Hi all, A lot of comments about the scale. The original production drawings showed the Batwing vehicle was to be 27' in width. This model is about 6.25' wide, so its intended to be 1/4 scale. It's true that the Batwing figure is smaller. If you look at the sequence in the film when you see the 2' wide model (wider shots, shots where the Batwing is moving a lot), the Batman figure is noticeably larger within the cockpit -- probably more like the proportions the construction drawings intended. Regarding the mechanisms, nothing was removed. The original pneumatic cylinders are still present (but disconnected), and the original tracks, slides etc are still used. We just added linear actuators as "helpers" to act in place of those cylinders. As for my shirt I have no idea what happened there (something to do with the mic?!) and no defense. My collar is the next restoration project....
Stiff collar like Batman, denim Batman. Either way, great stuff, i'd love to rummage around in the propstore and just get overwhelmed with nostalgia. I've been to Pinewood Studio's before and saw some Alien(s) props, suits and weapons, which were great, but i would love to see an original Xenomorph some day.
Its such a cool model! I remember wanting the Batwing toy as a kid, along with the Batmobile. Those two vehicles were just so awesome! What a great time to be a kid, in the late 80s!
Maybe you need to go back and watch the museum scene again when he grabs Vicki. He was certainly capable of that range of movement. The words "never" and "impossible" do not apply
@@CyborgHorse you might be right but probably not. he has his head turned but we don't see how he turns it or that he turns it back. so it might be a different cowl for that scene
The wing and car have not been beaten in any design since, such beautiful design, if I won the lottery I'd buy the shit out of this and have it on display
Honestly if we include animation too there are some really good designs but if were talking just live action the batman forever batwing and bvs batwing are close ties and also the bvs batmobile is really good to but it ultimately comes down to preference
@@davantebarbain3216 now I really want to know what it would cost to get a ¼ scale replica of the BTAS batmobile made. That’s always been “the” batmobile to me.
I had some batman cards that mentioned that second line and it ticks me off too that they cut it, its such an awesome and funny thing thats so Joker like. Whoever cut it was indeed an idiot.
Adam, it is genuinely refreshing and heartwarming to see you geek out over stuff like this. Never change, man! Thanks for showing this restoration- they did an *awesome* job on it!
or why have the whole gun move out with doors when you could just do a gun port like all fighter jets do ...and then carry missiles internally in individual missile ports XD
Honestly, I forgot that this plane was so heavily armed. Two miniguns, four missiles and two machine guns! For someone so opposed to guns and killing, he's got enough firepower to destroy a small town!
OMG one of the coolest designs in cinema, and certainly the definitive Batwing. So cool! I was jumping up and down with Adam as they demoed the mechanical features :)
This is still one of my fave designed crafts ever, absolutely loved the batwing back then and had a bunch of batwing toys. this prop is beyond incredible : D
As a model maker still in training, the Batwing scene was always one of my favorite scenes in the movie. Honestly Derek Meddings was a real legend in the world of miniature effects, the guy has made the machines on Thunderbirds look super cool on scene. Great Video! Fun Fact: Tim Burton from what I read had chosen Meddings to supply the model effects for the movie because he really admired his work on Thunderbirds, honestly that must have been a huge honor.
That model is freaking awesome I was only 7 years old when the Batman movie came out. For me the movie was great but the bat mobile and the bat wing made the movie even better.
This is GLORIOUS on like 47 different levels...such an iconic piece...model making like this is truly a lost art form...what a gorgeous piece of film history from one of the greatest comic book movies ever!!
To this day, this is still my FAVORITE Batwing design!!! The design is a CLASSIC & still holds up to this day. Thx for posting/sharing this video!!! :-)
This is amazing and brings back so many memories. I was 12. My very first "best friend" (like, really real best friend) that I met in 6th grade and I were SO hyped to see this movie. No big brothers or sisters, just us two guys getting to see THE Summer blockbuster of '89. The only disappointment we had was that the Batwing and Batmobile weren't featured more in the movie.
@@arcturionblade1077 You are gonna love the little extra details they put in, had to keep an eye on my daughter otherwise she would have stolen some of the batman emblems.
