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

[Wor-Gar]

Wait a minute! Hold the phone!

Is Joker's chain silver or gold...?

Quick, who's a Joker expert here? Clown?

 

[TheBatman]

Love the excitement in this thread!

 

[TheFiend]

Love the excitement in this thread!

Right? It's like I've been transported back to 2010 or something. The only thing that might make it better is if intothevoid popped up.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

Wait a minute! Hold the phone!

Is Joker's chain silver or gold...?

Quick, who's a Joker expert here? Clown?

It looked gold to me. Maybe a dirty used silver.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Right? It's like I've been transported back to 2010 or something. The only thing that might make it better is if intothevoid popped up.

He did pop up in The Batman movie thread.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

You can do this pose!
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[TheFiend]

He did pop up in The Batman movie thread.

No kiddin'.. Did he swiftly disappear into the night after that post?

 

[Wor-Gar]

It looked gold to me. Maybe a dirty used silver.

Fiend -- what color is it?

There's "Nick's" everywhere.

No kiddin'.. Did he swiftly disappear into the night after that post?

He did.

 

[TheFiend]

Fiend -- what color is it?

Rusty silver with a gold wash.

 

[TheFiend]

He did.

He's reached his final state of evolution. He IS The Batman.

 

[ZE_501]

Hmm, really not sold on this to be honest.

 

[Hologram AI]

Hmm, really not sold on this to be honest.

The tailoring doesn't seem too great with the coat being really thick and stiff, you get a lot I suppose for the price of the two pack, but personally I'd rather get a better 1/6 custom sculpt and a parted out body.

Will see what JND offers for 1/6 to see if I'm pulled back into it; as it stands I'm not too wowed by it; especially the two sculpts being very similar.

Eh disagree on the tailoring not being great. It's the best I've seen with attempts to doing Ledgers Jokers purple coat. It's actually the thinnest I've seen his coat look in 1/6 besides the one off that JND did for himself.

All the other $600-$1000 custom outfit runs pictured below are either very similar or even thicker than Queens attempt. Of course who knows what production will look like but can't really compare to that right now.

QueensStudio/Yunsil/IRIS/Toribox

 

[TheFiend]

QS suit looks pretty comparable to those customs. I have the Daftoys suit and much like the HT 2.0 coat is sort of fans out at the bottom. It drives me crazy. I just hope the factory version of this figure doesn't do the same.

 

[denrep-lilium]

I wish there was a chance to have that smirking sculpt without buying two figures pack.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Interesting comparison on all those coats. They do look very close... but my preference is actually the Queen's coat.

Toribox looks a little too long, and I don't like the orange peeking out on the pocket flaps, but it has good front buttons.

IRIS's looks really good, but the sleeves may flare a bit much. Probably closest to Queen's going by that one picture.

Yunsil's is hard to judge in that terrible lighting; looks like bathrobe material there. Bad buttons. Might be too long.

 

[ZE_501]

Interesting comparison on all those coats. They do look very close... but my preference is actually the Queen's coat.

Toribox looks a little too long, and I don't like the orange peeking out on the pocket flaps, but it has good front buttons.

IRIS's looks really good, but the sleeves may flare a bit much. Probably closest to Queen's going by that one picture.

Yunsil's is hard to judge in that terrible lighting; looks like bathrobe material there. Bad buttons. Might be too long.

I was surprised myself in that Yunsil's looked to be the poorest of them. In that photo, anyway.

 

[Victοr]

My main problem is that I'm happy with a single figure, but if the rest of the collection like Gandalf, Legolas, are rooted hair... I think in the future I'll regret no buy it. I have to admit that I like the diorama display too. It's like hey! this is the future.

If just QS offered single rooted hair my choice would be done for sure.

Well, as I said in the previous post, you have to look how your collection is structured, how much freedom you have with your funds and space, and so on. If you have the money, if you have somewhere to put it, and if you love Ledger's Joker that much, go for it. The rooted does look more realistic and gives it that extra punch, no doubt. Myself I've never been the biggest Joker fan, and neither was I enarmored with the Nolan Trilogy. However, I do love Ledger's performance and how utterly "lost" he was in the role. I literally cannot see him in the Joker, he's just... the Joker. It is a role that will go down in cinema history. So I want a representation of him, certainly. A 500$ single rooted release would've tempted me. But I'm just not enough of a fan to go all the way.

Me, I'm mainly a Marvel guy for example (but the truth is that I'm all over the place), so even if I started hunting down rooted figures, 90% of my collection would be in the same sculpted style. MCU X-Men and Fantastic Four and so on are in the cards for me, and they'll cost quite a bit. So if it's not a super special character I want to have in the best possible version, I'm not going to bother. But you need to figure out your plan for yourself.

I think, for me, this announcement hits at a time when I was already reevaluating my collecting habits. I was only half kidding when I posted about selling a Quarter Scale Joker earlier in the thread. More than this figure being announced, it was the stuff from The Batman. I’m all in on that film and, while I’m waiting to see what Queen delivers before biting on HT’s offering, it’s sort of made me realize that 1/4 scale just isn’t practical for me.
I mean it’s weird because I campaigned for months on these forums to see if Hot Toys would alter their Quarter Scale Batman to be more accurate…and when they did, I couldn’t afford it…and it’s been, like, grail status to me for years, and, now that I can get one, I’m like “does it really make sense for me to get one?” Like, I love Nolan’s films. I still do, but my West and Ward aren’t 1/4 scale, the Kilmer I’ve got on PO isn’t 1/4 scale, nor is Battinson nor is, I’m sure, the inevitable Keaton Batman and Nicholson Joker I see somewhere down the line once Hot Toys stops being schmucks or one of these other guys really decides to go for the crown.

