Hot Toys figures on the way!

[1989Batmancom]

Our full Hot Toys Batmobile review is now up-

Hot Toys MMS 170 1989 Batmobile Review




-James

[1989Batmancom]

For anyone interested... Our review of Mime Joker is now up!



This one is super-sized with almost 100 pictures and 30+ minute video review- http://www.1989batman.com/2013/12/merchandise-spotlight-hot-toys-dx14.html





Thanks!

James

[DarkVengeance]

Looks absolutely incredible

[Cobblepot4Mayor]

Well, got my Hot Toys Batmobile unboxed tonight...

Bad news:

-The box had a 7 inch hole in the side of it, both through the brown shipper and the display box.... plus another quarter size hole in the other side. No damage to the car from this, but it is still a bummer to have a destroyed box on a $700 item.

- I have 2 of the common scuff/ scratches on the canopy's side. They aren't as bad as others I have seen (and not nearly bad enough to risk trying for a better one), but they are there:



Good news:

IT IS THE FREAKING 1989 BATMOBILE IN 1/6TH SCALE.



This is honestly the coolest purchase I have ever made. Even with the scuffs and the box damage... Zero buyer's remorse. It is a thing of absolute beauty and is the definitive piece in my 1989 Batman collection. A work of art.

Here are some quick, no frills pics of this beast.... I will do some more detailed pics (once I figure out how to get it on my photo table) and a video review this weekend... but I just wanted to snap a few pics of this masterpiece in its new home tonight.









James

Many of my best and most memorable Christmas' are as the result of Batman product I recieved on the big day. Never forget Christmas morning 1992, the Returns logo was seemingly everywhere and I hadn't even seen the movie yet (got that on VHS in my Christmas stocking at the tender "underage" of four years old). Last year (2012) I got the Hot Toys Joker. Had to keep an eye on it in my local comic store. Thankfully nobody bought it for almost four months. After that Christmas I didn't think there was anything that could possibly top such an incredible gift. Cue Christmas 2013 blues lol

Thought I'd get myself that Chris Reeve Evil Superman with it's spectacular base. Great figure and I love Superman III personally. What else could possibly top Nicholson? Couldn't care less about the Christian Bale figures and the Returns line still aint out. It seemed the obvious bet. So I geniunely didn't expect my family (who I assumed had gone out to dispose of trash) to shove in a gi-normous box through our hallway this recent Christmas containing this, the biggest freaking Batmobile ever made! So big it couldn't even fit our car boot properly (in which it had to stay throughout Christmas Eve night against the prying eyes of potential thieves!). I know it was the only one available to buy in my home city. I'm told the guys who sold it felt they had been paid their Christmas bonus' lol It displayed in the window of my local store throughout the holiday (much like that movie "A Christmas Story" with the kid who's after that Red Ryder BB Gun). I never dreamed in a million years it'd find it's way into my Cobblepot-like "flippers". What a fantastic new Christmas memory.

I'm one of those people who believe they have psychic ability and although I recently had enough money to also buy that Christopher Reeve figure I decided against it. I have a funny feeling this year we will finally have some sort of progress on the Batman Returns figures. It's been two whole years this January that they were announced. Something's bound to happen soon. Hot Toys may want to put something out in this 75th anniversary year anyway. Plus I think their running out of things to do with the Christian Bale stuff.