Hot Toys Artisan Imposter Joker Unboxing and Review!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- Hey guys! Today we are checking out the new Hot Toys Artisan Imposter Joker and also comparing the new Artisan headsculpt from Hot Toys to the InArt Joker as well.
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Seeing this direct comparison, I stick to my guns : this new Joker from Hot Toys (let's consider it the same as the future DX release) is far better than their previous ones, even better than the JND one...but InArt is still ahead.
For some reasons.
First, the overall likeness. Yeah there's something a bit wrong with InArt's eyes, but you can correct it just by woving them...to make them more realistic and accurate, Heath always had his eyes looking up at you with his head leaning forward. But even considering that, Hot Toys still struggle with Heath Ledger's likeness. It's, once again, far better than the Dx11, but not quite right. The hairline isn't correct, the shape of the cheeks and the chin/jawline isn't either, and the expression doesn't help at all. But the eyes are a bit better than InArt's, even though to me it's not enough to balance everything.
Other problem, the scarring. Especially his right scar. On the Hot Toys, it's not accurate, it really looks like two edges over his skin instead of something carved into it and that would've had poorly scarred... And the paint doesn't help at all.
By the way, let's talk about the paint. The fact that Hot Toys' paintjob seems sharper than InArt's one... Is a flaw to me. 'cause it becomes too detailled, and wrongly detailled at a point where it's no longer realistic or accurate to how Heath generally was in the movie. It's kinda too detailled not to appear toyetic. Not enough details, and it's toyetic, too much details, and it's toyetic. I mean, yeah it's cool to have details, but if it's not accurate or even logical...it's just over the top, and here, it's over the top. Just looking at pictures of Heath in the movie shows it.
The red on the mouth and scars, especially on his right, is too clean. It accentuate the flaw that is the scar itself.
The black around the eyes, especially its transitions on the white under the eyes... Is off. It's just black on white, without having any skin color poking through at the logical wrinkles were moves and sweat would've had an impact onto the make up. There already was this problem with their previous releases. But I quite like how it appears on the part above the eyes
The white itself doesn't hit me as a problem, but I still would've like more pronunced, 'cause if it looks like that with a light on him, I don't think it would really by enough under normal lighting (for example, the InArt here seems clearly a quite bright white where in reality it's a bit darker, more muted). It would've reinforce the erased look a bit by marking a sharper contrast between the make up and the skin.
The skin color transition on the neck and the hairline is great. But on the parts where it's poking through at the wrinkles on the forehead... Not so much at all. Again, it's too sharp, and too clean. It's just slightly curved lines, with nearly no imperfections. In reality, again, sweat should've made it messier, and quite in a wider way, like the InArt one. Especially with this style of make up, where it's not "clean" as opposed as (for example)how it is in the mob meeting scene... Even more, it looks weird considering it looks like erased make up from a fresh base, so the make-up should've been completely clean to, at least a bit, match this kind of marks.
A thing about the general texture....again, too sharp, against any logic. Think about it, if you put a lot of clown make-up on your face, it will become less clearly textured. The skin pores won't appear as much, all skin marks either. It should be far more subtle. It has to be sharp enough to be visible (it must not be like older Hot Toys headsculpts, where skin texture was only painted) but not too much to throw off the logic and "ruin" the look.
The expression... I guess will work for specific poses, but make the headsculpt quite less accurate to Heath, 'cause he doesn't really specifically make this expression. But it's still pretty good.
As said before about the hair, the hairline isn't right. But I like the color and the overall look, even though I'm not a fan of the volume of it, especially on the top right part of his head.
Yeah, everything may appear like nit-picking, but that's the point of sharing diverse opinions, so that everyone can show how he/she/they see.s things
In conclusion, it will be a great improvement over their previous ones, and a really solid alternative to the current best one (InArt) for people that don't have it for whatever reasons. Either way and no matter each one's opinion, the most important is that people are happy.
@@Maxime_G this is an absolutely amazing insight thank you! Some really good detail into the different elements of each sculpt and I find myself agreeing with your points. Personally I’m really happy to have both the InArt and the Hot Toys. Both serve a purpose for me at least as I like to do a lot of photography so offers me variation on the character. Thank you for watching 🙌 for me I like both sculpts, and as you said I think people can be happy with either the InArt if they have it or this one if they prefer.
@@jimcollector Thanks to you ! I think you're the first one who makes this comparison, so it's so good to have the possibility to explain and write my opinion with a good visual base. Thanks for that.
And what you're saying is the perfect example : people will be happy with one of them, the one they prefer, or both, and that's the most important thing. Just be happy, that's the main goal of collecting
I can’t wait to get this one! Great job love velvet packaging and that amazing headsculpt! You are killing it Jim!
