Hot Toy DX08 - BATMAN - The Joker (Jack Nicholson) - Specs & Pics

[Maglor]

I can see the email. It's out by 0.1mm. Sidehow can't even see the obvious errors far less one that requires technical drawing instruments. This forum really goes beyond an*l, folks.

Look. It's his eyes.

Anything else on the figure could be off and I wouldn't care.

The "S" was crocked on my Superman. It bugged me, but I can futz it to be more-or-less unnoticeable.

The Spider on the front of Spiderman's chest is always pulling to the right. I have to deal with it every time I pose him. Not a big deal.

There is a part of Jack Sparrow's eye-liner that's missing, and I've never even mentioned anywhere on the boards. In close-up pics it's glaringly noticeable, but in-hand you can't really see it. I figure if it keeps bugging me it would be easy to just dry brush a little black in that spot.

I could go on. The point is, those things don't bug me the way this does.



What's the first thing we look for when buying figures in the store? I don't know about you, but I used to sit in the Toys R' Us aisle and pull every copy of a figure off the shelf. You know what the first thing I'm looking for is? Crossed eyes. I divide the figures into 2 piles: 1) Straight eyes, 2) Crossed eyes. I will pick a figure with crap paint but straight eyes over a figure with perfect paint and crossed eyes every time. Every time.

Guess what I do first thing when I open a new Hot Toy. That's right. Check the eyes. The un-level eyes was literally the first thing I noticed when I unboxed my Joker.


The eyes are the heart of the figure. They are a big part of what sells the illusion. Bad eyes can ruin a figure - whether it be the accursed "doll dot" or eyes that aren't lined up right.

How ever you all are perceiving the straightness of the eyes in my pictures, it is very noticeable to me in-hand. I wont settle for the eyes as they are. I get it if Sideshow doesn't think a swap is in order, but I will not live with them as they are. If I get a 'no' from Sideshow I will not hesitate to break the PERS.

 

[Maglor]

I don't see that as a issue. Take a pic of your own eyes and blow it up to a image 5 times larger and you will see differences in them.

I noticed it immediately in-hand. 1:1.

 

[kaponokeona]

I am still waiting for mine, and I can't wait! Come on BBTS.

 

[Maglor]

Not to harp on this, but I would love to do a photo-shoot like this, but would never do it with my head and his wonkey eyes.

Feel free to quote pics

A $265 figure really should be able to stand up to this kind of scrutiny.


If you look at the first 3 macro shots I posted you'll notice that I only took pics that had one eye in focus. This is why.

 

[EXOTICLEX]

I may order this at the end of May. Do you guys think this will be easy to find on eBay for around $225 then?

 

[MaulFan]

A $265 figure really should be able to stand up to this kind of scrutiny.

I do kind of feel a bit like most of the money for this figure goes towards getting Jack's likeness, but the overall figure is not up to HT standard for such a high price.

 

[Maglor]

If my eyes were parallel, I wouldn't have mentioned the price. In fact I haven't until now.


In fact, I would happily pay another $50 to have my figure instantly swap heads with the figure in OMG's pics.

 

[Cocoboloboy]

I don't readily see the eye problem, Mags, but I hope you get it resolved. I know what it's like when something bugs you about a figure you spend a wad of cash on.

Regardless, those macro shots OMG took are amazing. Makes me want to pick up a good macro lens for my T3i.

 

[mazda-rx7]

Those close up shots of jack gave me the creeps. Imagine waking up and he's on your chest looking down at you. With a razor blade. Reminds me , do you all remember the movie puppet master? Yeah that's why in not buying this.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Is that going to be more valuable on the secondary market than the Mauled Edition I'll be sending back?

I think people need to know why you're sending yours back. Seems to be more problems with this figure than Bats at this point.

 

[King Darkness]

Is that going to be more valuable on the secondary market than the Mauled Edition I'll be sending back?

Infinitely more

 

[Jokes & Bats]

Look. It's his eyes.

Anything else on the figure could be off and I wouldn't care.

The "S" was crocked on my Superman. It bugged me, but I can futz it to be more-or-less unnoticeable.

The Spider on the front of Spiderman's chest is always pulling to the right. I have to deal with it every time I pose him. Not a big deal.

There is a part of Jack Sparrow's eye-liner that's missing, and I've never even mentioned anywhere on the boards. In close-up pics it's glaringly noticeable, but in-hand you can't really see it. I figure if it keeps bugging me it would be easy to just dry brush a little black in that spot.

