December solicits came out this week and the cover to Flash #9 look very interesting. Besides the fact I’m excited to see Wally and Bart, we have a new mystery character on a Speed Force charged motorcycle. Who is it? No one knows yet of course. I thought of White Lighting for some reason, but he looks very male and she was very female.
I think the new character looks pretty cool, but does a speedster need a vehicle? Well turns out the Flash isn’t a stranger to vehicles either, at least not when he is showing up in toy form. What am I talking about? Check it out after the jump.
I figure I’ll start with the one most people are familiar with, the famous Flash on a motorcycle. He was part of a Justice League line that also had Green Lantern zipping around on motorcycles. If you’re asking yourself why they’d need motorcycles; well that is a good question. Anything to sell more toys I suppose. How else can you explain that at one time there was a Superman fire truck?
In the Justice League episode Eclipsed the Flash buys a Flash Van with the money he gets from doing endorsements. GL says, “Tell me you aren’t serious. Why do you need a van? Wait, don’t answer that, I don’t want to know.” Wally says, “The Flash-mobile’s not just a van; it’s an expression of my inner-self.” In his defense, the inside had an almost Tardis-like ability of being way too large to be housed in such a tiny space; on top of that he had it pretty pimped out in there. Sadly I don’t remember ever seeing the Flash-mobile after that episode even thought the standees and energy bars do show up later.
Flash doesn’t just rely on wheeled vehicles though. Take a look at the Flash mini-flyer and Javelin-7. These make a little more sense at least, if Flash had to travel off planet he really wouldn’t be able to just run there. The mini-flyer is really just around because DC wasn’t able to just put out mini-mates at first and had to package them with building sets. So the mini-flyer looks just like Lego but is a knockoff. The Javelin-7 is based of the vehicle they used in the cartoon, so out of all the vehicles it makes the most sense.
I can't believe I forgot the Flash Van from Justice League!
ReplyDeleteThe old Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Party Wagon or (if you are going for the 3.75 scale) the new A-Team van from the movie would both be perfect for the Flash Van.
ReplyDeleteBtw there are two versions of the Flash motorcycle and the mini-javelin from the same series as the mini-flyer.
Good write-up!
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