Kenner Gotham City Bank Playset

If there is a bank in Gotham City, chances are that at some point its going to be robbed!

The Joker and Bob the goon are robbing the Gotham City Bank! Can Batman and Robin stop the bank robbers from stealing the money bags and gold, or will evil prevail? You decide!

The Gotham City Bank playset from Kenner's The New Batman Adventures Collection makes a fine Super Powers diorama scene since the scale is pretty much the same, and besides, the Gotham City Bank wasn't even originally intended for The New Batman Adventures Collection anyway! Wait, what?

That's right, there were originally two playsets planned for the Superman: Man of Steel line-- neither of which were actually produced before the line was canceled in 1996. The first was a Cloning Lab playset (because the new Superboy turned out to actually be a Cadmus clone, perhaps?) with a capture claw and a bubbling water tank. The second would have been, wait for it... a Metropolis Bank playset complete with bendable vault bars, a smash action door, and a bendable lamppost for wrapping up the bad guys!

So, the Metropolis Bank eventually became the Gotham City Bank! OK, but what about that Cloning Lab? Well, it'd be a shame to waste a perfectly good playset, especially after it has gotten far enough along the lines that the tooling and molds have been made! That Cloning Lab eventually became Joker's Toxic Lab, later to be reused in the Batman and Robin Collection as Mr. Freeze's Cryo-freeze Chamber.

"Re-create exciting movie scenes with Mr. Freeze's evil laboratory," just like the one he never had in the movie...

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