Hot Toys The Dark Knight Joker DX/Artisan 1/6 Scale Figure

[Gipetto0812]

Sculpted does look really good. I want to pick up the sculpted hair headsculpt just to have it in case something were to potentially go wrong with the Artisan sculpt down the road.

I think you will see a flood of the Artist Editions on the bay with people trying to flip it. This figure is overhyped to the max right now and overpriced as such, there's FOMO to keep the orders and sell it.

There will be cancels due to funds as well. But this reeks of massive flip listings at release, be fun to see the listing eating themselves to keep going lower and lower to dump it initially.

Oh yes no doubt! Same thing happened with InArt’s TDK Joker. I still remember ppl successfully selling the InArt sculpt(s) by themselves for about $800 each on eBay.

 

[Captain Jack Sparrow]

I just spoke to a gentleman I know at Toy Sapiens in Shibuya, and he told me that HT was a little surprised about the demand for this figure and artisan Anakin, and that since these aren’t individually numbered releases, they can and have said that they’re going to be making/providing additional units.
Obviously I can’t personally vouch for that information, but there’s no real reason for him to mislead me.
So I would urge everyone to do their best to be patient and not pay wild scalper prices for this stuff out of FOMO, he made it sound like HT wants everyone’s money

 

[webhead05]

I just spoke to a gentleman I know at Toy Sapiens in Shibuya, and he told me that HT was a little surprised about the demand for this figure and artisan Anakin, and that since these aren’t individually numbered releases, they can and have said that they’re going to be making/providing additional units.
Obviously I can’t personally vouch for that information, but there’s no real reason for him to mislead me.
So I would urge everyone to do their best to be patient and not pay wild scalper prices for this stuff out of FOMO, he made it sound like HT wants everyone’s money

With the exclusivity being a marketing point for the Artisan line -- and at least implicitly a reason for the elevated prices -- that would be such a shady move and just give ammunition to folks who already feel HT has done them wrong... which is exactly why I believe they'd do it, tbh.

I can't pretend some selfish part of me wouldn't be at least a little annoyed, but by the same token, I buy figures because I want them and not as a function of their value. If HT has the capacity to offer more Artisan figures without compromising quality, then I'm always happy to see more people able to get what they want.

 

[Captain Jack Sparrow]

With the exclusivity being a marketing point for the Artisan line -- and at least implicitly a reason for the elevated prices -- that would be such a shady move and just give ammunition to folks who already feel HT has done them wrong... which is exactly why I believe they'd do it, tbh.

I can't pretend some selfish part of me wouldn't be at least a little annoyed, but by the same token, I buy figures because I want them and not as a function of their value. If HT has the capacity to offer more Artisan figures without compromising quality, then I'm always happy to see more people able to get what they want.

Right, hard not to see it that way, and I pretty much agree. I don’t collect anything for monetary value, so I’d also be happy to see more people able to get these.
Hot Toys kind of shot themselves in the foot with supposedly making them limited. It doesn’t surprise me that they see any kind of third party transactions as leaving money on the table, either.
And either way, HT is going to pull an HT, right? What are the options, they either end up making more of something than they initially announced and piss people off, or they re-release artisan figures with minor changes and also piss people off.
It wouldn’t have taken a fortune teller to help them realize that if they start doing rooted hair pretty well that people are going to want them.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Agreed.

Either HT will issue more Artisan and everyone's waitlist will convert... or they'll just make a 2.0 version Jail Joker, that will include a coat.