If you cannot buy them... make them...

Hotwheels went the right way when they started the line of the movie cars, with classics like the Batmobile, the Delorean from Back to the Future and even lately some Star Trek ships...

But what if they could go all the way, and create miniatures of iconic vehicles that have not been released yet ? This is what a passionate fellow collector is doing. And the results are just spectacular !

Korben's Taxi, Hotwheels recreation, 2020's

Kaneda's Bike, Hotwheels recreation, 2020's

Other vehicles on my wish list ? Starsky and Hutch Torino, James Bond Dragon tank, Little Nellie and Lotus Esprit, Green Hornet's Black Beauty, Mad Max Ford Falcon, Deckard's Bladerunner car, Tron's bike, Starship Troopers Roger Young, Hardcastle and McCormick Coyote, Condorman's car, T-2 motorcycle and truck, etc. etc.

I'd buy these right away !

The Bandai version - Akira

If there is one vehicle that is seen as the most "iconic" of the mangaworld, it has to be this one. This is not only an Otaku's dream, but the dream of many AKIRA readers as well. Lots of copies exist, and some people even tried building "the real thing" with more or less success (getting a ceramic engine into the wheels is nothing easy...) This is the Bandai metal (Soul of Chogokin) version, with detachable parts and finally the correct stickers applied (Mc Farlane made a previous plastic model but they had to change all the lettering on the bike due to copyright infringement.).

Kaneda's bike, Bandai, China,
2004

AKIRA - Kaneda and motorcycle

Kaneda and bike, Kaiyodo, China,
2000's

The serie that launched manga (=Japanese Comics) into the world was definitely Akira, by Katsuhiro Otomo. It was later released as an OAV (=Cartoon).

Ultra-violent, it shows a vision fo the future of NEO TOKYO and the whereabouts of a group of delinquent kids with a government project that went horribly wrong.