Truly an iconic piece of Batman movie history. The Joker’s Parade scene is one of the most memorable scenes in the ‘89 film. The BatWing is amazing in scope and character... Recall that “Keaton” gets shot down in the BatWing and crash-lands the thing on City Hall’s steps right after cutting the gas balloons away that are killing Gothamites in the streets and fires upon a defiant “Nicholson” with his crazy long pistol... Awesome scene, amazing prop! So cool to see it this close-up!
One of the things I love most about being a model maker is how you're constantly learning different things with each model you make, even more so when you restore things like this. Its absolutely amazing!
I grew up around helicopters and small airplanes, and I am blown away that the [refurbished] paint job even includes the "wind burn" on the wing edges just like on Helicopter rotors and airplane wings (i.e. where the wind making contact with the wing is so strong it removes the paint off the edge over time). Kudos whoever included that "small" detail
I’ve been watching Adam for a long time since I was kid in middle school. Watching myth busters. I just love how excited he still gets over this stuff :)
I don't see a lot of comments about it and I'm sure many would agree; I freakin' love Brandon in all those videos. He knows a lot, but not everything. He's very familiar with the history of things, but not necessarily the methods that were taken to get there. Whereas Adam it's almost the opposite.... 'almost' since Adam sure does know a lot about the history of props too but again, not everything! I absolutely love that they both ask questions about different things. They both geek over the same stuff; screen props, but they're viewing them from different points of view. It's so cool, thanks for all of this!
I remember seeing Batman in the theater. I absolutely LOVED the Batwing!!! Seeing the actual shooting model is beyond awesome!!! This was from a time period where movie magic was truly magical with the practical effects. Would be awesome to see this Batwing in person.
OMG, its beautiful! I am all smiles when the rocket, gatling guns and wite cutter came out. I have the same reaction as Adam when the props started to move. it breaks my heart to see the back side was damaged. I would hear myself humming the Danny Elfman music score as the video played.
My absolute favorite aircraft in fiction. It's just the perfect design. It's the actual symbol! The batman symbol turned into a terrifying fighter jet! Brilliant.
This video made me joygasm! '89 Batman is one of my all time favorites! I loved the Batwing, and am overjoyed that other people love it as much as I do.
Absolutely beautiful. Seeing this movie opening night when I was 6 is a memory I will treasure forever. That night was even a memory that my mother and I talked about on her death bed. Thank you for sharing this.
Heh, yeah, but now that you mention it, it makes me wonder if they'll save vector rendered model copies of CGI to visit in a VR museum someday. I'm still into a lot of old video games from decades ago, for example. Cheers.
wow vintage 1989 Movie batman fx rig of the bat wing. looks amazing, I'm surprised the materials held up this long, usually fx designers back then used basic quality molds and vacuum form castings that only last for 4 to 6 years tops before seeing it physically deteriorate, just knowing that is insane in itself!! wow.
This is one of the finest examples of why I will always be more impressed with practical effects and prop makers than with CG effects. Not that the process of creating computer graphics isn't impressive but I'm old-school, I like to see people crafting pieces like this with their hands, I like such things to actually exist in the same frame as the actors where they can see it and interact with it. CG is best used for the absolutely impossible, anything you just couldn't conceivably do in real life for whatever reason.
It may likely follow the Flashpoint comic, where it’s Thomas Wayne as Batman, and he’s the Dark Knight because Bruce was killed in the alleyway instead.
@@beyondlimitationsvideo yes, and it was depressing. Besides he was only supposed to be like 50, right? Keaton's a few months away from 70. and no offense to the dude but he looks it. Casting him as Vulture was fucking inspired.
@@KairuHakubi 55 after a quick Google search. But that was a comic and old Bruce Wayne is a ripped machine of a man and of course kicked ass for decades and ruined his body. Yeah, you know, I am very sceptical of any remake or reboot these days. Most of them fail epically.
For me the best Batman movie is still the one made back in 1989. It feels like a comic book, it feels like a movie, it feels Gothic and real-world at the same time, and with the wonderful bonkers charm that only an 80s movie can give you. But one of the things I love best of all, it was still in the golden age of practical effects, professional stunt men and women, and scale models.