@@collectorjoey ah thank you mate! Honestly didn’t expect the velvet on this, foam would have been nicer though haha
Is it out already? How did you get it since it's status on Sideshow is Opened for waiting list! @@jimcollector
The hot toys one looks better to me. I love the look of the figure. Looks so cool.
30 times better, and I own 9 to 11 jokers, including the inart . That's just cause the inart lost, like 80 percent from prototype
@@stevea8099 I think a lot of people are leaning that way. I’m happy with both this and my InArt figure as it’s still a really nice piece, saying that.. can’t get over how much better the paint apps and hair is on the hot toys vs the InArt, makes my InArt sculpt look a bit low res 😂
I love Heaths portrayal of the Joker and I missed out on getting the artisan Joker from Hot toys. Now that I see it, although its a great and menacing looking headsculpt I do prefer the Inart one. The artisan a little bit of a crackhead vibe🤣
@@dmldml9260 haha don’t say that! I won’t be unable to unsee his crackheadedness 😂😂
It wasn't inspired from the cosplayer, he took that idea from hot toys when they showed this 10 years ago at an event that was a 1 off custom thing with the dx12 body and the 1st bank robber joker head.
@@somersfamily oooh that’s interesting I didn’t realise that! Thanks for sharing, did not realise this went so far back, way before I started collecting 1/6 lol
As far as I can remember, the only scene in TDK in which the Joker does something resembling the Hot Toys mouth, is shortly after he's called a freak during the mob gathering, reacting in irritation. But then the hair and make-up don't match that scene?? These manufacturers have a tendency to produce an expression that we never see in the film, case-in-point JND's awful laughing portrait.
@@dangiambrone7350 that’s interesting as I always thought the face paint on the InArt joker looked like that scene 😂 maybe if we could mix both together it would be perfect lol. Yeah the JND figure I’m not really feeling, plus it’s beyond my budget anyway 😂
i like HT
I actually like this concept😂 think about it. In dark knight rises bane beats Batman’s ass and Bruce isn’t wearing his suit. If ledger was alive I could totally see him doing this to the found bat suit
Agreed in my mind I figure he eventually got out and found his broken cowl and costume in the sewer. put it on painted it and that's why he's not wearing the mask because it was already broken another thing also this was a concept showing Back 9 or 10 years ago and everybody keeps saying that that cosplayer got his idea stolen from hot toys LOL when literally Hot Toys show this Concept 10 years ago on the bank robber Joker head😂
@@CheerfulCroquet-ri8pj haha love this! I hadn’t thought of it that way! Think you and @somersfamily are onto something here!
Hot toys one is amazing! Leading the game again
@@nahpimpin398 the hot toys sculpt is really impressive 🙌
It's close between the two head sculpts. I prefer the hair colour and styling on the Hot Toys, the hairline on Inart, Inart's likeness, Hot Toys paint apps - they actually got the right shade of red for the lips!! The eyes on both sculpts is the weak spot, the iris' are too large, and they're too recessed on the Inart portrait. The eyes also look off in the production pictures of the JND 1/6 Joker.
The red on the lips change a lot according to the stage of make-up and lightning
@@dangiambrone7350 yeah this generally is how I feel too, pros and cons to both really. Hot toys have done an amazing job on this as did InArt. I think which ever one you end up having you can be relatively pleased. The JND one I’m not really feeling at all, it may be the price tag on that though, I know in art wasn’t cheap but that JND one is insane lol
Im ecxited about this one but dissapointed to know that they used DX19 body and not the new version.
@@jerrygonzalez2439 to be fair the DX19 does quite well on this figure but offers some limitation in posing, mainly in the legs.
Hi bud, dont much care for the body as I cant see the point. But love the head sculpt, so the normal clothes one coming from hot toys should look amazing 😊
Great video with great quality. 😊
@@toddscollectibles980 hey Todd thanks you watching 🙌 always appreciate it. Fair point on the body, and to be honest this figure is definitely a cash in from hot toys. Yeah the normal joker they have coming out I think will be really good! Looking forward to seeing reviews on that once it’s in hand.
That's crazy that hot toys used the same exact sculpt that they're going to be using on their artisan figure to be released later this year. But they add a tongue feature 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤬🤷🏻♂️🤪😂😂I don't know why they wasted this sculpt on the imposter Batman 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️ I have zero interest in this figure but I would take that head sculpt in a heartbeat. Monkey see monkey do though. In art lit a fire up hot toys ass. And they showed that they can compete with the big dogs. I love my INART Joker
@@mikeecko haha I don’t think anyone saw this figure coming 😂 definitely a cash grab piece for sure! Still strange that this released before the full artisan joker lol. The headsculpt is what largely swayed me to get this! I figured I could put this head on my InArt to essentially have two headsculpt again lol
Wasted? It’s the exact same sculpt as the normal purple coat joker, the tongue is removable.
