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  • Considering that a 60s (that is, an Adam West style) Batmobile is the first toy I can remember owning, I currently have three on my bookshelf, I'm always looking for another, I've been known to turn one down because it's "off model" and I have a picture of myself and The Lad next to a full size replica in a classic car museum ... I think we both know the answer to that one. I literally have a lifelong love affair with that car.
  • Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang.

    The Batmobile was fast but it couldn't fly.

    The Mach 5 could go underwater, but it couldn't float.

  • The Mark Five.

  • Not on the list, Jeff. 

    As for me, it's a hard choice. No question the Batmobile was cool, but every kid I knew back Ru hen wanted the Mach 5, even with the lame robot pigeon (I didn't come to understand how valuable it was until later in life) .

    Also the Mach 5 used ordinary gasoline, not atomic rocket fuel, so it was more practical. And there was too much junk in the Batmobile's trunk for Spritle and Chim-Chim to stow away. 


    Jeff of Earth-J said:

    Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang.

    The Batmobile was fast but it couldn't fly.

    The Mach 5 could go underwater, but it couldn't float.

  • "Not on the list, Jeff."

    Oh, very well.

    It's a tough choice but, between the two I'd go with the Batmobile.

    The only real disadvantage is if it rains.

  • It's been a while since I've watched Speed Racer, so I don't remember everything the Mach 5 could do. (Though I do remember it was equipped with rotating blades in front so it could chop down trees in front of it so it could drive through a forest.) But at the time when I was watching both shows, I would have said the Mach 5, and I'll stand by that.

  • That seals the deal for me! (God, they were annoying.)

    Randy Jackson said:

     And there was too much junk in the Batmobile's trunk for Spritle and Chim-Chim to stow away. 

  • Spritle and Chim-Chim were annoying,but they saved Speed's butt a lot, also.

    Misery in Spades said:

    That seals the deal for me! (God, they were annoying.)

    Randy Jackson said:

     And there was too much junk in the Batmobile's trunk for Spritle and Chim-Chim to stow away. 

  • "(Though I do remember it was equipped with rotating blades in front so it could chop down trees in front of it so it could drive through a forest.)"

    Even as a kid I questioned that. The blades were about a foot and a half off the ground. Even if the trees fell out of the way, would the Mach 5 have been able to drive over a field of short stumps? (Apparantly so.)

  • I think that's more of a reflection on Speed et al. than it was on the 2 irritants.

    The Baron said:

    Spritle and Chim-Chim were annoying,but they saved Speed's butt a lot, also.

    Misery in Spades said:

    That seals the deal for me! (God, they were annoying.)

    Randy Jackson said:

     And there was too much junk in the Batmobile's trunk for Spritle and Chim-Chim to stow away. 

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