Many consider the 4th installment of the 90s Batman series, which starred George Clooney as the caped crusader, to be the worst Batman movie, and possibly one of the worst movies ever made. Josh disagrees, and makes a compelling case….

When or if you received my text message last night where I made the bold statement “Batman & Robin is the best batman movie” you must’ve thought I was on drugs and just making an outlandish statement for the sake of making an outlandish statement. While I do like making outlandish statements I don’t truly believe, I stand by what I said.

When you said at champagne brunch that “Batman” needs to be revisited as an adult to be appreciated I was intrigued and thought yes I should watch that again.

I discovered though, the strange voyage of the Batman franchise can be best enjoyed through the prism of watching Batman Begins followed by Batman & Robin.
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Waspinator has been added to the ever growing list of Beast Wars cast members getting a revamp for BotCon 2006.
Waspinator appears to be a revamp of a Machine Wars Skywarp, with details and coloring based of the recent 10th Anniversary Waspinator figure. These shots are provided by ebay seller SPX Toys by way of TFW2005.

Just in cased you missed them, look at Cheetor, Dinobot, Optimus Primal, and Rattrap.

At last, a sequel.

Comicon.com has interviewed comedian Patton Oswalt about his upcoming comic projects.
Of note is an issue of Justice League Unlimted starring Atomic Knight and Booster Gold. Now he’s written comics before, and he’s a serious fan of comics, but I can’t help suspecting that he’s going to deliver something hilarious pairing a member of the league from the past with someone from the future.

I’m not prone to free advertising, but I post this here because its clear that Wes Anderson has created a small 2 minute film that happens to reference a credit card at the end. It has as many ridiculous moments as any given 2 minutes in Rushmore.

Target computers have updates with price points and release dates for Transformers Classics.
Deluxe figures will come at $12.99 instead of $9.99, while Voyagers (Optimus Prime & Megatron) are still $19.99. They’re scheduled to hit stores the last week of July, so expect them to be everywhere by the end of August.

I don’t condone any 3 dollar price hike, but I think its fair considering how quality the line looks. Thanks Mouth!
And since Bumblebee was glossed over during the original announcements, have a look at him and others in box:

Ok, TransFans. You know what to look for, you know what it looks like, you know how much it will be, and you know when to get it. What more could you ask for? How about Grimlock:

Last night on Spike’s GameHead, Mega64 showed off a new segment lampooning the gravely salesman from Resident Evil 4.
The new Mega64 DVD will be out July 20th, with a longer version of the skit.

iF Magazine spoke with recently resigned Marvel Entertainment head Avi Arad about upcoming film projects he’s working on for Marvel. In additon to breaking news that the next Hulk movie will be a complete “do-over” of the first one, he also says new cartoons for Spider-Man, Wolverine And The X-Men, Fantastic Four, and even Iron Man after that movie is done.
And he clarifies some of this ToyBiz confusion as well:

iF: Switching to toys how do the new HASBRO toy lines look in comparison to the previous TOY BIZ lines?
ARAD: TOY BIZ is very involved in the design of the toys, but the distribution will be through HASBRO. The scale isn’t going to change.

Maybe Marvel Legends isn’t in as much danger as I thought, because Hasbro seems to have no trouble getting mountains of Star Wars, GI Joe and Transformers to market…