The Undiscovered Playthings

Batmobiles! I love ‘em! I have plenty of these things laying all around and have no idea where to put them.

This Batmobile knock off is from way back when. I don’t know how long I’ve had it. At least a dozen years I’d suspect.
Now normally I don’t take my bootleg toys out of their packaging because I think half the fun of these terrible pieces of plastic is the packaging they come in. But this toy is so old, the plastic it’s encased under has faded to a shade of yellow.

Check it out!

This little bump and go toy car certainly looks like a Batmobile. Well, who can really tell in this picture? But hey, there’s Bat Man labeled on the package. So that must mean something, right?
I really didn’t want to take this thing out of the package. I snapped a few pics and well, they didn’t really tell the tale of this knock off as well as I would have liked. So I pulled the staples off the base of the package and pulled this bad boy out for the first time ever.

Voila! Bat Cop 360!

Ahhh… that’s much better, wouldn’t you say? Lets face it! That really does look like the Batmobile, doesn’t it? Fins, the turbo exhaust, the penis-like thing, I mean thingamajib sticking out the front. Ya just gotta love those headlight stickers.

Here’s the intimidating view of the front side of Bat Cop 360. Why, the villians will tremble with fear and misery at the site of this toy approaching them. Sigh. If only the darn thing worked. That’s right! After all these years of sitting in my closet, I put batteries in this thing, hit the ON switch and what happened? Nada! Zip! Zero! Zilch! Sure, the interior of the cockpit and the antenna lit up. But did this thing ‘bump and go’? No sir/Ma’am. Instead, it just whirrrrrrreedddd away while sitting there wasting my batteries.
Oh well. I never really planned on ever playing with this anyways. So it’s not that big a deal.

Those red fins make me laugh out loud. What were the bootleg toy makers thinking? I’m torn because I prefer my Batmobiles to be all black. But somehow, the red fins make this thing look that much more awesome.
It would have been really nice if there were a static generator that spit out sparks from the exhaust while this thing was in action. But then, I’d never it see it because poor old Bat Cop 360 only sits there like a rock.

While this little six inch long Batmobile wannabe is nothing like the HERO CHARIOT (what am I talking about? You’ll have to dig deep into this blog to find it), it fills a special spot in my Batmobile collection. If only the darn thing would have worked when I turned it on.