You read that right, Batman Tortilla chips!
These came out back in 1989 along with the release of the movie, Batman.
I was thinking about the the other day when my daughter came to work with me.
She was working upstairs where I had worked about 12 years ago and while I was checking in with her I started to look around for some of my old stuff that was stored up on the third floor.
When I had moved floors 12 years ago I had taken down most of my things and stored them in a box up there.
Well I couldn't find it.
So I began to think about what was in that box or boxes.
I had all kinds of things stuck on the wall back then. Family pictures, World news pictures with Presidents and aliens posing, sight gags I had built and of course Batman stuff.
That is when I remembered my Batman tortilla chips.
I began to get mad. "Who moved my stuff?" "Did they throw it away?"
So I went to the office to ask the Boss what they did with it.
He said "I don't know. Look around some more." So I did.
Two boxes of my stuff up on a shelf in an old bathroom.
I pulled it down and no doubt it was my stuff because it said right on top of it "Brian's Stuff".
I pulled of the top lid and saw that it truly was my stuff.
Here are a few items I found inside.
You can clearly see why I would be upset if this stuff had been thrown away.
There was also this treasure.
I remember buying two bags of these when I bought them. One to eat and one to save.
I should have bought one bag because these were awful!
I don't think I finished the bag I opened and it is a small bag.
For those that know me that is saying something. I eat the very last french fry because I paid good money for it and don't want to waste it.
I didn't eat all of these.
I mean these have been in storage for 21 years and mice didn't eat them.
The plastic on the bag had split open from age and still no mice. They were gross.
There is an ad for a night light on the back but I don't know what language is written on the Bat symbol.
Ingredients includes Bat-rat repellent.
Brian B
This is DC Direct's 9" Joker Maquette as he appeared in the late, great Batman The Animated Series that debuted in 1992. DC Direct produced a handful of characters from the series as maquette statues. These were produced in a breakable, porcelain type of material and need to be handled carefully.
A maquette is a sculpture for animators to use when drawing a character over and over. The animator refers to the sculpture often to make sure they are drawing a character correctly from the many different angles animation requires. Some still-frame artists (like comic book artists) may use something like this from time to time, too. Most often, the maquette is sculpted in a static, non-dramatic pose so the artist can more easily see body proportions and what-not on the character.
While not true animation maquettes (as in actually used by animators), these DC Direct statues do a good job of replicating the type of statues that animators of BTAS might have used day to day.
At any rate, here's Joker from Batman The Animated Series in all his glory. The statue was produced as a limited edition of 1400 pieces and was released in 2004. While only 4 or 5 characters were produced, rumor had it that many more of these BTAS maquettes were planned. Apparently, the demand wasn't there and the line disappeared prematurely. However, as often happens, since these weren't all that popular and low edition sizes were produced, they command a "collector's price," these days.
