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That has been my biggest pet peeve out of all the hot toys releases, I completely dislike the hat hair it always threw it off!!!
Hot Toy DX08 - BATMAN - The Joker (Jack Nicholson) - Specs & Pics
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Gowithasmile!
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I agree, that new sculpt with the laughing face actually has the right hair this time!
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I know i asked about the eyes before but are there any known issues with the DX08 or factory defects that i should be mindful of before i get way too excited about opening this figure?
Gowithasmile!
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Welp i finally got the figure and he is excellent. I absolutely love this figure, snapped a couple quick pics but will defintely take more when I have the time tomorrow. It is a night and day difference between the mars toys one and I'm honestly kinda surprised at how good it is. One annoyance is how tough the hands are to take out of the wrist peg, but once I got them out i just screwed in the hand just a little bit so they're just sitting there so i won't break the wrist peg or have any issues swapping hands! I also had to futz with the tie as it was below the top button which was really bothering me, but hes all perfect now PERS and all!
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Welp as promised i took more photos today. I did a few shots from the movie and tried to recreate the publicity shots. This figure is so easy and fun to take photos of, you just can't take a bad pic of him.
Bats and joker just look so good together, i can't believe i actually finally have these 2. I remember seeing these years ago and always thought they were cool collector pieces that i needed to get as i was a huge batman 89 fan. Now i finally got em, and they're just truly spectacular
Bats and joker just look so good together, i can't believe i actually finally have these 2. I remember seeing these years ago and always thought they were cool collector pieces that i needed to get as i was a huge batman 89 fan. Now i finally got em, and they're just truly spectacular
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I really hope Mars Toys considers leaving the moving eyes out if those head sculpts. Those sculpts are tremendous. I also fear I won't be able to find them loose. I'm not buying a whole figure.
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No doubt, but they were in a tough spot. They wanted to include the hat and have him be able to wear it. Including a second non-hat hair head was out of the question. It was already one of the most expensive single figures HT had ever made up till that point due to licensing. Paying $265 for a HT figure nowadays is the norm but it wasn't in 2011.
Anyway, I had mine modified.
Gowithasmile!
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I really hope so too, the eyes honestly ruin what could've been great on the mars toys figure. They look really glassy and wide eyed
kam veitch
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No thread for the Mars Toys figure?
I got the Mars Toys Joker, now I need a Batman reissue from HT or Mars Toys.
Nice figure, I know not as good as HT, but works for me as I didnt want to pay 400-500 for him.
I got the Mars Toys Joker, now I need a Batman reissue from HT or Mars Toys.
Nice figure, I know not as good as HT, but works for me as I didnt want to pay 400-500 for him.
Gowithasmile!
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Looks nice! I see they've fixed the tie issue with some of them. My figures tie was below the top button and when i tried adjusting it, it almost fell apart. It's not as good as HT but for most people it'll do (i am not most people, and forked out a lot to get the original since i wasn't happy with the mars toys figure) but enjoy the figure! As for the batman, there's gonna be a 89 batman reissue from HT but when exactly they will officially announce that we don't know.
Got mine late last week. Not quite as good as the HT figure but still brilliant for the price. Feels like they improved some things from the first batch.
My only complaint is the same as the original HT versions. Green on the hair feels too dark and flat.
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I dislike the hat hair too. It's not accurate. I display my figure with the hat on, i don't feel he looks as good without it. And yeah seems they have improved, i have the first batch and the tie is dreadful on mine, it was way too thick and poorly tied below the top button and it seems to be fixed in the second batch. Then again my HT figure had the same issues when i got it out of the box, but it was far easier to fix. One thing i prefer on the MT over the HT is the orange shirt. I prefer the brighter pop the HT one has but the material is terrible and as i was adjusting the tie threads were coming out all over the place where as MT doesn't have that issue
It is a shame Mars Toys didn't produce a sculpt or two of their own for the figure. When you look at the quality of their Keaton and the Romero Joker that comes with three different sculpts they are capable.
A manic laughing sculpt and a sad face from when he loses his balloons would have been cool.
Gowithasmile!
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It is a shame. And i really don't like how the eyes on MT looks, they should do away with the PERS entirely. The HT PERS aren't perfect, but they look really good on that figure. The eyes on the MT look kinda glassy almost, theres something off about them in pictures I've taken where the HT looks like it's looking at you, MT is looking in some other direction, and the actual PERS system is done pretty poorly due to how you can't even move the eyes that much on MT. You should check out pics MT posted a while back of their museum joker sculpts, they look REALLY good and they don't have hat hair. Lets hope they don't put the PERS in since they ruin the likness IMO. Some figures like the original DX08 and DX09 look fine, but something like the DX05 likeness is ruined because of the PERS.
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That head and those eyes seem to be getting farther and farther away from the Hot Toys figure they were bootlegging. Looks like they opted for a cheaper way to paint the eyebrows and eyes, which look like painted ping pong balls on Mars version when the originals were cast in like a milky glossy plastic.
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Those eyes have an extra level of realism and creepiness MT can't compare to, great pic btw!
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Yeah outside the paint work on the teeth, the HT really was ahead of it's time. It'd be awesome to see that redone with the inset dentures that have become the standard for teeth on figures.
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Thanks, dug that photo out of the vault from ten (!) years ago for a comparison
Wow I cannot believe I’ve had him and Keaton Batman for that long!
Just received my Mars Toys Joker as well, and I'm pretty happy with him overall. The head will need a repaint and I'm still annoyed by how short they made his waistcoat, but it's still a pretty nice representation of the character for $160.
Gowithasmile!
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Some pictures, like the ones you took, make it look REALLY GOOD! Nice job! I find he looks way better if the eyes are obscured and not very visible, cause they just look so glassy and off if they're really focused on
I'm also annoyed they didn't include the white undershirt to hide the flesh arms
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