With the Barbie movie coming out on the 21st of July the automotive experts at Vanarama found that a Barbie registration plate reading ‘BAR 81E’ was for sale at the cost of £886,875. Quite unbelievably, that registration plate is no longer available, meaning someone is now the owner of that plate!

In light of this Vanarama has researched how expensive car registration plates would cost for the top 20 film characters of all time according to a poll from Ranker of over 75.2k Ranker voters.

BATMAN HAS THE MOST EXPENSIVE FILM STAR REG PLATE COSTING £166,719

The most expensive plate you can buy relating to Batman is '1 BAT', which will set you back £166,719. For that amount of money, you could afford to buy three brand-new Tesla Model Y vehicles. This would still give you enough left over to then go and buy the UK’s most popular car, the Ford Puma. There’d even be enough change from that transaction to buy yourself and the family three new Apple Vision Pro headsets. 

Other expensive plates include ‘13 OND’, perfect for any James Bond fanatic, currently priced at £65,200 - only 2% of the value of the iconic stunt car Aston Martin DB5 that’s worth £3 million. For those into Star Wars, why not opt for a plate reading ‘H45 ANS’ for Han Solo at £48,400?

Speaking of Han Solo, it’s interesting to see which reg plates come out the most expensive when comparing different characters. For example, as mentioned, a Han Solo ‘H45 ANS’ plate costs £48,400, whereas when you try to find a Luke Skywalker plate, the best Vanarama’s research found is a plate reading 'S7 UKE', which would (only) cost you £16,490 in comparison.

Another comparison is pitting two wizards against each other, Harry Potter and Gandalf from Lord of the Rings. This one was a little closer to the Star Wars comparison – it was the Boy Who Lived that came out on top with the more expensive plate, with 'H44 RRY costing £24,720 versus the plate for the White Wizard, which was a plate reading 'W111 ARD' priced at £11,275.

THE TERMINATOR HAS THE MOST AFFORDABLE FILM STAR REGISTRATION PLATE FOR £153

At the other end of the table, there were a couple of much more affordable reg plates. In 19th place is Hannibal Lecter. If you’re a fan of those films, you can purchase yourself a 'LE02 TER' plate, which is currently set at £454.

However, if you’re a big fan of the Terminator or Arnie in general, there’s a registration plate currently going for only £153, which reads ‘T800 ERM’ – a combination of TERM-inator and the T-800 series of Terminators.

Methodology:

Vanarama gathered the top 20 film and TVcharacters from Ranker as voted by their readers. Vanarama then used multiple registration plate auction sites, such as SwiftReg, RegTransfers and CarReg, to find plates that closely resembled the name of the characters to create a reg plate database. Vanarama then sorted the database from most to least expensive to find the characters with the most expensive reg plates. After that, Vanarama found the current prices for various items, such as cars and technology, to provide a comparison of how much these plates cost and what people could purchase for the same price. All registration plates covered were available to buy as of June 2023.