Hot Toys Back to the Future Part III - 1/6th scale Doc Brown MMS617

[guyver1]

Are you serious? This is one of Hot Toys worst sculpts.View attachment 538583

The scarf is wrong ..It was suppose to be the ripped up yellow shirt he wore in Alternate 1985

 

[Mike86]

I don’t think the sculpt is as bad as others are saying really. I think the likeness is there, but there’s something that could be tweaked to make it look better. Maybe a slight smirk on his face or something.

Regardless of price and some odd choices and imperfections I have to get both Doc and Marty.

These and the figures from the first film are second chances for fans of the Back to the Future Trilogy. Miss out this time and I feel like fans are going to regret it.

 

[jedibear]

I like both Doc and Marty in the Part III get-ups. Both of these were certainly a surprise. Like some have mentioned, it's a pleasure to see HT lavish some good attention on an IP other than Marvel or SW. These two figures really look well rendered. The cut-n-sew looks great, the included accessories will provide plenty of display options and the portraits look really good. i'm liking the more serious expression on both of them. Doc's is much better than that wacky, caught-in-one-moment expression featured on the other release. And Marty...for me, this one actually captures MJF a little better than the original one.
The permanently affixed hats are an odd choice here, especially considering that HT has successfully rendered figures with swap-out hair sculptures in the past. Are we seeing a cost-cutting measure taken here in the R&D while the price just keeps inching up?

Add to that the unique western flair to the outfits and gear and we get what will be a really unique display celebrating this fun trilogy. While most may favor the more classic 80s look, I'm happy HT went and offered this set from the final film. It's a handsome, unique pair of figures.

Don't know if I would ever hit the order button on the DeLorean, but what might help would be switch-out wheels to display it on a railroad track inspired base and a very dusty deco. Looking forward to the pictures that will come out of this pair being displayed at secret base...

 

[Entropy]

The scarf is wrong ..It was suppose to be the ripped up yellow shirt he wore in Alternate 1985

If you zoom in isn’t it a faded version of that train print shirt?

 

[guyver1]

If you zoom in isn’t it a faded version of that train print shirt?

Yeah It is ..very faded though

nevermind HT nailed it

 

[xipotec]

It’s not as far off a sculpt as some think. For BTTF3 the changed Lloyd’s looks a lot. Much bushier eyebrows, whiter hair….

I just wish we got a Biff first, or a Lorraine or Geroge (no chance
I love the series. They are my favorite trilogy. But I doubt I’ll pick these up.

plus, HUGE oversight not to make the clock as the lynch pin of the series was the photo they take together at the party.

 

[noone]

You're pointing out one of HT's biggest sculpting problems. Like with Ripley, Dooku and other character's they forgot to leave enough of a gap between the eyebrows and the eyes to sculpt in eyelids. Also, with both Dooku and Doc (future outfit), they made they eyebrows way to subtle and idealized.

Anyway, really happy we are getting these at all, even if on Doc the facial expression seems a bit undefined. Your adjusted photo really helps sell the humanity in Doc.

It's also really twisted of HT not to have the hats removable. If they could do it on BTTFII 2015 Marty, they should have done it here. It's almost baffling they didn

Yeah that's exactly what I wanted to say.

 

[guyver1]

I like the expression they used..I thought Doc in BTTF 3 was more normal and not so goofy in behavior . I think it was supposed to represent the life he finally want to live in and since history showed he was with Clara when he originally supposed to die

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

.I thought Doc in BTTF 3 was more normal and not so goofy in behavior .

Funny you mention that because I always thought Doc was acting differently when he drops off Marty at his house.



He seemed so, reserved and natural. He's like a real person for a few seconds. I wonder if those closeup takes were from the Eric Stoltz version.

When Doc returns from the future at the end of the film, he's back to his usual bug-eyed self.

 

[Asta]

Photo by Ian Hart from the Toy Sapiens event in Japan:

 

[coasterbriam]

Took these at the event

 

[Asta]

 

[Asta]

 

[Freakazoid!]

plus, HUGE oversight not to make the clock as the lynch pin of the series was the photo they take together at the party.

Damn, I guess it could be 3D sculpted in no time (no pun intended), but it should have definitely come with the figures, at least in a deluxe two-pack. The lack of removable hats + hair is becoming increasingly annoying the more I think about it. It's just such a nonsensical / cost-cutting decision on HT's part. Also, I really feel it would have helped collectors decide to use the BTTF II headsculpt on the 1885 release. The expression would really fit that film. Same with the 1885's headsculpt fitting Part 2 better, IMO.

 

[MKnight]

I've seen someone selling a Hot Toys scale clock for years on ebay already. Not sure if they still have any in stock now though.

 

[guyver1]

Funny you mention that because I always thought Doc was acting differently when he drops off Marty at his house.



He seemed so, reserved and natural. He's like a real person for a few seconds. I wonder if those closeup takes were from the Eric Stoltz version.

When Doc returns from the future at the end of the film, he's back to his usual bug-eyed self.

He really was calm like that for most of the BTTF3 to further my theory, Especially when he was with Clara..I thought he seemed like a different Doc. we mustn’t forget the long letter he wrote to Marty ..he was happy in the old west and he told Marty never come back for him …he didn’t even mind that Marty take care of Einstein

His Old West self was in much better physical shape as well like when he rescued Clara when he first met her..but that was probably do to the improvements he underwent at a rejuvenation clinic in the future he told Marty about in BTTF 2

.He still acted the most nervous and weirdest in BTTF2..but he was also highly stressed out to change all that went wrong from beginning to the end so I guess it was justified . And his 1955 self was kind of a eccentric

 

[davejames]

Well he was more mellow at the end of the first movie because... it was the end of the movie and he didn't have anything left to get over-excited about. Plus he had just survived being shot and all.

 

[TurdFurgusonsHat]

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I actually like both sculpts. Marty is better of course but Doc's hair is practically impossible to sculpt to look spot on.

 

[guyver1]

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Hope this is the sculpt for 2.0 BTTF Marty …because this looks like a worried MJF face

 

[guyver1]

Well he was more mellow at the end of the first movie because... it was the end of the movie and he didn't have anything left to get over-excited about. Plus he had just survived being shot and all.

That is true when I think about it..Yeah he probably was happy he survived , but he probably was relieved that what he thought of after seeing Marty’s warnings in the letter came true. Marty told him to take any precautions necessary to avoid the event in the future.

There were no bulletproof vests in 1955 So maybe subconsciously when Doc saw what Marty wrote ..it changed the future and in 1985 he was already prepared whether he knew it or not.

I wonder if the terrorists died when they crashed into the booth after the delorean disappeared when Marty saw what happened to them because they never went after Doc again it seemed and I wonder if it was only two guys that wanted to kill Doc for the plutonium switch instead of a whole group.