I could go on. The point is, those things don't bug me the way this does.



What's the first thing we look for when buying figures in the store? I don't know about you, but I used to sit in the Toys R' Us aisle and pull every copy of a figure off the shelf. You know what the first thing I'm looking for is? Crossed eyes. I divide the figures into 2 piles: 1) Straight eyes, 2) Crossed eyes. I will pick a figure with crap paint but straight eyes over a figure with perfect paint and crossed eyes every time. Every time.

Guess what I do first thing when I open a new Hot Toy. That's right. Check the eyes. The un-level eyes was literally the first thing I noticed when I unboxed my Joker.


The eyes are the heart of the figure. They are a big part of what sells the illusion. Bad eyes can ruin a figure - whether it be the accursed "doll dot" or eyes that aren't lined up right.

How ever you all are perceiving the straightness of the eyes in my pictures, it is very noticeable to me in-hand. I wont settle for the eyes as they are. I get it if Sideshow doesn't think a swap is in order, but I will not live with them as they are. If I get a 'no' from Sideshow I will not hesitate to break the PERS.

I still can't see the problem. They look fine.

 

[Furyan]

Yeah the only thing that sucked about mine was the wrist peg that broke off because of the white sleeve. But here's some pictures, my eyes look perfect, but you should give up hope on trying to get a replacement part, they just sell the figures and might exchange you a brand new figure, but parts, haha I wish internet stores would help you out, but you should start making friends in Hong Kong because you literally can walk into Hot toys store and exchange what ever broken piece o defect you have on your figure, say I have a defective Pers, I mail the item to my friend, he walks into store, and does a one for one swap, problem solved. It's way better to go to the source than getting run arounds on the SC store.

Finally had a chance to sit down and play with my joker and watched the movie just in case, The thing that I did notice is when does he use the joker card?

Here's some pictures I took, hope you guys like them:

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Excellent pics yo!:clap I will now be displaying mine with the overcoat on. Dude looks sinister with that coat and the hat on.

 

[lobox42]

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[tommyh84]

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Fantastic picture that one, the DX01 doesn't look like total crap next to Jack for once

 

[TheFiend]

Seeing them both in hand, the custom has a much more precise paint-job. The reason the HT head looks more detailed is only because of the skin texture.





Yep. It's mostly about the hair.

Yes, the paint is very nice but it's different from HT's. I don't have the words to articulate what I mean by that.

Small_studios made a stellar paint job on it though but there's only so much you can do with a smooth molded sculpt. It pops more when the molded material has a texture.

I haven't mentioned it yet, but my PERS are not parallel. Could be effecting my feelings about the head.

Its the first time I've had problems with the PERS on any figure.




The texture is all people are seeing.

____ing PERS. I wish they would just make a joy stick for each eye instead of one for both. That's the problem. It would reduce breakage too I think.


As far as the custom head I think it's that people can not get past the paint and texture and just see the sculpt. But whatever, your right, best not even mention it

 

[MaulFan]

I think people need to know why you're sending yours back. Seems to be more problems with this figure than Bats at this point.

Good idea.

So, my gripes with this figure are the sloppy taioloring work, and I don't expect 100% film replication, just quality work, especially when the price tag is as high as this figure's. HT is capable of better, I've seen better looking Jokers on this site, this is just sloppy work.

On the long coat, the light purple, fuzzy collar piece that connects to the lapels is horribly lopsided.

And then on the tail coat, the lapels and collar look awful.

And wor-gar even thinks the tie is ____ed up, which, I know it's not one of the better ones we've seen.

I looked back through the thread checking out other Joker figures and I just feel like I got a real dud in the clothing department, but it's one of those, ____ happens, scenarious like KingDarkness, so it's keep it or get a refund, so I'm going for refund.

 

[Karnis]

Agreed Maul, I made the same observations several pages back...probably due to the high licensing fees, HT cut every corner possible to maintain their profit margin, & it shows in the final product. Once you look past the actual face sculpt, this is not one of HT finest moments. Not that it's a bad figure, but again, given the high expectations, comparison to 89 Batman & of course, the price point, IMHO it falls a bit short.

 

[MaulFan]

To me, it's the price point that makes these QC issues really jump out. Batman costing less and coming out so nice, when you look at Joker and see an average $150 level figure and pay another $100 on top of that, you feel like you're paying mainly to have Jack's portrait.

 

[pjam]

Sean, you sending yours back for a replacement?

I sure as hell would.