Question About The Batman Comman Console Commercial

[Wee67]

I'm talking about the one where "Batman" contacts "Robin" abou the papers being ready. Robin, the son, then delivers the newspaper to his dad/Batman. The one I've seen has the dad wering a yellow turtleneck and the kid entering the room and running past a large chest of drawers.

Well, I finally transferred a few Mego film reels over to DVD, including that commercial. However, in this one there is a different kid, dad and room. Dad has a mustache and the kid runs by a shelving unit. The script, however, is exactly the same.

Did Mego shoot the same commercials more than once with different actors? Are there other known examples of Mego doing this?

I have seen the practice today if a comapny feels an ad is successful. They just update the look and actors, but keep the script. It usually only happens, however, if the ad runs for longer period of time- something I do not think happened with this item.

[palitoy]

It could that the common one was done specifically for toyfair and runs longer too. Mego made a lot of stuff just for toyfair and would later recut or reshoot the commercial later.

The first "Mego Commercials" DVD and tapes floating around were all done by the Kotzer family, owners of Parkdale Novelty. They had a mix of TV spots and Toyfair stuff, so what we have didn't neccesarily ever see airtime. Sometimes the edits from TV spots are subtle, other times very noticable.

What I'd like to find is the Toyfair spot Neal Kublan mentioned featuring Adam West and Linda Carter in costume.

[Wee67]

They are both the same lentgh and follow each other pretty much shot-for-shot. I wonder if the one I have is an earlier version. I can't tell if its lit poorly or justy that the film has degraded.