With Super Pursuit Mode KITT out in stores now as part of Minimates Vehicles Wave 3, we’ve been thrilled to see such an overwhelmingly positive response from not only casual Knight Rider fans, but also the die-hard Knight Rider fan community at large! Nick Nugent, author of the Knight Rider Companion, took a ride out to the dry El Mirage lake bed in California — where the show’s opening sequence was filmed — and took some great photos of SPM KITT and Michael Knight against a beautiful sunset. Check out the gallery here! Thanks for the photos, Nick!

SPM KITT and KARR are in comic shops and specialty stores now, and the Knight Rider Companion is available for purchase here! Get regular DST updates on Facebook and Twitter!

The arrival time for Minimates Vehicles Series 3 is almost here, and we can hardly wait to see the first Knight Rider Minimates hanging on the pegs! Because we couldn’t wait, we took the three cars — the Toys “R” Us exclusive KITT with Michael Knight, the comic-and-specialty-shop exclusive KARR with Garthe Knight and the Previews-exclusive Super Pursuit Mode KITT with Michael — out on the streets to see what they could do. And they handled like a dream! (Our two newest Pirate Raiders pirate ships, the Vendetta and the Albion, also did pretty well.) Check out our gallery of pictures here, and look for KARR and SPM KITT to hit comic stores tomorrow, with regular KITT following at TRU this spring!

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A report from the desk of DSTSchaff: “Since we’ve done replica license plates for Back to the Future and Ghostbusters, you should have been able to guess that it was only a matter of time before I came to you to talk about Knight Rider. Naturally, the first plate up will be the famous plate of the Knight Industries Two Thousand, a.k.a. KITT! As with all of our other plates, these will be durable metal, 1:1 scale with screw hole placement to allow for easy mounting to your vehicle, assuming your state laws permit such things. If the KITT plate does well, expect to see the plate for the diabolical KARR in the near future — I suggest that all of you buy both at your favorite comic shop, online retailer or specialty store. (Shameless attempt to boost sales: complete!)” Coming in 2012!

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This Christmas, you’re getting a car. Not just any car — the Knight Industries Two Thousand, or “KITT” to his friends! That’s right, our third assortment of Minimates Vehicles will include not only a new Pirate Raiders pirate ship and a Minimates MAX Armored Personnel Carrier, but also KITT himself, star of the Knight Rider TV series in the 1980s along with some guy named Hasselhoff.

The 4-inch-long vehicle will come with a two-inch Michael Knight, with opening doors and room for a passenger, and it will only be available at Toys R Us in late November, along with Robert Deal’s pirate ship with Undercover Anne Bonny. But, since KITT needs his nemesis, we’re also releasing the evil KARR with Garthe Knight in that wave’s specialty-store and comic-shop-exclusive assortment, along with a British Navy ship with officer! Order both through your local retailer!

And if that’s not enough? A special-edition version of KITT, featuring his Super Pursuit Mode transformation, will be available a month later, just in time for the new year and only through Diamond Comics Distributors’ Previews catalog. Which means you should tell your local comic book shop to order it in! Don’t get left in the dust!

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SDCC starts tonight, but we just couldn’t wait to show off some of the toys we’ll have on display. One of our big items? Our scale model of KITT from “Knight Rider,” complete with a 3 3/4 inch Michael Knight figure. How sweet is that? Stop by the booth (#2607) to check it out in person, as well as our Minimates version of KARR, with a 2-inch Garth Knight Minimate!

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With the second wave of Minimates vehicles hitting stores soon, there are a dozen different ways for Minimates to get around, and they certainly do get around in style. Each Minimate vehicle, be it an adaptation of a famous conveyance from television, movies, the newspapers or the history books, takes the original design and adapts it to accommodate the blocky little bodies of multiple Minimates. So how does Minimatization happen? It’s a multi-step process, but we talked to project manager Robert Yee and vehicle artist Mark Wong to find out how much is planned and how much is just a series of happy accidents. (Larger pictures at the end)
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