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

[Nick D]

His bank robber suit is $1.3k and in 2022 he told someone $2-3k for his purple coat version. So yeah it definitely won’t be cheap.

I’ve been wondering, what’s your collection goal list like man?

 

[rogers985]

Just arrived this morning. Having had the Inart sculpted and sold it, I do prefer this of the two. Main gripe is the lack of hand options, I'd like a few more but what you get is decent. I'll probably need to water treat the coat to get it looking more natural too.

Very happy with it!

 

[highlander1]

I Wish they included the street as a backdrop. That base im def liking bit more.

 

[hokietwo]

Just got notice from Sideshow DX33AE payment on Dec 25. Don’t think it will ship out then, nor need it that bad. Hope Sideshow lets their shipping elves off for at least the holiday, it can wait.

 

[batGIRL88]

Sculpt repainted & rooted by Heise

 

[Wor-Gar]

That looks very nice.

 

[intothevoid]

I agree it seems to be never ending, but over the span of 13 years and we only have 5 hard to come by custom outfits and less than 10 sculpts that have managed to capture Heath’s likeness. That’s zero for a character this big over a time that long, it’s the character that is responsible for the custom scene being what it is today.

Iris was limited to #99
Wonderworld around #120
Yunsil around #200
Not sure about Aries and Kato,

Impossible to find Kato or Iris parts now.

Pretty much no one owns the Aries suit due to her absurd price hike.

Wonder left a lot to be desired and ignored all of my notes back in Jan ‘23 before getting deep into production.

The only good parts from the Yunsil suit are the shirt, tie and pants.

Addblue wants $2k+ for his Bank Robber suit, no telling what he’d ask for on a Purple coat version.

Having managed the orders for Kato, I’ll have to check my records but I’m sure the total number of outfits was a lot less than 100

Probably closer to 50

 

[intothevoid]

Sculpt repainted & rooted by Heise

Absolutely nailed it

 

[roan]

Sculpt repainted & rooted by Heise

Miles better than InArt. I’ve seen both repainted and Hot Toys is the clear winner.

 

[roan]

More pictures by Heise.

 

[a-dev]

While that hair is obviously better than the stock sculpted hair I'm impressed by how well the stock paint holds up next to that custom.

 

[rory]

The Heise reroot ruined HT’s for me! lol. Seriously he does such a great job. Lord knows what it costs, but it’s worth every penny.

 

[Godfather1408]

 

[Jive Turkey]

True best way is to get actual screen used or same designs and fabrics used for the film and shrink down to 1/6. What we see on screen will look different in hand via lighting, color grading, calibration, etc.

Fabric doesn't scale though. You can't just take the fabric they used in the movie and make a 1/6 version of the same shirt. You have to find a fabric that looks similar, but with a much smaller weave. Depending on the article of clothing, the scaled fabric could also have to be a heavier fabric so the piece drapes properly

 

[Nick D]

Fabric doesn't scale though. You can't just take the fabric they used in the movie and make a 1/6 version of the same shirt. You have to find a fabric that looks similar, but with a much smaller weave. Depending on the article of clothing, the scaled fabric could also have to be a heavier fabric so the piece drapes properly

Exactly this, with the right eye, you can find a match, using screen used materials is asking to fail before the project even begins.

Unfortunate we have to even mention that..
That’s how far removed the custom world is from the rest of the hobby.

 

[Jive Turkey]

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Everything is right here, regarding tones, texture and pattern. I have more detailed photos of everything of course. But this isn’t an impossible feat.

Judging a color from a photograph to the extent that you guys are just isn't possible without having one of these in the picture beside the subject. There are too many variables otherwise. You need a known color value to compare the unknown color to.

 

[Nick D]

I’m very good at color matching as I’m an oil painter and also into fashion and textiles. The coat color we’re after is a mix of a plum and eggplant color.

 

[Jive Turkey]

I’m very good at color matching as I’m an oil painter and also into fashion and textiles. The coat color we’re after is a mix of a plum and eggplant color.

But you've seen it in person, no? As opposed to matching from a photo where we don't know the kinds of lights it's under, whether or not there's mixed lighting, or the camera's white balance (or any post processing that might've occurred after the fact). Either way, being able to color match that way is a great skill and I'm sure it only came with years of experience. Definitely not a skill I possess

There's also an argument to be made that color matching to what we see on screen in the movie might be the way to go. There you get into a bit of a philosophical argument: is the Joker's jacket the color we see in the movie after the color grade has been applied to the footage? Or is it the color of the coat as seen in real life?

 

[Nick D]

But you've seen it in person, no? As opposed to matching from a photo where we don't know the kinds of lights it's under, whether or not there's mixed lighting, or the camera's white balance (or any post processing that might've occurred after the fact). Either way, being able to color match that way is a great skill and I'm sure it only came with years of experience. Definitely not a skill I possess

There's also an argument to be made that color matching to what we see on screen in the movie might be the way to go. There you get into a bit of a philosophical argument: is the Joker's jacket the color we see in the movie after the color grade has been applied to the footage? Or is it the color of the coat as seen in real life?

Simple, you use reference of him in costume on set, but not under color grading.

This way you get the best of both worlds, no blue color grading, no WB Lot costume museum lighting.

These are the colors I’d implement on a custom run were we to get another finally going.

The coat shouldn’t look like this:

 

[rory]

While it makes sense to color match to what’s onscreen, to get something that looks similar to the naked eye, as opposed to how it looks in the prop shop off screen, it’s nearly impossible since the lighting, and color grading changes so dramatically scene to scene, there would be no single definitive onscreen look. It’s like trying to nail down a definitive hair and makeup, the best you could hope for is a broad average. But even then, people wouldn’t be happy, because an average, by definition, wouldn’t be something seen directly in the film, just an aggregate.

Long story short. It’s impossible to scale down and produce a 100% accurate Joker that will satisfy the majority.

But you've seen it in person, no? As opposed to matching from a photo where we don't know the kinds of lights it's under, whether or not there's mixed lighting, or the camera's white balance (or any post processing that might've occurred after the fact). Either way, being able to color match that way is a great skill and I'm sure it only came with years of experience. Definitely not a skill I possess

There's also an argument to be made that color matching to what we see on screen in the movie might be the way to go. There you get into a bit of a philosophical argument: is the Joker's jacket the color we see in the movie after the color grade has been applied to the footage? Or is it the color of the coat as seen in real life?