Roach

ok, none of posted url's seem to work, click on the black screen and watch on youtube directly.

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msicidron

are those military or just douchebags?

or what

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Roach

they are called tumblers.

in the video , ones used for the film are,

Technical specifications
Length: 15 feet (4.57 m)
Width: 9 feet 4 inches (2.84 m)
Weight: 2.5 short tons (2.3 t)
Acceleration: 0-60 in 5.6 seconds.
Engine: 5.7 liter GM V8 engine capable of 500 horsepower (370 kW).
Fuel: The "jet engine" on the back of the car was fed by propane tanks.
Tires: 4 Interco "Super Swamper TSL" tires standing 44 inches (1,100 mm) tall 18.5 inches (470 mm) wide (via titanium axles) in the rear and two 20" Hoosier dirt tires on the front.
and they are being used in the new batman movie being filmed in downtown pittsburgh until about august 20th.

With the design process completed, four street-ready cars were constructed. Each vehicle possessed 65 carbon fiber panels and cost $250,000 to build. Two of the four cars were specialized versions. One version was the flap version, which had hydraulics and flaps to detail the close-up shots where the vehicle propelled itself through the air. The other version was the jet version, in which an actual jet engine was mounted onto the vehicle, fueled by six propane tanks. Due to the poor visibility inside the vehicle by the driver, monitors were connected to cameras on the vehicle body. The professional drivers for the Tumblers practiced driving the vehicles for six months before they drove on the streets of Chicago for the film's scenes.[36]

original "batmobile" was to be...

Full Specification

•2.5 tons
•9 feet 4 inches wide
•15 feet long
•HOOSIER racetrack tires on front
•4 Rear 44 inch SUPER SWAMPERS, a our wheel drive conversion component
•Jet burner in rear with vector controls for the jet•Backend flaps for quick stops
•Landing Hook
•Enabled with front-firing machine guns
•Built-in safety link for petrol control
•Built-in fire extinguisher system
•Front wheels on bolted arms for an axel-less front end
•Conventional single axel rear end

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Jester4yall

What you don't have one?

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Roach

the director (christopher nolan) is usually extremely secretive about his films, but for this one, even bystanders are filming his crews filming ...the movie.

it's already in Wiki

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Jester4yall

I know rednecks with smaller tires. They would use it hunting too

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Roach

but it wasn't cheap to make a real one (4 actually)

Production process

Nathan Crowley, one of the production designers for Batman Begins, started the process of designing the Tumbler for the film by model bashing. One of the parts that Crowley used to create the vehicle was the nose cone of a P-38 Lightning model to serve as the chassis for the car's jet engine. Six models of the Tumbler were built to 1:12 scale in the course of four months. Following the scale model creation, a crew of over 30 people, including Crowley and engineers Chris Culvert and Andy Smith, carved a full-size replica of the vehicle out of a large block of Styrofoam, which was a process that lasted two months.

The Styrofoam model was used to create a steel "test frame", which had to stand up to several standards: have a speed of over 100 mph, go from 0 to 60 mph (97 km/h) in 5 seconds, possess a steering system to make sharp turns at city corners, and to withstand a self-propelled launch of up to 30 feet (9.1 m). On the very first jump test, the Tumbler's front end collapsed and had to be completely rebuilt. The basic configuration of the newly designed vehicle included a 5.7-liter Chevy V8 engine, a truck axle for the rear axle, front racing tires by Hoosier, rear 4x4 mud tires by Interco., and the suspension system of Baja racing trucks. The design and development process took nine months and cost several million dollars.

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The interior was an immobile studio set and not actually the interior of a street-capable version. The cockpit was over-sized to fit cameras for scenes filmed in the Tumbler interior. In addition, another version of the car was a miniature model that was 1:5 scale of the full-sized one. This miniature model had an electric motor and was used to show it flying across ravines and between buildings. However, a full-size car was used for the waterfall sequence. The scale model scenes were filmed on a massive set built on a stage at Shepperton Studios in England over the course of nine weeks. The full-sized vehicles were driven and filmed on the streets of Chicago. In The Dark Knight, the Batpod ejects from the Tumbler, with the Tumbler's front wheels as the Batpod's wheels; this was rendered using computer-generated imagery when attempts to achieve the separation through practical effects proved impossible.

The bike (batpod) has 20" front and rear tires (the Tumbler's front wheels), and is powered by a high-performance, water-cooled, single-cylinder engine - geared toward the lower end for faster acceleration and with no exhaust pipes. The exhaust is routed through the hollow steel/aluminum/magnesium tubing used for the frame of the bike.[6] The Batpod is steered by the shoulders instead of hands, and the rider's arms are protected by shields. The two foot pegs are set 3½ feet apart on either side of the tank, which the rider lies on, belly down.[7] The sound effects for the Batpod came, in part, from the sound of the Tesla Roadster's electric motor.[8]

that would have been a blast to work on.

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Jester4yall

I wanna see batman do a stoppie

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