I just want to see what they have to offer. All due respect, but I couldnāt care less about the shmancy technical stuff: silicon, plastic, and everything in between; a Joker is a Joker is a Joker. Is the functionality cool? Absolutely. Do Daniel and Kojun deserve to sit there and smell their silicon farts for that and that alone? Nah. Iām looking at that bendy neck and thinking ānow HIM you could hang upside downā and my brain is working overtime and Iām actually getting excited again. āMaybe this time, someone actually does a smiling head.ā
I keep thinking about itā¦and I just know itās setting me up for disappointment. I want to be hyped about this weird little arms race going on in the 1/6th world and what it means for collectors, but Iām almost inclined to lean into what DiFabioās been talking about. āYou seen one, you seen āem all.ā Hot Toysā most recent pics of the last Joker I got excited by look like pube-covered **** and this sort of just looks like an overpriced, overcomplicated retreading of the same ground InArt already has covered.
I just donāt get it. Everybody keeps talking about ālifelikeā figures and you see the videos of silicon skin and translucent glass eyeballs and a FRIGGINā skeleton underneath, but nobody stops to think that human beings arenāt always frozen in one stoic, single position. We laugh, we cry; we get mad. Best thing Hot Toys ever did was start giving Batman figures interchangeable mouth plates. It was a small step, but it was kind of ingenious and it genuinely changed the game (how many figures in other scales have we seen utilize that same functionality in the years since?).
JND can still win me over; I know we havenāt seen the official product, yet, but Iām not optimistic itās going to be anything other than Daniel and Kojun jerking it to their fancy materials for quadruple digits.