Hey everybody it's Norm from Tested and Kishore from Tested so we're here at comic-con
2019 and one of the cool things is actually off-site in San Diego is the
comic-con museum pop-up we're in Balboa Park the site of the
future Comic Con Museum and they've done a pop-up to celebrate Batman's 80th
anniversary yeah this is a museum that's we opening in 2021 but this gives us a
good sense of kind of what they wanted to show from some interesting fan
fashion to history of collectibles behind us we have all 100 of the Batman
black-and-white anthology series figures they have comic book covers from over
the years a lot of mondo prints that we really adore and what we're really here
for though are props and costumes because they've brought that some stuff
out from the Warner archive including costumes from the first series of Batman
films are talking about 1989 all the way the George Clooney ones that see him up
close and personal and some really interesting props we've never seen
before so let's go check it out okay our first stop is of course the
costumes and what's really striking to me is to condition that these costumes
are a because I've seen some of the pieces like in Batman Returns at work on
an auction and at the God of restoration and I know for a fact that Ironhead
studio Jose Fernandez who work on the original costumes was brought in and his
team did some restoration so this is it's a believable condition
what's a rubber and it just deteriorate deteriorated over time and so this is
just well preserved it looks so good and we're gonna check it out starting
with the Michael Keaton Batman sure to remember watching this in theaters I do
remember watching it it was one of the first movies I think I saw in the
theaters as a teenager I'm just I'm really struck at the Batman Returns
being so simple a few sort of layers to it but it wasn't a huge iteration from
the original Batman to now oh I've barely the logo the - yeah the two
things I remember distinctly about the first his costume was the emblem having
those extra points and I was like that wasn't what it looked like in the comics
and then that moon turns which I love had
the more armored AB plates even though it was all still home latex rubber it
could tell something that they did early was it was only covering just the front
like the armor didn't go around the edge that was a key plot point in the movie
when Catwoman gets it so like it they actually worked it into the story I do
like the iconic yellow and the cowl that comes down like deep into his chest and
then just watching the evolution from there to the Val Kilmer suit is huge
oh yeah the Val Kilmer suit yo full codpiece you have the logo now on the
belt and wide across the chassis of the elongated logo it's futuristic yeah and
also the clasp for the K out right there not hiding the cape underneath the cowl
I think that's one of the hardest things to do is how do you blend they came for
the cowl Batman has artist drew in the comics it would be one piece but it's
not a proximal thing to do of course you have Batman and Robin these are all I
think sculpted by Jose Fernandez of course Joel Schumacher's intent for this
was to make it maybe a little more inspired by Roman armor that's why you
had the famous bat nipples but next to Batman Robin got Terry English's mr.
freeze armor the mr. freeze armor is kind of usurped by how that character
played but I love the the lighting inside of the armor piece it it's so
incredibly brilliant like backlighting his head it's already kind of a
brilliant silver on top of it hi I actually really adore this costume
totally and it's all hammered and hammered aluminum heat Terry English
hammered this oh yeah altogether Wow I love how they've laid out some of
these costumes like especially the Schwarzenegger mr. freeze and now the
poison ivy with mannequins that look like the actors it's a little bit
striking these are suits not from the films but actually from the Gotham TV
show actually I really like this totally partially because it just sort of thrown
together yeah all the layering you see sir the mania embedded in his character
in just how they threw together burlap sacks and you know tattered leather
pieces a mask that doesn't totally fit to to face shape that's probably the
closest scarecrow I know we had the Cillian Murphy scarecrow and the Nolan
films but never as seen like this and this is the Batman suit that we see
towards the end of the Gotham run yeah it's a little different for sure yeah
but it's supposed to be an early iteration of a suit because he's just
becoming Batman at that point and as that you can see that cowl is barely a
cowl it has like a chinstrap on it so I think it kind of fits from that
perspective the cape was really divisive I remember just because it was two
different material types but it looks more like a layered armor piece than it
does a Batman suit the shorts the Batmobile yeah I know it's the car I
have always wanted my life my entire life I've wanted this car I've only had
it in Hot Wheels form never had it in a Power Wheels form because that one only
had a one seat I couldn't share it but of course this is the Anton Furst design
of the Batmobile for both original Batman 1989 and also Batman Returns
gorgeous were marking that you know even though it is a mid and late 80s Early
90s interpretation and very consistent with all the color scheme all black of
the Tim Burton Batman's it has it takes a lot of influence from what at that
time were pea fools most recent you know Batman memory
which was 1966 out of West Batman's yeah my brother had a die-cast 1966 Batmobile
and it had the wings off the back yet unlike the afterburner jet off the bat
gap and you can kind of see that reflected in the design here I thought
this was the coolest car ever made it's so over the top but now seeing it up
close you see all these details that you never thought would exist like there's a
gas cap there's like places where guns emerge off the off the meadow lines
where the grappling hook would come out where yes there were machine guns that
pop off the top and the thing that was set or the precedent that was set with
this design I think was there long aided front so after this you have the Batman
animated series Batmobile which I think more art deco-style your favorite
Batmobile I think and that one took influence from here having a very long
front very small cockpit I don't think this one actually articulates it's from
the Warner Brothers archive but just to see its imposing size is pretty awesome
and of course you have just the iconography of Batman the Batman symbol
right on the hubs they're completely unnecessary if you're a firefighter but
it was a movie this is where we started to get Batman symbol everywhere on
everything that we see in later movies yeah not bad for a hubcap though I'm
somewhere even cooler though I think some have never seen in person is what's
something next to it right over there it's the Penguins rubber duck this is
truly spectacular it's so cool it's super cool if the Penguins Duck right of
course at the end of Batman Returns we just pops out of the sewer just explodes
out of it in this giant duck yep yep and there's a of course there's a scissor
left mechanism but schools also they have the concept art next to it which
shows that the scissor lift design was also really colorful it's all of course
based on the circus that the paper recruits
there's the there even the steering wheel here is this like red and white
side kind of carnival type feel to it I love how worn it is it's just kind of
rough around the edges inside it's all nicked up that's exactly the kind of
what you would expect from not in the sewer yeah merchants from the sewers not
going to be all nice and shiny but even then the color is
I've ran that airbrushing work it's not a flat tone has dimensionality this is
amazing this is like my childhood memory just seeing their lies I can hear Danny
DeVito and behind us right now I can hear something back yeah running
around yeah that's speaking of the robot penguins they're over there they look
great yeah there were such a ridiculous touch when I saw an army of robot
penguin charge in that movie but seeing like penguins like mocked up over there
with like rockets on their back it's kind of endearing now pretty divisive
back then you know kind of like the the Ewoks of the first Batman films but even
reference in the most recent Batman films it's something that we can look
fondly back from the past as one of the the things that was part of movie
history