I noticed you skipped right over any Clooney edition to the Batman line-up.
Is it just that you can only take 1 Schumacher nippled Batman figure, you don't like Clooney, or was it that B&R just over-Schumacher'd for even Schumacher? No Fat-Girl for you either?
So, here’s the thing. Let’s assume for a second that Hot Toys continues with Schumacher figures. There is an “order” to all this. If Hot Toys had just come out with a Clooney and nothing else, no, I wouldn’t have bought it. Now that they’ve gotten their feet wet so to speak, this is what would get me to go all in. Here’s the order.
- Sonar Batman (would have always gotten this, my first choice for anything Schumacher)
✓
- Robin (gotta have Robin with Batman)
✓
- Riddler
- Panther suit Batman
- Two-Face
- - - - ALL IN NOW - - - -
- Arnold Freeze
- Clooney suit 1
- Robin suit 1
That’s it. That’s all I would personally buy. No Batgirl, no Bane, no Ivy. No Ice Armor suits for Batman and Robin. So for me to get a Hot Toys Clooney Batman, Hot Toys would have to make Riddler, Two-Face, Kilmer Batman 1st suit and Arnold.
I think DiFabio is referring more that the Begins suit has a lot of design similarities with the Sonar suit when you look at them closely. Things like how the cape connects on the shoulders, the chest shape and the more angular/armour style of it all.
Yup, exactly.
The Begins suit is very similar to the Sonar suit. It’s basically it’s father. The absence of the yellow/gold oval, a large bat on the chest, the tech armor look (as opposed to the organic muscles), from a design perspective, the Begins suit is this one’s logical successor.
Also helps that Bale wore it.