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spencer1984
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| Posted on 07-07-2006 16:24 |
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akutenshi wrote:
When I first saw his outfit I had to laugh.
Darknight wrote:
That is really cool (the carm not the costume). I saw one at the Guinness World Record Museum in Gatlinburg, TN a long time ago. Very cool. I wonder why someone would put the wrong emblems on the car though.
Very cool, but it's not the original one used on-screen. There are a few places where the details are wrong - the hood scoop is too wide, the point of the hood doesn't overlap the nose of the car, the rocket tubes are spaced a little far apart, there's too much of a "break" between the fins and the trunk line, etc.
Still, a nice replica. The original, for anyone who wants to see it, is in the Petersen Museum in Los Angeles. It too lacks the 1960s style bat-emblems, thanks to some licensing issues with Warner Brothers. |
 
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RE: (56k USERS BEWARE!) Look what I chanced across on today's travels... |
spencer1984
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| Posted on 07-07-2006 16:28 |
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Oh, one other trivia bit: yes, it was repainted since the sixties. The screen-used Batmobile was the one used in the "Legion of Superheroes" show, and sometime between the two series the car had been covered in a fuzzy cloth texture (often referred to as the "bat-fuzz" years). Since then, the car has been repainted gloss black with the red pinstripes, though it still needs a full restoration. |
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