Tuesday, 16 May 2023

To Bat or Not to Bat? The X-40 BATJET

I've always been fascinated by this Bat Plane. We've seen it a few times on MC. Here's a rough looking and incomplete one I saw on auction this year, obviously worse for wear after a brush with Paint Man.


This SALCO Batman's Batjet is a gorgeous toy complete and when boxed I bet its a fabulous display item.

Here's a boxed example from an American auction.

I imagine the little black spike at the front is often missing!


Its a classic space design and the same as another beautiful space toy, the X-50 Space Racer, first introduced to us on MC by contributor and super collector Ferryman way back in 2009 in his fabulous and debut X-Series post, 

Have you anything like this readers?

9 comments:

  1. That's a fine looking Bat Jet. Mine are Corgi 1/43 scale but I wouldn't mind adding something like this to the collection.

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    1. What make are your Batjets Ed?

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    2. I've got one Kenner and one Mattel - thought I had others but guess not

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    3. Nice Ed, a fine duo!

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  2. It brings to mind the bat-ski-jet-ice-skating thing from the George Clooney Batman movie

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    1. That was called the 'Bathammer' I have the small Kenner Microverse version

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    2. It does Marky, I like that Batski!

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  3. The SUPERFRIENDS Scarecrow came with a Vulcan bomber looking Batplane.

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    1. I had to have a look for that, I've seen lots of re used plane designs for the Bat-wing, I forgot about that one

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