Hot Toys Now Using Fake Hair in 1/6

[MaulFan]

Saw this ont eh CTR website, I'll be very curious to see photos and hear reports on how this one turns out, could mean great things for long haired figures form Hot Toys, this method would have made their Elizabeth Swann so much better, perhaps they'll revisit her to cash in on the update.

 

[Wanderer]

Happy times...now they need to apply this method to Edward Scissor Hands...that beehive hair do still looks crappy

 

[Adoptedscot]

Happy times...now they need to apply this method to Edward Scissor Hands...that beehive hair do still looks crappy

lets hope so....
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[amarcord]

Does it come with a comb?

Barbie pleasure overload, yeah

 

[Cap'n Cook]

Interesting. Perhaps they will do another Joker.

 

[MaulFan]

Interesting. Perhaps they will do another Joker.

Doubtful, at least not for some time. I imagine if this succeeds, it'll be kept to clean, straight hairdos, then they'll experiment with less tamed styles.

 

[granado.espada]

Saw this ont eh CTR website, I'll be very curious to see photos and hear reports on how this one turns out, could mean great things for long haired figures form Hot Toys, this method would have made their Elizabeth Swann so much better, perhaps they'll revisit her to cash in on the update.

That kind of material used for the hair is very hard to style IMO..

 

[The Craw]

i usually hate rooted hair cuz of the barbie look but this actually looks pretty damn good.


ps. i was gonna say something about the "real-like head" pitch but i dont wanna get banned.

 

[pjam]

This is the future, Guys...

Rooted hair, maybe even articulated eyes. the movement has been growing in Asia for years now, many examples of this...

 

[Bardoon]

HOT TOYS TAKING IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL!!!!!!!!!!!

I think they're testing it out to see if they can get it looking good enough and keeping the styling without getting too crazy. I hope their methods are working!

Awesome work Hot Toys! Looks fantastic!!!

 

[EVILFACE]

I think it works for long hair characters. I prefer sculpted for shorter hair.

 

[-Super Hans-]

some of my DID figs have real hair. it honestly isnt that good. prefer sculpted hair

 

[Captain Britain]

That HS looks like a cross between Kiera Knightley and Angelina Jolie.

I'm cool with rooted hair as long as it doesn't fall out.

 

[MaulFan]

I think it's best benefit will be part hairstyles, for some reason, 1/6 makers like HT and Sideshow use sculpted wigs for figures that have parts, and when you do it that way, it looks bogus, the hair doesn't feel like it runs into the head. If this Swann portrait had the rooted hair and done well, she'd be fantastic.

 

[MaulFan]

That HS looks like a cross between Kiera Knightley and Angelina Jolie.

It looks like the portrait they used for their She-Predator.

 

[Kuzeh]

Wow!!
That looks amazing!!!
Imagine if Hot Toys picked up SW or LOTR and used this with figures like Leia, Padme, Galadriel, Legolas!!..
arghhhh!!!

 

[Darklord Dave]

I was always a rooted hair advocate back in the ancient days when there was no other way to do a female (no, it's not "new" or "revolutionary"). But I doubt Swann would have been as successful with real hair and I really don't think the LotR guys would benefit.

I'd imagine they're just doing it with this one figure because likeness isn't important and they're trying to differentiate her from the Machinko which uses the same head sculpt.

 

[Alice]

I think any hair past shoulder length just works better as rooted hair. Anything shorter I prefer sculpted.
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[abake]

Damn, she looks hot.

 

[icruise]

I still hate rooted hair.