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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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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.
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. . . to get it back in the middle of the magazine?
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Its missing the Batmobile from Dark Night Returns comic series. It was designed by Frank Miller.
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They appear to have missed the futuristic Batmobile which appeared in Batman Beyond. Maybe they figured it didn't count?
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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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...here's a great site about the creation of the vehicle used in the TV series.
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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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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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