Nagoya said it best. Switch to sculpted version of Joker and sink that extra money into LOTR. Especially with it being your #1.
If it helps, you can email Kit any time and ask him to invoice you for any amount to make payments. I've been doing that to lessen the blow once they are released. He updates the figure on your account with what you paid and what your balance is.
Thanks man! I didn't know that!
Absolutely. I learned that in one of these forums on here. Kit's been great and on top of it every time.
Not for me. Head sculpt, paint app, clothing materials and tailoring is (far) more important to me than rooted hair.
I think InArt would be better off producing fewer figures, given the quality they're aiming for. It seems like they weren't prepared for the number of Joker orders and had to rush them out (blue tac and all). I assume there aren't nearly as many preorders for Aragorn, so hopefully the painters can spend more time on each headsculpt. I'm interested to see how the Gandalf figures turn out- they're next on the docket. Mass producing all that rooted hair is going to be a challenge.
Their spokesperson mentioned in one of the recent live streams that they were going to hold off on reveals until the summer cons. If I remember correctly, he said they felt they divulged too much last year, so this year they want to keep stuff closer to the chest.
I don’t actually think there were any ‘painters’ for the Joker sculpts; just a machine operated, mass paint applying process. That’s the only way they could all be so uniform and each have exactly the same incorrect smudge application.
I think that's the point. They set the bar too high even for themselves and now ppl like yourself are asking them where's this figure or that one you promised me. But, it was also said in that along with telling us their plans for future figures, they also let their competitors know in advance which figures they were planning on as well to which they don't really want to do again. It makes sense. Other than the every now and then "coming soon" teaser image of a figure that may or may not happen, HT doesn't really say they're going to reveal and put up x, y, z figures for PO in Q1,2,3 or 4. They just reveal them out of the blue (like the recent TDKR Batman), along with a movie release and/or show a proto at a convention.
At the rate they're going, by the time they get to all of this we won't even be able to import these figures from China anymore as tensions continue to rise over there.
The question you need to ask yourself is do you want a mixed LOTR lineup. Some with rooted, some with sculpted ?
I agree that the sculpted hair version looks nearly as good as the rooted on Aragorn, but for myself, the reason to get the rooted hair comes down to posability - unless that sculpted hair is extremely flexible, it will grossly limit the range of motion you will be able to get out of the HS.
