Jazzinc Dioramas 1/6 Ultimate Catwoman (Batman Returns, 1992)

[jye4ever]

Inart how you doing over there..

 

[czanew]

Have to say, the lack of rolling eyes with this character is a huge missed opportunity. She really warrants those.

Agreed, but that also comes with the inherent risk of her most prominent facial feature sitting too deep behind the eyelids, we’ve seen that ruin a good likeness far too many times…maybe, due to the nature of the mask, they could do swap out plates, kind of like a HT Spider-Man?

 

[Wor-Gar]

Yes, I'm skeptical of a new eye system. Granted, it would be fun. But once I find that sweet spot, they will never move again. May as well be painted in that sweet spot to begin with.

 

[JacktheRipper]

Yes, I'm skeptical of a new eye system. Granted, it would be fun. But once I find that sweet spot, they will never move again. May as well be painted in that sweet spot to begin with.

Question is what is that sweet spot?

 

[Wor-Gar]

Irises slightly up, bottom curve barely touching the eyelid.

Side glance would look great -- but its very restrictive.

 

[Hologram AI]

Also runs into the risk of the eyelid and gap to the eyeball not being up to par in terms of quality. INART only just recently matched Hot Toys in that department. I'd be surprised if Joost and the team can match that right out of the gate with their very first figure. Would love to be surprised though. Same for any rooted hair they consider doing for the unmasked sculpt.

 

[Wor-Gar]

I'd be surprised if Joost and the team can match that right out of the gate with their very first figure.

My concern as well. Although, if anyone could do it, I bet Joost could.

In fact, he's likely taken this engineering challenge on already.

 

[jye4ever]

Question is what is that sweet spot?

Hold on let me ask my wife.

 

[Captain Clown]

Swappable eyes like Hot Toys’ Deadpool would work just fine IMO.

Just make them the same shape as her mask’s eye openings. Then they’d all be painted with no gross eyelid gaps.

 

[SwedishHeat]

Jazz has never released a 1/6 figure before if my information is correct, right?

His “illegal” comment rubbed me the wrong way.

As well as these photoshopped images he introduced this figure with.

I remember when people were over the moon when HT started securing licenses.

I just might PO but for now i’ll….

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Glad to see a cautious comment pop up.

JazzInc has done an unlicensed Vulture from Spider-Man: Homecoming, I think it was a pretty small run. But to your point, funny that he mentioned "illegal". Everybody has to start somewhere.

But yeah, a lot of people here are super thrilled about JazzInc, when he/they showed off someone else's custom figures as representative of the work that will be produced. Seems rather misleading. Even if the custom figure was done by the person will sculpt the JazzInc version. I don't think Sean did all the work on the figure, probably only did the sculpt, so even to that end, it seems unfair not to credit all the people that worked on the figure. I think Sean has mentioned in the past that a "Viola" did the hair, can't quite remember the name though.

It wasn't too long ago that InArt announced their Gandalf by showing a Hobbit promo photo, and people jumped all over them saying it was misleading, and that InArt were liars and con artists.

The main issue I see is when you are a small operation, customers tend to give you a lot more leeway. Once you go 'legit', you broaden your customer base and you don't quite have that level of leeway anymore.

Will be interesting to see how they deal with Michelle Pfeiffer signing off on her likeness. Maybe she's already approved a sculpt? But all the sculpts that Sean Dabbs has produced haven't had her 'creative input' applied to them, so who knows how they end up, after approvals. Either way, I'm sure everyone here will nitpick it to death. You'll get the folks who say the 'old sculpt' was better. JazzInc will tout that the sculpt was approved by Ms. Pfieffer herself. It'll be interesting to see how the sculpt turns out in production. People are very unforgiving towards female sculpts in this hobby.

 

[Felinx]

Hold on let me ask my wife.

Tell her Jack the Ripper wants to know.

 

[vspectra]

Glad to see a cautious comment pop up.

JazzInc has done an unlicensed Vulture from Spider-Man: Homecoming, I think it was a pretty small run. But to your point, funny that he mentioned "illegal". Everybody has to start somewhere.

But yeah, a lot of people here are super thrilled about JazzInc, when he/they showed off someone else's custom figures as representative of the work that will be produced. Seems rather misleading. Even if the custom figure was done by the person will sculpt the JazzInc version. I don't think Sean did all the work on the figure, probably only did the sculpt, so even to that end, it seems unfair not to credit all the people that worked on the figure. I think Sean has mentioned in the past that a "Viola" did the hair, can't quite remember the name though.

