Hot Toys Announce Batman Returns License

[Khev]

IAnd to this day Batman is the only movie franchise that I have seen every single film in the cinema.

Really?

 

[DiFabio]

Catwoman looks like a dude. Riddler looks like an oompa loompa

 

[Wor-Gar]

Really?

Is Batman going to stick his finger in Riddler's mouth? I don't remember that scene.

 

[a-dev]

Men like you, Difabio..

Really?

Gaw dammit! You had to ruin it didn't you.

Incidentally I can see that the inclination towards 'too many villains' started way back.

 

[VintijDroidGutzz]

adev -

Thanks for burying that khev.

 

[sallah]

Sallah's baby is ready for deployment.

This literally made me laugh out loud.

To be fair, baby makin' is a lot easier and less time consuming than designing an action figure line.

Yeah, I was hoping that we'd have to try the process a few times before producing the final prototype... but alas, our team was too strong and we hit it right out of the gate.

Hot Toys is firing blanks.

Sallah

 

[DiFabio]

Yeah, I was hoping that we'd have to try the process a few times before producing the final prototype... but alas, our team was too strong and we hit it right out of the gate.

Hot Toys is firing blanks.

Sallah

Well, look on the bright side. Atleast you won't have to worry about the final product matching the prototype pics or failing to live up to them. No NRD or shipping regrets!

 

[sallah]

Well, look on the bright side. Atleast you won't have to worry about the final product matching the prototype pics or failing to live up to them. No NRD or shipping regrets!

Yeah, but you should see the Flex payments on this one... Looks like I am on the 18-year plan.

Sallah

 

[VintijDroidGutzz]

Hot Toys is firing blanks.

Nice one.

 

[DiFabio]

Which will be more disappointing.

If this line never sees the light of day (and is cancelled without us knowing)? - OR- We get our Batman, Penguin and Catwoman figures but they look like subpar crap, are super expensive and fail to live up to what we're envisioning?

 

[VintijDroidGutzz]

I don't think they're likely to look sub par, if they happen.

The real disappointing thing, will be them doing another Batman - & nothing else.

Well.. for the next five years after that figure anyway.

 

[sallah]

Which will be more disappointing.

If this line never sees the light of day (and is cancelled without us knowing)? - OR- We get our Batman, Penguin and Catwoman figures but they look like subpar crap, are super expensive and fail to live up to what we're envisioning?

Yikes... That is a tough one.

I am in a similar situation right now with those Mattel Batman '89/ Reeve Superman/ Batman Returns figures. I have been DYING for a line like that for a long time. But the closer we get to production, the worse that product is looking. Knowing Mattel, they will probably be even worse in person than they looked at the last show... I am to the point now where I figure I am just going to buy them out of habit and probably won't care very much for the product.

Applying that to Hoy Toys though- Even if they end up subpar, they will at least have something to work with I am sure... and there are enough "after-market" customizers out there (like Tony Mei) to turn a subpar Hot Toy into a stellar one.

Long story not so short... "It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all". I would be less disappointed by a subpar Hot Toys Batman Returns line than I would be by none at all.

Sallah

 

[DiFabio]

For me, if they're not going to be good, I'd rather them just abandon the line.

We've never seen Hot Toys do a character like Penguin before. Catwoman could end up looking like their fugly Silk Spectre. Batman? There's less to mess up judging by how stellar the DX 09 is, but I could see them skimping out on accessories (alternate Bruce Wayne headsculpt especially) and doing some lazy stuff to the look of the suit like not going all out and giving it the same DX 09 sculpt for the cowl, hands/gauntlets and boots.

 

[VintijDroidGutzz]

They're not going to invest their money into a rubbish outcome.

It's a hugely popular set of films - why would they ruin what they started with the 89 figures?

I agree though, do them right - or just move on.

 

[DiFabio]

They're not going to invest their money into a rubbish outcome.

It's a hugely popular set of films - why would they ruin what they started with the 89 figures?

 

[batfan08]

Yeah, but that's the only Indy they ever made. If Returns Batman looks like feces, people will say "screw it," and buy the 89 version.

 

[VintijDroidGutzz]

INDY =/= BATMAN.

 

[DiFabio]

Eh, just showing you an example where Hot Toys invested their money in a rubbish costume (and figure) from a hugely popular set of films.

 

[VintijDroidGutzz]

I'm not saying that because I'm a Batnerd.. I'm just seeing it from their POV.

Indy - in all likeliness, is a one & done. They thought they did ok with it, so they green lit the figure. Box ticked. I doubt they felt any of the nerd croc tears that ensued thereafter.

BATMAN - is a long term investment, across ALL incarnations. It's one of their babies. It's in their interests to keep themselves at the top of the heap when it comes to the figures out there.

Not much to work out really.

 

[DiFabio]

What did you think of the DX 12's headsculpt and eyes, the figure that needed a hundred modifications to look good?

Or the sloppy, rushed suit on the Toy Fair Exclusive Begins figure?