Corgi Model Club USA is preparing to re-release this Batmobile. I think pre-orders are next month and it comes out in October. You might want to check it out. Thanks for watching.
I have never heard of that one. It may have been an error car. In all my research and even in the books out there, it has never been mentioned. Thank you for watching.
@@rwheatley0206 Thank you for your reply. I own one circa 1980. I thought it may have been one of the assembly guys doing it for a laugh? Maybe one day it will be worth something?
@@deankuball1228 That could be the case. That would be considered an error model and those are worth a lot of money even in the hot wheels type cars. On 6/17/24, Corgi is releasing the Corgi 267 Batmobile again for pre-order. Go to corgimodelclubUSA.com and if you join the club, you will be able to order the matt black version too. I don't know if you can order the matt black version on 6/17 but anyone can order the gloss black version that day. They also have a facebook page that tells more about it. Let me know if you get one. The pre-order is supposed to ship out in October.
That Batmobile sounds like it will be epic and perfect for the Crime Alley.😁 That Adams Treasury is so good! I hope all is well Roger. God bless and have a blessed Easter weekend. 🙏🏻
I’m not sure how old I was when I got one of these as a young boy in the early 70s, I’m thinking maybe I was 6 years old. And, I’m not sure which version I had. Unfortunately, I’ve just now found this video many years after it was first posted. I’ve just purchased a first edition in mat black in superb unrestored condition with such awesome patina. However, it has a chip in the windshield piece at the top of the passenger side window nacelle (behind where Robin’s head would be). The only thing I’m going to do with it is replace the windshield piece. But of course, that requires doing a lot of things that would potentially take away from the otherwise unrestored nature of this wonderful example, including drilling out the bottom rivets. I would not bother doing anything if the windshield piece merely had visible cracks and not an obvious chip out of it. Here’s the idea that I had that perhaps someone in a similar situation may find helpful (to the extent this is not something others have already long since also been doing for their restorations): I’m going to buy a super inexpensive donor model in terrible condition, cut it open from the top even though the donor car will be utterly destroyed, and then get all the metal rivets out from the donor car in preserved condition to replace the rivets I’ll need to drill out. Haven’t yet decided how I’ll affix the preserved rivets from the donor car onto the bottom of the good car, but I’ll figure it out once I sort of get to that point. I’m a collector, not a merchant. I’ll never sell the good car and this is not something I’m doing in any way whatsoever to increase the dollar value of the good car. Really, I’m the only person who will ever see the bottom of it in my lifetime. And, I definitely don’t want to see something like six screws there instead of six rivets. I’ll likely preserve and use the internal rivets from the donor car also just to be consistent, unless I find out doing so is way more difficult than I think it will be.
Thank you for making this video. I had what was probably the second version when I was a kid. A couple years ago, I bought a restored batmobile and I thought that the flame was broken. I was very disappointed that the seller didn't mention the deficiency. After seeing your video, I have learned that they did away with that moving flame feature. I am very relieved that it isn't broken.
Toth is the total artist's artist-many modern day mainstream readers may not have heard of him, but most of the top artists in comics absolutely have and remain influenced by him and revere him. As an indication of this, the American Comics Library/IDW produced FOUR huge coffee table volumes that covers his life and career. (I have all of these and many other collections of his work.) He had a cinematic quality to his storytelling and was a consummate draftsman. Less sophisticated readers would often think his work too "cartoony" and simple, but even cartoonists who thought this when they were young later realized not only how talented he was, but how much can be LEARNED from him as an artist and storyteller. During the '50s, just through his romance comics (which his work elevated btw), he inspired and amazed all of his peers with his innovative work. Indeed, him and Kirby were probably the two templates for comic book artists in that era, though Kirby's dynamic superhero style would come to dominate the industry, compared to Toth's more sophisticated, simpler style. Toth is partly not as well known because he never worked on a single iconic character or strip, like Kirby had Captain America. He was also his own worst enemy, holding himself (and others) to a standard that was difficult to achieve, though his "worst" work was at a level any other artist would be proud of. There is also an excellent PBS American Masters-quality documentary that was included as an extra on the Space Ghost DVD (which I purchased just for the documentary) that can now be found online. It includes the participation of his children and numerous industry pros who knew him and admired him. If you are serious about understanding the history of comics, knowing Toth is a must. People like Darwyn Cooke and David Mazzuchelli were probably the most obvious practitioners of his style in later years (I myself am very influenced by him in my own work -- wcgcomics.com.)
