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YAY! I got it right this time. Proof-of-concept on the left and the Bat-Signal shining on the clock tower of the Bricktober Town Hall [#40183] on the right.
All lighting effects are created using custom colors in Stud.io. The windows in the Town Hall use a custom translucent white, the streetlight and the spotlight use custom luminous whites, and the Bat-Signal uses a custom transparent decal color. Otherwise, this is stock Stud.io.
The Bricktober Town Hall was downloaded from Bricklink using Stud.io's built-in Bricklink connection and assembled in Stud.io.
NOW...finally...I can go back to designing and building the National Museum of the American Indian.
Here is my entry CAT 1 for the Batman contest organised by Eurobrick.
This MOC is directly inspired by the Burton's version : Batman returns edited in 1992
Even if Nolan's versions are incredible (can't wait for The Dark Knight Rise..) I really would like to underline Burton's work. All screen shots used for the build are avalaible HERE
8 leds (3 in sewers under each round 4X4 reversed, 1 near the police car, 1 in the building, 1 in the batsignal on the roof and 2 behind the 2 satues)
Real fence in the road under the upsidedown 4X4 round plates to have the effect in the sewer with led inside
NO PICS HAVE BEEN EDITED in photoshop, they are all direct shots from the camera.
Snow effect has been realised with "iced sugar"
On the roof the little bat signal has been made like THIS beetwen two trans dish 4X4 in a reversed tire.
And catsy got Batsy's cap 'cause they spend the night together..... :)
MORE PICS in the making off !
Hope you'll enjoy !
Mysterious night transfer to Arkham Asylum... Security detail on high alert... Patient extremely dangerous... Outside scene.
North Avenue Beach
Chicago, IL
April 2nd, 2022
All photos © Joshua Mellin per the guidelines listed under "Owner settings" to the right.
Mysterious night transfer to Arkham Asylum... Security detail on high alert... Patient extremely dangerous... Outside scene.
Toys R Us promo. Depending on who's working that day, most likely only kids will be allowed to participate.
I jump straight into the Batmobile as soon as I have my suit on and head off to the co-ordinates that Alfred’s acquired from tracing the broadcast signal. It’s in an old warehouse at the Gotham pier. It should take me five minutes to make it there, that should be plenty of time to get there and save Commissioner Loeb. I launch out of the cave and engage the afterburner I recently had installed. I launch on to the streets of Gotham and make it on to the highway in a minute. This shouldn’t take long.
As I approach the exit to the GCPD I can’t help but notice a search light is on. Now that wouldn’t be uncommon really, the GCPD have been known to have search lights on during the night to try and spot illegal aircraft that they suspect are being used to smuggle arms into Gotham. No-one ever thinks to check the shipping docks. Then again given how Penguin smuggles his arms in, it’s no surprise why the GCPD think the arms aren’t coming in through the Docks. But this search light is odd. Especially given that there is a shape in the light resembling a bat.
I think they want me.
Must be important if they’re willing to let the whole city see an attempt to contact me, so I choose to take the exit. This better be good.
I park a block away from the GCPD and make my own way to the rooftop. Last thing I want is to walk into a trap and have them take my escape route out of play. It takes a couple of minutes to scale the GCPD and make it to the search light. Not difficult to identify the source as there’s only one light on but I can’t help but feel curious about the one operating the search light. Certainly haven’t seen him in a while. Could have sworn he transferred out of Gotham given what happened with his son. I guess not.
The operator of the search light was Jim Gordon.
“I thought you transferred to Chicago.”
“I thought about it. Especially after you only just managed to save my Son from a hit by Falcone.”
“What changed your mind?”
“The truth. It makes sense to me now. It’s all a lie. You’re not a killer. You’re a man who is keen to try and save this god forsaken city. I don’t know why you killed Marcus Wayne but I’m certain that there must have been a reason for it.”
“I didn’t kill Marcus Wayne.”
“I want to believe you. But unfortunately without any evidence to prove otherwise, you’re the only suspect.”
“That doesn’t matter. What’s with the light?”
“Well when you’re trying to call a man operating outside the law who is hard to get hold of, you need to think outside the box to get his attention.”
“Not the most subtle way.”
“It works, and that’s all I need.”
“So what do you want?”
“Your help, I think you know who with.”
“Loeb.”
“Yes. We’ve had no success tracking down the identity of his kidnapper but we think we’ve a hit on his location.”
“So do I. What’s so important that you needed to call me here?”
“It’s about a message he sent us shortly after his tv appearance got cut short.”
“What did he say?”
“He said he wants you. He wants you to come to him alone. If anyone else comes he says he’ll kill the Commissioner.”
“I was going there anyways. You know that. Why’d you call me here?”
“We want to co-ordinate with you. There’s no doubt he’ll have someone watching the Commissioner as you go after him. We want to try and rescue the Commissioner whilst you confront this thug.”
“What are you suggesting we do?”
Gordon throws me a GCPD headset. Clearly he wants me to wear it and co-ordinate with him.
“You confront this mad man, but before you do, you give us the signal to siege the building. SWAT will secure the Commissioner and you’ll hand that son of a bitch to us.”
“Assuming SWAT doesn’t try to claim the bounty for themselves.”
“I’ll make sure that won’t happen.”
“I’m sure you’ll try. But I know Brandon. He’ll try to take a shot, and when he does he’ll have another broken nose.”
“It’s against the law to assault a police officer.”
“So is taking bribes. The law hasn't stopped them, and it won’t stop me from putting them in their place. I’ll co-operate with you Gordon, but only because I know you’re an honest cop. The others try to take me down, I’ll take them down.”
Before Gordon can respond I take off. He’s by the books, which means if I assault a police officer corrupt or not, he will try to arrest me. Respectful in one way. Nice to see that there’s still some hope for the GCPD. What I failed to tell Gordon though was that I’ve been monitoring the GCPD’s comms for two years now so I could easily communicate with him if I wanted to. Still at least it’s clear that he trusts me to some degree. Who knows. It may well soon be time to call off that stupid bounty….
Mysterious night transfer to Arkham Asylum... Security detail on high alert... Patient extremely dangerous... Outside scene.
I leave the rooftop and quickly return to the batmobile. Can’t believe I’m calling it that, Dick would never get over it. I’m later than I expected to be thanks to my diversion. I should feel worried, but given what Loeb has done to persecute me during my campaign against crime in this city it’s no surprise that have no interest really. Were it not the right thing to do I would probably not even bother trying to save him. He’s some of Gotham’s worst scum, even Carmine Falcone would agree with that, and he’s the one who pays him off.
It takes a couple of minutes before I arrive at the warehouse. Warehouse 49. The same Warehouse I confronted Eckhart in two years ago. The past sure seems to have a habit of repeating itself. I confronted my Parent’s killer in the Monarch Theatre, where I saw them die. Now I’m going to save Commissioner Loeb from the same warehouse I first dealt with one of his corrupt cops. It’s like a bad fairy tale story.
Fortunately with having already infiltrated this warehouse I know the best way in.
I enter the building and I come to the room that the mystery assailant is in. Another man accompanies him. Medium build, I reckon 160 pounds. Shouldn’t be too much of a problem. Strike to the chest will knock the breath out of him allowing a follow up knock out blow. Seems simple enough. Before I can make my move though the beam underneath me gives way. Amateur move. I just have myself away.
“What the hell do you think that was boss?”
“Our guest, dear Bob.”
No sooner does he say those words that he pulls out a submachine gun from a crate next to him. He immediately follows up by opening fire towards my position. I knew that beam was rotten two years ago when I perched on it to observe Eckhart’s deal two years ago, I should have known it would have been in worse condition now than it was back then. Now because of my oversight I’ve compromised my presence. Fortunately this is a multilayered warehouse, and since he’s on the ground floor I’ve got lee way to slip away out of sight.
It’s a fruitless endeavor though. I may be hidden from sight but he knows I’m here now; I’ve lost the most important element of all. The element of surprise.
“Well well, looks like the big scary bat doesn’t want to come out and play. Bob, go keep good old Gillian company will you.”
“But he’s…”
“Now Bob!”
“Yes sir.”
The goon walks off out of the room. It’s clear he’s going to defend the Commissioner, means I can’t sneak off from this fool now, as he’ll almost certainly run to intercept me. Looks like I’ve got no choice now. I’ll have to take him down. Better make this quick.
“Hey diddle diddle. The cat and the fiddle, the man shoot at the roof. But all he wanted is to kill the cat, but hey ho I’ll settle for shooting a bat. Now come on winged rat, I’ve got smiles to bring to people by killing off the problem of the mean old bat.”
That’s a terrible rhyme. But the rhyme is the least of my worries as he reaches into his pocket and pulls a hand grenade. Great. It’s going to be one of those nights….
Who chills in a jacuzzi up on the roof? SPONGE-BOB SQUARE-PANTS!... and his two neighbors from Bikini Bottom. Here you will also find the Hill Valley clock, a Batsignal, a Jurassic World baby dinosaur pen, and a Disney Princess tower. The front edge of the roof is decorated with Minecraft wolf gargoyles.
The police have always played a role in comics. It is a unique role to be sure, as they represent official law enforcement alongside the true stars of the comics: costumed, super-powered vigilantes who hide their identies.
How to handle this story-wise?
