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http://www.dvdplanet.com/product_listing.asp?productid=65418&format=DVD

ITS ABOUT TIME! :)

Is this the Adam West/Burt Ward Batman, or the animated series Bruce Timm/Kevin Conroy Batman?

If it's the former, I'm in total agreement with you.

That link tells us nothing.

Since the 90's cartoon is out in various volumes on DVD i'm guessing it's the Adam West one.

Could be this (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005JNUW/theamalgamatronA/):
(http://g-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/14/08/688e124128a0170f85597010.M.jpg) (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005JNUW/theamalgamatronA/)

:s:

Awesome!

Are you kidding me?  This has never been on dvd before?  I've been toying with getting the dvd of the movie, which I see everywhere for $8, but this would make a good xmas present for a friend.

Well, I frequent a couple Batman message boards where the subject of getting this show onto DVD comes up about twice a freaking day, and trust me I'd love it if we were finally close to resolving the matter.

BUT...I doubt it.  From all I've heard progress on this deal has gotten absolutely nowhere, as lawyers and agents from at least three business entities squabble over who gets what.

I do know that the currently airing cartoon series, "The Batman", is due for "season set" treatment in the near future (so far it's only been availabe in single disc "best of" type collections) and I strongly suspect that's the show listed here.  More's the pity, as it's an abomination.  

And don't be fooled by that image in the post above...it's a fan-made mock-up that was done a few years ago.

I should know later this week from an unimpeachable source...my mole lunches with their mole.

And yes, he's a super-mole! :wink:  :lol:

Here's the product information on the "The Batman" (new cartoon) season one box set from tvshowsondvd.com

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=4514

It can't be coincidence that the release date given in the initial link is the same.

...sigh...bangs head against wall........

Has anyone actually seen the dvd of the Batman movie with Burt Ward and Adam West's commentary?  Worth it? (the $8 Canadian, I mean.)

To me, the Batman movie on DVD is definitely worth the low price (and more, because I bought it before it got cheap!).

The '66 movie was NOT the high point of the Adam West years; there are any number of first-season episodes that are more fun and better written. But the film does throw in everything but the kitchen sink; all four first-string baddies from the famous rogue's gallery, the amazing Batmobile and Bat-Cave, plus the Batcycle and Batcopter (both built for the movie thanks to its bigger budget, and later put to use on the show), Adam's only fight scene as Bruce Wayne (and it's a good one!), and of course the immortal "can't get rid of a bomb" gag.  

I saw this film as a kid around 1973 or so on the ABC Sunday Night Movie, and it made me a Batman fan for life.  So maybe nostalgia colors my judgment a bit, but again for 8 bucks Canadian, you can't go too wrong.  The transfer is super-crisp and sharp with gorgeous colors and the music is terrific.  The commentary by Adam and Burt is lots of fun and there's lots of it (I hate it when they pay guys to comment and they sit there quietly through most of the film).  They also provide some fun sound bites for the various menus, etc.  And there's a nice -- if historically suspect -- featurette about George Barris and the Batmobile.

If you have a sense of fun at all -- and if you didn't you wouldn't be here -- this movie is a great buy.  However, Spawn-collecting, poly-bagging, Wizard-reading Frank Miller worshippers should save their money.  (They'll need it for 900-number calls to their "girlfriends").

That settles it: next time I'm at the supermarket, I'm buying it (don't worry, I'll still have money left over to call my "girlfriends," buy some poly-bags, and send my monthly fan letter to Frank :D ).

I have it. It's so insanely ludicrous that I may need to start a drug habit to enjoy it even more!

And yet...it has all the villians. Batman rehydrating the U.N.! Priceless!

TV BATS 66- inside poop from my mole meeting with insiders IN THE KNOW:

Deal is being worked out for release last quarter 2006. No spit. Official announcement pending/

you read it here first

This would be fantastic.

But by now I've been burned too often.  I look forward to hearing an official announcement.  Until then, this goes in the "Rumor" pile (about 6 feet tall at this point).

Thanks for the ray of hope, though.

Nightwing, this comes from the highest of the high at Diffidently Clever HQ via my mole who met recently with the Person Largesse who shall remain nameless...so as far as sources go, this is pretty unimpeachable. ;)

Klar, I hope you haven't blown your mole's cover.

Either way, let's hope the DVD deal goes through!

:s:

Rao, I did a slight edit to keep his secret identity...well, secret in the post above.

As developements happen, I'll keep y'all informed as only a crusading, two fisted reporter who works for a computer can! ;)