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Batbike

I was a toddler when the Adam West Batman series first aired in the late 1960s, and I just ate it all up. My father originally built this model kit of the Batbike that was seen on the show.

They re-released this model kit back in 2003, and after recently finding the unbuilt kit in my stash, I decided to build this myself.

The pictures you see here are of my build of the 2003 re-release of the Batbike. I don't know what happened to the original that my father built; it was lost to time.

I just finished building this Batbike just a couple of days ago. The kit was a complete replica of the original 1960s kit, and it was pretty easy to build.

I always loved the sidecar with Robin on this design.

Just like my father, I didn't glue the cart into place. I wanted Robin to be able to go off on his own little jaunts.

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