ITTS 2008: Hot Toys Dark Knight Batman
Although the Hot Toys’ original Batman and Joker figures, the Batod, and the Batmobile pretty much answers every Bat-fan and figure collectors dreams, the line is still somewhat incomplete. Why? Because we all know Batman gets a new Batsuit half way through the movie therefore how complete will a line of Dark Knight collectibles be without a figure of the new-suit-Batman? Well, hey, hey, hey! Finally, the revealing of Hot Toys ‘Dark Knight’ Batman! Despite being a pretty early prototype, the top half of the suit is already looking very, very tastey!
Most die-hard Batfans could probably already tell you that the headsculpt is wrong on this figure because the mouth opening on the cowl is too wide (the opening is narrower on the new real-life batsuit). The headsculpt we have here is probably moulded from the exact same one from the original suit Batman figure, and is something I fully understand because it is a very good scupt. But at the same time, by doing so, it makes the figure less accurate. Oh well, we can’t have everything, right? Like said, it is still a prototype and because it is not due for launch until ‘October’, we can still hope that a proper Dark Knight cowl/headsculpt is in the works. So yea, fingers crossed for fixes before release!
Again from my brief chat with the CEO of Hot Toys Japan:
- This figure is a prototype
- Japan and Hong Kong exclusive
- Will be released in October
- Exclusive to only ONE reseller in Japan, 豆魚雷 Mamegyorai
- Will cost JP¥ 22,000
Man, all these figures are frikkin’ awesome! And they’re also darn expensive. If I was to get them all, I’ll need to do more than sell limbs… maybe also sell my… (I’ll leave that to your imagination).
1/6th figures have really come a long way in the last 2 years or so and it seems Hot Toys is currently leading the pack in terms of quality…
I asked the Hot Toys Japan CEO why the Christian Bale headsculpt was facing away and he replied, “We got a call from Warner yesterday saying we cannot show the right side of Bale’s sculpt”. Hahahaha… WTF?
Details on the suit (90-100% crops)
See also:
ITTS 2008: Hot Toys 1/6th Iron Man
ITTS 2008: Hot Toys 1/6th original Batman and Joker
ITTS 2008: Hot Toys 1/6th Batpod
These is awesome. But when Takara made it’s version back in Batman Begins it totally raised the bar. Do you think Takara will also be getting its hands on this Dark Knight suit version?
they might have requested the right side of his face not be shown due to the mole he has on the right side of the bridge of his nose…maybe he trademarked it? haha