This looks so ******* amazing. I just loved both the batwing and batmobile from that movie. Their designs haven't been beaten yet. Just so much nostalgia for, that grabbed both Lego sets when they were released. Would love to see sideshow collectibles do a smaller scale replica of this prop for the consumer market.
Gorgeous! But….I would take a chapter from scale RC aircraft detailing and make the weathering on vertical surfaces vertical, and flat surfaces, as well as the bottom, front to back.
I could listen to these two gush all day. The 89 Batwing and Batmobile were the absolute best Bat-designs of all time. Happy to learn about Julian Caldow from this video.
@@thetombuck I imagine it would *fly* fine, but it would constantly spin out of control. Those swept-forward airfoils can't possibly maintain a nice angle of attack relative to the body, and as cool as the vertical stabilizers look, they wouldn't be sufficient to compensate for how much of a frisbee this thing is. I suppose a nice compromise might be to make it something like a B-52 with proper wings containing large engines and then shape THOSE like the curled-around bat wings. That's a wing on a wing! Someone call Xzibit.
I need this on the ceiling of my office ASAP LOL, imagine how cool it would be to have a giant Moon decal on a wall with this thing posed right in front of it😎 #TakeMyMoney
Am I the only one that thinks these old models not only hold up, but look even better, AND better than models made today, filmed on these 4k cameras up close, you can see REAL artists built these things
Adam touches everything when he is at PropStore. I'd say he is one of few people qualified to do so thought since he understands the fragility of these things. Still gets watched like a hawk though!.
I agree with them. Tim Burtons Batman has the most iconic designs for vehicles. The Batman Forever Batmobile is ugly and the Dark Knight trilogy it's too realistic and militarised looking.
Very iconic - the way all the shapes in the vehicles are reminiscent of the bat symbol (this vehicle in particular, of course), and are very organic - like they're based on sharks, rays, and bats. That gives the suggestion that they are somehow more aerodynamic and may work better than the vehicles that normal people have at their disposal. I like the vehicles in The Dark Knight trilogy as well, though. The Tim Burton film is more like the fantastical comic book world. The Dark Knight trilogy aims for more of a 'this could be real' type of feel. So the vehicles are designed in a more practical 'real world' type of way. The 'military' type designs really sells that they could exist in real life. I will always have a soft spot for the turbine driven batmobiles, though :) . (As well as for bushes that move to the side, and a road block that flips down, as the batmobile emerges from a cave ;))
Don't forget, Morgan Freeman's Fox was designing and building everything for the US military in the first place. The Batmobile, or Tumbler, was built as a bridging vehicle for crossing rivers, and the Batsuit was originally intended as next-gen infantry protection.
It's wild the way people accept that the crap in that movie is "realistic" because the director said so. The Batmobile in Batman 89' was fully functional. It wasn't some model that they had umping from building to building. Everything in the Nolan Trilogy is stupid.
Oh man... This is awesome. The Batwing and Batmobile toys from the late 80s/early 90s were some of my favorites as a kid, and I have to agree with Brandon (and lots of my fellow commenters) that these are still my favorite versions of Bat-Vehicle designs. Close second - Animated Series.
A large benefit to practical effect is the legacy they can hold years later, not as a pixel rendered file but something tactile and visceral. Something that can make you feel like a kid again and have you say _"I Want One!..."_
Hi all, A lot of comments about the scale. The original production drawings showed the Batwing vehicle was to be 27' in width. This model is about 6.25' wide, so its intended to be 1/4 scale. It's true that the Batwing figure is smaller. If you look at the sequence in the film when you see the 2' wide model (wider shots, shots where the Batwing is moving a lot), the Batman figure is noticeably larger within the cockpit -- probably more like the proportions the construction drawings intended.
Regarding the mechanisms, nothing was removed. The original pneumatic cylinders are still present (but disconnected), and the original tracks, slides etc are still used. We just added linear actuators as "helpers" to act in place of those cylinders.
As for my shirt I have no idea what happened there (something to do with the mic?!) and no defense. My collar is the next restoration project....
I enjoyed your enthusiasm about the model
Stiff collar like Batman, denim Batman.
