![]() ![]() My mutant plants have the strength of the deadliest animals. A chance for Mother Nature to start again. I will blanket the city endless winter! First Gotham, and then. ![]() Freeze: If I must suffer, humanity will suffer with me! I shall repay them for sentencing me to a life without the warmth of human comfort. ![]() Freeze to the Arkham Asylum security guards Learn it well.for it's the chilling sound of your doom. He also becomes Ivy's cellmate and vows to make her life a living hell for her treachery.Īllow me to break the ice. Batman had Nora sent to Arkham Asylum so Freeze could continue his research there. Freeze gave Batman the cure to stage 1 of MacGregor's Syndrome. After Batman shows him that Ivy attempted the murder and Batman actually saved her, Mr. Freeze made an alliance with Poison Ivy and Bane despite the radically different philosophies of the two villains, though she would later prove to be a traitor who attempted to kill his wife and frame Batman for it. Freeze planned on destroying Gotham City and was more openly omnicidal in this movie, using his freeze-ray to callously freeze pretty much anything in his path, though he did have a connection to his frozen wife (just as many other incarnations would do) which prior to being lied to by ivy was the motive for using his freezing engine to hold Gotham for ransom and give him the billions he needed to complete his research in order to find a cure for Nora Fries illness MacGregors syndrome. Freeze is a completely different character both in design and personality he was (in)famously played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, and had some of modern cinema's most memorable "camp" moments, which has made him a controversial figure in the Batman mythos, with some fans enjoying the camp humor (somewhat akin to the old 1960s show) while others panned it for making Batman far too childish in nature. I loved them, and I know that if I had this Batman & Robin set back in ‘97 I would have loved it equally.Mr. What I will say is that I had a number of micro playsets during the 1990s, including a few Star Wars sets from Galoob. I think the box art is fantastic and I don’t want to cause any damage by opening it. So, why haven’t I opened this set? Well, I’m currently keen to preserve the playset as best as I can. To give kids a sample of what is on offer, the figures sit behind a thin sheet of plastic, rather than being sealed up in the box. ![]() Here you can see the two figures that are included. These features offer a little interactivity in the set. What you can also see in this image are some of the set’s movable features, including the spring-loaded Freeze Cannon, a break-away Ice Cage, and an adjustable dome. For example, this set includes sections for Bane’s Chemical Lab as well as Poison Ivy’s Lab – two ‘laboratories’ which did not feature in the Observatory scenes in the movie. Freeze’s ice-skating henchmen.Īs you can see from the image below, the playset is based on the Gotham Observatory from Batman & Robin, but with some creative license. The figure set included Batman, Robin, Batgirl, Mr. It could be played with as a solo set, or alongside a sister set: The Micro Batcave playset (sold separately).Ī vehicle collection and a figure assortment were also available. It offered kids the opportunity to experience a full playset in the palm of their hand and without the hefty price tag of a regular sized toy. The set is one of a number of mini-playsets released during the 1990s, when micro toys (Micro Machines, Mighty Max, Polly Pocket etc) were very popular. It includes the Gotham Observatory – as seen in the movie – along with two figures: Mr. Leave it to Batman, the Caped Crusader, to save Gotham City.’ Freeze, a cold-blooded villain who has control of a deadly cryonic freeze ray cannon! But Batman heats things up by busting through the ice cage, wrestling Poison Ivy’s venomous, vine-encased laboratory and discovering the secrets of Bane’s chemically enhanced power before battling it out with Mr. The product description on the reverse of the packaging reads: ‘Gotham City is about to become a very cold place… The city observatory has been overtaken by Mr. This playset – produced by Kenner – hit toy stores in 1997 as part of a collection of MicroVerse sets, comprising miniature playsets and 2cm figures. In this post I am taking a look at one of the many toy playsets released as a tie-in with the movie, Batman & Robin. ![]()
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