Hot Toys Tim Burton Batmobile

[bumblebee]

I just got off the phone with a Hot Toys representative and they were very kind and informed me that they will lower the price from $950 to $400 if everyone agrees that my name is, indeed, not Francis. Keep in mind that they made this agreement, not myself.

Kewl! Thanks Francis!





opps my bad

 

[DarkMagic]

I just got off the phone with a Hot Toys representative and they were very kind and informed me that they will lower the price from $950 to $400 if everyone agrees that my name is, indeed, not Francis. Keep in mind that they made this agreement, not myself.

We need William Shatner here.

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$400? If we're going to start a new rumour about the Hot Toys price, let's not go all "namby pamby" with it.

(I know $400 is perfectly reasonable....but don't tell HT that)

 

[Guinnessfan]

Personally I'm thinking 3 easy payments of 19.95 and 1 freaking complicated payment.













Thank you Mitch Hedberg for that line R.I.P.

 

[Music Man]

I hope I am wrong, but I notice there is a "DX" sign next to it. Does it mean it is going to be expensive?

 

[Calcifer]

I hope I am wrong, but I notice there is a "DX" sign next to it. Does it mean it is going to be expensive?

Dx sign if for Joker and Batman, only the figures get the dx treatment, hot toys have done only a few vehicles so there is no need for deluxe versions of any of them.

..and welcome to the Mad house dude!! ..sick of saying "freak show".

 

[Music Man]

Thanks ! I am still a newbie to hot toys. I have already missed out the tumbler and I can't afford to miss this Keaton Batmobile.

 

[a-dev]

Dammit I was hoping for PERS on the batmobile!

 

[vodoun]

Like that?

 

[jye4ever]

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Dammit I was hoping for PERS on the batmobile!

 

[DarkMagic]

Dx sign if for Joker and Batman, only the figures get the dx treatment, hot toys have done only a few vehicles so there is no need for deluxe versions of any of them.

..and welcome to the Mad house dude!! ..sick of saying "freak show".

Then I'm unclear about what exactly makes an item a DX. The DX 01 and 02 figures are the deluxe versions of the TDK Joker and Batman.

What are the DX 1989 Joker and Batman deluxe versions of? There is no regular version. If they can be considered DX without referring to a regular version, then surely the Batmobile can be considered DX. Unless DX has a specific definition that Hot Toys released or something, that says only figures with PERS eyes are DX?

 

[HellboyFanChuck]

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You're welcome everyone.

 

[karamazov80]

DX just means a figure has googly eyes you can move back and forth, up and down. PERS. They used to share similar stands, but that only lasted for 3 releases. They don't all have multiple clothing options. They have more than a bare bones HT release, but figures like T-1000 and T1 T-800 have a comparable amount of stuff, just missing the PERS. Bad Michael Jackson and Bruce Lee never had HT figures before the DX. Neither will Indiana Jones or Bespin Luke.

 

[thenammagazine]

DX just means a figure has googly eyes you can move back and forth, up and down. PERS. They used to share similar stands, but that only lasted for 3 releases. They don't all have multiple clothing options. They have more than a bare bones HT release, but figures like T-1000 and T1 T-800 have a comparable amount of stuff, just missing the PERS. Bad Michael Jackson and Bruce Lee never had HT figures before the DX. Neither will Indiana Jones or Bespin Luke.

Seems like the Parallel Eye Rolling System (although it's not just parallel anymore) is the determining factor between a DX and standard MMS.

 

[jarvis.321]

To HELLBOYFANCHUCK! YES A THANK YOU IS IN ORDER!!! DID YOU GET ANY INFO ON PRICE POINT? EVEN A HINT?

 

[aaronViolator]

theres no doubt in my mind, hot toys you can put me down for one of these...

 

[jye318]

Wow that thing looks big!!! It that almost same size as the CM?

 

[batfan08]

It looks amazing as is, but seeing it with the top closed just makes me that much more excited.

 

[Rackemup]

I want this batmobile sooooo bad!! Haha

 

[Blackthornone]

Everything about the Batmobile in this post is an assumption:

1. Why do people keep saying the Batmobile is too short? It may "look" short from the photos, but without measurements, its impossible to be certain at this point for this piece.

2. The shade and gloss level of the finish looks fine to me. But the thing about this Batmobile, as it appeared in 1989 (before the jet-black high-shine Returns version) is that it's finish is very subjective. Different photos and screenshots of the actual car seem to contradict each other based on the lighting or shine level bouncing off of it in different scenes or shots. In some it looks almost black, in some it even looks almost silver and anywhere in between. And then on top of all that, you've got to consider how the actual movie prop is colored (how it would look in a well lit room) versus how it was meant to look...how it looks in the low-light night scenes of the movie. It's a very difficult thing to pin down, and since there is so much variation in appearance for the same car, I think Hot Toys did a pretty good estimate...even if this is not the final color.

3. "It's overpriced." We simply don't know this for a fact yet. All that's been going on is a lot of speculation based on an unsourced message board post.

To scale, the Batmobile should be over 3 feet 7/12 inches long. I guarantee you that it isn't that long, therefore it is short from that standpoint. Proportionally, it looks like it is too short compared to it's width. If you are fairly adept at eyeballing things, you can tell this. As an artist, I need to be able to gert proportions right, so I am quicker than most people at eyeballing proportions, and as there are other artists here, they can do the same. The reason it is too small is to so it isn't too big for most people's collections. A correctly sized one would eliminate about 70% of potential buyers. It is also smaller to lower cost.
The original movie car was a pearl silverish color, as sourced from Terry Ackland Snow, who built it. All colors look different in different lights, and so the darker the lighting, the blacker the 89 Batmobile gets.
I don't really know whether the car was supposed to look black or not, but most people expect it to be. The real pearl color of the car would become obvious in broad daylight, and so if some people saw it then, they would believe that the car was painted a different color than it was in the movie, because they could never really tell what color it was in the film, and simply assumed that it was black. (They assume this even though you could easily see the contours of the car much easier at night than you could ever see, if the car was REALLY painted black. A lot of people don't think about this, and still assume that it was black.)

This color is as close to the real color of the car as red is similar to orange. If you wanted to film a red Ferrari at night and wanted it to look red on film, you couldn't paint it red, you would have to paint it red orange, or orange instead, because at night, red looks like dark maroon. What color would the car be, REALLY? Is it specially painted orange car used in the movie, or is it just the regular Ferrari red, Rosso Corsa painted Ferrari? It is a matter of opinion.

 

[Gully Foyle]

Personally, I believe each piece is way overpriced.

Then don't buy 'em.

What's the point of extra dough if you're not going to spend it? This Hot Toys '89 Batman thing hit, and boy did it hit hard. I'd be crazy not to jump on it now and regret it later.

True . . . but what if a 1:6 Syd Mead Spinner is around the proverbial corner?