Either way, great stuff, i'd love to rummage around in the propstore and just get overwhelmed with nostalgia.
I've been to Pinewood Studio's before and saw some Alien(s) props, suits and weapons, which were great, but i would love to see an original Xenomorph some day.
Great job on this video! You care and it shows! I hope you love your job. Also I didnt notice the collar until your comment!
Its such a cool model! I remember wanting the Batwing toy as a kid, along with the Batmobile. Those two vehicles were just so awesome! What a great time to be a kid, in the late 80s!
Totally agree, besides the Tumbler, the '89 batmobile and Batwing were and still are the best representation of Batman's gadgets.
I love how the Batman model can turn its head when Michael Keaton never could in the suit.
Maybe you need to go back and watch the museum scene again when he grabs Vicki. He was certainly capable of that range of movement. The words "never" and "impossible" do not apply
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I was thinking the same thing!
@@CyborgHorse you might be right but probably not. he has his head turned but we don't see how he turns it or that he turns it back. so it might be a different cowl for that scene
There is something more appealing watching scaled models from the past instead of CGI models in films and series today.
STILL THE BEST BATWING IN THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF BATMAN MOVIES.
Batman 1989 has the best onscreen Batmobile/Batwing out of all the live action Batman movies
@@The_Blue_Otaku
100%
Yup even still better then the new batwing from the flash movie
Im glad im not only who thinks this
@@The_Blue_Otaku You are SO CORRECT! Have a great day!
The wing and car have not been beaten in any design since, such beautiful design, if I won the lottery I'd buy the shit out of this and have it on display
Honestly if we include animation too there are some really good designs but if were talking just live action the batman forever batwing and bvs batwing are close ties and also the bvs batmobile is really good to but it ultimately comes down to preference
Wonder what the price tag would be?
@@MrMaccaMcdonald I bet the plane will be at least 60k
Id buy the 66 Batmobile
@@davantebarbain3216 now I really want to know what it would cost to get a ¼ scale replica of the BTAS batmobile made. That’s always been “the” batmobile to me.
The Michael Keaton versions of the Batwing & Batmobile are my personal favorites.
Mine too stay original bat fans!
This or the '89 Batmobile might be my "Millennium Falcon." Such a perfect blend of gothic and maybe like dystopian Diesel Punk?
That Corvette Batmobile is SO cool
th-cam.com/video/77qt7dMzkKE/w-d-xo.html batman beyond movie cast
Have you seen Casey Putch's TH-cam videos on his turbine powered batmobile replica?
It sucks by todays standards. It was cool when i was 11yrs old
The 89 Batmobile is my favorite.
“Where does he got such wonderful toys?”. That is just awesome.
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Such a shame that some idiot cut the next line: "Well, don't just stand there, go ask him!"
Now we know.
I had some batman cards that mentioned that second line and it ticks me off too that they cut it, its such an awesome and funny thing thats so Joker like. Whoever cut it was indeed an idiot.
Adam, it is genuinely refreshing and heartwarming to see you geek out over stuff like this. Never change, man! Thanks for showing this restoration- they did an *awesome* job on it!
I like how the Gatling gun only comes out half way, since it's only one tube that actually fires, why expose the whole thing to the airstream
I was wondering about that -cheers!
Well, all the "tubes" fire, but they only fire when they get to the top, so you're correct, it wouldn't hit the Batwing
or why have the whole gun move out with doors when you could just do a gun port like all fighter jets do ...and then carry missiles internally in individual missile ports XD
@@sparrowlt It looks cooler on film.
Honestly, I forgot that this plane was so heavily armed. Two miniguns, four missiles and two machine guns! For someone so opposed to guns and killing, he's got enough firepower to destroy a small town!
I will always remember seeing this movie in the theaters back in '89...my favorite Batman movie, and my favorite Batman!
Keaton is your fave Batman ? WOW.
You looking forward too his return in The Flash next year?
@@edwardfletcher7790 yes he is and I'm allowed to have my own opinion
@@Owen-ub3fv Hell yeah! That will be awesome
@@breade He's my favourite Batman too :D
This is amazing. So glad it has been preserved and restored.
