Bachman’s R/C Toys Batmobile

A bad photo I took long ago.
Another bad photo I took long ago.

This is a replica Batmobile from the 1989 Batman movie. It’s an on-road, direct-drive car I bought in June of 1996. I bought the “kit” car which came preassembled and included paperwork in a brown cardboard box with no radio gear. Most of the Batmobiles you see on eBay are the ready-to-run version, which was also prebuilt but included a Hitec Challenger 260 radio.

I’ve never run this car or even put radio gear in it; it just sits on a shelf. It’s really not much of a collector’s item. New it’s price was $150 and I’d be lucky to get that if I sold it on eBay. (Compare that to the ready-to-run version, which can fetch $300!) The kit also came with a “catalog” of parts for it (from 1989) and the price of the body is listed at $90, so if I ruin this one I might as well by a new car! This “catalog” is actually only a single sheet of paper.

Speaking of the body, might I add that the detail of it is great. I wish I bought it when it was originally released in ‘89—a number of nice accessories were available for it. In particular, there’s a light kit that I would’ve gone for. Working head and taillights would just be too cool.

More Photos

As this has become a fairly popular page, I decided to take some new photos of my Batmobile. Obviously, they’re much better than the old ones, above.

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