Well technically, if my reasons are bull****, you have to factor this thread is complete bull**** as well. Figure of the year. Wow.
Based on what? Design? Price? Ingenuity? Creativeness? Game changing? Ground breaking? Best bang for buck?
I get your a Batman nerd. A huge majority of your collecting priorities, or maybe a chunk of your life is revolved around your Batman fetish, and thats cool... I have my own interests as well. Its like me being a Ghostbusters fan and the DX20 Peter Venkman to me is the greatest thing ever made.
Yes, the DX09 is well exectued. Its a figure most of us that were kids of the 80's wanted. It is well made. But then again, alot of figures were well made this year. I have the DX09, and although to me its not the best, it dosent mean i don't like it. I forked out the same +$200 for it same as everyone else.
Headsculpt... not the best one this year. PERS execution... that ugly square in the back of the head... yeah.. great. The suit... its not very poseable, some had rubber leaking issues. Accessories.. you got a batarang, the gauntlet, the grabbling gun and a bunch of itty bitty's. Again.. not the greatest accessories from a HT DX product. Price... being the first DX's to hike up to the $200-250 range and not have the Keaton head? Its obvious HT is waiting to release another version of it INCLUDING it to milk the fans. He wasent unmasked in 89? so??? In the Dark Knight (and i wont argue if you prove me wrong), does Bale have his face unmasked while wearing the Batman gear? Well.. HT released a Bale sculpt with it. HT's OC Dark Knight figure (not the toyfair) also had one. Did Bale wear the OC in Dark Knight unmasked? Those werent even DX, they were standard figures. Shove that jack**** back from where it came from.
Among one of the reasons this gets the higher vote is most collectors have this piece, even the ones that can only afford one figure a year. It has high nostalgic value. Fans have been wanting this for a long time, and its well executed, but in no ways does it deserve FIGURE OF THE YEAR.
Jesus, man, I was referring to the fact that you were downgrading it based on the fact that it didn't include a Keaton sculpt. There's no reason to include something that wasn't even in the movie. As for the others, the Begins was to make up for the fact that there wasn't one with the Begins figure, and the TDK was because, well, he was unmasked at several points in the film. The main reason why there wouldn't be a Keaton sculpt is because they're most likely going to include that with their Batman Returns figure, as that's the film where he's unmasked, and it's an important part of that figure. Now, if the Returns figure doesn't include a BW head, I see every reason to give it a lower score, but saying that the lack of a BW head with the 89 Batman brings it down a level is like saying that you're mad that a RotJ Vader doesn't have a Hayden Christianson head.
As far as the head goes, I respectfully disagree, I think that, as far as 1/6th goes, it's between this, Skywalker, and the Joker. The PERS execution isn't bad, the eyes look fantastic, and there wasn't really any other way to do it. As far as the QC issues, there were a few contained instances. It wasn't a massive issue, so there's really no need to count that against the figure; one bad egg doesn't spoil the dozen. The suit, again, is accurate. The fact that it's not posable is because the source material it's based on wasn't that posable. Contrary to what you might think, HT went above and beyond with the accessories. They included some things that appeared in the film for split seconds, and other things that didn't even make it past the concept stage for the film. The only way I see them revisiting this figure is if they do some sort of Toy Fair Exclusive Battle Damaged Batman, and even that won't include a Keaton Wayne sculpt. They're probably saving that for a completely different figure from a completely different movie.
I do want to apologize if I came across as a bit hostile, that was my bad, but just so you know that I'm not completely bias, I, personally, think that DX Skywalker is the best DX of the year (and I don't even own it). In terms of what I've seen, the quality's there, it's packed with extras, and the value's there.
