Posted September 20, 20231 yr After watching The Flash in theaters I felt compelled to revisit my Tim Burton era mocs. This project will take time constructing in Studio. The original 1989 Batman film didn't have many production photos showcasing the Batcave. The few photos and Matte paintings showcased a deep cave with some sorta cement structure that appeared to be a dam. The film never showed an photo or location shot from above. The Flash film took liberties on what Wayne Manor looks like on their exterior shots. Tim Burton used a model and real exterior shots of several buildings in the UK. The batcave sound stage set was quite small and most the production money went into the Gotham City street set. The Flash set designers did what they could to reconstruct a batcave that would house everything people admired about the Burton Matte paintings and small film set. The Flash 4k came out and had plenty of feature film shots and "making of" tours inside the Batcae to help me draw up the basic floor plan. The entire sound stage used for the film is located in Leavesden, England. Based on the credits page and looking at the various turnaround 3d viewers of Warner Brother's sound stages, I concluded that the film built the batcave on Stage C. Based on the production videos and photos constructing the set, I used the top rafters and people for proportions and reference to figure out which sound stage they used. The sound stage fits the proportions of the Batcave based on the production photos and rafters and sky walk bridges located above the set. The Flash film shows a Bat symbol kite flying above the cave and waterfall with a river flowing near Wayne Manor. The first time we see a forest, wayne manor, a road in the forest leading towards the river, and a good grasp how large that cave is because Wayne Manor is not on top of it. Considering how far away the well is located in the film from the mansion, and knowing it enters next to the computer station, I am guessing that the main entrance to the cave from the manor was not fleshed out for the film. Ideally the maintenance elevator would go up to the manor, but it actually leads to nowhere when you look at the aerial shot of the area. The closest place to the manor would be the batmobile entrance. One could argue the curved bridge leading to a door on the side of the cement wall would act as a passage t the mansion as well. Photo 1: Sound Stage guidelines based on rafters and skywalk bridges. Photo 2: Map including the waterfall shape based on the 45ft tall ceiling and 130 wide building interior. Like my other models, I try to maintain a 1stud = 1ft ratio as best I can. 240 studs by 130 studs Or: 4 = 32 baseplates wide 7 = 32 baseplates tall 1= 16 baseplate tall 4x7.5 baseplates is a massive scale for a batcave.
September 20, 20231 yr Great job on the maps. When the Shadowbox was released I had plans to make a movie accurate cave, but after studying some pics from the Burtonverse I thought it would be too much 'wasted' empty space with little play value, so that project is in limbo at the moment. I might be making a Shadowbow extension with the Wayne Manor library, with a switch in the aquarium and an iron maiden slide instead... Anyway I'm really interested to see what you come up with.
October 1, 20231 yr Author Batmobile instructions are on rebrickable.com for free. https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-155004/cehnot/tim-burtons-1989-batmobile/#details
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