Thursday, February 25, 2024

Hot Wheels Batmissile

BatmissileThe Hot Wheels 1:50 scale line of Batman vehicles has been a mix of fun and frustration, largely due to the fact that a few of the vehicles have been harder to find than they should have been.

The Batmissile from Batman Returns is a perfect example of this.

It's a somewhat ridiculous vehicle to begin with, so I was starting to feel a little weird because I'd been hunting around for it for way too long. But now that my hunt for the Batmissile is finally over, I'm happy that I've completed the set of Tim Burton Batman vehicles from this line.

The toy itself is well made, with a metal outer shell, rubber tires, and the obligatory sliding cockpit door. I can't remember if the chrome part at the front is actually movie correct, but it adds to the look of the toy, so I'm willing to let it slide.


Batmissile

If anything, I suppose it feels just a bit anticlimactic to have the line end with this vehicle. I haven't read anything about a fourth series, so I'm assuming that this is it until the next film comes out.

Batmissile and Batmobile

2 comments:

Bubbashelby said...

The line isn't ending from what I have heard, unless you have all of these already:

http://www.hotwheelscollectors.com/news/news.aspx?news_id=969

plasticfetish said...

Yeah, you're totally right. There's a whole bunch of new vehicles coming out for 2010, including a few more from Batman Returns. Good stuff!