THE DARK KNIGHT RISES: First Look At "The Bat" from Hot Toys

Amazing!

A.W.E.S.O.M.E.N.E.S.S. 2 bad i won't b able 2 afford it.

Cannot wait for this movie it is going to be a long 15 days for me!

Ha who am I kidding it's mint and I'm so excited! I'm off to the local comic book shop to put my order in now

Lets see if the Bat has anything that can top the Tumbler giving birth to the Batpod

I still don't get the Bat. That thing is so front/bottom heavy it would only be able to do one thing and that is take a dive.

@SirWinsalot: unlike you, I'm not a kid. You see, when you get to be an adult, you can dislike an aspect of something and still like it overall. For example, I like Batman, but I don't like this Bat thing he flies in like an action figure. Understand? Maybe your mommy can help you read that if you didn't. I see YOU like Batman quite a bit, you've got his face to represent your face and everything, how adorable!

@MarvelWeiner: As much as people like Azazel1 wants to say otherwise, yes, it is. Kids are immature, not necessarily dumb. My brother and I explained TDK to our nephews in about ten minutes, and they not only got it, they had a better grasp on it in later viewings, even though the MAIN REASON they watched it was for stuff to blow up, Joker to act crazy, and pg-13 violence.

@FusionAcara: hey dude :) My main gripe with the Bat, I'll be honest, is one of bias really: it's not the Batwing. The Batwing is very representative of Batman: it's sleek, elegant, and stealthy, with concealed power and badassery! The Bat is too overt: in the clips shown, it is opposite of the Batwing. It's obviously more gunship than anything; it looks more like it belongs in a movie about mecha and giant monsters rather than a Batman film.

With Bane, he's too god damn generic. I'm not saying that Hardy should be 'roided out, but I am saying he does not fit the bill for Bane. I know Bane's dad is European, I know Bane is from a fictional island (DC deals mostly with fictional areas), and I know what one of the creators said. Doesn't matter.

Some CBM fans think that Bane could only appear as he did in the Batman and Robin abortion flick. They have no imagination. If Bane were to have shown up as a suave talking, huge lucha, TDKR's currently high anticipation would have gone through the roof. Period. Bane's original design was character conceptualization that was intriguing and appealing to several backgrounds. As it is now, I've heard non-CBM people refer to Bane as 'the guy they took from DC vs Mortal Kombat'. That's bad.

Yeah, (Jonathan) Nolan is definitely a fan of the Cowboy Bebop movie. :)

looks nice,it looked really good on the big screen when i saw the trailer with the amazing spider-man.

@SirWinsalot: You may have missed the part where I said I retracted my insult to you. My girl felt it was too overboard, and her opinion matters more than some random dude on the internet. Not to mention, I doubt the Galactus of our site, nor other members, would have appreciated the crack, so I removed it. If I were insecure in the slightest about my looks, I'd get a Batman avatar and join the rest of the sheep.

And my nephews will enjoy watching the best CBM ever, thanks! I'll have the Avengers Blu-ray release for them on the first day :D I'm betting the three disk set for Batman will hit sometime in January or something though, they'll dig that.