Jazzinc 1/6 Batman 1989 Batmobile

sabin23 said:

There’s always hope for a Batman Returns version if your waitlist does not convert.

After the Batmobile 66 sold out, eventually a Batmobile 68 PO went up.

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Indyjones said:

Are there enough differences between the ‘89 and Returns Batmobile for them to consider releasing a Returns version?

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Indyjones said:

Yeah, I missed out on the ‘66 Batmobile as well. I will be preordering the ‘68 Batmobile in the next week or two. I like the ‘66 more, but the resell on those is out of my price range. And I don’t want to miss out on the 60’s Batmobile again.

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• Batmobile 66 & BatWing 89 - I got on the waitlist about a year after they were released.

• Millennium Falcon Ultimate DX - around 3 years after this was released, I got on the waitlist. It took several months, but I believe i got one of the last two Falcon DXs.

Indyjones said:

Are there enough differences between the ‘89 and Returns Batmobile for them to consider releasing a Returns version?

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Nick D said:

I wouldn’t say it’s very likely since they’re very similar and he has a good bit of vehicles lined up for future projects.

‘68 Batmobile
Animated Batmobile
Tumbler
Tumbler Camo
‘97 Batmobile

I think he said there’s around 300 people on the waitlist, best chance is likely to buy it off of someone when it releases I’d say.

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Winged Freak said:

Can anyone fill me in on where the belief that the wheels were bronze came from? I've asked several times in several places and people just say they're supposed to be bonze/copper. Ok, but based on what? I don't mean for that to come off rude I just want to know what reference was used to come to that conclusion?

In the photos that I've seen the wheels have a muted look. Some kind of dark paint sprayed over the original bright chrome that you see in the "making of" video with John Evans. I've seen pictures of the car on set. Also, there are those really clear pictures from the Japanese premier that were posted on the chickslovethecar website.

This is what I'm used to seeing.......

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Winged Freak said:

OK, educate me. If this has been discussed before why don't you explain.

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Winged Freak said:

OK, educate me. If this has been discussed before why don't you explain.

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Winged Freak said:

Do people find that to be a convincing photo? Unfortunately I don't. I hope there is something better than that. The wheels look about three different colors in that picture. How do you explain the closer, clearer pictures from the Japanese premier that aren't at all bronze?

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Winged Freak said:

Not even a little bit.

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Winged Freak said:

I guess the broader question is, if it’s been “settled” or “cleared up”, was that done simply by eyeballing photos? Or, is there some kind of insider information from an unempeachable source? Looking at photos can be deceptive. Different angles, different light. It doesn’t always look exactly the same and people can disagree about exactly what it is.

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dondiegomasked said:

The paint on the ‘92 is more of a matte black, for starters.

I would not bet against Jazzinc doing a ‘92 Batmobile. Joost has committed to a lot of other vehicles but that’s not to say he’s not considering a ‘92. The engineering has already been done. The few tweaks needed to go from an ‘89 to a ‘92 are trivial. The main difference is the paint. And he has said that he would like to do all of the versions of the Batmobile that he can.

Besides, he knows he could sell at least 300 of them.

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Winged Freak said:

To me, it doesn't look like antique brass, or copper, or gold, or whatever. At least not to me. I know it's not black and I never said it was black. The wheels were black in Batman Returns. Also, you can't watch the movie and gauge the wheel color because things rarely look the same in real life as they do on film. Movies are specially lit and sometimes even color corrected. Han Solo's Hoth jacket from The Emperor Strikes back is a perfect example of this. People thought it was blue for 30 years and it was actually brown. Also, I do not and would not ever use Facebook.

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Genuine question, does this not look like a bronze color to you? To my eye it seems pretty clear that it is. I thought this had already been cleared up anyway by Joost.

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Winged Freak said:

In this photo where the car is sitting in front of the museum you can arguably see some brownish bronze color on the wheels. Maybe.

But, look at the very front of the car on the body lines. The car has the brownish copper color too, perhaps even more than the wheels. So, you have the special paint on the car, you have the movie lighting, but the car and the wheels reflect a bit of the color of the set and whatever is opposite of it. It's all very deceiving.

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Winged Freak said:

Thanks. I've read this entire thread but somehow I glossed over these posts. Respectfully, I don't agree with the conclusion.

I understand that this is a finished product and will not be changed at this point. I'm not demanding any refunds. I just wanted to know what people were seeing and where the bronze wheel idea came from. I may be in the minority, I may yet be conclusively proven incorrect, but I don't think these things were bronze. Just my opinion.

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Winged Freak said:

So.....if you watch one of the making of documentaries, there is a bit with John Evans. You can see the cars in the background in the process of being built. The wheels are the original bright chrome as they would have come from the manufacturer. They were obviously painted before filming. I mentioned before that they to my eyeballs they have always looked like a gunmetal color or a charcoal-ish gray. A darker color, not black.

Also, I think (not 100% sure) that this picture below is the original filming model for the Axis Chemicals scenes. I could be wrong. Maybe this was just a studio scale replica that was made. Or maybe it's the real thing but the wheels were re painted or restored for some reason. Anyway, the wheels on this are very dark and they closely matches the photos of the full size car that I posted previously.

Another thing about the the full size cars. It's not just the lighting you have to be aware of on set. Even when they aren't at their full level of shine, they will reflect a little bit of color from the objects, buildings, and various junk that is opposite of them.

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