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The new 1/43 Hot Wheels Batmobile is not slated to be available for the mass market until February. But PMB! has received our samples in from China and shown you it here FIRST ON THE WEB. And because we are tireless (like a golem or Larry King) in our pledge to improve wherever Mattel drops the ball, we already have our first set of upgrades ready for preorder!

Tim at TPM Customs, (the master of teensy figures) has developed a set exclusively for PMB! that includes:

• A nice replacement siren in clear red
• 2 replacement antlers
• A set of figures that sit right in the car very nicely (see the prototypes below)

We are making these available for pre-order only, and only a limited run of them for a very short time. They will be available as a painted set or unpainted if you want to save a few dollars. But don’t look for them to be around or available for very long. Note: the photo here just shows the figures, not the new siren or antlers. We will have these sets ready for pre-order as soon as the beacons and antlers are ready for photographing. This is a great scale model that Mattel did a nice job with. It really appeals to those of us who love our old 1966 Corgi Batmobiles. Everything else on this 1/43 scale car is either easily fixable by a modeler or livable with. But the beacon, antlers and lack of figures are must-fixes, in our opinion.

TPM Customs is the work of Tim Meyer, one of the Pimp My Batmobile development partners. Tim has created some nice high-end re-detailed Hot Wheels Batmobiles for a few clients and has had a couple on eBay as well.

In addition to helping develop many of the accessory parts for PMB, Tim also gets first shot at actually USING them for his car models! So his clients get some of the first ever upgrades ever seen for this car. If you have no interest in perforiming these mods yourself – you could get Tim to completely re-detail a 1:18 Hot Wheels Batmobile for you. I have to warn you – excellent modeling work does not come cheaply. If you are interested in having work done by TPM Customs, end us an email and visit TPM’s gallery of work HERE (coming soon)

Here are a few of his newest upgrades:

1. Chute details: Tim added metal tape, Jewelry wire and some gold metalic paint to accurize the chutes more like the #1 car.
 

2. Interior Details: Dash light array, start buttons, bat-ram lever and corrected Futura steering wheel are just a few of

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