Holy Tooth Decay Batman!

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I'm abundantly aware of how hacky and shameful that blog title is but it's unavoidable, I assure you. As much as I begged for a Batman and Steve Austin electric toothbrush as a child (because commercials told me I needed one) it was the one luxury my parents refused to provide me with. Somehow, I made it out of childhood OK despite this huge void.

Speaking of Batman: Here is another fine selection from Erick (of Wonderful Wonderblog) and he's wearing the Ben Cooper Batman costume. I've always wondered why BC decided to put the Batman Logo on the mask itself and why they felt it important to give Superman a dominoe mask. I guess I'll find out in the afterlife....
DVD DAY:

What better a time than October than to release the DVD of the Classic Tom Baker story"The Brain of Morbius"? It has all the classic horror movie elements, mad doctor, dead bodies, brain transplants, hunchback assistant, a (goofy) patchwork monster and of course, angry villagers in the form of an ancient cult.

The BBC is pretty good at packing these DVDs with extras such as commentary from Tom Baker and Liz Sladen as well little behind the scenes documentarys. You'll also get one of the bigger continuity goofs done on the series as the Doctor reveals he's had more than four past lives!

Also this week is the complete box series set of Speed Racer, it's over 1,200 minutes of the groundbreaking series that lead the charge of Japanese animation.
This is the one good thing about big Hollywood remakes, you end up getting deluxe box sets of the original series. I can't wait for Hollywood to remake "Logan's Run" just so I can get the shot lived series on DVD, it could star Carrot Top and Larry the Cable Guy for all I care, just gimmee! gimmee! gimmee!


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[HardyGirl]

Well, I didn't have any of those cool toothbrushes, but I did have a Fred Flintstone battery powered tooth brush. I even foun a boxed one at a toy show (doesn't work though), and I still have my original Wilma toothpaste squeezer from my first set.

[starsky]

me and my sister had those batman and superman costumes!! had lots of fun!

[Megotu]

Carrot Top and Lary the Cable Guy...Well obviously CT would be Logan...Larry as the other Sandman...Paris Hilton could do the Farrah Fawcett spot...Lindsay Lohan for the Jenny Agutter role is a must...I am smellin Summer BlockBuster here....

[Monsterama2000]

I'm diggin' that Batman costume

[SpaceCrawler]

Is the toothbrush Batman touching toothbrush Robin's butt? Not that there's anything wrong with that.... just wondering is all.

Sean

[Earth 2 Chris]

I still have my childhood Batman costume like that, but it's cloth, not vinyl. I distinctly remember wearing the Superman costume (vinyl, I think) at a very early age, and complaining about the fact that "Superman doesn't wear a mask!". Years later BC finally decided to make a Superman facemask. The spit-curl keeps it from being generic, ya know.

The "Batman" on the chest and bat-symbol on the head bothered the heck out of me too, but it was still cool. And that pouch belt! Sure Adam West had a few pouches on his, but the BC costume was way ahead of it's time and determining Batman's favorite way of holding his pants up.

Chris

[toys2cool]

how cool are those

[Earth 2 Chris]

Oh, and I'm guessing the Batman and Robin toothbrush set was made by Janex? It has a similar look to their Batman talking alarm clock, and their office accessory set (including the sound effects on the base). Janex must have thought Robin was a 7-year old! He looks so tiny in each thing they did.

Chris

[Meule]

Heh, those costumes are so cool

[Lynn TXP 0369]

I had that Batman costume, I used to run around the yard the next summer after Halloween with the suit itself without the mask.

Lynn