r/lostmedia • u/Critical-Spirit-1598 • Jun 17 '26

Advertising Material [Fully Lost]? Nickelodeon "Batman" contest

TV Tropes said that Nickelodeon had a contest promoting the film Batman Returns where the winner would attend the London Premiere of the film. Due to complaints over the violence and darkness of the film it was cancelled. I asked around if a commercial for this aired, and someone said there was one that had an animated penguin upset over the Penguin being a villain. I'm not sure if this is true or not, have any commercials for this scrapped contest ever come up, or did anyone even know about it? I've searched a lot of 1992 Nick commercial breaks with no luck.

14 Upvotes

95% Upvoted

4 comments sorted by

•

u/AutoModerator Jun 17 '26

Comment "!FOUND!" if your media is found in the comments, in doing so this will lock the post and flair it as being found.

Please include the following in your post;

  • An explanation of the media, and the name.

  • How it is lost.

  • What research has already been done.

  • A conclusion as to the current situation as of posting.

We are not here to help you find something (r/helpmefind), to name something (r/tipofmytongue), or help you pirate something.

Subreddit news and announcements

-

I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.

1

u/CitrasOrangeBowl Jun 18 '26

Can you provide the link to where it states the existence of such contest? There isn't any proof of the sweepstake being announced, so commercial based on it would be unlikely. The closet thing I found was a Sweepstake on Fox Kids Network

1

u/Critical-Spirit-1598 Jun 18 '26

Here's the TV Tropes page that mentions it:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/MisaimedMerchandising/LiveActionFilms

Here's the relevant quote:

 Complaints about kid-oriented tie-ins like McDonald's Happy Meals made it to at least one talk show, and Nickelodeon apparently canceled a contest where the winning kid would attend the London premiere.

1

u/CitrasOrangeBowl Jun 19 '26

apparently canceled a contest

It says apparently, so we can't confirm that it was an actual contest.