Diecast Carshow: Heroes

Here's the hero cars of the collection.

This is the set and some friends.

I remembered these HeroClix figures and decided to put them in the shot.  I should have posted these with the other Superhero figures.  Spider-Man and Batman were giveaways from Free Comic Book days.  Mirage and Brightwing I bought for fun because I like the character.  What happened to all these figures?  I remembered the shop I went to had a couple of bins of commons.   

Here we go.  Look at this beauty.  It's the '66 Batmobile, of course.  What I find interesting about it is that it's a Hot Wheels car and that I found it on the rack with all the other regular Hot Wheels.  Yeah, I couldn't believe it either.  I walked by it, noticed it, and snatched it up immediately.  I think it was produced as a classic car reproduction, rather than a Batman licensed product.  

The car itself is well-detailed and rolls well, but seems fragile.  I used to have a plastic Bat-Boat from the 70's that I'd gotten at a garage sale as a kid.  I don't remember what happened to it.  It was of a larger scale and I found out later it was part of a set with a trailer and a Batmobile.     

Here's the '89 Batmobile.  This is just a plastic car.  There was a plug in the bottom and the hollow car was filled with little candy.  It doesn't roll well, but it looks good.  The main problem is that its too long to fit into a standard display case cell.  This is the dumb reason that I never bought any NHRA cars back when they sold them everywhere along with the NASCARs.  (So much for those days.)

 

This is another Hot Wheels car called The Guvner.  It seems to have an obvious inspiration from the  Batman Animated Series, so I'm grouping it here.  I think I just found this one outside one day.    

Here's another beauty.  It's the Mach 5 from Speed Racer.  This came out with that live-action movie.  How I would have loved this to death if I'd gotten it as a kid.  (Likewise the 66 Batmobile.)  It likely wouldn't have lasted long, since it's actually  mostly hard plastic.  Still, it rolls well and looks great.      

It came with this Rotary Saw attachment.  That's the C Button on steering wheel.  No Booster Jacks or Drone attachments, though.

This is Racer X's car.  This one came from a cereal box.  It's all plastic.  It didn't remember until I put it out to take the picture, but it's a pull-back racer.  Roll the thing backward, let go, and away it goes.  

Corgi made this fanciful Spider-Copter.  There are plenty of super-hero themed cars and vehicles that have little to do with the characters.  It doesn't entirely make sense that Spider-Man would have a helicopter.  I doubt the air-worthiness of this vehicle as well, but I appreciate that they went all the way with the theme.  

This is the second one of these that I've owned.  The first one lost a leg.  (Those spider legs are fragile.)  I do not remember how I got another one.  

It's a lot better-looking than this Spider-Copter.  I did not own one of these as a kid.  The figure is doll-sized and non-posable.  Yeah.  Weird.  

I used to have a Hot Wheels Spider-Man car.  It was black with an arachnid appearance.  I sold it off in a garage sale.  Mine was in better condition than this one.  The front wheels were oddly tilted in on the car.  It never rolled well.  

       

This is the actual canonical vehicle that Spidey had in the comics: the Spider-Buggy.  Yeah.