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

[Darth Snoopy]

 

[Dave_W]

 

[Chopper Face]

You’ll have to forgive me then, I’m 6’2 240 and wear a 48L, he was small in my eyes

Ha, describing someone who’s 6’1” and in the top 10 percentile of men could only ever end badly.
A slim waist line probably seems like a good trade off for the height to most as well.
Schwarzenegger had a 30” waist in his prime so that’s really just what a cut waist devoid of fat looks like on an adult male.

Slim, slight or slender are more appropriate terms for Ledger’s build.
Steven Merchant is 6’7” and apparently only 201lbs with a slim waist and chest. That doesn’t make him small. He weighs 4 deluxe Jokor boxes!

 

[RICEaRONI]

Just Google images or watch the film, he definitely wasn't a small dude like the size he is in the figure lol.

I saw the film 30 times in IMAX between the original release and the re-release, and I couldn’t tell you the amount of times I’ve watched it in home so spare me the “watch the film.” It’s called movie magic, the same reason Tom Hardy looks huge when he is actually quite short in real life, and the same reason they can make Tom Cruise the same height as Nicole Kidman.

This is not a guy anyone would call a large man. He was tall, but he had a slender surfer type body.

 

[Cap'n Cook]

I saw the film 30 times in IMAX between the original release and the re-release, and I couldn’t tell you the amount of times I’ve watched it in home so spare me the “watch the film.” It’s called movie magic, the same reason Tom Hardy looks huge when he is actually quite short in real life, and the same reason they can make Tom Cruise the same height as Nicole Kidman.

This is not a guy anyone would call a large man. He was tall, but he had a slender surfer type body.
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But here you contradict yourself saying about Tom Hardy’s height/movie magic, and then about Heaths slim frame. So which are we talking about, genuinely?

Heath was not a small (height) man. He was 6ft1”. No movie magic involved here.

Unless you mean TDK made him look fat despite being slim?

 

[Godfather1408]

Regarding the cell sculpt.

I think it looks bigger due to the expression or it could be down to a bunch of things.

However I wonder how both sculpts would look switched?

 

[Wor-Gar]

However I wonder how both sculpts would look switched?

I was considering that, since the smirking Joker might look better holding the grenade gag... but then the make-up smear is all wrong.

 

[Hologram AI]

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Thanks, this shows it pretty well. The forehead seems a bit too predominant at the top, nose too bulbous, and jaw too square. That all adds up to make the eye area seem small.

It’s a decent sculpt, better than I would ever expect from Hot Toys at this point, but this one doesn’t meet the “mass produced custom” quality I hoped for. I think the customs people post are still miles ahead unfortunately.

While it's not a 100% perfect likeness sculpt, I'd argue it 100% fits in the "mass produced custom" quality. Quite honestly I'd argue it even seats above it with the quality/price ratio they were able to achieve here. It's not perfect for sure (what sculpt is) but the quality of the sculpt is pretty crazy considering the price of the overall package. I'd say that this figures rooted sculpts pricing is roughly $200 (retail) if a single rooted figure from them is $500.

In comparison to all these other custom sculpts that are $800-$900 for the sculpt alone. I do feel like you're reaching the area of diminishing return with a lot of these sculpts. None of them are completely spot on and that's pretty crazy considering the price paid for them. I can see the inaccuracies on Inart's sculpt but I also see inaccuracies on the custom sculpts. Are these other sculpts really MILES above the Inart one for the price difference? Eh..for some maybe, but for others, Id say the Inart sculpt is even better.

Still think it's pretty crazy that this figure & sculpt can even go toe to toe with custom sculpts to begin with. It's cool to see that Inart achieved this level of quality on a mass produced figure done in some factory on their very first attempt.

 

[batmanfan23]

there are several custom sculpts significantly more accurate than this sculpt but that just doesn’t seem like a fair comparison. Let’s not get crazy though and say the inart is on that level

 

[jsgord58]

In one of the unboxing videos for the rooted hair deluxe edition, the guy weighs the product box which is still inside the shipper box and it's 8.7 kg.
So approximately how much could shipping be to the United States?

 

[Phoenixblazes]

While it's not a 100% perfect likeness sculpt, I'd argue it 100% fits in the "mass produced custom" quality. Quite honestly I'd argue it even seats above it with the quality/price ratio they were able to achieve here. It's not perfect for sure (what sculpt is) but the quality of the sculpt is pretty crazy considering the price of the overall package. I'd say that this figures rooted sculpts pricing is roughly $200 (retail) if a single rooted figure from them is $500.

