There’s a scene towards the beginning of 2018’s excellent Teen Titans Go! To The Movies where, after Robin and his friends have snuck into a movie premiere for Batman’s newest big screen adventure, they discover that basically everyone but Robin is getting a movie. As the teasers play, the increasingly furious Robin watches as Alfred gets his own Dark Knight style reinvention, the Batmobile gets its own movie, and worst of all, even the Utility Belt is getting a spinoff.
“Ah, they did the car before you, bro!” teases Cyborg.
This is all a long wind-up for the news that, along with TV series focusing on Batman’s butler (Pennyworth) and a second TV series focusing on the Gotham City Police Department (Matt Reeves’ untitled Gotham PD spinoff of The Batman), Batman’s greatest ally will finally get its own chance to shine: a new preschool animated series titled Batwheels is coming to Cartoon Network and HBO Max, and it’ll star the Batmobile. Yes, really.
“Batwheels is the perfect show to headline our new foray into preschool,” said Tom Ascheim, President, Warner Bros. Global Kids, Young Adults and Classics (GKYAC) via press release. “I can’t wait for all the aspiring super heroes out there to meet this whole new batch of crime-fighters.”