I hope they use it for Michael Keaton’s return to the role.
It has not been restored to the original state. The original had no painted on panels and neither did id have visible rivets,...it was just black.
@@darthkurland Here’s a Batman 89 motion comic you might enjoy th-cam.com/video/-ZZXsss9_JQ/w-d-xo.html
I love how happy Adam gets seeing all the functional parts. You Rock Adam !
That’s what I love about Him. And, it’s safe to say I’d be just as excited...I’d also probably be quiet since I’d be in awe of the thing! ❤️
He's a kid in a hobbyshop.
So refreshing!
OMG one of the coolest designs in cinema, and certainly the definitive Batwing. So cool! I was jumping up and down with Adam as they demoed the mechanical features :)
This is still one of my fave designed crafts ever, absolutely loved the batwing back then and had a bunch of batwing toys. this prop is beyond incredible : D
I could watch stuff like this all day. Imagine in 20 years if Adam got to restore one of the ILM models he originally worked on
Disney will have ritually burned it all by then .. Including all the actors ..
@@BennieBrunink Wokeness destroys the "inconvenient" past, kind of like the Taliban.
3:18 Batman is looking at Adam like, "bro I've been in here for 32 years! get me the hell out!"
That model is just jaw-droppingly beautiful. I really can't come up with the words.
I can still remember how the audience cheered when this beauty appeared on the screen.
Michael Keaton's Batman was the BEST! That prop is just jaw-dropping.
This brings back childhood memories. IMO the Tim Burton designs are still the best.
Nolan’s production design buried Burton’s.
@@johnnyfavorite1194 Never argue about taste ;)
Burtons design is the best!
As a model maker still in training, the Batwing scene was always one of my favorite scenes in the movie. Honestly Derek Meddings was a real legend in the world of miniature effects, the guy has made the machines on Thunderbirds look super cool on scene. Great Video!
Fun Fact:
Tim Burton from what I read had chosen Meddings to supply the model effects for the movie because he really admired his work on Thunderbirds, honestly that must have been a huge honor.
That model is freaking awesome I was only 7 years old when the Batman movie came out. For me the movie was great but the bat mobile and the bat wing made the movie even better.
This is GLORIOUS on like 47 different levels...such an iconic piece...model making like this is truly a lost art form...what a gorgeous piece of film history from one of the greatest comic book movies ever!!
To this day, this is still my FAVORITE Batwing design!!! The design is a CLASSIC & still holds up to this day. Thx for posting/sharing this video!!! :-)
This is amazing and brings back so many memories. I was 12. My very first "best friend" (like, really real best friend) that I met in 6th grade and I were SO hyped to see this movie. No big brothers or sisters, just us two guys getting to see THE Summer blockbuster of '89. The only disappointment we had was that the Batwing and Batmobile weren't featured more in the movie.
DC have just published Batman '89. A new six part mini series. Check it out.
I was 12 also. I sat in the theater all day & watched it 3 times.
Definitely one of the best looking Bat vehicles ever. Beautiful restoration.
Prop Store guy is passionate and cares, and its really cool to see. He's a great guy to do his job, clearly.
I am watching this beauty while occasionally looking up at the collectors Lego Batwing on my wall. I am in heaven.
Nice. I still need to build my Lego UCS 1989 Batmobile and Batwing!
@@arcturionblade1077 You are gonna love the little extra details they put in, had to keep an eye on my daughter otherwise she would have stolen some of the batman emblems.
Check out the props and costumes at Prop Store, like the ones in the upcoming Mythbusters auction here: propstore.com/
Adam is a old dude
Hi Adam, " that is so cool would like to have the
Batman jet, gotta watch Batman now", :)
Where does he get those wonderful toys …
@@therealmr.incredible3179 He's 54. So it just depends on your perspective whether it's young, old or in-between.
I see a lack of transparency here, PropStore is on Tested each month; what is Tested and Adam getting out of this, besides view count?
I still have an actual 89 released model of this in my living room. Perfect. Thank you!
Truly an iconic piece of Batman movie history. The Joker’s Parade scene is one of the most memorable scenes in the ‘89 film. The BatWing is amazing in scope and character...
