 Today, we're going to be taking a look at the Hot Wheels 1989 original Batmobile from the Tim Burton film, so stay tuned. Alright guys, as I said today, we're going to be taking a look at the original Hot Wheels 1989 Batmobile from the Tim Burton films. This is not a remake. This is not a redo like the others I've shown you. This is the original from 89. How you can tell that is the originals from 89 always had the Batman symbol on the roof. I'm not sure why they did that. Perhaps it was to tell people that yes indeed this is from the Batman movie. This is the Batmobile as if the design wasn't evidence enough. They had to put the Batman symbol on there. And as you can see, let's flip that over. Trademark and copyright DC Comics Incorporated 1989. Before we take a look at this guy, I'm going to read you a little bit from the Batman wiki about this Batmobile. It was originally designed in 1988 by Anton First, Tim Burton, Terry Acklin Snow, John Evans, and Keith Short. The length of the actual on-screen Batmobile was 260.7 inches. The width was 94.4 inches. The height was 51.2 inches. Acceleration was zero to 60 in 3.7 seconds. Maximum speed 530 kilometers an hour with booster. It has a jet turbine for an engine. High octane 97% special gasoline-perifin mixture has fuel. The torque was 1,750 lbf per feet at 98.7 ROFs. Wheelbase 141 inches. Wheels were cast alloy 15 by 6.5. Tires high aspect L60 by 15. Two-seat cockpit featuring aircraft-like instrumentation, a passenger side monitor, self-diagnostic system, CD recorder, and voice command operation and recognition system. The arsenal on board this thing was a side-mounted grappling hook launcher, disc projectile and bottom dispensers. Side chassis mounted shin breakers, a central foot underneath the vehicle capable of lifting the car and rotating it 180 degrees. Armor plated body with an additional cocoon of heavy armor capable of being deployed while vehicle is stationary, dubbed cocoon mode. Rear oil slick dispensers and smoke emitters, two forward-mounted Browning M191930 caliber machine guns, exhaust afterburner, and emergency bat missile mode that sheds all material outside of the central fuselage and reconfigured the wheels and axles to fit through narrow openings. Once employed, the mode essentially destroyed the car's exterior and required rebuilding Only shown in the games, the Batmobile also features forward mounted or dual missile launchers. The Batmobile was built upon a special Chevy Impala chassis with a Chevy V8 engine and was based on and modified from a 1970 Corvette body when previous development with a Jaguar and Ford Mustang failed. A second car was based on an Oldsmobile Cutlass convertible. This Batmobile also made a cameo appearance in Jason Todd, The Lost Day's number two comic book series. So with that being said, let's go ahead and take a look at the Batmobile. This Batmobile designed specifically for the Tim Burton era movies featured in both Batman and Batman Returns. Although it was rebuilt after becoming the Batmobile in Batman Returns, Bruce Wayne eventually retired the Batmobile in favor of the Val Kilmer Batmobile. As we already discussed, the original 89 Batmobile does have the Batman symbol on top. You can see it has the bay for the machine guns there. You can clearly see the jet turbine engine. You can see other machine guns here and here. No special die cast for the wheels though. Everything is in proportion. Here's the afterburner. Very nice. I've always liked this. I had it at one time. My brother and I both had one during the original release. However, over the years we lost it, lost them both. However, while at Primary Colors Retro Relics a couple weeks ago, my son managed to find this 89 Batmobile in fairly decent condition. However, it does have some paint wear along the fins or wings, whatever you want to call them, and along pretty much most of the edges. But other than that, very nice. He offered to let me have it to add to my Batmobile collection. But being the father I am, he found it. He should get to keep it. With that being said, let's go ahead and compare this Batmobile to the other two 89 Batmobiles from my collection. As you can see, the original 89 Batmobile, there's really no comparison. Sure, the other two look similar. This one, which was the first of the reproductions that I got from my collection, as you can see, the front is extremely large. There is some chrome to it. Yellow windows. The back is very tiny in comparison. Overall, it's okay. But there's a little side by side comparison there. So as you can see, obviously the original blows the newer one away. It would have been a lot better though. It would blow it even more out of the water if they would have chromed the wheels and maybe the guns. That would have been pretty nice too. And as you can see, the fins or wings, whatever you want to call them on the back of this one, are a lot tinier than this version. And the car itself is also far shorter than the original as well. That out of the way. Side by side comparison of these two. This one is pretty close. However, as you can see, the hood on this one, it comes into an angle. See how it kind of comes in almost to a point all the way back to the afterburner. While this one is more, it's more squared. I remember as a kid growing up, we would take our Hot Wheels Batmobiles and use them as the grappling hook launchers from the Batman movie. It does kind of resemble the line launcher that Michael Keaton used in the 89 Batman film. So we would always use it like that. It brings back a lot of good memories. But this one is by far the closest to the original that Hot Wheels has done since producing the original in 89. So there you have it my friends. This was our look back at the 1989 Hot Wheels Tim Burton Batmobile. I hope you enjoyed this video. If you did, go ahead and hit that subscribe button and the like button so you don't miss out on future videos. Also go ahead and hit that bell notification button so that you receive notifications on all things geek culture from our channel. Let me know in the comments below which one of these three is your favorite. The best looking design in your opinion. I'm Shannon for Comic-Con TV, the only place on YouTube where all geek culture collides. Take care my friends.