1/6 MMS DX 02 - TDK- BATMAN full spec and pics

[Pennyworth]

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Been enjoying all the pics, MF...great work.

X2.
It's great too how on all of your shots, the eyes look right on. Not cartoony or big. It really does seem that positioning and angles make all the difference.

 

[K07]

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Your joking I hated that scene. Completely out of place for Batman and just obnoxious. Never understood why they put Batman in a night club.

Because the man he wanted to drop off a building happened to be in there?

This looks like a great figure, but the more pics I see, the less I want it. I'm happy with my Version 1. No, it's not accurate, but it's still a nice piece. Just wished I had picked it up with the V1 Joker after the DX series was announced and gotten them for less $$$.

 

[vodoun]

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Pennyworth, it's not just that though. Maul's lighting is more real world lighting. Most shoot with overexposed lighting which ends up making it look like a toy or toy photography for that matter. Makes it look very cheap and tacky. Or worse yet the bloomin flash is on. Neo does a grand job as well with is dark lighting, almost like street lighting. As does Agen with his lovely blue tint. Very stock photo effect as if it was for promotional purposes!

His lighting is creating lovely downward shadows from all the bits stuck in and sticking out even the eye sockets have lovely shadows taking away the bright white eyes. Which looks very real to be honest.

If one didn't know that https://www.swmmedia.com/HOTTOYS/TDK/213.jpg was a figure you could almost say it was a digital render or very close to a CGI version for the film. Not something that was sitting on someone's desk.

 

[dcflake]

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Because the man he wanted to drop off a building happened to be in there?

This looks like a great figure, but the more pics I see, the less I want it. I'm happy with my Version 1. No, it's not accurate, but it's still a nice piece. Just wished I had picked it up with the V1 Joker after the DX series was announced and gotten them for less $$$.

Yeah but it was more of a choice of where he should of been. I don't think he should have went to a nightclub. Batman in a nightclub just seems too surreal to me. Burtons films always had brilliant locations practically made for Batman.

 

[intothevoid]

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But Nolan's films have always been much more realistic - TBH a nightclub would be a pretty natural place to find a scumbag like Maroni

 

[MaulFan]

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MaulFan, is there any url you post those amazing shots? Amazing stuff, dude!

No, I own my own webspace so I just post them there. Someday I'll get around to making a website of my work.

Maul, you should make a pdf catalogue album of some of these.

I'm actually working in my Apple photo software right now to put together a book of my best work through the end of 2009, it's only like 3 years worth of stuff but the books can only be so big and with some properties I have hard time trimming down the selections so rather than make it a 5 year collection I just stopped at 2009.

Maulfan have you messed with neck on yours at all. Because I like yours and if that's standard I can live with that.

No modifications of any kind to my figure, the only things not stock about him are that I used the v1 cape and belt, everything else is DX and exactly how it came from the factory. The neck looks ok from angles, it's really only front on shots that it's noticably thin.

His lighting is creating lovely downward shadows from all the bits stuck in and sticking out even the eye sockets have lovely shadows taking away the bright white eyes. Which looks very real to be honest.

That is the biggest thing I find with photos that poorly represent, particularly, portraits on collectibles. Faces are full of shapes and contours that define them and with the wrong lighting it can look really off. The wrong lighting and you won't see the distinct cheek bones in an Arnold Schwarzenegger portrait, or with this Batman, you can lose the depth Yulli sculpted into the eye sockets. Most often, a flash flooded photo of a person will never portray them as nice as a more natural and balanced lighting photo will, and the same principles with real people apply to collectibles, just different scales.

Yeah but it was more of a choice of where he should of been. I don't think he should have went to a nightclub. Batman in a nightclub just seems too surreal to me. Burtons films always had brilliant locations practically made for Batman.

I actually liked the club for that reason. The environments are geared towards Batman's persona, but rather show, as said in Dark Knight,
that he has no jurisdiction or limits. I don't like Batman only lurking in the shady areas, I like the notion that wherever bad guys are, if he wants them, he'll find them and nothing's going to stand in his way.

 

[jediknight120]

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The club fight was awesome... as MF said, I love seeing him take the fight to the bad guys on their own turf and still kick their butts. Especially the dude who broke a bottle over his cowl... he paid, lol.

 

[MaulFan]

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One of my favorite aspects of the Nolan Batman is the fighting style, he's just like a wild bear that plows through enemies, there's no finess, it's not fancy or showy, it's just quick and effective. I don't think I've even seen him use kicks at all, just punches and using his body to plow into people.

