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maybe a missile free version might be.]]>Aug 6th 2008 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/Aug 6th 2008 5:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/
That's not the case in CA. It must be inspected and all kinds of other PITA red tape. It has to be assigned a VIN.

That's why most people just cannibalize old cars and build a shell over the frame. But there's still red tape involved. Just doing an engine swap requires inspection and approval.]]>Aug 6th 2008 6:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/Aug 6th 2008 10:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/]]>Aug 7th 2008 3:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/Aug 7th 2008 12:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/Aug 7th 2008 12:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/Aug 6th 2008 3:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/Aug 6th 2008 3:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/Aug 6th 2008 3:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/Aug 6th 2008 3:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/Aug 6th 2008 4:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/Aug 6th 2008 3:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/Aug 6th 2008 9:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/
Are you implying that this man is better than Morgan Freeman?]]>Aug 7th 2008 8:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/Apr 27th 2009 6:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/
why are there fall leaves on the ground?

reminds me of oklahoma in november]]>Aug 6th 2008 3:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/Aug 6th 2008 3:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/Was it really that hard to understand?]]>Aug 6th 2008 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/
but IF he started building it around the time of the last movie, and if he lives in a place where the weather is like this around oct-december (like the US) then we would have heard of this guy sometime sooner in the last 10 months, this is the first time i have heard of him and his tumbler, so if im wrong please let me know

your "easily" explains the leaves and "that hard to understand"--dont act like you are a genious and you are right, if it was this far in development in the fall, we would have heard about it before today.]]>Aug 6th 2008 4:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/
Say he did build it with the intent to sell... I think it's not only reasonable, but very smart to wait until now to introduce it to the bat-crazed public. Make sense?

Also, you misspelling "Genius" made my day. ]]>Aug 6th 2008 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/Aug 6th 2008 4:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/Aug 6th 2008 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/He does this for a living:
http://www.dullam-causey.com/gallery/index.php?path=L0JlZ2lucyBjYXIgLSBzcmF0Y2hidWlsdC8=&page=1

And he's NOT planning to sell according to the original source (forums).
I like how Engadget (a blog) links to a blog, which links to a blog, which links to the forum. Maybe they should try to link to the source so we don't get uninformed jackasses commenting more than once.]]>Aug 6th 2008 5:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/And I think it's pretty lame to quickly think up some random possible story to explain it and then be dismissive about the person who noticed something odd.
]]>Aug 6th 2008 10:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/I think Bob noticed the fact the leaves were down pretty well.]]>Aug 7th 2008 7:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/Aug 6th 2008 3:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/Aug 6th 2008 4:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/Aug 6th 2008 3:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/Aug 6th 2008 3:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/
...No GO AWAY....before I taunt you a second time!]]>Aug 6th 2008 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/Aug 6th 2008 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/Aug 6th 2008 4:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/
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The first movie only used scale models and not real vehicle.

Has anybody seen the TV show Top Gear on BBC America? They had the actual tumbler for the movie on set. It wasn't build on an existing car/truck frame. It was build completely from scratch.

]]>Aug 6th 2008 4:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/
Did you watch the behind the scenes of Batman Begins. They did in fact have a working real Tumbler for the first one. In fact, it was in the movie more than models were. ]]>Aug 6th 2008 4:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/With the design process complete, four street-ready race cars were constructed, with each vehicle possessing 65 carbon fiber panels and costing $250,000 each to build. Two of the four cars were specialized versions. One version was the flap version, which had hydraulics and flaps to detail the close-up shots where the vehicle propelled itself through the air. The other version was the jet version, in which an actual jet engine was mounted onto the vehicle, fueled by six propane tanks. Due to the poor visibility inside the vehicle by the driver, monitors were connected to cameras on the vehicle body. The professional drivers for the Tumblers practiced driving the vehicles for six months before they drove on the streets of Chicago for the film's scenes.]]>Aug 6th 2008 4:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/
Ummmm, how 'bout....Nooo!

Sorry, but they used several full size tumblers for the first flick for different effects, including one that actually made jumps. Models were only involved in the initial mock up before they built 4 full sized Tumblers. Next time you might want to do a little actual research before posting on what you pretend to know about.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batmobile_%28Batman_Begins%29]]>Aug 6th 2008 4:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/Aug 6th 2008 4:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/
Do you think you are the only engadgeteer watching Top Gear? You do realize that those shows air in the US almost a year (if not more) after they air in the UK. The "recent" episode featuring the Tumbler was from Batman Begins, not The Dark Knight. ]]>Aug 6th 2008 7:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/Aug 7th 2008 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/home-built-batman-tumbler-invades-the-suburbs/Aug 6th 2008 3:48PM