A set of 1:24th scale Batmobiles, from the
original TV series and running through the movies of recent years. Each model
comes with a figure which technically should be around 75mm for 1:24th, but
they didn't look that tall to me, closer to 60mm maybe (1:30th), but I'm very
bad a judging size away from a measuring stick. Still, the catalogue states
2.75-inches, which is about 71-and-a-bit millimeters by my measuring stick,
when I'm near it.
The TV Batmobile is a nice little model,
and - unlike the NJCroce one, does
run, as a freewheeler. The boy wonder who is fixed in a sitting position seems
to be on the [orange] Batphone!
There is also, as can be seen; a smaller
version, as there seem to be for all (five?) of them. I can't remember if a
scale was given but it looks to be half-size, so around the 1:48th mark and
there don't seem to be figures with the diminutive models.
The back of the box suggests five man-bats
to collect at the moment, and note that while they don't have the bases of the Harry Potter figures we looked at
earlier; there does appear to be one on the pre-production figure used for the
box-art!
'Hollywood Rides' suggests that if not Batman's enemies, there will be further
extensions of the range into other film franchise characters. I think it's
about time we had Clint Eastwood and 'pal'with a Confederate Wagon-team! "Three-cheers for the Confederacy!"
. . . Pat . . . pat . . . pat
.
Or . . . how about "The Laaast of the vee-ate inn'tercep'tuz",
now - that's a toy I'd like to see!
Meanwhile, the catalogue has photographed
them better than I did, but their snappers are probably paid well for the task,
so they should be better! And it's another version of Batman.
Jada are also marketing these . . . sort of super deforms; in die-cast?
Let's be honest here, this stuff is purely for kidult's man-caves, I mean; who
wouldn't want 4-inches (that's half a small foot!) of deformed Halo Space Marine die-cast metal falling
on their glass-topped coffee-table, during cleaning or because they caught the
sideboard with an elbow in passing! If you drop that Hulkbuster on your foot; you're off to A&E!
However - my cynicism aside, any move away
from polymers is a good thing, no matter how much we might like our vintage
plastic figures . . . let's get them all to that position - vintage.
And that's four-more licenses! If there was
one stand-out point being made at the Toy Fair it was that licensing is
everything and everything can be licensed. For instance Monopoly (as we will see in a future post) is no longer just a
board game from Hasbro-Parker (or
even Parker-Hasbro!), it's a
licensable brand-mark to be hired, with conditions, for specific periods, to
third parties, hence the literally hundreds of versions out there, some of
which don't even use the original play-mechanisms . . . but many of which have
nice figures!
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