Com­ing­Soon have posted a sec­ond gallery of images from the Mat­tel toy show, this time reveal­ing The Joker action fig­ure and free­ing oth­ers from their restric­tive child-proof pack­ag­ing. Looks like their are two ver­sions of the Joker toy — a Heath Ledger looka­like and a stylised kids rep­re­sen­ta­tion. Also included are some close-ups of the Bat­mo­bile, Bruce Wayne’s Mur­cielago and Bat­pod auto-mobile toys.

Thanks to Ghell again for the very fast heads up!

We saw a glimpse of these a cou­ple of weeks ago, before the pic­tures were pulled from web­sites. Now Com­ing Soon are back with a full gallery of action fig­ures and play time auto-mobiles. Whilst there is one Joker hench­man fig­ure, there is a dis­tinct lack of Joker fig­ures, pos­si­bly to respect the mem­ory of Heath Ledger.

Mat­tel will be going whole hog with dozens of toys that start rolling out around May 1. There are maybe a dozen dif­fer­ent vari­a­tions of Bat­man in dif­fer­ent out­fits, includ­ing a “bat­tle cape,” “stealth wing” and “Fire­fly Bat­man” (pos­si­bly inspired by the comic book vil­lain). Notice­ably absent from the dis­play were any fig­ures for his new arch-nemesis the Joker, prob­a­bly out of respect for the fam­ily and friends of Heath Ledger, though we did get to see a few pic­tures. Mat­tel was even more secre­tive and care­ful about hav­ing any pic­tures of their fig­ure for Two-Face on dis­play, but one was listed in the mate­ri­als as part of the first wave of action fig­ures, as well as there being a new Scare­crow fig­ure, con­firm­ing his appear­ance in the sequel. Instead of any of these, they had a “Gotham City Thug,” one of the Joker’s clown-faced hench­men, on dis­play. Even more inter­est­ing were some of the vehi­cles on dis­play includ­ing a look at the Bat­copter and the Bat­pod, which is the new Bat­cy­cle, and some­thing called the “Treada­tor, Ulti­mate Pur­suit ATV” (that’s “all-terrain vehi­cle”), which we may have to wait and see if it’s actu­ally a vehi­cle from the movie. The new “Dark Knight” toys also include a Zipline Gun and a Disc Shoot­ing Jet, fairly typ­i­cal toys cus­tomized for the movie, but the most inter­est­ing new toy might be the “Inter­ac­tive Bat” which hope­fully, we’ll be able to see in action on Tuesday.

And so the Dark Knight news con­tin­ues in absence of Heath Ledger, that melan­choly feel­ing con­tin­ues to linger. It is going to be a lit­tle weird in these next few months, as pro­mo­tion gears up again and we get more viral mar­ket­ing cam­paigns — prob­a­bly with the same Joker stance.

Com­ing Soon have posted three new shots of Bat­man in an assort­ment of poses:

A pos­si­ble new poster here, looks a lit­tle green and fake but that may just be the qual­ity of the image itself. I pre­fer the other posters that we have seen.

Bruce Wayne aside the new Bat-suit (every­thing always has to be new and improved!)

The read­ers over at /film have sent in some very cool Dark Knight pro­mo­tional items — a beau­ti­ful Joker card set donned with the phrase “Why So Seri­ous”, the Bat­man logo and the film’s release date and a white t-shirt with a hideous Joker grin sprawled across it.

High Res­o­lu­tion Screen­shots from The Dark Knight Trailer

Just for you (espe­cially those that can’t play HD video on their machines) we have some won­der­ful high res­o­lu­tion screen­shots from the trailer that was offi­cially released yes­ter­day. I highly rec­om­mend look­ing at the Joker images, they are quite fantastic.

The Warner Broth­ers web­site, thedark​knight​.warner​bros​.com, has now updated — click­ing the large blue logo takes you to a page with down­load links for high def­i­n­i­tion for­mats of the offi­cial trailer. They have also kindly pro­vided us with a nice high res­o­lu­tion, offi­cial copy of the third teaser poster that we have seen only through blurry cam­era shots of so far.

Well, today is a day for fab­u­lous Dark Knight imagery, and here we have two more posters for you to wrap your­self around. The first comes in the same vein as the Inter­na­tional Dark Knight Teaser Poster fea­tur­ing Bat­man, though this time we have a great, and incred­i­bly teas­ing, shot of The Joker. The sec­ond poster shows us The Joker’s gnarly grin through a steamed up panel embla­zoned with the words “Why So Seri­ous?”, we’ll be look­ing out for a high res­o­lu­tion ver­sion of this in the next few days.

These pic­tures have come via Judao and Allocine.

Buy the Joker Teaser Posters (~$26.99 each at the moment)

Just take a look at this stun­ning new Dark Knight poster, fea­tur­ing bat­man stand­ing in front of an open win­dow (Wayne Tower?), with an awe inspir­ing but dark view of Gotham City. Beau­ti­ful. Click the image for a high res­o­lu­tion version.

Via Omelette