I saw the HT proto at SDCC - it's much too short to be accurate - just looking at the pictures you can see the proportions are wrong. Which is fine for a 1/6 car. The Cinemaquette, even if we don't know the dimensions of the original, looks far more proportional.
Good posting dark lord !
I am glad someone other than me agrees about this.
Everytime I said the same thing, people went crazy mad at me and start bringing up the whole measurement thing or slamming me for saying that because I own a CM Batmobile.
I'm an artist and I have eyes for proportions, HT batmobile is too short and stubby.
You may both well be right. I'm not going to get into labelling anyone as biased because of which Batmobile they own or prefer. I am an artist too and I also have an eye for proportions, but I also know that appearances (even seeing it in person) can be deceiving. The only thing that is definite and objective are direct measurements.
At the end of the day, when HT releases the final product, the CM version may
still look to be in better proportion, so for the record, I am
not claiming that the HT will be more accurate. I am simply asking this:
(1) What are the official 1989 Batmobile measurements (length/width/height) that we can compare
either version too?
(2) Once we decide on one set of measurements, what makes those "official" measurements any more accurate than the half dozen or so other "official" measurements that have been released and contradict each other (sometimes by inches, sometimes by
feet)?
I understand that for collectibles it is as much art as it is science, and for many, including myself, it is
more important that something "look right" than split hairs over whether or not it is exactly movie accurate. There some that would note things like Superman's "S" is the wrong size/shape or Keaton Bat's boots don't have the Nike swoosh...and there is nothing wrong with that. As art pieces, so far I have not been let down by the "look" of any HT representation of movie character/prop that I've bought , even if it is not 110% accurate down to the millimeter.