They gave the Arkham Joker prototype to Snake as a gift because he's a nice goy.
The situation with Arkham is completely ****ed. They teased more of the Joker than they did of Batman. At the time of those damn teasers in 2013, Joker seemed further along than Batman in development. He had his clothes, his shoes, hands and even a fully sculpted head. Only thing missing was a paint job and accessories, pretty much the exact opposite of Batman. Then nothing for the longest time. Not a peep about either of them. Then BAM, Batman at the end of the summer and no Joker in sight. Why not plan them at the same time ala DX01/DX02, DX09/DX08 or DX11/DX12?
Judging by this,
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I'd say Batman won't even ship to the states until June/July at the earliest, well past the release of Arkham Knight. Then if Joker turns up at SDCC, you're looking at a year gap between Batman and Joker! Talk about a missed opportunity, maaaaan. It's like why'd you even bother teasing the Joker for 2013 guys?
Hot Toys have made cool two-packs and value packs for years. They've had complimentary characters get coinciding releases with one another. I just don't get it. Unless WB was like, "yo guys, you can't show the Joker from that three year old game cuz the big reveal is that he's Arkham Knight!!!", I don't see how they dropped the ball on this so badly.
As a general rule of thumb, the bigger a company gets, the more risk-averse it becomes. Cranking out Marvel/Disney stuff is...
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...for Howard and HT.
I wonder how I'd react in an alternate reality where, for three months straight, Hot Toys released Kyle Reese, Returns Batman, young John Connor, the Penguin, Alien Ripley, blue Robocop 2 Robo, Endoskeleton, Catwoman, Sarah Connor, Robo Caine, Doc Brown, Arnold Terminator 2.0 (from either T1 or T2), Clarence Bodicker, Aliens Ripley, Corporal Hicks, Museum/Mob Joker Nicholson, Private Hudson, Batman '89 2.0 w/ vault, in that order, weekly.
I wonder how I'd react in an alternate reality where, for three months straight, Hot Toys released Kyle Reese, Returns Batman, young John Connor, the Penguin, Alien Ripley, blue Robocop 2 Robo, Endoskeleton, Catwoman, Sarah Connor, Robo Caine, Doc Brown, Arnold Terminator 2.0 (from either T1 or T2), Clarence Bodicker, Aliens Ripley, Corporal Hicks, Museum/Mob Joker Nicholson, Private Hudson, Batman '89 2.0 w/ vault, in that order, weekly.
If you want to compare ***** to toys, you could literally go to Nevada and get that many prostitutes at a high class brothel, at the same time for way less than the $4,000+ those figures would cost.
Also, how come Hot Toys never made a Chris Reeve Superman 2.0 as Clark Kent? I remember at the time of the MMS 152, we all thought that companion piece would be a no brainer. That damn evil Supes though. He was when the trend of repainted headsculpts was relatively new territory for them. Now it's common place. They don't even bother sculpting a new portrait for a new figure anymore.
Yeah, every ****ing Ice Cream Maker guy wish is being granted in the Iron Man and Avengers lines. Meanwhile over at Batman Returns......
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