HKFC * Hot Toys - Howard Chan Q&A

[CloudN]

They always ask the easy questions to which the answer is usually already known

What happened was this was an unexpected interview. Basically Howard Chan from Hot Toys approached Gary the founder of Hong Kong Figure Club and offered if he can answer any questions. So Gary wasn't prepared so it was more of a casual talk of subjects that he remembered from his previous interview with Hot Toys and stuff that he thought of on site.

I'm sorry guys , I'm the guy that's doing the translation and it's been a busy week.... scratch that. I was busy but mostly just that the questions aren't the interesting. I'm tired of Ironmen. Somehow Ironman is really popular in the Asian community. Something about robots/ mech themes. (But apparently Ironmen are still HT's biggest seller so whoever bought an Ironman figure made by Hot Toys, shame on YOU! XD )
And I'm tired of the Heath Ledger Joker over hype. And a lot of the conversation involve subjects that doesn't concern the over sea market such as their local VIP system. I doubt a lot of people will know about the Storm Riders comic.

I'm still working on the translation so hopefully you will see it put up after the weekend.


But I do want to clear up some confusions regarding Joker.

This is more of an update regarding the license for The Dark Knight version of Joker. Originally DXwhatever Joker2.0 was the last Joker based on Heath Ledger's likeliness that license permit. Like I said before, the Ledger family does not want to be reminded of Heath's late work and the movie he worked on that was right before his death. This was explained by Hot Toys and somehow that chunk of information is lost and I wasn't able to Google up anything.
Now it seems like Warner Brothers have soften up on this issue and another version might be possible. Still that doesn't mean we will see a Joker3.0. Howard's basically teasing us because after he said that he teased that we could guess which Joker we will see because it can basically be any version. (Hot Toys currently has license for Batman66', Batman, The Dark Knight, Arkham City)
He didn't mention about a upgrading a Joker figure, bigger,better, rooted hair, etc. Just plain and simple "It's possible we'll see another "Joker" from Hot Toys".

 

[CloudN]

And for members that think this Q&A isn't juicy enough, rest assure. I am bugging Gary @HKFC to do some follow ups. We demand answers for Batman Returns license

 

[Darkarn009]

What does that mean. Are the Iron Man figures 300% diecast now?

300% more iron man, so you'll see 3 times the amount of figures as you normally would but it's all iron man

 

[Wulf]

And for members that think this Q&A isn't juicy enough, rest assure. I am bugging Gary @HKFC to do some follow ups. We demand answers for Batman Returns license

Bugg this Gary guy to ask Hot Toys about Star Wars.. is the line dead or what? Whatever happened to 1 figure per year?

 

[King Kobra]

Bugg this Gary guy to ask Hot Toys about Star Wars.. is the line dead or what? Whatever happened to 1 figure per year?

Agreed. But since it's per year, I'll give them till December to show us something

 

[Wulf]

Agreed. But since it's per year, I'll give them till December to show us something

But then it will be released late 2014... I want at least one SW figure released per year!

 

[Y4NK33 PL4N3T]

Someone should ask about the Smooth Criminal figure, poor folks been teased over and over for that one.

 

[Bo Shrek]

Ask him about Ironman Returns. Maybe that might get his attention!!

 

[a-dev]

And for members that think this Q&A isn't juicy enough, rest assure. I am bugging Gary @HKFC to do some follow ups. We demand answers for Batman Returns license

*cough*and the rest of the Terminator lines*cough*

 

[Darklord Dave]

What happened was this was an unexpected interview. Basically Howard Chan from Hot Toys approached Gary the founder of Hong Kong Figure Club and offered if he can answer any questions. So Gary wasn't prepared so it was more of a casual talk of subjects that he remembered from his previous interview with Hot Toys and stuff that he thought of on site.

I'm sorry guys , I'm the guy that's doing the translation and it's been a busy week.... scratch that. I was busy but mostly just that the questions aren't the interesting. I'm tired of Ironmen. Somehow Ironman is really popular in the Asian community. Something about robots/ mech themes. (But apparently Ironmen are still HT's biggest seller so whoever bought an Ironman figure made by Hot Toys, shame on YOU! XD )
And I'm tired of the Heath Ledger Joker over hype. And a lot of the conversation involve subjects that doesn't concern the over sea market such as their local VIP system. I doubt a lot of people will know about the Storm Riders comic.

I'm still working on the translation so hopefully you will see it put up after the weekend.


But I do want to clear up some confusions regarding Joker.

