More than 50 years of Batmobile
There is absolutely no way you haven't heard about batman and his car the batmobile. Batman has been roaming Gotham City for over five decades now protecting the innocent from the malevolent plans of the villains that target the city. Batmans story has inspired generations and has been one of the most popular fictional characters of our century.
Batman gained instant popularity right after his introduction to the world in the late 1930s. His story is one of heroism and virtue and is one that has appealing to audiences of all ages for several generations ever since. Batman has not only captivated audiences around the world over and over again but the character has captivated the interest of collectors.
The most collected batman item aside from batman figures is that of the batmobile. Avid fans of the series and the films have been collecting these diecast models of the batmobiles for many years. This fascination for Batman stems from the unique design of the environmen in which batman exists. Form the story to every single item in his world.
The style of Batman as well as the style of the Batmobile was set from the very beginning with the comic book as well as with the animated series that followed. The Animated Series used a distinctive visual combination of film noir imagery as well as art deco designs with a very dark color scheme. This seemed to be very successful in captivating the interest of audiences worldwide. The show has created an timeless character by combining vintage design elements like police blimps and pre-World War II vehicle styles with modern components like jet propulsion and computers.
The adoption of such styles if evident in the futuristic design of the batmobile. The original batmobile for the television series was designed in1966. It was and is the fist ever batmobile and was a ford concept car designed and built entirely by hand. The ford future was the ideal batmobile and was used for the 1966 series. The 1966 batmobile is a historic vehicle and has been reproduced countless times in scale form.
The batmobile has changed a lot over the years. The design of the car has changed two times since it was initially conceived in 1966. The second time it changed was in the 1980's and the third time in 2005 when the batmobile tumbler was born.
Even though the batmobile has been around for a long time people are still fascinated with the idea of a high tech mythical vehicle like this. Batmobile lovers collect diecast models of all batmobile designs until today. There many places where you can search for these models but the best place to look for a diecast batmobile model is the internet.