A groovy clearinghouse for your Toyroom playset needs… For much of the last year, we’ve been covering The Toyroom’s superb Mego-style, 8-inch-scale playsets designed by customizing king Anthony Durso. Well, Anthony’s done so many at this point, it made sense to publish this index so you check out every INSIDE LOOK we’ve provided so far here at 13th Dimension. So dig this list — and the individual links to each piece. Ordering info is at the bottom of this post. (We’ll also be updating the list as time goes on.) Far out. — SUPERMAN Fortress of Solitude (Click here) — Lex Luthor’s Lair (Click here) — BATMAN Batcave/Wayne Foundation (Click here) The Joker’s Ha-Hacienda (Click here) — Arkham Asylum (Click here) — BATMAN ’66 Batcave (Click here) — Batgirl Apartment and Changing Room (Click here) — United Underworld HQ (Click here) — The Joker’s Ho-Ho Hideout (Click here) — The Riddler’s Hide-Out (Click here) — The Catwoman Catlair (Click here) — The Penguin’s Nest (Click here) — WONDER WOMAN Paradise Island (Click here) — TV series IADC Headquarters (Click here) — OTHER DC HEROES and TV SHOWS Aquaman’s Aquacave (Click here) — Captain Marvel’s Rock of Eternity (Click here) — Green Lantern HQ on Oa (Click here) — The JLA Satellite (Click here) — The JSA Brownstone (Click here) — The Super Friends Hall of Justice (Click here) — The Hall of Doom (Click here) — The Super Powers Hall of Justice (Click here) — MARVEL The Fantastic Four’s Baxter Building Lab (Click here) — The Hulk Gamma Lab Hideaway (Click here) — Iron Man’s Armory (Click here) — The X-Men’s Danger Room (Click here) — OTHER Captain Action Action Cave (Click here) — Scooby-Doo Haunted House (Click here) — Star Trek: The Animated Series Enterprise (Click here) — HOW TO ORDER As I always feel compelled to point out, Anthony’s a 13th Dimension contributor but I don’t make anything from this. I just love showing it all off. Each set — including case, artwork and complete assembly — is $85 plus shipping. (The two cases in the 1966 Batcave set are sold separately, also at $85 plus shipping each.) Contact thetoyroom@yahoo.com or you can message Anthony, who also owns Retropolis Tees, through his website the-toyroom.com, Facebook, Twitter or...
An exciting scene worthy of any Batman movie, show or comic… — UPDATED 2/28/21: The late Olan Soule, who memorably voiced the Caped Crusader in the 1968 Filmation cartoon series The Adventures of Batman and later in Super Friends, was born 112 years ago, on Feb. 28, 1909. (He died in 1994.) I’m a huge fan of Soule’s work — he was the quintessential Bat-voice of the Silver and Bronze Ages — so it’s the perfect time to re-present this piece from 2017. Dig it. And click here to check out our recurring feature THE FILMATION FILES. — Dan — I’ve been having a blast over at The Batcave Podcast discussing every episode of the 1968 Filmation Batman series. (Click here and here for more on that.) This week, host John S. Drew and I check out How Many Herring in a Wheelbarrow?, a Joker corker by Bill Keenen, and the weak sauce In Again, Out Again Penguin, also by Keenen. (Click here or here to listen, or download it on iTunes — you’ll dig it.) While I still haven’t picked an overall favorite episode yet — though Herring is definitely a strong contender — there’s no question in my mind that the series hit its pinnacle with a single sequence in this entry: When Batman and Robin slide toward their doom, zipping toward a fiery furnace bearing the ebony carved face of the Joker. It’s fantastic and for decades has remained the most memorable aspect of the entire series for me. The set-up is simple: Batman and Robin get lured into a dark room and the Joker taunts them by flashing on full-size wall panels bearing his image. Next thing? A trap door drops the Dynamic Duo onto a slide, as the Joker watches them on CCTV, heckling them all the way: They round a curve and … Awesome. It’s reminiscent of Catwoman’s trap from the live-action episode The Purr-fect Crime. But it’s edited so smartly, with exciting music and quick cuts, that it stands on its own as a 1-minute, 14-second masterpiece until the screen fades as the cliffhanger reaches its climax before the commercial break. (SPOILER ALERT: They escape at the beginning of Part 2.) Anyway, there’s a lot more to recommend the episode and John and I also have fun with the highly questionable logic...
Fans dreams’ come true this summer…
Christopher Reeve was born Sept. 25, 1952. He made us believe a man could fly.
Only been waiting for, oh, almost 43 years…
