Mike sent us some amazing pics of this crazy thing! The car was recently shown at a Car Show & with these photos we get many more angles of this masterpiece of ART! Oh yeah, I guess I gotta say that I totally love that Catwoman Model, MEOW! Thanks Mike for sending the great pics, YOU ROCK!!

Batjoe & Kids Visit The Original 1966 Batman TV Batmobile Car!

Yesterday, a very good friend to the Bat-Blog named "BatJoe", got to see the original 1966 Batman Batmobile Car with his kids at a "Cruising The Drag" Annual Car Show in Great Falls, Montana! The 2 pieces of photographic proof show "BatJoe" with his kids next to the car & another one where he is IN the car! Now, I know from personal experience that once you sit in an original Batmobile that you never NEVER want to get out! He said that when the kids saw the car they totally freaked out, ha ha! That's awesome!! I would have loved to have seen the expression on their faces. I bet their eyes popped outta their heads, ha ha! It sounds like everyone had a great time. Thank you very much BatJoe for allowing us to share these pics, they're very very cool. As always, I gotta remind readers that if they have any fun "Batman Experience" photos to share then please do! Our wacky e-mail button is always on the top right-hand side of this page, thanks!

Original 1966 TV Batmobile To Be Featured at CELEBRATION Exotic Car Festival in Florida, April 16th - 19th, 2009

This weekend, actually April 16th through the 19th, 2009 ( Thurs - Sunday ), the CELEBRATION EXOTIC CAR FESTIVAL will be happening in Sebring, Florida. One of the main stars of the event will be George Barris & his amazing custom cars he has made for both movies & television. The original 1966 Batman TV Show Batmobile will be there plus the Monkee Mobile ( The Monkees ), The Munster Mobile ( The Munsters ), The Countach from the Cannonball Run movie, The DeLorean from Back To The Future, "KITT" Car from Knight Rider, the Original Star Wars Landspeeder, plus many many more! OK, I mean, there will be tons of other race cars, vintage classic, wacky customs, etc....way too many to show or list here, ha ha! It looks like a pretty cool event & how often do you get to see a real-life Batmobile! For more convention information be sure to visit their website ( click on their name up above ).

The 1966 TV Show Batmobile Spotted in Germany Circa 1990!

Our friend Guenter, who lives in Germany, recently sent us these photos he took at an outdoor event in 1990. The cute kid is his son who, at the time of the photo, was 5 years old. His name is Meik & it must have been a great experience for him to see the real 1966 Batmobile! In fact, in the last photo, it looks like he's trying to steal it, ha ha! I don't know why, but I love it when people share their personal photos & stories. It really puts a human touch on the whole "Batman Fan" thing. Guenter, Thanks for sending the wonderful photos, I appreciate that. They're great! Readers, be sure to click the above photos for a larger, more detailed, version. Also, be sure to send us some of your favorite pics! The e-mail button is always on the top right-hand side of this blog.