retaane
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Cowl comparison pics between HT Medi and the real cowl
Hot Toys 1/6th scale BATMAN (Original Suit) Photo thread
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retaane
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another camparison collage medi collectors
Is it really necessary to post film images with the medi-figure, you could not have seen the Begins suit for weeks and on memory know the issues 
Even hot Toys isn't dead on, it's a bit more slender a head than it should be.
Even hot Toys isn't dead on, it's a bit more slender a head than it should be.
Yeah, I have Takara and Hot Toys, and I'll take slightly off with HT anyday. When HT's first came out, I still felt some love for the Takara, but I pretty much wish I hadn't even bought it at this point, HT did such a better job with the body suit and the headsculpt is miles above Takara in realism.
Yeah, but thats not what I'm saying though. I'm only saying Takara got the neck piece right over everyone else. Barring the neck join. 
There's more than enough reference photos kicking about when the movies came out, and they couldn't pick this up?... oddness. I'm not complaining, before somebody decides to jump in. Just stating.
There's more than enough reference photos kicking about when the movies came out, and they couldn't pick this up?... oddness. I'm not complaining, before somebody decides to jump in. Just stating.
lforigno
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this is a picture someone from the onesixthwarriors took and also said that he put extenders on his medicom and is actually quite shorter than shown. Also why do those guy hate this board so much I was over there looking at this thread and they were hating on us. I actually found it quite amusing.
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Seeing those just makes the Medi version look worse.
Ht Begins Suit >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Medi Begins Suit.
There is a reason it's selling for $400 on ebay
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Yeah, but thats not what I'm saying though. I'm only saying Takara got the neck piece right over everyone else. Barring the neck join.
There's more than enough reference photos kicking about when the movies came out, and they couldn't pick this up?... oddness. I'm not complaining, before somebody decides to jump in. Just stating.
I get what you're saying. Sometimes it doesn't matter what reference you have, in the end it's an artist's best interpretation and sometimes it's not dead on. The HT head turned out so nicely in all the fine details, I'm sure they didn't get caught up matching the fatness of the head or whatever. The Batman bust is even more slender looking than the 1/6 head which is amazing, you'd think 1/4 would be much nicer than 1/6.
Well to some degree he is right. "All they want to do is fight or pick fights." but you can't say all, only a select few were. There's a lot of good people here. As I'm sure there is there. You cannot hate a board because 2 - 4 fight/slag each other or cause fights. You get this on every forum.
It's not been so bad for the past few months or so, but it got really heated in this section when TDK fig was coming out or was just released. Saying that, this all happened before this section had a moderator, Buttmunch.
As for the figs, they all have their goods and bads, but I personally prefer the Hot Toys. It's not about being a fanboy. I/we just want accuracy, and quite frankly as has been said before the new Medicom fig is very nice but only in certain shots. Where as the Hot Toys normally looks stellar at all angles. Granted the Medicom to some degree has a very nice face, with the deep look like the cowl is actually sitting over the human head. I must admit I really love the Medicom belt, but it's not in the best of lighting conditions to see how authentic it looks or if it is really toy looking as some had said.
To me personally that Medicom is not worth the prices Hot Toys charges, since they are competing. Considering in that pic (side by side comparison for height wise) the Medicom looks like Batboy. Thats my main irk with that fig. It's tiny! Oh and the thunderpants thongs they have given it... deary me! The Medicom against the HT Batman is like TDK DCD 13" Joker standing against the HT Batman.
It also looks very £15 toy like due to the dominant shiny look it has. I do not like that one bit. The really long cape it has makes the figure look even smaller.
The main thing I love about the Hot Toys fig is it's a matte finish just like real rubber. No old man saggy man boobs.
When you see the Hot Toys like that, it looks 99.9% movie accurate.
Looks how truly beautiful the Hot Toy suit catches the light. Like the true suit.
Even when this suit appears shiny under certain lighting conditions it doesn't look toy like. It looks cinematic.
The sad thing is I have a funny feeling the Medicom suit will last much longer than the Hot Toys suit. It appears to be a hard material. Where as the Hot Toys is so easy to tear/rip and create marks. It'll deteriorate over time and with hot summers ahead unless one has air conditioning or good air conditioning.
Doesn't matter if the Hot Toys suit is in the box stored or out and displayed, it will dry out lose its goodness, possibly become brittle and if you decide to do any bending it'll most likely rip because its not sealed from air. Oxidization will eat into it over the course of time. More so when getting handled. Acid from your fingers.
It's how long it'll last, a year... two years, three... who knows.
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TheDarkKnight_NL
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awesome you used a picture I made :chew
I would assume, given that these are high end, collectible pieces, they're using a quality rubber.
I have a Godzilla figure made out of rubber from 1998, still in perfect condition, as far as the rubber, some paint's flaked away but that happens when you paint rubber.
If a cheap $30 toy can be made of a rubber that lasts over 10 years, I would think these would too.
Hell, it's not straight rubber, but I still have my T-Rex from Jurassic Park in 1993, fully intact.
LChinoz
Super Freak
I still have nightmares about ED-209 though...abeit that was a meshy type of rubber (why they used rubber for it is beyond me). Fact is while not all, some rubber suits definitely do deteriorate over time for various reasons. ED-209 and some Medi Figures like Goku prove that high-end or not, the jury is still out on how long they may last. I still buy them and enjoy them while I can. I'm not gonna let fear of rubber issues stop me from buying these awesome figures.
I'm sure some will. I'm sure it also really matters the storage conditions of the piece. I've heard the ED-209 horrors, but I haven't heard anything to suggest every figure's broken down. I know people that have had issues with Hot Toys muscular bodies, I still have my Rambo that's 3-4 years old and it's in the same condition it was when I got it.
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I don't care about packaging, and until I move I haven't had time to organise a display case, so I'm storing all my figures in three cardboard boxes separated by cardboard wine bottle dividers. Simple, but I trust this over any other method of storage.
That's how my Godzilla's stored, down in my basement in a cardboard box. Same for my JP T-Rex. I don't know what conditions exactly can lead to problems, but I feel safe saying they play a factory in the longevity of the rubber pieces.
Someone told me that applying liquid silicon on the rubber suit every once in a while will keep the rubber from drying and cracking or melting.
Any one tried this yet? He did it to his HT batman begins OC (not TDK OC) suit, and its still looking like new.
Any one tried this yet? He did it to his HT batman begins OC (not TDK OC) suit, and its still looking like new.
The one thing every HT Batman has had, which I'm not a fan of, but it's not too bad, is an over elongated nose on the cowl. It works ok on the newest Begins portrait, but it throws off the look of the cowl at some angles on the TDK suit.
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