Hot Toys Bruce Wayne/Batman (2011 Toy Con Ex) review + pics

[BB&WSF]

More Dubya sculpt by Adams, painted by Seb, shot from weird angles!

Wish my photography skills were good.

 

[Tyranus7]

Paintjob from Seb for Adam's BW is great, only thing I don't like about it is the eyebrows, they always seems to be in a sad expression.

 

[toylion]

I think that's Adam's Bruce Wayne. And YES it looks like Bush from that angle, the problem is somewhere around the eyes and the twisted jaw.

Oh, OK. Just knew it wasn't the Hot Toys sculpt.

 

[BB&WSF]

Paintjob from Seb for Adam's BW is great, only thing I don't like about it is the eyebrows, they always seems to be in a sad expression.

As in droopy? And/or the lighter paint shade? I am quite sure its my state of the art Canon point 'n' shoot. : / And the lighting too.

 

[vodoun]

 

[zipflint]

I don't mean to take anything away from the fella who did that headsculpt. He's clearly got about 1000X the talent that I do! But here's some pics I took a while back of the regular old Hot Toys Bale sculpt.

[/url] Batman Bale 00005 by zipflint, on Flickr[/IMG]

[/url] Batman Bale 00001 by zipflint, on Flickr[/IMG]

[/url] macro batman bale 00005 by zipflint, on Flickr[/IMG]

 

[sprig0701]

He looks like Dana Carvey when he does his Mickey Rourke impression.

 

[Jackhepburn]

Great pics everyone!

So, With the begins suit you cant wear the cape without the cowl? Is ut just how the figurr works or is the real life suit like that?

 

[BB&WSF]

I guess its not impossible, but never seen anybody try that yet. Guess the actual movie suit should've been (logically) held by clips, but they never showed that. It could be done on the HT one too, but would take a custom cape (and clips) like lforigno's to make it happen

 

[agonistes86]

Am I missing something here? The HT cape is attached to the body, so the cowl can be removed (and BW head put on) without affecting the cape.

 

[toylion]

Am I missing something here? The HT cape is attached to the body, so the cowl can be removed (and BW head put on) without affecting the cape.

But most people don't use the Hot Toys cape.

 

[jye4ever]

Just beautiful

 

[agonistes86]

But most people don't use the Hot Toys cape.

Well yeah, but Jackhepburn asked if you could display the figure with cape but without cowl, and people were saying this:

Do you mean with the cape on but no cowl?

That wouldn't work on the Begins figure [...]

I guess its not impossible, but never seen anybody try that yet. Guess the actual movie suit should've been (logically) held by clips, but they never showed that. It could be done on the HT one too, but would take a custom cape (and clips) like lforigno's to make it happen

Unless I'm missing something here, I just wanted to make clear that it is possible with the HT figure with its stock cape (at least with the OC Batman, and I don't know of any differences with this reissue). It most likely won't look good, but it can be done.

 

[toylion]

Well yeah, but Jackhepburn asked if you could display the figure with cape but without cowl, and people were saying this:






Unless I'm missing something here, I just wanted to make clear that it is possible with the HT figure with its stock cape (at least with the OC Batman, and I don't know of any differences with this reissue). It most likely won't look good, but it can be done.

I agree, but my point was since few people use the HT cape the chance of see a picture are very slim to none.

 

[agonistes86]

I agree, but my point was since few people use the HT cape the chance of see a picture are very slim to none.

Yeah I agree with you there.

For what it's worth, here's on old shot of my OC Bats from back when I got him:

 

[Maglor]

^^^ That looks good.

There must be somethinf you can do about that neck length...


[Edit] On second thought, that must be mostly lens distortion. I mean, the head is larger than the HT head, but it looks absolutly ginormous in that pic!

I guess its not impossible, but never seen anybody try that yet. Guess the actual movie suit should've been (logically) held by clips, but they never showed that. It could be done on the HT one too, but would take a custom cape (and clips) like lforigno's to make it happen

Yeah, I was thinking that the clips for the cape were part of the cowl on the actual suit. I didn't realize that there was actually a scene in Begins where he had the cape on without the cowl.

Well yeah, but Jackhepburn asked if you could display the figure with cape but without cowl, and people were saying this:






Unless I'm missing something here, I just wanted to make clear that it is possible with the HT figure with its stock cape (at least with the OC Batman, and I don't know of any differences with this reissue). It most likely won't look good, but it can be done.

It seems I was mistaken. It wouldn't work with lforigno's capes (and I thought it couldn't work with the on-screen cape), but it certainly seems to work with the HT cape.

 

[stevenmh]

I guess its not impossible, but never seen anybody try that yet.

It wouldn't work with lforigno's capes

Originally in post #4478:

It will work with lforigno's cape if you trim off the fabric at the front of the neck hole and insert the clips through the wings. I don't like the way the clasps are floating, but haven't had time to deal with it. I don't know if I can push them in further, or if I need to trim the posts down. I suspect the latter... stock cape was probably thicker and took up the gap.

 

[BB&WSF]

There must be somethinf you can do about that neck length...

[Edit] On second thought, that must be mostly lens distortion. I mean, the head is larger than the HT head, but it looks absolutly ginormous in that pic!

I know!

And, yup, it should be the lens distortion thing, as everybody has the same head but somehow I have managed to make it look stupid. Need to really learn a trick or two about photography. Will do some more research on the subject. Guess its got to do with either one has the knack of taking pics or doesn't. Right now I have this one, but have seen people take pretty classy shots using it:

Originally in post #4478:

It will work with lforigno's cape if you trim off the fabric at the front of the neck hole and insert the clips through the wings. I don't like the way the clasps are floating, but haven't had time to deal with it. I don't know if I can push them in further, or if I need to trim the posts down. I suspect the latter... stock cape was probably thicker and took up the gap.

That's what I imagined. And, the clips do not look that bad Steven. The pics have come out pretty good too.

 

[TheFiend]

Originally in post #4478:

It will work with lforigno's cape if you trim off the fabric at the front of the neck hole and insert the clips through the wings. I don't like the way the clasps are floating, but haven't had time to deal with it. I don't know if I can push them in further, or if I need to trim the posts down. I suspect the latter... stock cape was probably thicker and took up the gap.

I really like the way this looks. I see what your saying about the clips but they really don't look all that bad, just a little trim like you said. I may do this when I get my lforigo cape for the BB suit.

I know!

And, yup, it should be the lens distortion thing, as everybody has the same head but somehow I have managed to make it look stupid. Need to really learn a trick or two about photography. Will do some more research on the subject. Guess its got to do with either one has the knack of taking pics or doesn't. Right now I have this one, but have seen people take pretty classy shots using it:
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Dont feel bad dude I'm in the same boat. I have an older canon that takes pretty good pic but I don't know fully how to use it which is really frustrating some times I can really puill off some nice shots check it out:

And other times they turn out like poo. I wish I had the manual it came with.

 

[agonistes86]

And, yup, it should be the lens distortion thing, as everybody has the same head but somehow I have managed to make it look stupid. Need to really learn a trick or two about photography. Will do some more research on the subject. Guess its got to do with either one has the knack of taking pics or doesn't. Right now I have this one, but have seen people take pretty classy shots using it:

One easy tip to remember to avoid lens distortion is backing up from the figure and zooming in, increasing the focal length. Just try it out and mess with it a bit, and compare photos afterwards.