Re: Official Hot Toys Pirates of the Caribbean Thread
Just got Cannibal Jack and Davy Jones!
Cannibal Jack is amazing!!!One of Hot Toys best figures and Yullie's head sculpts are absolute winners!!!! The Cannibal King head is an amazing likeness and expression of Johnny Depp as Sparrow. As is the grinning Jack head as well, which I in fact replaced the more 'serious' head on my 'At World's End' Jack Sparrow with. I believe Stallone is the celebrity Hot Toys has nailed the BEST, but Johnny Depp is certainly getting up there with this Jack Sparrow figure! He comes with all the accessories of the original Sparrow release...minus the rum (WHY IS THE RUM ALWAYS GONE????), the jacket and the tricorn hat...if I missed any...my bad. And what is really impressive is the use of the fake feathers and straw on the Cannibal King crown, it really makes it stand out on top of Jack's head!!! Nice touch additionally on the toe necklace as well!
Davy Jones is a great figure as well, I was surprised how moveable and pliable the rubber suit is, pretty dang good. I suppose they'll be using this exact same rubber on the ALIEN figures. It's very much like the rubber used in the Xenomorphs' joints. The rubber suit is certainly not as realistic as the cloth outfits but it does do the job well and Davy Jones looks great (thanks also to HT's superb paint applications). He's still quite poseable and you might be surprised to discover that underneath all that rubber there is a HT TrueType body under there! His accessories are excellent as well! The Dead Man's Chest with his beating heart, the key (which actually fits into the Chest's keyhole!!!Though I wouldn't recommend turning the keyhole, which is turnable, with the key...they key would probably snap), a pipe, his cane, hat, and sword & sheath.
My only two nitpicks with Davy Jones are his face sculpt is not exactly Bill Nighy but it still is well done. The second is that he is too short!!! They might've been better off using the Wolf Predator's body underneath which would've been tall enough but lanky enough to hide underneath the rubber suit (unlike the previous bulkier Preds). Granted, Jack is also ridiculously tall but it's silly to see Sparrow tower over Davy Jones and it almost takes away from Jones considering he is such a remarkably unique character design. Of course, there are the ankle modifications that Chase did to fix Jack's height...but Hot Toys knew about this previously and should've at least made Davy Jones taller to alleviate Jack's height difference.
Now bring on BARBOSSA!!!!
Just got Cannibal Jack and Davy Jones!
Cannibal Jack is amazing!!!One of Hot Toys best figures and Yullie's head sculpts are absolute winners!!!! The Cannibal King head is an amazing likeness and expression of Johnny Depp as Sparrow. As is the grinning Jack head as well, which I in fact replaced the more 'serious' head on my 'At World's End' Jack Sparrow with. I believe Stallone is the celebrity Hot Toys has nailed the BEST, but Johnny Depp is certainly getting up there with this Jack Sparrow figure! He comes with all the accessories of the original Sparrow release...minus the rum (WHY IS THE RUM ALWAYS GONE????), the jacket and the tricorn hat...if I missed any...my bad. And what is really impressive is the use of the fake feathers and straw on the Cannibal King crown, it really makes it stand out on top of Jack's head!!! Nice touch additionally on the toe necklace as well!
Davy Jones is a great figure as well, I was surprised how moveable and pliable the rubber suit is, pretty dang good. I suppose they'll be using this exact same rubber on the ALIEN figures. It's very much like the rubber used in the Xenomorphs' joints. The rubber suit is certainly not as realistic as the cloth outfits but it does do the job well and Davy Jones looks great (thanks also to HT's superb paint applications). He's still quite poseable and you might be surprised to discover that underneath all that rubber there is a HT TrueType body under there! His accessories are excellent as well! The Dead Man's Chest with his beating heart, the key (which actually fits into the Chest's keyhole!!!Though I wouldn't recommend turning the keyhole, which is turnable, with the key...they key would probably snap), a pipe, his cane, hat, and sword & sheath.
My only two nitpicks with Davy Jones are his face sculpt is not exactly Bill Nighy but it still is well done. The second is that he is too short!!! They might've been better off using the Wolf Predator's body underneath which would've been tall enough but lanky enough to hide underneath the rubber suit (unlike the previous bulkier Preds). Granted, Jack is also ridiculously tall but it's silly to see Sparrow tower over Davy Jones and it almost takes away from Jones considering he is such a remarkably unique character design. Of course, there are the ankle modifications that Chase did to fix Jack's height...but Hot Toys knew about this previously and should've at least made Davy Jones taller to alleviate Jack's height difference.
Now bring on BARBOSSA!!!!
