LEGO Bat-Pod Custom

While digging around the internet looking at all the fine bootleg stuff China has to offer, I stumbled on to a bootleg LEGO Bat-Pod aka Bat-cycle. Looking it over, I realized it was something I could cobble together on my own with the LEGO pieces I have at home. Some slight modifications and substitutions later, and I came up with this beauty!

It's a fun display piece, but since I don't have the correct wheels, they don't spin freely on the axles I have created. Which is fine, it won't roll off the shelf when someone bumps it!

I do like the adjustable wheel-height feature. This is an all-terrain Bat-Pod!

I will probably continue to modify this thing, or go back to the drawing board and come up with something 'better.' But it was fun to reverse-engineer the bootleg from the pictures and figure out what parts I needed to make this thing. It was also fun to come up with a few ideas myself (like the 'headlights' and 'tail-lights', and the blue missiles) sometimes out of necessity, since I couldn't find every single part I needed in the exact colors the original was built (namely, black and dark grey!)

Regardless, Batman seems happy.

Catwoman Purrrsday :: Oh ye of little faith...

Anne Hathaway as Catwoman WITH EARS AND A MASK As seen everywhere on the internets this week.

Bat bikes bat bikes bat bikes!

I just picked up the Hotwheels Bat-Pod yesterday. Woohoo - what a groovy little bike! It is a great little representation of the upcoming Bat-Pod (at least from what little I've seen so far.)

The two pack set comes with an older Hot Wheels casting of an armored truck, painted up with a Joker theme. Cool, but not nearly as cool as the never-before-released Bat-Pod!



It's technically part of Hotwheels' standard 1:64 scale series, but looks to be closer to a true 1:50 scale. When I get the upcoming 1:50 Tumbler we'll see how they look next to each other, but I hope they are pretty close to the same scale.

I add the Bat-Pod to my humble die-cast Batcycle collection. Here's my Corgi Bat Bike, dated 1978:


Next up is a Hot Wheel designed Bat Bike put out in conjunction with Batman Begins. The bike is clearly based on the Dodge Tomahawk. There were two versions of the Batman figurine that this bike came with, one of him standing and this one with him riding the bike:







Finally, this animated Bat bike first came out during the animated series heyday in the nineties. The second release came with a Batgirl figure, which is pretty cool! From Hasbro, dated 1997 (although the Batgirl version came out a couple years after that if I remember correctly.)




Everyone dug the Bat-Pod. They all wanted to take it out for a little spin: