ART - Custom BATMAN FIGURES from Mexico!

Check out these really great Custom-Made Batman Figures! I got these photos from a new friend who lives in Puebla, Mexico. It looks like he made 3 different versions... cool!

New Hot Wheels Batmobile Cars - 2010 Mexico Convention Exclusives

Here are some photos sent in by a Bat-Blog Reader who is collecting the Hot Wheels "2010 Mexico Convention" Cars ( Thanks Cam ). Basically, there was an event held in Mexico by Toy Collectors & Mattel sent some of their Designers who brought a ton of Exclusive Promo-Batmobile Cars. Here's a "Brave and The Bold" car with Mexican flag graphics, a VW Drag Bus with a mural painted on the side to create the illusion that the van is actually the 1966 Batmobile ( that one is pretty cool because it's kinda weird ), and, finally, another Chrome '66 Batmobile. It's crazy now how many different variations we have seen. In fact, here's a post we did awhile back with other Mexican Convention Batmobiles... Just click HERE!

BOOTLEG BATMAN - Mexican Style!

In the world of serious Toy Collecting there's a small niche of Collectors known as "Bootleggers". They are people who mainly collect knock-off bootleg toys. These toys usually come from China, Hong Kong, & other places, but Mexico is one of the most popular. Here are 2 examples of "Mexican Bootleg": The 1st one totally cracks me up. It's a vinyl figure of both Batman ( sort of a "Dark Knight movie" version ) and Homer Simpson from the Simpsons TV Show cartoon... hilarious! I mean, if you're ripping off one company's trademark then why not do two, ha! Then, there are these 2 Egg-Shaped Bendy Figures of Superman & Batman... crazy! I actually really like this Batman Toy, it looks cool. Now, I gotta ask, do YOU have any weird Bootleg Batman items in your collection? If so, then please send us some pics, thanks.

Mexican BATMAN COMIC BOOK COVERS With Neal Adams Art

Shown here are some fun comic books collected by a good friend named Tomas who lives in Puerto Rico. You might remember a previous post where we featured photos of his amazing Batman Toy Collection. Well, he is also a major fan of Neal Adams ( who isn't? ) & has collected all the issues of Batman comics with Adams' artwork. Then he discovered that a lot of these were reprinted in Mexico with different covers in Spanish. OK, different covers but the same art. So now he's collecting those. Shown here are just a few examples. In the 1st two photos you can see the Mexican version on the left & the actual American one on the right...pretty cool! Thanks Tomas for sharing these. If any other Bat-Blog Reader has some interesting Bat-Info to share then please do. It can be about New Merchandise, Vintage Toys, Comic Books, anything Batman-Related! Our e-mail button is always on the top right-hand side of this page, thanks.