Holy Flashback: Batman Ads

So, turns out being a billionaire doesn’t necessarily pay all the bills when your hobby is being an ultra high tech criminals. To help pay for things like batarangs and a repeatedly busted up batmobile, even Batman needs a little extra cash to keep his crimefighting going.

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These Batman ads show the caped crusader (or in some cases, actor Michael Gough, who played his faithful servant Alfred in the 80s & 90s Batman films, inter-cut with movie clips of the Dark Knight) hawking Diet Coke and McDonalds. I definitely remember the Diet Coke ad, and have some of the glass collector’s cup from the Batman Forever tie-in, but I honestly don’t remember the “Superhero Burger”. Seems a little less heart attack-inducing than the Batman Burger you can get in Hong Kong nowadays though. Check out these flashback ad below:

We didn’t see much in the way of merchandising tie-ins during Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy days, will we see more of this type of advertising since Batman is now part of a bigger cinematic universe? I wouldn’t be surprised to see Ben Affleck touting the virtues of Subway is all I’m saying… h/t to Batman-online.om for the idea, check their FB page for more old school Batman TV spots!

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