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Costume making, prop building and other '66 Bat-related arts and crafts. Great place for info and helpful tips. Proudly display your latest creation. Please keep it '66 Batman related otherwise it will be moved to OFF-TOPIC.
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Australia is deep in a "Coles' Little Shop" fervour. $30 worth of groceries earns a blind-packed toy, one of 30 to collect. Swap meets are being held outside supermarkets to calm the populace. Egghead is celebrating finally locating his carton of free-range eggs!
I went hunting for an extra 6” Mattel Robin figure on eBay (my other one is the wall-walking Robin with wires in his cape) - and found a great bargain that happened to come in a pair with a loose Riddler. Since I already had a Frank Gorshin Riddler on my shelves, I decided to transform the spare one into... a customized John Astin!
Penguin was customized using the head, bowtie and hat of a ReAction "Rocky Horror Picture Show" Columbia and the shortened torso of a ReAction David Nix ("Tomorrowland"). The tiny penguin figure is a three-dimensional pinboard magnet.
All four members of the United Underground have been customised from other figures. Joker was a shortened and repainted DC Multiverse Joker. Penguin was customized from ReAction Columbia and David Nix figures. Lee Meriwether's Catwoman was adapted from a Funko Julie Newmar Catwoman. Riddler is an adapted and repainted Funko Bookworm.
My latest 7” custom: Golden Eagle of “Titans West”. (His long-promised return in the “New Titans” comic was cut tragically short in the “Titans Hunt” storyline.) Created by combining elements of an 8” El Dorado (“Super Friends!”), 7” Dr Sivano and the wings from Hawkgirl. The pair of red knickers are from the Classic TV Toys’ online catalogue, some stray long locks donated from TV's Batgirl, and a little quickset putty. Here, he is pictured with Beast Boy, Hawk, Dove and Bat-Girl.
I discovered that my new NJ Croce bendable Egghead is quite well scaled to the Mattel "Batman '66" action figure range. Egghead is an exclusive with the second boxed set of bendables. The Mattel Riddler is customised by me into the John Astin version.
Hallmark Squeely “Batman ‘66” convention exclusive Batmobile and my customized Batgirl to match. (The original used Batgirl’s comic book costume colours.)