 

[Pennyworth]

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That is the biggest thing I find with photos that poorly represent, particularly, portraits on collectibles. Faces are full of shapes and contours that define them and with the wrong lighting it can look really off. The wrong lighting and you won't see the distinct cheek bones in an Arnold Schwarzenegger portrait, or with this Batman, you can lose the depth Yulli sculpted into the eye sockets. Most often, a flash flooded photo of a person will never portray them as nice as a more natural and balanced lighting photo will, and the same principles with real people apply to collectibles, just different scales.

Your lighting (along with Agen & Neo) is top notch. What's your opinion of the figure in "everyday" lighting, posed on a shelf or in a detolf for instance? Are there positions to avoid in terms of the head/eyes? I know with the Joker PERS, it seems like head down, looking up gets good results.

(* sorry if this has been covered earlier...)

 

[dcflake]

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But Nolan's films have always been much more realistic - TBH a nightclub would be a pretty natural place to find a scumbag like Maroni

I always think of Batman taking place in the 1940's (when the character was first wrote) and to put him in a modern day setting as contempary as a night club is just a little too far. I like what Nolan did bringing him up to date. Steamy darkened streets and people in trench coats and fedoras can get boring after a while but I'm just not ready to be comfortable with that level of advancement.

 

[FDBMath]

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Yeah but it was more of a choice of where he should of been. I don't think he should have went to a nightclub. Batman in a nightclub just seems too surreal to me. Burtons films always had brilliant locations practically made for Batman.

It is actually pretty true to the comics with Bats going to a nightclub or bar looking for information, similar to what he did going after Maroni in the nightclub. It is very authentic to the comics.

 

[dcflake]

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It is actually pretty true to the comics with Bats going to a nightclub or bar looking for information, similar to what he did going after Maroni in the nightclub. It is very authentic to the comics.

In the 1940's?

 

[intothevoid]

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I think one of the reasons Batman has been so popular through the generations is that his character and what drives him is quite a universal concept, so i'm fine with the integration of that to modern times, and didn't think that scene detracted from the character in any way

 

[intothevoid]

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Batman comics of the present day are actually extremely modernized and have some very good story lines. So i don't think one should necessarily go back to the Batman of the 1940s in terms of a reference - for that matter, the Batman of the 1940s didn't have the 'one rule' which Joker talks about in the interrogation scene. He used guns and killed people like Jack Bauer

 

[dcflake]

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Well I don't hate the film far from it. Just that scene seemed really strange to me.

 

[FDBMath]

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In the 1940's?

I would have to look back through my collection (reprints only - though I wish I had some of the originals, my oldest originals are from the early 60's) but I am fairly certain I have some stories from then where he does go into nightclubs and such looking for information and/or criminals.

I know for certain I have many from the 80's to the present where he did just that.

 

[FDBMath]

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Batman comics of the present day are actually extremely modernized and have some very good story lines. So i don't think one should necessarily go back to the Batman of the 1940s in terms of a reference - for that matter, the Batman of the 1940s didn't have the 'one rule' which Joker talks about in the interrogation scene. He used guns and killed people like Jack Bauer

That only happened in the first few issues. Once his origin was finalized, the "no guns, no killing" became the norm.

EDIT (added): He was much more likely to not go out of his way to save someone who was bad as opposed to actually kill them. Semantics, for sure, but he was actively killing them.

 

[intothevoid]

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Fair enough - but my point was more generally, that the character has evolved a fair bit over time, and the Nolan movies are a fairly close representation of the essence of the character, particularly from the 80s onwards (long Halloween / Year one etc.)

 

[Agen]

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[FDBMath]

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Fair enough - but my point was more generally, that the character has evolved a fair bit over time, and the Nolan movies are a fairly close representation of the essence of the character, particularly from the 80s onwards (long Halloween / Year one etc.)

Absolutely. I think the Nolan movies are the best representation of the character in the comics from the the early 70's on. The only thing that could be considered a better representation is the animated version of the 90's. I think the only real flaws with that version are essentially the limits imposed on it by being a "cartoon for kids" - i.e. toned down violence.

Though, back on topic, this figure as amazing. I got to mess with him a bit last night and am thoroughly impressed with it. I aim to take some pics with the DX Joker in the next day or two - though nothing as dramatic as the pics from MF or Agen.