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Evolution of the Batmobile
I noticed this sweet graphic tracking the evolution of the Batmobile that I just spent a fairly ridiculously long time staring at. I've read my share of Batman, but there are tons of designs that I'd never seen.
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Now we need a list of all the instructions on how to build all of those... Or be really dedicated and reverse engineer it from still frames from the movies like this fella http://www.gizmag.com/home-built-dark-knight-batmobile/16736/
I've never really liked comics books, but wow, I never realised they could also be so consciously boring visually. Most of the 70s, 80s and 00s designs for the car are appallingly uncreative. Many are virtually or totally unaltered versions of existing cars. In fact the most unique, fresh and striking designs come from the TV, movie and cartoon adaptations.
I guess if you want creativity, you don't look at a medium that recycles the same characters for 70 years.
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Oddly enough for something like this there aren't any goofy ones.
There are some retro car inspired ones, but nothing too wierd.
Those illustrators are great, thinking what cars would have been like if they existed before the 1950's. It is like the precursor to steam punk!
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I just spent a fairly ridiculously long time staring at.
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I mean, he replaces them often more than once a year.
the latest batmobile
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. . . to get it back in the middle of the magazine?
I am not a crackpot.
Its missing the Batmobile from Dark Night Returns comic series. It was designed by Frank Miller.
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Taco, are you trying to take it down faster than $evil_villain at the end of the comic.
http://graphjam.files.wordpress.com.nyud.net/2011/01/batmobile_page.jpg
They appear to have missed the futuristic Batmobile which appeared in Batman Beyond. Maybe they figured it didn't count?
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Kinda disappointed that in such a detailed graph they forgot to look at the game. I'm sure that there are better screenshots of it, as it was one of the unlockable trophies.
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One design doesn't follow another, it just jumps around.
George Barris did some really amazing work, including the 66 Batmobile, the Munster's coach, and a huge list of other slick creations. In the 60's he had a car driven by a joystick in the center console.
Check out his site... pretty fun stuff there.
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With the pending release of the Green Hornet we get a new Black Beauty. Where once the Green Hornet and Kato tore about the city in the sleek, supercharged car, which must have turned a bit over 100 HP, we're in for something which will have to make even the Batmobile look like yesterday's Fiero.
And in about 2 more years Green Hornet Returns will have yet-another iteration of the famous Black Beauty.
Honestly, where do you park a car like that while you're in the building fighting with gangsters, where nobody's going to notice it?
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...here's a great site about the creation of the vehicle used in the TV series.
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I need more Green Hornet !!
I got to have MORE GREEN HORNET !!
Give ME MORE GREEN HORNET !!
What the fuck !! All this Green Hornet and all I get here is fucking Batman ??
Where the fuck can I get MORE GREEN HORNET ??
I need more GREEN HORNET !!
I want more GREEN HORNET !!
I got to have more GREEN HORNET !!
Batman has to die...right....so before I do I have to see the Bathearse!
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If you were a kid growing up in the '70s then chances are you or one of your friends had one of the Corgi Batmobiles, and if you did my Grandfather played a small part in your childhood.
My grandfather was a "skilled metal worker", his specialty was the dies for casting metal, and later, plastic parts. His last job before retirement was over a decade with a small design shop in Worcester (UK) that contracted to Corgi. Many of the elements of the Batmobile were done by him and his friends.
Over a decade later he still called the Batmobile design his best work.
He passed away in 2002 at the age of 88 and I can tell you that even in his final months he was still passionate about craftsmanship. In one of the last conversations I had with him he told me about hanging out with his own grandfather who was a basket weaver and being taught how to weave reeds.
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They're missing the 2009 model.
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The TV series car based on the 55 Futura is still burned into my mind as the classic implementation. I love the list of futuristic features in the article's image:
* Nose mounted chain slicer (WTF is that?)
* Atomic turbine engine (Mr. Fusion)
* On-board telephone (As Steve Jobs says: It's magical!)
Not surprisingly, they left out the ones from old 1940s serials. Everybody overlooks those.
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http://jalopnik.com/5726457/this-is-every-batmobile-ever
That said, it's not every batmobile. But the discussion has some interesting things!
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Alfred driving Batman around in a big ol' limousine.
That was crime fighting!
Now get the heck off my lawn.
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... a company in Indiana hand-builds them. I think they cost around $100K.
That's nothin'. You want a real Batmobile, you want a completely unmodified '49 Mercury.
My grandfather worked at Kustom's when the '66 TV series Batmobile was being done. I remember him telling me the stories about how fast they had to work, the pressure and everything they had to do to make it work. About 70% of the work done on the car was done by him and a couple of other guys. It's where he made his name before he came back to Canada. Of course everyone remembers Kustom, but few people remember the guys who a lot of the work. I wish they had the pictures of the work-in-progress while it was being done, but they lost everything in a house fire about 35 years ago.
Barris is a good guy though. Back oh 20 years ago I was in California and my old man took me to see him, toured around, got to play in the paintbooth(no cars), got shown how to do things and how they'd changed from when he was working there. He always made the comment that if you wanted to learn how to be a bodyman, and do it fast you went to the US. If you wanted to learn how to do it right you went to Canada.
They appear to have mixed up The Dark Knight and Batman Begins...
...the kind that runs in a slight turn, and when it hits an obstruction, turns its wheels to point in another direction, then continues like an ancient retarded version of the roomba. The top light iirc, would blink red, and even though the whole thing was metal, Batman's and Robin's heads were rubbery and hollow and squeezable. Always made us laugh when you pinched them and watched them go right back slowly into their proper round shapes. If I'm not mistaken these cars were made in Japan because they lasted.
We were 5 brothers that liked the show, so what could Santa do but give each one of us the same thing. I've always wondered why the light on my car didn't work. It turned out, Dad told us, that when Santa was about to put my present next to my bed, I rolled over and farted in my sleep. This startled Santa and he dropped the toy!
I've never been satisfied with any of the other batmobiles. The Tumbler from the reboot is a very cool vehicle but it doesn't say "batman" to me, just generically awesome.
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That is to say it hasn't really evolved since the 60's (excepting the Dark Knight version) but only adds or deducts a few wings and shapes randomly, and modifies a few lines to keep up with contemporary automotive trends? That's how it looks to my untrained eye anyway.
I especially like the nice touch at the end, where they put the name of the insurance aggregator that Bruce Wayne uses when he's shopping around for... hey, wait a minute...
Only a few of the designs have protected tires...
No Dark Knight Returns tank.
For those who might not know - Dark Knight Returns is as big as it gets and one of the most important graphic novels of all time
Not including the extraordinary batmobile from DKR is like missing out Tom Baker in a Doctor Who chart.
Pretty much all of these images were taken from BatmobileHistory.com, which includes a lot more (including the missing Dark Knight Returns, Beyond, and Serial cars)
I'm not much of a batman fan, but enjoyed this anyway. Mostly because the author put the whole thing on one diagram, instead of doing what EVERYONE else is doing now: putting each of 60 diagrams on a different page and making you click through them, one by one, with a new ad on each page.
Kudos to this guy. The rest of the web is slowly turning to crap thanks to this "get as many ads across you as possible in one session" mentality.
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