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Glad you love the Wukong art! I'm still playing through the game, really enjoying it a lot!
InArt Phoenix Joker 1/6
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Glad you love the Wukong art! I'm still playing through the game, really enjoying it a lot!
I still have the sickness. I caved and bought the 4-pack at Toys Buying Agent for $1,747.00 total after a 5.6% discount or $436.75 per figure. Expensive stuff but my willpower failed me. Now my marriage may fail also. Bittersweet.
Stealth V3teran
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I just got the 4-pack in! Couple questions for owners of this set.
- Have you tried removing the back of the hair to access the magnetic eyes? I tried on the red suit but after a few failed attempts I was too scared to damage the rooted hair by tugging on the back of the head
- My laughing condition card is missing, where was this in yours? There doesn’t seem to be a compartment for it.
My quick thoughts - I’m very impressed. The material of the clothing feels high quality. The sculpts are amazing. A very pleasant surprise is the STRONG magnets, way stronger than their Superman’s. The dioramas have decent weight and feel to them. The Murray diorama has working headlights. Articulation is very good. The packaging is top notch.
A negative point - attaching the sculpt to the red suit was annoying because the collar area is small and you can’t undo the button to allow more room, so you don’t want end up pushing down his collar when attaching the sculpt.
Verdict - 9.8/10. It’s a grail for me.
- Have you tried removing the back of the hair to access the magnetic eyes? I tried on the red suit but after a few failed attempts I was too scared to damage the rooted hair by tugging on the back of the head
- My laughing condition card is missing, where was this in yours? There doesn’t seem to be a compartment for it.
My quick thoughts - I’m very impressed. The material of the clothing feels high quality. The sculpts are amazing. A very pleasant surprise is the STRONG magnets, way stronger than their Superman’s. The dioramas have decent weight and feel to them. The Murray diorama has working headlights. Articulation is very good. The packaging is top notch.
A negative point - attaching the sculpt to the red suit was annoying because the collar area is small and you can’t undo the button to allow more room, so you don’t want end up pushing down his collar when attaching the sculpt.
Verdict - 9.8/10. It’s a grail for me.
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1-don’t tug on the hair on the back. Slip your fingernail into the line/space where the neck meets the hair and lift it like the trunk of a car. The hair has enough product that when you’re done positioning the eyes and close the ‘hatch’, just press down on the hair and it’ll go back to its original style.
2-search through the cracks of the ‘compartments’ of the foam. It might have got lost in there.
And glad you love it. It truly is a phenomenal set.
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The bathroom scene sculpt is the only one that I like
My 4-pack from Toys Buying Agent was delivered by FedEx in only 2 days. Not only that but the FedEx guy was wearing a Phoenix Joker mask. And after I signed for it he even did a little dance as he went down the 5 steps of my porch. I was blown away by the service from both Toys Buying Agent and FedEx.
I just got and opened this set and holy hell I’m damn blown away. Each figure comes to about 500 bucks but it’s at the level of custom figures from the tailoring to the paint to the hair. Any one of these figures as a custom would be a couple grand a piece. So the fact that Inart has come this far is incredible.
I didn’t like the heath joker all too much and I loved Gandalf but if you’re a LOtR collector you probably saw what I had to do to fix that mess of an Aragorn figure as what I did to rework it went a bit viral in the community. What a let down that was, but this, man this had won me back over and then some.
I saw some people complaining about the likeness. I’ll admit I don’t care about joker stuff as much as many but I obviously am pretty well versed in what’s out there and to my knowledge nothing by comes close to the likeness on any of these that anyone’s done so far.
I think if you’ve got a suit… a wired suit to boot!( which never looks natural to me) and it looks pretty much as good as any of my yunsil suits… yeah the game has changed.
I’m going to rate this set 10 out of 10 and if you know me you know I’m a pretty tough bastard to impress.
Of course I have my nits but that doesn’t take away from it. In fact I only have two. I’m in the camp that the color of the suit is way too magenta and desaturated and the second is the stair base. Man that thing is cheesy looking AF.
The Murray base isn’t a home run either. The chair and wall look a bit cheap, but honestly it is a pretty cool diorama and if I had space I’d probably display it. But I’m not a diorama guy. I think even the best ones are a bit cheesy.
I’d have preferred an alternate smiling sculpt to them, and honestly I don’t know if the 4 pack was necessary but it is cool.
To me the most useless one is the subway killing one. I know people like that look but to me it’s the most borning and scene specific of this set. But it’s great figure for what is though. Truth is the best in the set is probably the clown one, it’s just of course the least important look.
