1/6 INART (Queen Studio) - The Dark Knight - Joker Collectible Figure

[choombaz]

That's a nice custom! Lol it's actually fitting since he constantly licked his prosthetics in the movie

As I understand it there were no prosthetics just plain cheap makeup that Ledger bought and applied himself. Brilliant!

 

[Kit Chen]

I mean all you need to do is look at a mass produced HT hair figure and this to see the difference.

Also am seeing the deluxe version still up for order on TW and Specfiction.... weren't they supposed to close days ago?

Official message from Queen Studio:

All stores please take the rooted hair version off shelf on 24th March 10 AM PST+8

Please estimate your order number and prepare deposit (which is around 20%) IF you need to stock our figure (suppose to be on shelf only after the figure is released)
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With such heavy deposit, we only order 1% extra as backup

It's a big gambling to estimate high volume and continue the sales after the official cut off date unless you don't need to pay any deposit or you don't care about cancelling customer's orders if you cannot fulfill them

 

[davejames]

Wow yeah, I expect there's going to be quite a few angry and disappointed people 8 or so months from now when they realize they ain't getting a Joker figure...

 

[Kit Chen]

I don't know the exact process for mass produced plugged hair, but I'm pretty sure a machine plugs the head, but even if they're manually plugged they tend to be extremely thick strands in a rather mechanical approach instead of in a way that hair naturally forms on a particular persons head. Whereas rooting is shaping and gluing each particular strand, much thinner in comparison, and usually follows a unique hair pattern the actor has. Mass produced hair is typically synthetic also, whereas rooted hair tends to be from a real animal, llama hair or something like it.

I visited quite a lot 1/6 factories so I can share a little bit experience here

Usually eyebrow and eyeball are machine painting, sometimes the lips too, some details like edge of hair and beard those has to be painted by human hands

They can seriously bring down the production cost one day if machine could paint all details

And for the hand rooted hair <--Not hair wigs, it has to be done by human, I meant - well trained / talent people with steady hands. It is very time consuming and high defect rate. If you did something wrong in the middle, throw the head in trash and start all over again

These people salary is high, and it's very time consuming. At least Viper seems has a team for rooting hair, and he already done some project before.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Official message from Queen Studio:

All stores please take the rooted hair version off shelf on 24th March 10 AM PST+8

So Queen did actually go the full 3-days as they committed: 10am 21st to 10am 24th

No early cut-off

 

[Phoenixblazes]

I believe the confusion on the term rooting is because Queen Studios does in fact manually root the hair for their large scale pieces. But this is only for their silicone pieces such as for their life size busts and 1/2 scale pieces where it’s necessary.

I currently have their Life Size Hulk bust and the 1/2 scale Aquaman (with many more to come) and both have properly rooted hair.

Whereas for their 1/3 scale and smaller I believe they use the gluing method.

 

[agonistes86]

Yes, I'm just now realizing that the term 'rooted' has been misused by the community at large. I just searched for a video on 'rooting a 1/6 scale head' and you get a bunch of results of people gluing the hair onto the head. It's bizarre. I don't know how long this has been going on, but .... it's freaking me out.

It's like if you wanted to learn how to chisel a statue, and all the instructional videos don't actually use a chisel, and people forgot that 'chisel' is an actual tool. It's like some freaky Twilight Zone.

But again, it's necessary to differentiate because glued hair is more realistic than rooted, and calling everything 'rooted' is like calling everything 'steak'. No, there's porterhouse, ribeye, filet mignon, chuck, etc. The irony is that InArt is calling their product 'tenderloin' and giving you 'filet mignon'

It's similar to having become rather standard to call poseable eyes of any kind "PERS" in the 1/6 community, without realising that 1) it should imply parallel/simultaneous movement and 2) it's a HT specific marketing term for a feature they abandoned many years ago.
Of course some people do use it correctly and some use ERS. But I guess the main reason is that it's simply easy to say PERS, when there's no short alternative, and most people know what you mean. It bothers me to some extent, but at the same time, eh...

