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THERE ARE PLENTY OF BATMOBILES available, but this 1:24 scale metal and plastic version from Jada is well worth a close look. SMN report: The Batmobile has featured in many scales, with designs to match the various vehicles seen in comics, TV, and movies. The Jada 1:24 scale Batmobile has an appropriately high-tech style, and the model is pre-painted. Assembly is fairly simple, straight out of the box. We are itching to do some re-imagining of the design, either as a competition racer or perhaps an off-world explorer. But that's for the future; this time we are assembling the basic vehicle straight out of the box, as supplied by Jada.   Familiar face and logo on the box ( above, below ) reveal that the vehicle comes from the 2016 movie Batman v Superman : Dawn of Justice . The film starred Ben Affleck as Bruce Wayne, Henry Cavill as Superman, and Amy Adams as the lovely Lois Lane.    Back of the box ( below ) has useful closeup pix. You don't need help with pant or ...

  THE SUICIDE SQUAD BATMOBILE KIT comes from the 2016 movie, and is a repackaged version of the existing Moebius Models 1:25 scale Batmobile, as issued for Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice . Mat Irvine:  The reasoning behind this special edition Batmobile is that the ever-widening DC Comics Extended Universe (DCEU) movie franchise now includes  Suicide Squad , which followed on from the earlier  Man of Steel  and  Dawn of Justice . The  Suicide Squad  storyline is not exactly a superhero tale. It's more about supervillains, something like an update of the classic  The Dirty Dozen  of 1967. This time, a group of anti-heroes are bought together under Task Force X, each with a micro-bomb embedded in their neck, just in case they feel like absconding from their new role. The kit's box base ( below ) usefully adds more details.   In Suicide Squad , the Batmobile is almost a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it experience. Batman (Ben Affleck, re...

MORE MODEL MANIA FOR BATMAN FANS has arrived with the Moebius Models 1:25 scale Batmobile, as featured in the movie  Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice . Mat Irvine:  On first opening the box, you could be forgiven for thinking that perhaps Moebius has the scale wrong, as the components look like they could be to 1:20 scale, or even 1:18. But nope, the kit is correct as it stands at 1:25, for this version of the Batmobile is BIG. As constructed for the 2016 movie  Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice , the Batmobile measures 6.07 m (20 ft) long by 3.7 m (12 ft) wide - and that’s wider than a classic Mini car is long. All this makes it the largest Batmobile - by pure bulk - to date, if you take the cartoon 'tank' version out of the equation, which was as wide as a three-lane highway. Unlike the earlier Tumbler design, this  Batman v Superman  Batmobile has a tractor in its genetic code. Production designer Patrick Tatopoulos says that the design team was stuck with...