In comparison to all these other custom sculpts that are $800-$900 for the sculpt alone. I do feel like you're reaching the area of diminishing return with a lot of these sculpts. None of them are completely spot on and that's pretty crazy considering the price paid for them. I can see the inaccuracies on Inart's sculpt but I also see inaccuracies on the custom sculpts. Are these other sculpts really MILES above the Inart one for the price difference? Eh..for some maybe, but for others, Id say the Inart sculpt is even better.

Still think it's pretty crazy that this figure & sculpt can even go toe to toe with custom sculpts to begin with. It's cool to see that Inart achieved this level of quality on a mass produced figure done in some factory on their very first attempt.

Damn, those last Hot Toys sculpts make me jump back slightly. They're so jarring especially the old one in the middle.

 

[thedarkknight]

People pay 8-10k for the upper left? It doesn't look like him.

 

[Raleig.h]

While it's not a 100% perfect likeness sculpt, I'd argue it 100% fits in the "mass produced custom" quality. Quite honestly I'd argue it even seats above it with the quality/price ratio they were able to achieve here. It's not perfect for sure (what sculpt is) but the quality of the sculpt is pretty crazy considering the price of the overall package. I'd say that this figures rooted sculpts pricing is roughly $200 (retail) if a single rooted figure from them is $500.

In comparison to all these other custom sculpts that are $800-$900 for the sculpt alone. I do feel like you're reaching the area of diminishing return with a lot of these sculpts. None of them are completely spot on and that's pretty crazy considering the price paid for them. I can see the inaccuracies on Inart's sculpt but I also see inaccuracies on the custom sculpts. Are these other sculpts really MILES above the Inart one for the price difference? Eh..for some maybe, but for others, Id say the Inart sculpt is even better.

Still think it's pretty crazy that this figure & sculpt can even go toe to toe with custom sculpts to begin with. It's cool to see that Inart achieved this level of quality on a mass produced figure done in some factory on their very first attempt.

this just shows me how mid Adam Gu is

 

[Wor-Gar]

Do any of those customs look like Ledger Joker perfectly?

 

[Gipetto0812]

People pay 8-10k for the upper left? It doesn't look like him.

this just shows me how mid Adam Gu is

Yea, I think ppl get lost a lot in the realism that those custom sculpts provide along with the artists involved. I think no one can really deny the work put into those as the quality is definitely there. But with someone like Ledger (or Harrison Ford, Chris Reeve and other typically hard to capture actors), one person will think a certain sculpt is spot on, while another will think that same sculpt is a miss.

 

[a-dev]

 

[a-dev]

Never ceases to amaze me. No other character or single iteration of one character - no other actor, despite so many icons before him - has ever had their action figure sculpts as scrutinized as much and held to such unbelievable standards by so many in this hobby - as Heath Ledger's Joker.

Look at that array of custom sculpts and I'm sure it's only a small sampling. Seemingly everyone in the thread is an expert in judging them (and finding them wanting).

You just don't get this with any other character - not to this degree. There might be one, two or three guys not happy with the stock sculpts and making it known over and over - usually me if it's a Terminator figure but we don't have the unbelievable custom options you have here. There just seems to be no interest among those with sculpting talent to nail Arnie the way they try repeatedly to nail every scene and facial expression of Heath Ledger's Joker for the endless scores of people looking for perfection with this one particular actor's portrayal of this one particular character.

 

[Cocoboloboy]

Yep, Heath is number one in that arena and probably Ford’s Indy is a close second when it comes to custom sculpts being made.
Looking at side by side’s of Heath and IA‘s sculpt I just don’t see enough of a difference to warrant much scrutiny. It just looks good.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Batfans were born to be unsatisfied.

 

[xXJ0kerXx1]

Never ceases to amaze me. No other character or single iteration of one character - no other actor, despite so many icons before him - has ever had their action figure sculpts as scrutinized as much and held to such unbelievable standards by so many in this hobby - as Heath Ledger's Joker.

Look at that array of custom sculpts and I'm sure it's only a small sampling. Seemingly everyone in the thread is an expert in judging them (and finding them wanting).

You just don't get this with any other character - not to this degree. There might be one, two or three guys not happy with the stock sculpts and making it known over and over - usually me if it's a Terminator figure but we don't have the unbelievable custom options you have here. There just seems to be no interest among those with sculpting talent to nail Arnie the way they try repeatedly to nail every scene and facial expression of Heath Ledger's Joker for the endless scores of people looking for perfection with this one particular actor's portrayal of this one particular character.

joker collectors are a weird bunch, worse than indy or han collectors i'd say. they're the most nit-picky for accuracy

off topic, considered looking at kayak zhang's arnie sculpt for T2? i think he did an amazing job if you're looking for custom options.