This is more of an update regarding the license for The Dark Knight version of Joker. Originally DXwhatever Joker2.0 was the last Joker based on Heath Ledger's likeliness that license permit. Like I said before, the Ledger family does not want to be reminded of Heath's late work and the movie he worked on that was right before his death. This was explained by Hot Toys and somehow that chunk of information is lost and I wasn't able to Google up anything.
Now it seems like Warner Brothers have soften up on this issue and another version might be possible. Still that doesn't mean we will see a Joker3.0. Howard's basically teasing us because after he said that he teased that we could guess which Joker we will see because it can basically be any version. (Hot Toys currently has license for Batman66', Batman, The Dark Knight, Arkham City)
He didn't mention about a upgrading a Joker figure, bigger,better, rooted hair, etc. Just plain and simple "It's possible we'll see another "Joker" from Hot Toys".

We definitely appreciate the translation - whenever you get to it. And I think you have it right - we need to just stop buying Iron Man. I think Igor will be my saturation point. (Although the space suit is kinda cool...)

 

[VintijDroidGutzz]

Let's start pushing Enterbay. HT has officially gone loco.

Next thing you know, Howard Chan's gonna change his name to 'Stark' by depol..

 

[batfan08]

I think we non-fans should buy all the HT IM figs, futz with them until they break (but make it look like a QC issue), say they're defective, and get refunds. That way, HT get caught with their pants down, lose all of their sales, and have no more Iron Man figures.

 

[Taibhse]

The plethora of Iron man figure releases will continue as long as they sell well.. Hot Toys is a business, they will therefore sell figures that are the most in demand.

The slow release schedule for other licenses, means Iron Man is outperforming previous releases from those licenses by a substantial margin.. which means those fanboys do not buy as much product as Iron Man fanboys.
So the answer is less QQ, more Kerrching, Kerrching!

Providing Disney do not drop the ball with the first new Star Wars film, I can see that license taking off again, as soon as the reboot is released.

All your base are belong to Shell Heads.

 

[VintijDroidGutzz]

The plethora of Iron man figure releases will continue as long as they sell well.. Hot Toys is a business, they will therefore sell figures that are the most in demand.

I'm glad you're here to tell us these things..

 

[Taibhse]

I'm glad you're here to tell us these things..

.. its a public service.

 

[Y4NK33 PL4N3T]

The slow release schedule for other licenses, means Iron Man is outperforming previous releases from those licenses by a substantial margin.. which means those fanboys do not buy as much product as Iron Man fanboys.
So the answer is less QQ, more Kerrching, Kerrching!

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

But I do want to clear up some confusions regarding Joker.

This is more of an update regarding the license for The Dark Knight version of Joker. Originally DXwhatever Joker2.0 was the last Joker based on Heath Ledger's likeliness that license permit. Like I said before, the Ledger family does not want to be reminded of Heath's late work and the movie he worked on that was right before his death. This was explained by Hot Toys and somehow that chunk of information is lost and I wasn't able to Google up anything.
Now it seems like Warner Brothers have soften up on this issue and another version might be possible. Still that doesn't mean we will see a Joker3.0. Howard's basically teasing us because after he said that he teased that we could guess which Joker we will see because it can basically be any version. (Hot Toys currently has license for Batman66', Batman, The Dark Knight, Arkham City)
He didn't mention about a upgrading a Joker figure, bigger,better, rooted hair, etc. Just plain and simple "It's possible we'll see another "Joker" from Hot Toys".

I don't collect TDK stuff anymore but that's quite interesting.

And for members that think this Q&A isn't juicy enough, rest assure. I am bugging Gary @HKFC to do some follow ups. We demand answers for Batman Returns license

And X-Men First Class please. It's been 2 years since announcement.

The plethora of Iron man figure releases will continue as long as they sell well.. Hot Toys is a business, they will therefore sell figures that are the most in demand.

The slow release schedule for other licenses, means Iron Man is outperforming previous releases from those licenses by a substantial margin.. which means those fanboys do not buy as much product as Iron Man fanboys.
So the answer is less QQ, more Kerrching, Kerrching.

Probably true, but Sideshow "is a business" and manages to deliver products from lots of licenses not just oversaturing the one.

 

[Bo Shrek]

I hate it when people write "Hot Toys is a business"!

 

[King Kobra]

I hate it when people write "Hot Toys is a business"!

I'm sorry, but you just did. (I know, that was immature ) but the cold, hard truth is that they are indeed a business.

 

[chubbyman]

To be honest, I truly think they canned the X-men first class figures and will do a massive year of x-men (similar to what they did for Avengers) in 2014.