Recall that “Keaton” gets shot down in the BatWing and crash-lands the thing on City Hall’s steps right after cutting the gas balloons away that are killing Gothamites in the streets and fires upon a defiant “Nicholson” with his crazy long pistol...
Awesome scene, amazing prop! So cool to see it this close-up!
I love how excited Adam gets over the model. He know what it took. Thanks for sharing 👍.
One of the things I love most about being a model maker is how you're constantly learning different things with each model you make, even more so when you restore things like this. Its absolutely amazing!
I love how the music in the beginning was like a composition of both 60's theme and the Batman 1989 theme!
I grew up around helicopters and small airplanes, and I am blown away that the [refurbished] paint job even includes the "wind burn" on the wing edges just like on Helicopter rotors and airplane wings (i.e. where the wind making contact with the wing is so strong it removes the paint off the edge over time). Kudos whoever included that "small" detail
Pretty common, most modellers will add weathering to airplanes, spaceships, ect..
Since you guys will definitely go and watch the Batwing scenes after this one, here's a direct link: th-cam.com/video/ZJ1s-1eAoh8/w-d-xo.html
Thank you’ you’re awesome!
Thank you!😁😁😁
Well thank you sir.
Not all heroes wear capes.
Nice find man. Well done. Cheers.
I’ve been watching Adam for a long time since I was kid in middle school. Watching myth busters. I just love how excited he still gets over this stuff :)
Strange to say but I feel like I can appreciate the design even more in the light than on the film. That is unusual I think. Such a beautiful design!
I don't see a lot of comments about it and I'm sure many would agree;
I freakin' love Brandon in all those videos. He knows a lot, but not everything. He's very familiar with the history of things, but not necessarily the methods that were taken to get there. Whereas Adam it's almost the opposite.... 'almost' since Adam sure does know a lot about the history of props too but again, not everything!
I absolutely love that they both ask questions about different things. They both geek over the same stuff; screen props, but they're viewing them from different points of view.
It's so cool, thanks for all of this!
"Why didn't anyone tell me he had one of those... things?!"
“Bob?, gun...*BLAM*...”
Gonna need a moment or two alone, boys.
“Come on… you gruesome sob..”
He was his number one........ guy!
I love Joker's reaction. For once he is completely dumbfounded.
I remember seeing Batman in the theater. I absolutely LOVED the Batwing!!! Seeing the actual shooting model is beyond awesome!!! This was from a time period where movie magic was truly magical with the practical effects. Would be awesome to see this Batwing in person.
Soon as I seen it was something Batman related I clicked on it.
Same here, especially being from the original 1989 Batman
OMG, its beautiful! I am all smiles when the rocket, gatling guns and wite cutter came out. I have the same reaction as Adam when the props started to move. it breaks my heart to see the back side was damaged. I would hear myself humming the Danny Elfman music score as the video played.
Nothing will ever beat the '89 Batmobile and Batjet in terms of design and aesthetic. The very definition of iconic.
My absolute favorite aircraft in fiction. It's just the perfect design. It's the actual symbol! The batman symbol turned into a terrifying fighter jet! Brilliant.
Wow. Absolutely a gorgeous piece. Tim’s Batman is amazing!!!
This video made me joygasm! '89 Batman is one of my all time favorites! I loved the Batwing, and am overjoyed that other people love it as much as I do.
That's the best batwing, it was great to see the original model!
One of my favorite movie props of all time; thank you for showing us where it went, Adam and crew!
This is beautiful! Thanks to Tested and the Prop Store for the walk-through.
Absolutely beautiful. Seeing this movie opening night when I was 6 is a memory I will treasure forever. That night was even a memory that my mother and I talked about on her death bed. Thank you for sharing this.
it's always great to see some old practical props rather than cgi mumble jumble
Heh, yeah, but now that you mention it, it makes me wonder if they'll save vector rendered model copies of CGI to visit in a VR museum someday. I'm still into a lot of old video games from decades ago, for example. Cheers.
Absolutely the best bat vehicles ever, no question.