Hot toys didnt waste anything, they knew exactly what they were doing with this cash grab: give people a teaser for the DX joker while selling more of the Batbale body.
Damn it’s release that quick?
@@Unskilledcooking yeah they were quick on this one!
If Hot Toys were serious about this character, they would have included a cowelled head sculpt as well.
And it would've been such a good idea ! And far more interesting than their previous one
@@peterlambert1728 yeah that’s a very valid point! That would have been interesting to see and added more reasons to pick up this version
The Artisan version is growing on me but overall I do prefer InAart mostly cause of Heath Ledger ❤ great video tho and this figure definitely has that Wow effect when you first see it
Let me guess, you bought an Inart Joker
@@SteakSauceBoss I imagine a lot of people did, at the time it came out it was the best (I suppose not including customs) ledger joker out there. Now the Artisan is here to rival it. I’d say the Likeness to ledger when face on is better on InArt as she said above but the paint apps on the hot toys are far superior and it has a more interesting expression. It could just be the facial expression throwing me off though as that does make a difference to the contours of his face for sure. I’d say the rooted hair looks better on hot toys too. But in all fairness both sculpts are damn good.
@@SteakSauceBoss I did yes and now I have this one too :) I might be bias as the InArt figure is one of my favourites but time goes by and my taste changes so who knows maybe once I will spend more time with HT figure I will change my mind but for now I do prefer InArt head sculpt more :)
Prefer the hot toys sculpt, just the hairline isn't right. Good effort, but that hairline would have made the difference. Issue with inart, is the rooted two pack sculpts are too similar. Hot toys is good as it's more different.
@@greatwhite2860 I think that’s a good point, I do like that hot toys went for a different expression! Agree on the InArt, the smirking sculpt on the two pack was the better sculpt in my opinion as well as it had more life to it
A big miss from hot toys on this one besides all the other crap that was reused was not including a hand to hold a knife😂 when this Joker is mainly portrayed always using blades. I would say I would take the hands off one of my many other Jokers and try and match paint it but why go through all that trouble I'm just going to use one of in arts guns so it looks better than the plastic version and it won't fall out because none of that magnet crap. But again, i got this for the head im gonna use on my band robber Joker or costume nurse Joker because i have the better version coming ( the 1st Artisan Joker)
@@somersfamily you aren’t wrong to be fair, interesting you get a shotgun but no knife lol this is 100% a mash up of left overs but I won’t lie I like it’s over all look haha, like you say though it’s a good opportunity to use the sculpt for another joker! Still annoyed we haven’t got a nurse joker, that would have been more of a must have than this.
@jimcollector dude, I want a nurse joker so bad. I'm working hard on trying to get someone to do a custom outfit for me. But I've even emailed hot toys in the past, and they responded to me that they would look into doing that figure. Supposedly, some type of licensing issue. I'm not sure if that's totally the truth, but that's what I've heard over the last 10 years, lol. Keep up the good work, man
I think the Hot Toys sculpt is better all around. I see Ledger in it so much more. The Inart always threw me off with its eyes
@@AustinVirden I probably don’t want to know in case it ruins the InArt sculpt for me completely (😂) but what’s the issue with the eyes? I’ve seen a few people mention this but I can’t pick it out?
@@jimcollectorThe eyes are a little too close together, the iris's are overly large, the eyes lack the realism/detail of both Hot Toys and Inart's recent releases, and ...... the eyes are seated too deep in their sockets. The PERS feature broke on my Inart Joker. I removed the mechanism which now allows me to move the eyes independently and get him looking even further in all directions. This helps mitigate the large iris's.
I don't see how anyone can think the Inart head is better. HT looks much better, especially for the price you pay for either figure
Funny, 'cause the price isn't a valid argument.
@@Maxime_G funny, cause it's a very valid argument considering you're paying over $1000 for a product that looks worse but okay 👍
@@DEADPAUL89 your paying for a product that is better and that is the DOUBLE of what you get with Hot Toys.
@@Maxime_G except it's not better. The eyes look terrible. You shouldn't have to modify them to look better than a figure that's half it's price. You're entitled to your opinion but don't tell people that their's are invalid because it's different from yours.
@@DEADPAUL89 doing something logical isn't modifying something. And please, don't make me tell something I didn't. You can have your opinion, but you can't use unvalid points and stick with it as your only argument. I don't care what you think, either same or differently as I do. Other things are more important than that.
Hot toys looks better if you cover the mouth. Inart hairline is more accurate. I never liked the eyes on the Inart as they look too cartoony. HT much better.