re: Batman '89 is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year

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Didnt MTV do a Batmobile giveaway? I remember the guy who played the reporter doing the spot for it.

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on June 23, when Batman premiered at the Ridge Cinema (now a Kroger grocery). Some 800 people watched the lanky redheaded McLynn get his prize in the Ridge parking lot. Actor Robert Wuhl, who played "ace reporter" Alexander Knox in the film, presented McLynn with a prop $25,000 check before introducing the film inside the theater. "There was so much going on," McLynn recalls. "It was overwhelming and kind of surreal." McLynn climbed into the curvaceous vehicle, but there was one problem: It didn't have an engine. Holy unmotored vehicle, Batman! McLynn explains: "The steering wheel worked, the brakes worked, the dials were in the cockpit. But it didn't have an engine. You couldn't open the hood; the entire body had to be lifted up to work inside it. It was a prop. You have to think of it like a big go-kart."

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