eighthsamurai
Super Freak
lol by all means if hot toys ever copies medicom's paint style you can go ahead and slap me, but in all seriousness I will always believe that the first HT batman ever created was a rip off of the medicom one.
having owned both for a short while (the batman begins versions) i could see this as being true. HT hadn't done anything like it to that point, and the style of the suit was VERY similar - had the same look, feel and construction to it. it was still pretty early days for HT back then - it's not far-fetched to think this happened while they were still learning and not innovating.
not sure if everyone remembers those days - think maybe people were still falling over themselves to claim SS were the best 1/6 company around back then to give credit to HT. you know, before the bandwagon drove round to pick everyone up.