JazzInc - Batman: The Animated Series - 1/6 BTAS Batman

Looks decent but it will be hard to top Tony Mei’s version.

McHaleyArt said:

Since this is licensed, WB may have some feedback about the design. Depends on what was previously discussed.

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I kind of hope they reject it in its current state, tbh. Suit looks great. Body? Nooooope.

Updated head sculpts. If Batman is successful, the next animated figure will be Robin, followed by Joker.

I just really want to know how this turns out because realism with Timm’s stuff just…doesn’t work. It can’t. Basic understanding of human anatomy predicates that. If they’re going to paint this guy up with pores and wrinkles, like those Hot Toys Clone Wars figures, he’s gonna look like a Robert Z’dar mutant person because nobody has a jaw like that in real life. The female characters would look like those botched plastic surgery women out of some Eastern Bloc country with their impossibly tiny waists and wide hips.

I adore Timm’s art style within the confines of the animated world it exists in, but the second you apply “realism” to it, all those characters sans, maybe, Clayface start screaming in agony as their tiny ankles snap under the weight of their broad, bulky torsos. DC Collectibles taught us that. I’m always on the lookout for new TAS stuff to knock my socks off, but, thus far, nothing about this is wowing me more than Mondo’s stuff except the selling point that it’ll have cloth outfits.

I think keeping this faithful to the source material, but adding some artistic interpretation into the mix will be challenging, and I'm curious to see how the project develops.

So far, I've been content with just the Arkham figures in 1/6 scale, because the stuff from Mondo always looked strange in 3D.

Solidus said:

I think keeping this faithful to the source material, but adding some artistic interpretation into the mix will be challenging, and I'm curious to see how the project develops.

So far, I've been content with just the Arkham figures in 1/6 scale, because the stuff from Mondo always looked strange in 3D.

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See, my thought process would be, as weird as it sounds, to design these things to be complementary to the Mondo stuff. And there’s precedent because, before he ever got into the figure game, Joost was designing his Batmobiles to be used with Hot Toys figures, even featuring them in marketing photos. I’m one of the few who seems to love the Mondo line, but I also know there ain’t no way in hell that beefy chunk of plastic could ever sit naturally in a Batmobile.

While I doubt I’m buying a Jazzinc TAS Batmobile at this stage in my life, for all the complaints about the Mondo stuff, barring Catwoman, their head sculpts aren’t among them and I think they’ve done a better job at capturing the characters than anybody else has, IMO. I was disappointed when I saw that the S-Hero TAS figures don’t work with the Mondo heads without modifying the neck joints because I liked that they actually bothered to design new bodies in the animated art style and didn’t just stick them on some generic looking Schwarzenegger buck. I feel like, if Joost wanted to do his own thing with these, in terms of sculpts, it’d be great if the bodies were more in the animated style and compatible with what came before. That might bring in a whole new customer base of collectors like myself who are already deep into the Mondo stuff, but still aren’t completely satisfied with how they present next to other mixed media figures.