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Everyone has seen the new Batmobile, known as the Tumbler, in action on the big screen. But not everyone knows what makes it tick. Sure, there was that one guy who made his own Tumbler single-handedly, but the rest of us may not have studied up on the Dark Knight’s ride so extensively.

The original conceptualization was done by mashing together parts from various plastic model toy kits to create a roughly 1:12 scale concepts. The resulting Lamborghini-meets-Hummer design was the result of six of the creations made over four months. From there, a giant block of styrofoam was hand-carved into a full-scale model that was used to create wooden molds for the 56 body panels. Then it was time to make the real deal.Weighing in at about 5.000 pounds, the 9′4″-wide vehicle may actually not be as heavy as you’d expect. That’s because the Tumbler you see driving around is merely a tube-frame chassis with carbon fiber body panels.

All said and done, the cars “only” cost about $250,000 each to build, so the studio ordered four constructed.

Tags: Batman's Tumbler, new Batmobile