Why not use real hair on Hot Toys?

[Boba Ben]

The Hot Toys figures that have synthetic hair so far don't seem to be done too well in my opinion.

Maybe the can improve, but so far I'm not too impressed by how it looks.

 

[Kuzeh]

Real hair in figures would be kind of creepy... and gross...
rooted hair looks pretty good IMO...

 

[dominishin]

Ehh, I'm sure you all know what we mean by "real" hair.

 

[Kuzeh]

 

[Boba Ben]

I think there's a human hair industry in India for weaves and hair extensions. Maybe Hot Toys could look into it.

 

[dominishin]

I've just watched Good Hair a few days ago, it's true!

 

[Rock83]

HT can have my ass hair if the pay is good.

 

[Cheungkinmen]

HT can have my ass hair if the pay is good.

 

[devilof76]

Sculpted hair looks better because rooted hair makes figures look like...

...dolls.

 

[lerath666]

it's not that. it's that without CONSTANT care, real hair will eventualy get "bed head" as dust and static build up and make it "poof" out. there is NO way, long term, to keep real heair looking good.

unless you're willing to brush, commb, style and gell it every couple of weeks.

 

[DiFabio]

Sculpt hair > real/fake hair

Go look at the Exclusive Sideshow T-1000 as Sarah Connor figure thread. Most collectors actually want to STYLE her hair. I can only imagine what REAL hair would spawn.

 

[MiskatonicNick]

it's not that. it's that without CONSTANT care, real hair will eventualy get "bed head" as dust and static build up and make it "poof" out. there is NO way, long term, to keep real heair looking good.

If it's cheap synthetic hair and/or you feed the figure to you little sister/neice/dog/whatever then yes.

But good quality saran hair won't. I have many a Barbie, Obitsu & Tonner here who have gone through photostories, play & display without any really noticeable degradation. Upkeep of decent dolly hair is far less fraught that all the hassles HT rubber bodies etc. pose.

 

[devilof76]

I never noticed much of an issue with Cy Girl figure hair, and my niece has a four year old Tonner Supergirl that looks none the worse for wear with zero upkeep.

 

[melanarus]

I say stick with plastic hair.

 

[vareika]

ugh...real skin, real hair....no. Personally sculpted works fine for me and anything beyond that would push my wife's tolerance for my 1/6 figures. She claims that they are already too "real" and that they are spooky. I think because "dolls" are portrayed to be demonic and possessed in many horror movies and that branded her mind.

 

[Nitro]

Synthetic hair is OK by me....Once you go into the realm of real hair/skin, it gets a little too creepy as a 1/6th scale collector.

 

[Ironman1188]

The HT POTA series was done well with the "real" hair. They should stick with perfecting the hair useage thru that series of figures and then see if it can be brought successfully to 1:6 human figures.
As for bodies, i never was much of a fan for the over musculatured rubber bodies, but these new Wolvie, Comedian, Bruce figures are very interesting. If they ever become affordable I would upgrade a number of figures to them.

 

[(/'-')/Peanut]

Taking care of sculpted hair is just so much easier

 

[Biest]

I think rooted hair looks better on figures, that have long hair, than plastic hair. And it can look very good, if you look at some dolls from mattel, than you´ss see that it can look very good, but hot toys is far away from that quality! HT makes beautyfull headsculpts, but they have to work on the quality of the rooted hair.

 

[Deak Starkiller]

Eh, no...real hair is hard to pull off. HT Apes are probably it, until Chewie blows us all away.