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at the time he died he had the second largest Batman collection in the world and he had a Batmobile and he was
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planning on building a a museum in St in the St Augustine area he was looking for
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a place to rent to make into a Batman Museum he was a big collector of um mobilia he he loved I think he was
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probably one of the biggest collectors of Batman mobilia and um and you would see I mean
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uh Stacks and stacks and stacks of first Edition toys that on the original box uh
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just packed up I mean his house looked like a warehouse it uh almost got to the point where it was so intrusive in his
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home he had one room that he called his Museum and it was filled with Batman memorabilia hanging from the ceilings
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and a completely customized room just to keep his uh his Batman collections well
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uh Benji was in his 50s and and back in the superhero days uh when he was growing up as a teenager he had a
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fascination with the comic comic books comic strips uh anything related to the superheroes and uh I guess you know uh
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it just took a bizarre form in collections but he could afford it he lived a life uh that I think he
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considered to be lavish he enjoyed collecting Batman memorabilia and he lived among his memorabilia and I think
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he liked that very much he has a home in a beautiful neighborhood on the inter Coastal in Fort Lauderdale and that's a
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very desirable address and I think that he felt very good about about that well he was very proud uh prior to his death
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and it's uh I I leave this with with one thing that Ben did he had purchased a Batmobile a replica of a Batmobile and
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he was very proud of it and he had told me that he had just driven it and got gas in it and it was his first time
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unfortunately it was also the last time that he drove the Batmobile