 

[RJTVFX]

As I understand it there were no prosthetics just plain cheap makeup that Ledger bought and applied himself. Brilliant!

the scars were the prosthetics

 

[R_R_X]

I visited quite a lot 1/6 factories so I can share a little bit experience here

Usually eyebrow and eyeball are machine painting, sometimes the lips too, some details like edge of hair and beard those has to be painted by human hands

They can seriously bring down the production cost one day if machine could paint all details

And for the hand rooted hair <--Not hair wigs, it has to be done by human, I meant - well trained / talent people with steady hands. It is very time consuming and high defect rate. If you did something wrong in the middle, throw the head in trash and start all over again

These people salary is high, and it's very time consuming. At least Viper seems has a team for rooting hair, and he already done some project before.

The technology with machine printing has advanced a lot, you can put so many details in a head sculpt without needing someone to hand paint them, the issue is a lot of companies just use standard patterns like eyebrows and eyelashes already provided by the factory instead of doing it themselves, it helps a lot during production and makes for a better final result.

 

[Johnny Utah]

the scars were the prosthetics

All it took was a little makeup and look at the performance he gave.

 

[Malgus]

As long as they get the sculpted hair ones on time I will be happy. The dolly hair ones they can take as much time as they need to get it right.

 

[Nine Inch Nails]

As long as they get the sculpted hair ones on time I will be happy. The dolly hair ones they can take as much time as they need to get it right.

Word is that both versions are to be released at the same time. They had been working on these even before announcements. So that’s good news. Still, I’m expecting a delay .

 

[Godfather1408]

I was going to sit out on this but couldn't say no, especially the

The technology with machine printing has advanced a lot, you can put so many details in a head sculpt without needing someone to hand paint them, the issue is a lot of companies just use standard patterns like eyebrows and eyelashes already provided by the factory instead of doing it themselves, it helps a lot during production and makes for a better final result.

Was this used for a certain cowpoke? If so that's actually mind blowing!

 

[GaryPool]

No.

I suppose my point is it would be wise for manufacturers to start differentiating between rooted and glued as a marketing bullet point, because they are two substantially different processes. However, in this instance InArt are limited to the Chinese market, and using the proper English term to market their products is probably unnecessary.

It's sort of splitting hairs (lol), though.

Most of the custom jobs beings sold before this went mainstream label gluing the hair as well as painting the sculpt as paint + rooting. So in a way it doesn't matter what the technical terms are, for the most part people in the community just understand rooting as applied real hair in a skilled manner. I don't think anyone will have assumed that these hairs are being punched it to the sculpt.

Personally I find rooted hair to be more in line with being glued on and plugged for punched hair like JND's into silicone.

 

[R_R_X]

Was this used for a certain cowpoke? If so that's actually mind blowing!

Spoiler

Every mole, vein, the eye iris and eyelash, eyebrow, beard hairs were done by yours truly and then applied with a machine, the balance of the hand painted and machine printing work results in the best paint apps one can currently produce, it's what Hot Toys does as well!

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

the scars were the prosthetics

His Joker is so mysterious that there isn't even behind the scenes footage. What a shame, WB must have all that footage locked somewhere. Makeup tests, costume tests, interviews, photoshoots, and lots of behind the scene footage. I don't get why they don't show it. What are they waiting for?

 

[Pazu]

His Joker is so mysterious that there isn't even behind the scenes footage. What a shame, WB must have all that footage locked somewhere. Makeup tests, costume tests, interviews, photoshoots, and lots of behind the scene footage. I don't get why they don't show it. What are they waiting for?

8k Blu-ray Steelbook limited edition boxset in 2008 just in time for the 20th anniversary... only $2008.


EDIT: Hm, what do you guys think are the chances for HT or QS to release a rooted Bank Robber Joker?

 

[Wor-Gar]

EDIT: Hm, what do you guys think are the chances for HT or QS to release a rooted Bank Robber Joker?

Would you like a Queen Studios 2-pack with Bank Robber Joker and Nurse Joker?

 

[Pazu]

Would you like a Queen Studios 2-pack with Bank Robber Joker and Nurse Joker?

Seems you read my wet dream.

 

[jal76]

As I understand it there were no prosthetics just plain cheap makeup that Ledger bought and applied himself. Brilliant!

Uhm…did you think those scars around the Joker’s mouth were really Heath Ledger’s?