YankeesFanboy
Super Freak
Re: Hot Toys – MMS 293 & 294 Batman Returns: Batman and Bruce Wayne (Keaton) Set
Thanks for posting that vid. The DX09 this ain't.
Thanks for posting that vid. The DX09 this ain't.
Thanks for posting that vid. The DX09 this ain't.
your right....The Batman Returns looks better!!
Well, at least the Keaton head is nowhere near as bad as the proto images.
Why are people complaining about the mouth pieces? They were always shown with the proto, so you're getting what they showed.
As far as the suit goes, I wish Hot Toys was a little more ingenuitive. I know they didn't do it with the DX 09 five years ago, but it would have been nice if they made a fabric or a wet suit over the True Type body, with the a vinyl/pliable plastic segmented armor bits glued over the fabric ala DX 12 and Armory TDK Batman. There's really no excuse to make it a one piece rubber body suit again, especially when there's clearly a black fabric suit underneath the rubber suit anyway.
Little things like that would have really made this more realistic and put it over the DX 09 had they implemented them. His articulation would have been SWEET too. High kicks would be achievable and none of his punching or grapple aiming poses would look awkward.
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If they had done this one the way DX 09 like customizers did it would be just like the films. It's not like Hot Toys isn't capable of achieving that reality in this scale when we have the TDK Batman with complex armor or Stormtroopers that they keep churning out efficiently. It'd be so simple.
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They just look too similar to eachother - to the degree of being useless - and there are far better expressions from the movie they could have gone for.
As I collector that passed on DX09, I am very happy with the mouth plate offerings on Returns. I would display my "one and only" (Batman Returns) with these neutral poses just like those who own DX09. Expressive mouth plates would have remained in box anyway.
I don't presume to speak for everyone. I just don't think Hot Toys went above and beyond with this figure, considering how long they made people wait.
It would of been nice to at least have that angry look though but it is what it is...
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