http://www.pimpmybatmobile.com Modeling, Customizing, Accessorizing and Collecting the 1966 Batmobile Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:03:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just heard back from our first giveaway winner Mnbatman (also known as Kent Themmes) that he received the 1:50 Hot Wheels Batcycle and Batmobile set safe and sound. Thanks for the photo Kent. Nice shirt! http://www.pimpmybatmobile.com/products-and-commerce/news-from-the-winners-circle If you guys haven't checked out Joe Kelly Jr.'s Playing With Cars website (the web component of The Car Room magazine) you've been missing out on the most informative, best-produced model car entusisast resource there is in the world. I've long admired Joe's informative and entertaining video reviews of some ... http://www.pimpmybatmobile.com/customizing/118-scale/hot-wheels-batmobiles/playing-with-cars-elite-batmobile-review If you've been patiently waiting for our newly designed decals to get started on your Hot Wheels mods - the wait is over. Andy got them out to us yesterday and they are great. Check them out on the products page. Everyone keeps asking if they are the same as ... http://www.pimpmybatmobile.com/customizing/118-scale/hot-wheels-batmobiles/batmobile-upgrade-decals-are-here So the official announcement of the 1:50 Batgirl Cycle as the SDCC promo vehicle is now okay to talk about. There may be photos on Friday. Check on the 1966 Batmobile board for more info. Looks like it's part of a three pack at least at the show, which leads me ... http://www.pimpmybatmobile.com/customizing/118-scale/hot-wheels-batmobiles/news-a-winner-and-some-teases http://www.pimpmybatmobile.com/customizing/118-scale/hot-wheels-batmobiles/full-video-of-elite-batmobile Hang on to your hat folks, I've got some scoop. It was just divulged to a high-ranking official at the 1966 Batmobile website that the upcoming mystery SDCC promo vehicle will be...   ...not revealed until 6/10. Sorry. LOL. But since Eric doled out some hints on his site, I will too. How about ... http://www.pimpmybatmobile.com/products-and-commerce/sdcc-hot-wheels-bat-vehicle-giveaway New video slide show of the dealer's sample sent to us courtesy of Replicarz.com (Replicarz still has Elites for ordering) Actual video footage coming up in the next day or so. Comments below.  Overall - lots of nice upgrades. Sadly - most of them just make the model look more accurate to the ... http://www.pimpmybatmobile.com/products-and-commerce/elite-batmobile-slide-show  More photos courtesy of Pennyworth (Mike D.) Just received this morning from Brian at Replicarz. More details later. Pics for now.  Check out the bent Bat-Radar. (Just like the resin models!) It's NOT photo etched exactly, but it is detailed finer than the standard model. The phone has been shrunk down! Still big ... http://www.pimpmybatmobile.com/customizing/118-scale/hot-wheels-batmobiles/hot-wheels-elite-batmobile-in-the-house-first-look It's an exciting bat-time. 1. We just heard from our casting factory about the seated figures. Molding is done.  We should have our final approval samples here tomorrow and orders will be rolling out directly after that.  Thanks for everyone's patience. We also MAY have some standing figures coming in for ... http://www.pimpmybatmobile.com/products-and-commerce/elites-on-the-way-figures-update-etc From my post on the 1966 Batmobile website from 5/14/08: I am exploring this a little with some detective work. Eric said originally: "For Comic-Con 2008, Hot Wheels will have an exclusive Bat-vehicle like they did last year. I'm sworn to secrecy of which one it will be, but I can tell you ... http://www.pimpmybatmobile.com/products-and-commerce/hot-wheels-150-tv-batboat