Video Advertisements: Toys

I'll be getting around to reviewing some of these in the near future. In the meantime, here's a selection of adverts for the Batman Forever toy line.

Batman Forever Action Figures

Batman Armor Set

Toys R Us

Microplayset

Video Advertisements: VHS release and TV premiere

Here's two adverts for the VHS release of Batman Forever and an extra bonus advert for the UK TV premiere.

VHS release

UK TV premiere (Circa 1998)

Video Advertisements: Kelloggs

There were quite a few food products that had tie-ins with Batman Forever. Spaghetti Hoops, Bat-symbol shaped Chicken Nuggets, Pop Tarts, you name it.

Here are three adverts for Kelloggs cereals.

Kelloggs Cornflakes

Kelloggs Mini Wheats

Kelloggs CornPops

Video Advertisements: McDonalds

Well, Batman did say he was going to "get drive-thru"!

After the controversial response to the Batman Returns Happy Meal toys I guess McDonalds decided to play it safe and go with glass cups instead.

Here's three of the Batman Forever McDonalds adverts.

Video Advertisements: OnStar

Technically, this has nothing to do Batman Forever but I thought I'd post it anyway.

Between 2000-2002 OnStar released six adverts featuring Bruce Thomas as Batman. The look and feel is somewhere in between the Burton movies and the Schumacher movies.

The sixth and final advert featured Brian Stepanek as The Riddler doing a fairly decent Jim Carrey impression.

Video Advertisements: Video Games

Batman Forever had a video game for just about every console available at the time.

While the Sega Saturn and PlayStation got a port of the hectic arcade game, the Sega Genesis, Game Gear, SNES and Gameboy got a really sluggish scrolling beat-em-up from Probe Entertainment/Acclaim.

It was a chore to play and had very fiddly unresponsive controls. That said, it had an awesome trailer for the game that was on the VHS release of the film in the forthcoming attractions.

One thing to note is that at lot of people think the shot of Batman and Robin on a pillar at the end is taken from the deleted ending of the film.

It's not, I'm afraid - it's just a shot they did with two stuntmen on a set specially for the game trailer. Neither Joel Schumacher nor any of the movie cast and crew were involved.

And here is a promo showing a little more of the gameplay.

Urgh, remember those terrible, noisy, cheap handheld games from Tiger? The ones with really repetitive gameplay and headache inducing music.

Well, in the 1995 they tried to make them more interesting by turning them into a wearable headset where you'd view the game on a little screen over your right eye! Yeah, they didn't last very long.

I remember these being on the toy shelves in 1995 and desperately trying to save up to buy one. I thought they looked amazing! Thankfully, they took them away before I got enough money. I'd have been furious if I wasted it on this.

Here's a sample of how the Batman Forever R-Zone game plays in case you're curious.

And finally, here's some posters for the Acclaim game.

Video Advertisements: Soundtrack

The Batman Forever Soundtrack was one of the biggest selling of the decade. Here's how it was promoted on TV.

And here's a nice scan of the poster that was featured in magazines. Boy, they really wanted people to pick this up!