Red Alert! Prepare Hot Wheels Batcopter For Immediate Takeoff...

Usually, I haven't had a lot of luck when looking for Hot Wheels Batman TV series inspired vehicles. It's just luck of the draw that I have been able to find Bat-vehicles like the Batmobile, Batboat, or Batcycle at either Toy R US or Target, but when it came to pick up the Batcopter, it was right there waiting for me.

While on  a mission at my friendly neighborhood Target to find another Battle For Gotham City for Eric Stettmeier's very own, I walked right into a display of the latest Hot Wheels representing the vehicles of the Batman TV series and movies. If it wasn't for Eric not being able to find the elusive Dark Knight Rises action figure set, I may have missed this entirely. Isn't karma cool?

The Batcopter itself is along lines in terms of detail of the other bat-vehicles and I am very pleased with its appearance. Although, the packaging does have a rock like background, reminiscent of the Batcave, I wish it had a matching blue background like the other vehicles. However, I do like the rock version better. I only wish Hot Wheels had done that with the earlier packing.

Nevertheless, I am glad to now have a complete set of the Batman vehicles that appeared on the TV series. Gosh darn it! I forgot about Batgirl's Batcycle. It's always the little things.

About the author: John Sholtz is an avid toy collector and the interim editor of the Batcave Toy Room due to the abrupt death of Bruce Wayne. Learn more about him here and connect with him on Twitter at, Facebook, Google+ and Linkedin.

Vintage Spider-Man Helicopter by Empire 1979

Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a spider can. So, why the heck does he need a helicopter for? Because it looks cool. That's why.

In 1979, Empire toys produced the Spider-Man helicopter to go along with Mego's 8 inch figure line. Empire also produced a Spider-Man Van, a Hulk Copter and Hulk Van, and a Bat Copter, which was much cooler than the Mego version. No, Bat Van, however. They probably felt it was too much like Mego's Mobile Bat-Lab. You can see pics of a couple of these bad boys over at Plaid Stallions HERE.

I picked this baby off eBay back in February. I actually received a Spider-Man helicopter for Christmas from my sister back in 1979. I still have the fuselage and tried to restore it, but was never able to get the missing parts. So, I just bought the whole darn thing.

The back story on that, as I have discussed before, is while cleaning out my parents garage years ago, my dad threw out a vast amount of my toys. For some reason, he kept things such as the fuselage, in this case, and threw away the accessories. Accessories like the rotor and landing gear.

I just happened to see this on eBay just before the auction ended. However, I was not home and spotted this baby using my iPhone. I knew I would never win the bid using my phone, so, I called my wife had her bid from our home computer.  My cool, but non-geek wife won the bid and the rest was history.

There are still parts missing such as, the winch, which suspends from the left side of the helicopter. You see the hole where the peg that holds the winch in place would go in the pic above. Plus there was a net and several other pieces of rescue and crime fighting equipment: oxygen tank, shovel, walkie-talkie, axe, pick axe, etc.

This is definitely a cool, however, huge toy that is almost two feet long. Although designed for the Mego 8 inch Spider-Man, I think the 12 inch version fits a lot better. I am very pleased to have this back in my collection. Now, just need to find a complete Empire Bat Copter.

Corgi Batmobile Collection

Here's a look at an awesome Corgi collection. The majority of the vehicles are Batman related and boy do they look sweet.

Looks like there are several versions of the Corgi 267 Batmobiles. Check out the one with the red wheels.

You can also see variations of the Batboat as well as, the Batcopter.

You can also catch a glimpse of the Supermobile there. I always hate that Corgi decided to have the fists in the front of the vehicle molded in red. I had painted mine silver at one point.



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Mego Batman Toy Comercial

When Mego's World's Greatest Super Heroes line exploded in popularity, Mego quickly began to produce ancillary toys to add to the excitement of its action figures. The majority of these toys were Batman related, which only made sense as Batman was one of the best selling figures in the line. You can see by this commercial that the 1966Batman television series was a big influence. From the including the Batpole in design of the Batcave. The design of the Batmobile modeled after George Barris' famous creation. Even the music in this commercial is reminiscent to the Batman theme from the TV series. Even the voice over sounds familiar. Holy Adam West!



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My Mego World's Greatest Super Hero Wish List

When it comes to the action figure portion of my Mego World's Great Super Heroes collection I am pretty much satisfied. I am not really a completest when it comes to that. Generally, my collection contains items that I have had since I was a kid or items that had as a kid, but had to replace (do to my parents throwing them away, broken, etc). Mainly I am trying to have at least everything I had once owned as a child. My collection of Mego's is pretty much been restored with the exception of a few items.

Mego Batcopter either boxed or carded







Never owned, but would like to own Batman's Batcycle.


I do favor the black version over the blue





Die Cast Incredible Hulk



Never had, but do want to complete the series - Die Cast Spiderman



As you can see I only need to a few more items to satisfy my wants...who am I kidding? Are we collectors ever really satisfied? What's on your wish list?

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