ARS: Now that Batman: Arkham Asylum is here, many of us have been tempted to pick up the Collector's Edition for the PS3. It makes sense: aside from getting the Joker challenge maps (exclusive to the PS3 build), and exclusive challenge maps to the collector's edition there's also the behind-the-scenes DVD, art book, and, of course, a full-sized batarang.
For me, the idea of a 14-inch batarang sitting on top of my bookshelf as a conversation piece was too much, so I ambled down to GameStop between classes this afternoon and picked up the ridiculously oversized box of comic fan goodness. When I opened up the box, I found-much to my dismay-that the batarang was actually made from cheap black plastic that was scratched to hell.
Originally, I thought I'd gotten box with a defective unit, but five minutes with Google revealed that every Collector's Edition had scratched-up batarangs. It turns out that Eidos designed the batarangs to look "used", something which sounds fine based on the promotional images Eidos used.
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Go along with it...that's what those scratches are :)
some ppl just aren't smart then. Whoever thought they were gonna get a metal batarang are delusional. It would be considered a weapon.