You're looking at Hot Toys' new 12-inch DX Dark Knight Batman figure and what has to be the apex of the toy industry. There's no need for anyone to make a toy or action figure ever again, because it's just never going to get any better than this. Listen to this shit:
• It's got that "moving eyes" tech -- the Parallel Eyeball Rolling System (PERS) and Translucent Iris -- that Hot Toys' Joker figure had
• But it also has an alternate head with Batman's sonar eyes -- that light up
• It has three "interchangeable unique faces captured the Batman classic facial expressions, which fit for both two functional heads"
• Three sets of interchangeable posing hands
• The weapons includes "Transformable Sticky Bomb Gun, Back Pack, Grapnel Gun, Mini Mines, removable Holster, and two (2) interchangeable and Magnet featured Batman Utility Belts"
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
Seriously, if you work at Hasbro or Mattel and you care about your work, I don't know how you don't quit in disgust or even just kill yourself, knowing some geniuses in Hong Kong are making shit like this. Why even bother? You're not ever going to make anything as awesome as this. You can check out more pics -- which I highly recommend -- over at ToyNewsI.
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Jimmy said:
I am from the toy industry, its not that peeps from Mattel/Hasbro etc. can't get that level if quality, its that toys need to be cost reduced so they can be sold for 4.99-14.99 MSRP. The initial ideas & prototypes for even the lamest shelf rotting figure are typically were infinitely more awesome than what makes it to market.
whatsmyhouse said:
Grapnel guns rule! they shoot out a grappling hook and debris for a distraction. People say the smoke-a-porter is the escape tech of the new age but I'm going to stick with my old trusty Grapnel Gun. Cause ya know they're classic.
Grapnel.
The good time we have had me and old Grappy. cant even count.
Grapnel.
amarygma said:
But... can it stand?
I'd love to see a female action figure that can stand on it's own with the feet positioned no further apart than the shoulders.
That would impress me. My toy shelf (Marvel legends) looks very misogynistic with all the females in varying states of falling whilst the males stand proud, pecs jutting in disdain to block out the fallen women from their view.
Arsenal said:
Can I actually bring my self to paying $200 for this? I mean I really want to buy that, but man thats a lot of money for a figure that is going to sit on a shelf and judge me while I play video games and eat chips, expecially as it can watch me walk from one room to the next.
ZADL said:
SQUEEEE!
Captain Flunky said:
I haven't had an action figure since I was eleven years old (hands in hipster geek card in shame), but I want to get this sonofabitch.
manobon said:
That last paragraph was Greatness- and yeah, this is really expensive...buuhhht, I think I might put money down for this. *sigh. We'll see.
Gee said:
That is the coolest looking toy ever
McRowan said:
For $200 that action figure can no longer be called a toy, it's a sculpture.
The Great A'Tuin said:
This personifies win. (in regards to toys.)
If only we had a Wolverine figure with this detail. One that DIDN'T look lik Clive Owen. Or a Deadpool one. That'd be KICKASS!
Stanley Ipkis said:
Sweet! I've kinda stopped buying fugures after X-men: the movie, but this makes me very interested again. Rrrrrrrr! :P
emonxie said:
Hot Toys makes wickedly great stuff! Totally stocked about their Iron Man Mark 1, for instance.
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Greg said:
Regardless of anything, can we please get everyone at Mattel that's involved in boys toys to kill themselves? Or maybe an irate ex-employee with a Spas-12 shotgun? Please.
morriskode said:
not that this isn't an amazing piece of work, but i'd totally dig seeing a hot toy's scarecrow from the nolan-verse.
just sayin'
Adrian said:
My heart just stopped.
@morriskode-Nolan Scarecrow would be sweet
David said:
You hit it right on. This Batman is the new definition of 'awesome'.
Danger Monkey said:
oh man... oh man that's so freaking cool , i mean, look at the detail, the eyes! the accesories the...the..... fap fap fap fap fap aaaaaaaaaaaaaarggggghhhhh fap fap fap fap fap
dlm said:
the mask looks way better on the figure than it did on Bale's head.
Snoodle said:
Absolutely gorgeous. Ah, if only I had tons of money...
wingdarkness said:
Somewhere Christian Bale is having a conniption fit that the toy doesn't curl it's mouth quite like him^^...
mia said:
i am just blown away. there are no words.
JesseMXGangl said:
That really is rad beyond words, though it doesn't help me shake the conviction that the Bale Batman head is weirdly bulbous in real life and therefore perfectly replicated here.
Ramone said:
For $200 that thing should be able to catch real criminals.
....
What's that? It does? Sweet!
Gabbie18 said:
Awesome figure!!!
jyuichi said:
Not moe enough.
Mermaid Rei, THATS where its at XD
Requiem said:
Even the action figures who come with a big base to stand on always fall over, like the spiderman with the claws coming out of his back, that whole 32 points of articulation is all well and good if it actualy works. Either stiff an breaks or its stiff and goes all loose like a 80s toy thats been played with to death. Shouldnt have to pay 200 bucks for a figure that works properly
