Australia Has A Real-Life Batman With A Real-Life Batmobile That He Just Drives Around
And he gives sick kids free rides :)
Back in September the news that Batman is real and cruising around Japan on a custom-built Bat-Tricycle turned your life upside down and shook it like a bully looking for lunch money. It seemed like the kind of thing that could only happen in Japan, a magical place where dreams come true and where something like Hello Kitty the odd-looking British human girl could get dreamed up.
Like everything else in life, though, Australia now has their own version of Batman a few months after everybody else got one. Meet 29-year-old Camden native Zac Mihaljovic, who’s spent the last two years building a one-of-a-kind working replica of the Batmobile from the 1989 film with Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson, complete with parts from the actual movie car.
Naturally, he dresses up as Batman too. Otherwise that’d be weird.
Okay, there is a lot to take away from that video, including Batman and some oldm8 using the flame-shooting rear end of the Batmobile to roast marshmallows thirty seconds in, and his girlfriend threatening to kill any woman who presumes to ride in the passenger’s seat at 1:40. That the replica is roadworthy and Batman can just drive that shit to the shops is pretty great too, although not as fantastic as the fact that he spent two years painstakingly building an exact Batmobile replica and then didn’t think to get a customised numberplate.
The nicest bit, though, is how Mihaljovic takes sick kids for rides in his car. He totally makes a living out of it too, because if you had a Batmobile why wouldn’t you make money by dressing up as Batman, but kids from the Make A Wish Foundation get to ride for free.
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Feature image via Barcroft Cars/YouTube.