I understand you. I had this idea some time back to set up a "Doom Corner". Try and gather Doom Collectibles across the board and put them in their own little place. Sideshow announced their new statue, and at ~1K I skipped it and that was that. If I ever hit it truly big and I'm done with these, I may go back and buy 20 years worth of Doom statues and collectibles and set it up, but no matter what we plan, life's too unpredictable to get all the, let's be frank, useless dolls, we want.

So, with that in mind, part of the reason I’m even considering the two pack is because I know I’ve got $1,000 worth of **** I can easily offload to fund it. I also feel like it’s one of those characters that can really benefit from this treatment. I don’t give a **** if I have a Bale figure with rooted hair. That dude is in a cowl 70% of the time and, even then, it’s short enough that I don’t feel like rooted would really do anything for it, but I think you can see firsthand in this thread what rooted does for this character vs. the plastic spaghetti strands.

One reason why I'm not that peeved about missing out on this is that ultimately I don't love the Nolan Trilogy. I'm getting the DX019 to flank my Joker and because I like Bale as an actor in general. I was thinking of cancelling my PO for a hypothetically better QS version, but I'd be losing ~100€ at the minimum, and I'm just not willing to do that for that character and incarnation. They're not going to be grail pieces going into some grand case, is my point. I'll put them next to my "Movie Classics", like Jack Sparrow and the such. I hope someone will make a Phoenix Joker too. But I'll keep the Bat-Shelf revolving around Battinson, mostly, and even then my Bat-Needs will be secondary to rounding up my X-Men or Star Wars displays.

The truth is that yes, the rooted hair adds an extra level of realism, hands down. Some kind of long hair can look just fine with a sculpt too, like, say, HT's Kylo Rens. The thing is, Ledger's got curly hair, and they were greasy and long to boot, not to mention that he was balding too, so it's really hard to make them look truly real with a sculpt. Hair that has volume, like, say ROTS Anakin, can look fine with a sculpt too. Ledger's Joker is a unique animal that ultimately can be pulled off truly properly only with rooted hair.

As far as non-long haired characters go, I don't much see the need to throw the extra cash for a rooted version. They are still toys. They look lifelike in the expertly taken photographs and everything, but they're still going in a cabinet atop their plastic base to hang out with a giant purpleman. At that level the hyper-realism becomes a little silly to me. I've said it before that it'd be kind of cool to set up a "1/6th Olympus" with 12 figures of my favourite characters, all with rooted hair and everything. But I can't think of that many, even in the event that I had unlimited funds. Rooted Anakin would be a lock. Then... I guess a Vader, but what's there to improve and make him go to the 500$+ range? A Doom with all-metal armour? I suppose I'd want a curly-haired rooted Edmond Dantes. And I'd definitely be tempted by a Troy Pitt/Bana Achilles/Hector. Bowie-looking Vertigo Lucifer? As you can see, it'd be hard for me to do any "proper" jump in such a format.

And on a similar note, I feel like I’ve strayed too far from what my initial goals were in collecting and maybe it’s time to get back to it. “Quality over quantity.”
In my mind, I can justify splurging a little more on this figure, for instance, because I have no intention of spending $200-300 a pop on Lucius Fox or Alfred or Gordon or Catwoman or Bane or John ******* Blake or whoever. Gimme a Batman and a Joker and we’re golden, pony boy.

I've thought about that many times. But there are too many displays that'd remain incomplete for me to go that way. I got in this hobby and scale to get the best representations of my favourite characters and IPs. So I need to juggle Batman and the X-Men and Star Wars and Green Lantern and so on. A classic movie here, a random new hit there, some videogames coming from the left; it's too much. I'm not going to be buying Multiple Man or Ki Adi Mundi or some such, but there is a checklist, so to speak.

The idea of the 10-30 chracter collection is certainly an attractive one. But by the time you've gotten your one grail and you're waiting for the other, the game has changed, new innovations have been made and you have to buy the same grail again for that 5% improvement and on it goes. Me, I'd rather have a good, 8-9/10 quality collection across the board, get what I need, set it up, and get out. I don't want to be debating my 7th 1/6th Vader for that 9.9/10 accuracy in 20 years. By then I hope I'll be collecting more priceless things like paintings or antiques. I'll still keep an eye for some Doom stuff though...

darthkostis/Victor picking a new username:

I do the weird hand movements too, it's important.

Yup I work with Iconiq, Andy is my good friend, we had good time together when he visit China for Iconiq projects

Not to derail the thread, but seeing as I've POed the Iconiq Bateman from you guys, do you have any news concerning that figure? It was supposed to ship this Q, but nothing thus far. No updates, no new photos, nothing.

 

[davejames]

I know this has been debated endlessly before, but I'm really wishing they had gone for the deeper bluish-purple the coat seemed to have on screen, versus the lighter purple of those Ledger promo pics.

And even in his first appearance in the suit, the coat was far more dirtied and weathered up than they've made it. Not sure why companies always hesitate to go that extra step.

 

[Wor-Gar]

They have put more weathering on their coat then I have ever seen from Hot Toys or customs, but it could use more...

 

[willy156]

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