I haven’t been impressed with the Paul Arredis shots., like at all. And despite pre ordering for them direct 5 mins after they dropped it I’ve heard nothing from them so I guess they are shafting me to some later batch... I just hope they make the thing look better than what I’ve seen so far before it gets to me,
But they still deserve all the praise in the world for the joker 4 pack. This is a masterpiece set and a total game changer.
I didn’t like the heath joker all too much and I loved Gandalf but if you’re a LOtR collector you probably saw what I had to do to fix that mess of an Aragorn figure as what I did to rework it went a bit viral in the community. What a let down that was, but this, man this had won me back over and then some.
I saw some people complaining about the likeness. I’ll admit I don’t care about joker stuff as much as many but I obviously am pretty well versed in what’s out there and to my knowledge nothing by comes close to the likeness on any of these that anyone’s done so far.
I think if you’ve got a suit… a wired suit to boot!( which never looks natural to me) and it looks pretty much as good as any of my yunsil suits… yeah the game has changed.
I’m going to rate this set 10 out of 10 and if you know me you know I’m a pretty tough bastard to impress.
Of course I have my nits but that doesn’t take away from it. In fact I only have two. I’m in the camp that the color of the suit is way too magenta and desaturated and the second is the stair base. Man that thing is cheesy looking AF.
The Murray base isn’t a home run either. The chair and wall look a bit cheap, but honestly it is a pretty cool diorama and if I had space I’d probably display it. But I’m not a diorama guy. I think even the best ones are a bit cheesy.
I’d have preferred an alternate smiling sculpt to them, and honestly I don’t know if the 4 pack was necessary but it is cool.
To me the most useless one is the subway killing one. I know people like that look but to me it’s the most borning and scene specific of this set. But it’s great figure for what is though. Truth is the best in the set is probably the clown one, it’s just of course the least important look.
I haven’t been impressed with the Paul Arredis shots., like at all. And despite pre ordering for them direct 5 mins after they dropped it I’ve heard nothing from them so I guess they are shafting me to some later batch... I just hope they make the thing look better than what I’ve seen so far before it gets to me,
But they still deserve all the praise in the world for the joker 4 pack. This is a masterpiece set and a total game changer.
GrimmReapah
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Thats awesome haha you got the best postman! My Arthur figure is ariving today to, i am beyond exited
I love the Murray dio, I don’t think it looks cheap anymore than the rest of the set. Although I was expecting a leather feeling chair instead of something resin like. I like the footprint and the larger carpet area. The reflective windows are nice. There are working lights. Curtains feel nice.
I think It’s infinitely better than Hot Toys idealized version. Equally the stairs dio is great but a bit of a pain to put together.
I think It’s infinitely better than Hot Toys idealized version. Equally the stairs dio is great but a bit of a pain to put together.
Yeah to clarify what I don’t like about the Murray set and what I do. I think the curtain setup is a bit weird. I don’t get why it goes on the back if you can’t actually flip the thing so the base part can work on either side. The lights are cool just not bright enough for all that battery and effort. The curtains are cool and the felt carpet thing is a nice touch,
But the polystone chair looks weird to me. Reminds me of a sideshow statue. It just doesn’t look realistic to me and that’s what screams a bit cheesy
The real kicker for me is the wooden paneling that’s what looks really cheap to me. Even a matte finish or a better paint job would go a long way to looking more wood and less cheap plastic.
I do like the diorama for what it’s worth . I wish it had plants and a few more elements from the prototype photo shoot though to really round it out a bit more
What I hate about the stairs is that it just screams one of those cheesy sideshowish 1/6 afterthought massively too big base things to me. Like you can hav the absolute most realistic looking head but then you have it stand on something that looks like a mcfarlane toy base in terms of the paint and detail. Backwashed barely textured stairs that looks like plastic certainly not concrete. I mean look at the garbage it’s done so lazy why is it even there? On one of them, they didn’t even bother to paint the whole thing white.
And again the damn thumbs of the white gloves are painted dirty… so this level of lack of realism just kills it for me,
I hate the joker name spread across the stairs too it’s just not my thing. Some may like it but for me again, I think realism is the way to go,
The cheesiest thing for me though is the back panel which awkwardly tries to look like a big staircase all smooshed. It reminds me of something from my childhood I can’t put my finger on. Like a poly pocket or something. And it just goes up to that big gap at the top, so essentially to nothing.
To me ripping that thing off the back is the only way to display this thing.
Having griped about all that it’s still not enough to give me set less than 10/10. The value in the figures itself and the other dio is already enough.
But the polystone chair looks weird to me. Reminds me of a sideshow statue. It just doesn’t look realistic to me and that’s what screams a bit cheesy
The real kicker for me is the wooden paneling that’s what looks really cheap to me. Even a matte finish or a better paint job would go a long way to looking more wood and less cheap plastic.
