Here is a snapshot of a Custom Batmobile used for a kid's ride in Rouen, France ( near Paris ) that our good friend Stephane saw last weekend. OK, first of all I am so jealous she is in France, ha ha! I've always loved that part of the globe & I will visit there someday. Second, thank you Stephane for sending this wonderful photo...it's the French Batmobile, how cool!! You must have freaked out when you saw it & I appreciate that you thought of the Bat-Blog.
I was pleasantly surprised to find this very wonderful vintage family photo in my e-mail last night. It's from a reader in Brazil named Alexandre. He wrote, "I'm a reader of the Bat Blog and I noticed that you post pictures of your readers dressed as Batman. I was looking at some old pictures and I found this one in which I am dressed as Batboy. That has a history. I live in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and we have an annual festival called "Carnival" (in Portuguese, "Carnaval"), held 4 days before Ash Wednesday, in which people use costumes just like Halloween in USA. For that year Carnival (in 1982. I was just about to be 5 years old) I asked my grandmother to make me a Batboy costume, so that I could fight crime along with Batman and Robin. So she came up with this fantastic costume, inspired in the Bat suit, but with more childish features. I think it's funny that she make a mask so similar to Nightwing's 2 years before George Pérez invented it. I hope I could contribute to your Blog." Yes, thank you Alexandre. This is an awesome contribution!! I seriously love old photos like this. Your Grandmother did a wonderful job on this costume. Ones made at home are always better then store-bought ones because of all the love that goes into it. She made what could easily be an art masterpiece. Thank you very much for sharing this personal photo & story, I appreciate that. I want to invite ALL Bat-Blog Readers to do the same!!
While surfing thru Flickr, viewing random Batman-related photos, I came across this one taken by none other than Wil Wheaton! He went to some carnival in, I think, Los Angeles & shot this funny picture. These Batman plushes were prizes at some outdoor carnival game. Wil played "Wesley Crusher" on Star Trek: The Next Generation ( love that show ). He was recently a guest actor on Numbers & played a "Comic Book Dealer Jerk", that was funny! It was on the other night, one of my favorite shows. Wil also writes a very famous blog & writes books. I'm showing one of his book covers here so you can visualize who I'm talkin' about ( The Batman picture is NOT in the book ). He doesn't know I'm writing this so I hope it's ok to use his photo, it said it was "public". I have a friend who's an autograph collector & he said he met him a few years ago. He said he was a really nice guy, very "down-to-earth", that's cool. Mainly I just thought the Batman Dolls photo was humorous.