It wasn't too long ago that InArt announced their Gandalf by showing a Hobbit promo photo, and people jumped all over them saying it was misleading, and that InArt were liars and con artists.

The main issue I see is when you are a small operation, customers tend to give you a lot more leeway. Once you go 'legit', you broaden your customer base and you don't quite have that level of leeway anymore.

Will be interesting to see how they deal with Michelle Pfeiffer signing off on her likeness. Maybe she's already approved a sculpt? But all the sculpts that Sean Dabbs has produced haven't had her 'creative input' applied to them, so who knows how they end up, after approvals. Either way, I'm sure everyone here will nitpick it to death. You'll get the folks who say the 'old sculpt' was better. JazzInc will tout that the sculpt was approved by Ms. Pfieffer herself. It'll be interesting to see how the sculpt turns out in production. People are very unforgiving towards female sculpts in this hobby.

Considering the figure wasn't even supposed to be announced yet and was only a reaction announcement to another third party reveal, I think most people took that into consideration regarding the materials shown. Being irked by his "illegal" comment is understandable though considering Jazz's roots

Joost said in the video it was a mixture of Dabb's previous work and some current WIP; I'm pretty sure this screengrab (and the only one) from the video is the Jazzinc version with 3 different mouth expressions, which I find has a much better likeness to Michelle Pfeiffer than Dabb's previous sculpts.

Also it's not like Mars has given us much more than this throughout the whole year since that was announce

 

[czanew]

Swappable eyes like Hot Toys’ Deadpool would work just fine IMO.

Just make them the same shape as her mask’s eye openings. Then they’d all be painted with no gross eyelid gaps.

Exactly! No chance for a broken PERS system either.

 

[Johnny Utah]

Just wait. Hot Toys will announce theirs soon as a DX I bet.

 

[sj2106]

Wonder if Mars will still go forward with theirs or shelve it now there's going to be a licensed release.

 

[Spanbauer]

Swappable eyes like Hot Toys’ Deadpool would work just fine IMO.

Just make them the same shape as her mask’s eye openings. Then they’d all be painted with no gross eyelid gaps.

That’d be better than nothing but not the same; I think rolling eyes just look better than painted on eyes. And ‘gross eyelid gaps’ haven’t really been much of a thing since Hot Toys Indiana Jones DX figure thirteen years ago. Although I recognize good-looking rolling eyes could prove challenging for a first-time sixth-scale figure maker.

 

[Raven6009]

Wonder if Mars will still go forward with theirs or shelve it now there's going to be a licensed release.

With both a cheap and a high quality one in the works, Mars should scrap their render and just focus on their other projects that nobody else is working on.

 

[vspectra]

I don't think pop-out eye plates would work anyway considering you can see a good amount of skin underneath the cowl.

 

[MegaMan]

I think Mars Toys and Soosoo toys are way over their heads right now. Announcing up the wazoo with no actual releases.
Mars has shown many 3D rendering, but very little completed prototypes. Have they even released something after their 60s Joker ?
As for Soosoo toys, they promised a full line-up of Watchmen figures, but have yet to show their Doctor Manhattan that was teased over a year ago.

As for Hot Toys...not sure what is going on over there right now. They seem to be short on capital, reusing molds to release 2.0 (or 7.0 for Bale Batman) of previously released figures. Nothing really exciting being announced. Star Wars clones or Batman, rinse and repeat.

Not a big InArt fan as I wish they would've tackle new figures instead of just redoing what was already done. And personally, I don't think the 30-50% premium price has translated to 30-50% quality improvement.

So I am happy to see new people shaking things up and offering something new and different.

Eternals seems to have the same approach that Toys Era and VTS used to have: announce when ready to produce, release quickly and sell before anyone has time to sue. As for Jazz Inc, this will be proof of concept as a first real license figure. Eager to see how that pans out and hope his figures are as great as his batmobiles.

 

[sj2106]

With both a cheap and a high quality one in the works, Mars should scrap their render and just focus on their other projects that nobody else is working on.

I think that would make sense. Bob, Vicki Vale, maybe another Nicholson Joker and continuing their 66 line is probably the way they should go.