In the Golden Age of the 1930s through the 1950s, law enforcement was generally portrayed as friendly towards the vigilantes.
In DC comics, the police cheered Superman and patted him on the back as he, without any official authority, manhandled criminals.
Batman was a decidedly less cheery vigilante but still, in Gotham, Police Commissioner Gordon not only approved of the violence of the unknown masked crusader but set up a system to work with him, including but not limited to the Batsignal. Commissioner Gordon's daughter even crossed over, becoming Batgirl.
With the Silver Age in the 1960s, Stan Lee's new Marvel universe took place mainly in New York City. And, the same affection for the costumed vigilantes could still be seen. Thor was applauded. Daredevil was often assisted by patrolmen.
There were some cracks appearing however in the armor of camaraderie the super-heroes had enjoyed.
Spider-Man was viewed skeptically. Between a constant campaign to discredit the wall-crawler and portray him as a villain by J. Jonah Jameson and his newspaper, the Daily Bugle, and a bad habit of being in the wrong place in the wrong time amidst an abundance of circumstantial evidence, Spider-Man was either shot at on sight by the police or begrudgingly acknowledged to have done at least something right.
Iron Man was favored by the police but they were often ordered to oppose him due to some machinations to frame him from political or industrial enemies.
The 80s saw the cynical deconstruction of the super-hero with comics such as The Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen. With these trends, law enforcement more often became strictly opposed to super-vigilantism.
So, in all of this we see that while in some comics the police were either ignored as a presence or presented as bumbling cops of the Keystone variety, overall, from the beginning there has been a genuine effort by comics writers to offer a rather difficult reconciliation of codified law and order with costumed super-powered, secretive individuals who literally took the law into their own hands on a daily basis.
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
Secret Identity: N/A
Publisher: Marvel
First appearance: Marvel Comics #1 (August, 1939)
Created by: N/A
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North Avenue Beach
Chicago, IL
August 30th, 2019
All photos © Joshua Mellin per the guidelines listed under "Owner settings" to the right.
=====Lift One=====
Talon- I want my sword back.
Drury- Well you can't have it.
Talon- Why not?
Miranda- Because you'd probably kill us all with it. Or am I wrong?
Talon-... curse you.
Simon- Hey, who called the elevator?
Spider- I don't know but be ready to fight our way out!
Talon- I could assist you, if you were to pass me my sword.
Drury- Nah
Talon- Give me the sword Walker.
Drury- Nah.
Talon- Give me the sword.
Drury- Just shut up alright?
Talon- Give me the sword.
Miranda- Drury, don't give him the sword.
Drury- But he's persistent!
Talon- Walker, I am fluent in over 200 forms of combat so give in and give me the goddamn swo-
*With a roar, Batman awakens from his fear induced coma, breaking the tension*
Batman- I AM THE NIGHT!!!
Simon- *Squeal!*
Miranda- Holy shit!
Drury- Ohmygod, why?!
Anatoli- для любви к Богу, почему ?!
Lester- Jesus! I.. I think I crapped myself...
Batman- ... Sorry about that. What's going on?
=====The Belfry- The Gym====
Slipknot- Hey! Hold that elevator! .
Cheetah- Sorry, the button's... missing.
Lift- Doors Closing.
Slipknot- Ssssson of a bitch!
*Ding*
====Lift Two====
??1- Oh no, is that Slipknot? outside? What do we do?
??2- Stay in the lift, we'll get off on the next floor.
??3- He's Slipknot! He's not gonna let us leave!
??1- Split. Just split- Crap!
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Lift- Doors Opening.
Multiplex- *Sigh*. Heeeey Buddy!
Slipknot- Multiplex. Ssssay! Issss there room for one more?
Multiplex- Um. No, I don't think that's feasible
Slipknot- Ssssure it is! Just get rid of one of those duplicates!
Multiplex- Yeah, I suppose I could do that yeah....
Slipknot- Are you?
Multiplex- No. How about this- I'll get rid of my duplicates when you learn to talk like a person.
Slipknot- Wait! It's a choice, see!
Multiplex- Ah.
Slipknot- Will you let me in now?
Multiplex- ... No.
*Doors Closing*
Slipknot- Motherfucker!
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Simon- Mr Batman, did you have to shine a batsignal at Scarecrow in your hallucination?
Lester- What?
Miranda- Simon, Batman's likely had a very traumatic experience, I-
Batman- Yes. How did you know?
Floyd- *groan* Can this day get any worse?
*Ding- Doors Opening*
Slipknot- Floyd! You're part of the Ssssssociety too?
Floyd-Give me the sword Walker.
Drury- No Floyd.
Floyd- I'm begging you- let me impale something for Godsake! Preferably him!