Batman, The big black Monster Truck direct from Warner Brothers Studios on the Gold Coast, cost over $300,000 to build and is the first ever DC Comics/ Warner Brothers truck ever built outside of America. Batman, The Monster Truck is modelled on the latest Batmobile that was used in the recent "Batman Begins" movie and will be the same model for the next two Batman movies, the next being "The Dark Knight"that commences in June 2008.
Batman made its debut at the Brisbane Ekka in January 2007.
Batman is powered by a 580 big block Chevy motor that is alcohol injected and supercharged. Batman is extremly thirsty consuming 65 litres of methanol in about 4 to 5 minutes of normal running. Batmans Top Speed, when in a safe environment is 131 kilometers per hour, and weighs just under 5 tonnes.
Batman has the ability to jump 8 cars from a 2 metre run up.
Batman has already been to 400 primary schools across Australia and will visit over 600 schools Australia wide as well as numerous shopping centre appearances in the next 12 months.
Batman has been seen on every major news channel durin g the course of the year, as well as endless TV shows including Sports Tonight, The Shak, Totally Wild etc.
Batman the Monster Truck is the main feature of the forth comming National "Monsters Tour of Destruction", a family event that has already seen over 700,000 people attend the last series of shows across the East Coast of Australia.
