Re: HOT TOYS : MMS DX 12 - The Dark Knight Rises - BATMAN / BRUCE WAYNE Full Specs &
The way I see it, as much as some here want the be all, end all, definitive 1/6 representation of their fav character....that will never happen.
Look at your own collection and it's history. Who here owns transformers? He man? Street fighter? Gundam? Macross?
Toy production improves. That's a fact. We can't expect toy companies to produce an item and boom, they close the book on it. We should never expect that. At the same time, we should expect a considerable amount of time to pass before a company revisits a particular toy. And by that, I don't mean 2-3 years. At the very least, a decade. This prevents things from stagnating. It can really show just how far advancements in toy production have come.
At the moment, dx12 is THE best 1/6 scale representation of batman. Why? no other company has made one. if there was competition, then my claim is just hyperbole. I don't mind HT doing a celebratory re-release of it, just to give fans of the character another shot at owning him. However, I WOULD mind if they made dx16 another TDK batman with minor enhancements, as opposed to revisiting him 10 years from now with major enhancements.
Anyone here own masterpiece optimus prime? The first version?
It took years for Takara tomy to revisit him, with enough changes and enhancements to truly separate (or compliment, depending on who you ask) itself from the previous version.
From this point on, THIS is the path I wanna see HT take with characters they've done. Like robocop. Die cast aside, THAT is the purest example of my opinion on revisiting TDK trilogy.
Patience everyone. Toys from This trilogy are far from finished. But I personally hope it won't happen for a good long while. I want the next release to be jam packed with new technology. BB figure with a new type of material for his armor that won't degrade over time? HELL EFFIN YEAH. TDK(R) figure with a new, more natural true type body? HELL EFFIN YEAH.