That design is such a perfect blend of the fanciful and the believable.
wow vintage 1989 Movie batman fx rig of the bat wing. looks amazing, I'm surprised the materials held up this long, usually fx designers back then used basic quality molds and vacuum form castings that only last for 4 to 6 years tops before seeing it physically deteriorate, just knowing that is insane in itself!! wow.
My favorite part is that it had a balloon wire cutting gadget and could fly slow enough to capture them.
This is one of the finest examples of why I will always be more impressed with practical effects and prop makers than with CG effects. Not that the process of creating computer graphics isn't impressive but I'm old-school, I like to see people crafting pieces like this with their hands, I like such things to actually exist in the same frame as the actors where they can see it and interact with it. CG is best used for the absolutely impossible, anything you just couldn't conceivably do in real life for whatever reason.
Looks like Brendan enjoyed being able to nerd out with someone who did his homework and knows his modelmaking. :)
One of those things you could only dream about as a kid. Gorgeous.
Tim Burton's Batman movies got me into Batman as a kid. Legendary stuff right here.
Tim burton is the reason I like the original batman only
Best Batman movie, how cool was that!. That model still amazes me today decades later!!
That is an absolutely outstanding model, I hope it will be displayed where it can be appreciated by the public.
Wow. The amount of talent on display here is staggering. Not only in the creation of this model, but in it's restoration. Bravo.
One of the best videos I've seen on TH-cam in quite some time. Love this!
Thank you for watching!
what a beauty. i can hear the music looking at it
I just love how that dude counter-interviews adam.
My goodness.. As a 7 year old kid when this movie came out the Batwing and Batmobile were such a huge thing for me and my buddies. So cool
Love this! Am excited to see how they use keaton's Batman in the Flash/Flashpoint movie!
It may likely follow the Flashpoint comic, where it’s Thomas Wayne as Batman, and he’s the Dark Knight because Bruce was killed in the alleyway instead.
@@Gundam79 that's kind of depressing. '89 Bruce should have retired by now.
Retired? One of the most famous Batman comics, The Dark Knight Returns, has an old Batman still kicking was.
@@beyondlimitationsvideo yes, and it was depressing. Besides he was only supposed to be like 50, right? Keaton's a few months away from 70. and no offense to the dude but he looks it. Casting him as Vulture was fucking inspired.
@@KairuHakubi 55 after a quick Google search. But that was a comic and old Bruce Wayne is a ripped machine of a man and of course kicked ass for decades and ruined his body. Yeah, you know, I am very sceptical of any remake or reboot these days. Most of them fail epically.
For me the best Batman movie is still the one made back in 1989. It feels like a comic book, it feels like a movie, it feels Gothic and real-world at the same time, and with the wonderful bonkers charm that only an 80s movie can give you. But one of the things I love best of all, it was still in the golden age of practical effects, professional stunt men and women, and scale models.
This movie when I was a kid, man. I almost teared up watching this video. Thanks for the upload it meant alot!!!
The 12 year old in me is all giddy for this!!! What a time we live in. Good video Adam.
Missed an opportunity to call them "Bat-ling guns"
Oh, snap. You're right.
Where does he get those wonderful toys??? ...Lucious Fox
As a kid, I was so bummed when I saw the Batwing crash and burn. That thing looked so badass!!
It never occurred to me that the model had a working grapple claw. Always assumed it was a close shot 2nd model.
This looks so ******* amazing. I just loved both the batwing and batmobile from that movie. Their designs haven't been beaten yet.
Just so much nostalgia for, that grabbed both Lego sets when they were released.
Would love to see sideshow collectibles do a smaller scale replica of this prop for the consumer market.
That is absolutely beautiful!
God, this is just a work of beauty. Released the year i was born, this and the Batmobile are works of perfection!
Gorgeous! But….I would take a chapter from scale RC aircraft detailing and make the weathering on vertical surfaces vertical, and flat surfaces, as well as the bottom, front to back.
This is my Batwing, still got the original toy to this day. Beautiful model.
Ok that is a lot cooler than I would've imagined
Right?!
I could listen to these two gush all day. The 89 Batwing and Batmobile were the absolute best Bat-designs of all time. Happy to learn about Julian Caldow from this video.