I do like the diorama for what it’s worth . I wish it had plants and a few more elements from the prototype photo shoot though to really round it out a bit more
What I hate about the stairs is that it just screams one of those cheesy sideshowish 1/6 afterthought massively too big base things to me. Like you can hav the absolute most realistic looking head but then you have it stand on something that looks like a mcfarlane toy base in terms of the paint and detail. Backwashed barely textured stairs that looks like plastic certainly not concrete. I mean look at the garbage it’s done so lazy why is it even there? On one of them, they didn’t even bother to paint the whole thing white.
And again the damn thumbs of the white gloves are painted dirty… so this level of lack of realism just kills it for me,
I hate the joker name spread across the stairs too it’s just not my thing. Some may like it but for me again, I think realism is the way to go,
The cheesiest thing for me though is the back panel which awkwardly tries to look like a big staircase all smooshed. It reminds me of something from my childhood I can’t put my finger on. Like a poly pocket or something. And it just goes up to that big gap at the top, so essentially to nothing.
To me ripping that thing off the back is the only way to display this thing.
Having griped about all that it’s still not enough to give me set less than 10/10. The value in the figures itself and the other dio is already enough.
I’m not a huge joker fan. I mean I’m a huge joker fan and a huge Batman fan, but the level of obsessiveness on joker has been pretty annoying to me over the years… more so with Ledger I guess. But still, I try not to hate on it, it keeps this community alive and the hobby alive and I think being a fan of almost anything is cool… but I’m not gonna lie, there was part of me that took a bit of sick satisfaction on how angry people were about the second film. I get being disappointed and let down, but I think that some just take this stuff a bit too seriously.
Why would it make you like the first film any less? To me( the first film is about a 6 or a 7 out of 10. But it’s still a very good film. It may rip off some films I think are actually better like Taxi Driver, but it’s still a cool film with an amazing performance and a take on a character I’ve been a fan of since I was a kid. I just don’t think the film or the sequel “important” enough to swear off the character or the first film just because the second was pretty bad.
To be honest, I didn’t even think the second one was nearly as bad as people said. To me it was just a bit boring and pointless, but it really wasn’t a train wreck.
I don’t get the swearing off of the character personally, like, would you not want a Michael Corleone because the godfather 3 exists? Or Han Solo because the sequel trilogy sucked?
Also this whole bit about “he’s not the joker”… according to who? He’s in a movie called the joker… he’s called the joker in the movie. How is he not the joker? The character has been around for over half a century. He’s been many different things in many different storylines over the years.
The Penguin in the Matt Reeves movie is not like any Penguin I’ve seen before, but it doesn’t make him less of the Penguin
What the hell is “Robin John Blake”? Yet people still love the Nolan movies…
Why would it make you like the first film any less? To me( the first film is about a 6 or a 7 out of 10. But it’s still a very good film. It may rip off some films I think are actually better like Taxi Driver, but it’s still a cool film with an amazing performance and a take on a character I’ve been a fan of since I was a kid. I just don’t think the film or the sequel “important” enough to swear off the character or the first film just because the second was pretty bad.
To be honest, I didn’t even think the second one was nearly as bad as people said. To me it was just a bit boring and pointless, but it really wasn’t a train wreck.
I don’t get the swearing off of the character personally, like, would you not want a Michael Corleone because the godfather 3 exists? Or Han Solo because the sequel trilogy sucked?
Also this whole bit about “he’s not the joker”… according to who? He’s in a movie called the joker… he’s called the joker in the movie. How is he not the joker? The character has been around for over half a century. He’s been many different things in many different storylines over the years.
The Penguin in the Matt Reeves movie is not like any Penguin I’ve seen before, but it doesn’t make him less of the Penguin
What the hell is “Robin John Blake”? Yet people still love the Nolan movies…
I hear you and fair comments. About the value of this set. It’s 10/10 all day long. I bought it on release not preorder in HK and it still worked out $385 per figure for the premium set. In comparison, the recent HT Ledger Joker Artisan was $435 in HK and $500+ overseas. I have no faults with this premium set, it’s absolute bang for buck and super glad I pulled the trigger after playing pinball in head.
Couldn’t agree more.. it really is an exemplary release. To me it’s actually a complete game changer. I think it might be the best 1/6 item ever released dare I say.
You are on the money. I believe it's the best Inart product released to date. I also believe until new technology, we won't see a better crafted JP Joker, if ever. Even in the future, next time we get a JP Joker (several years later) it won't have the same cost/value if we're seeing prices trending up annually. The silver lining of this set being so expensive, is probably Inart didn't produce as much which makes ours that more limited. I shop around in HK alot, there's barely any stock of this either because resellers didn't order that many or the stock they have is already for their customers that preordered, but I do see plenty of Aragorn, Batman and Superman stock lying around in shops.
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