Has anyone built a batwing that actually flies ? That would make a good build series for this channel
It's a beautiful aircraft but I'm gonna guess it would fly like a lead brick. I'd love to see someone try though!
I'm sure someone on TH-cam has converted a custom drone or RC plane into the Batwing.
@@arcturionblade1077 i suspect you're right ! Worth a search
@@thetombuck I imagine it would *fly* fine, but it would constantly spin out of control. Those swept-forward airfoils can't possibly maintain a nice angle of attack relative to the body, and as cool as the vertical stabilizers look, they wouldn't be sufficient to compensate for how much of a frisbee this thing is.
I suppose a nice compromise might be to make it something like a B-52 with proper wings containing large engines and then shape THOSE like the curled-around bat wings. That's a wing on a wing! Someone call Xzibit.
Yeah. Model Airplane hobbyists have been building these for years.
Saw the movie in the theater with my dad, watched it with my kids last week, damn near cried. Definitely in the top ten!
The batwing is so mesmerizing that no one told homie about his collar 😭
That movie blew me away when I saw it in theaters as a child.
If I was absurdly wealthy I would try to buy that in a heartbeat.
If have a full size one built and fly it.
what a great look into an iconic batman film, the elements used in this feature film are timeless, and classic.
I need this on the ceiling of my office ASAP LOL, imagine how cool it would be to have a giant Moon decal on a wall with this thing posed right in front of it😎 #TakeMyMoney
Have a few clouds at the bottom too
OMG!!!! THIS IS AWESOME PIECE!!! When I was a kid i was aloucinating in that iconic scene of batman 1989 movie this and the batmovil are iconic
OMG, what a iconic piece? I want that.
Am I the only one that thinks these old models not only hold up, but look even better, AND better than models made today, filmed on these 4k cameras up close, you can see REAL artists built these things
dude was staring Adam down each time he touches it in the beginning lol
Adam touches everything when he is at PropStore. I'd say he is one of few people qualified to do so thought since he understands the fragility of these things. Still gets watched like a hawk though!.
The working gatling gun brought much joy to my heart
I agree with them. Tim Burtons Batman has the most iconic designs for vehicles. The Batman Forever Batmobile is ugly and the Dark Knight trilogy it's too realistic and militarised looking.
Very iconic - the way all the shapes in the vehicles are reminiscent of the bat symbol (this vehicle in particular, of course), and are very organic - like they're based on sharks, rays, and bats.
That gives the suggestion that they are somehow more aerodynamic and may work better than the vehicles that normal people have at their disposal.
I like the vehicles in The Dark Knight trilogy as well, though.
The Tim Burton film is more like the fantastical comic book world.
The Dark Knight trilogy aims for more of a 'this could be real' type of feel. So the vehicles are designed in a more practical 'real world' type of way.
The 'military' type designs really sells that they could exist in real life.
I will always have a soft spot for the turbine driven batmobiles, though :)
. (As well as for bushes that move to the side, and a road block that flips down, as the batmobile emerges from a cave ;))
Don't forget, Morgan Freeman's Fox was designing and building everything for the US military in the first place. The Batmobile, or Tumbler, was built as a bridging vehicle for crossing rivers, and the Batsuit was originally intended as next-gen infantry protection.
It's wild the way people accept that the crap in that movie is "realistic" because the director said so. The Batmobile in Batman 89' was fully functional. It wasn't some model that they had umping from building to building. Everything in the Nolan Trilogy is stupid.
Saw it, in the theater, opening weekend. It is by far, my fav Batman flick. Man, that is amazing...
Is that realy 1/4 scale?
Oh man... This is awesome. The Batwing and Batmobile toys from the late 80s/early 90s were some of my favorites as a kid, and I have to agree with Brandon (and lots of my fellow commenters) that these are still my favorite versions of Bat-Vehicle designs. Close second - Animated Series.
Where does he get those wonderful toys?
Reuben Kittlemeier charges high, but Batman can afford it...
A large benefit to practical effect is the legacy they can hold years later, not as a pixel rendered file but something tactile and visceral. Something that can make you feel like a kid again and have you say _"I Want One!..."_