Daftoys 1/6 Constantine (2005)

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I’m just starting a thread on it because I’ve ordered it, and won’t be unboxing, posing, and photographing it until Christmas Day, but I know I’m going to dote on it until then.
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As we know, Keanu Reeves has signed to make a sequel to the 2005 Constantine film. Personally I’m delighted at that because I really like the 2005 movie despite some of it’s weaknesses. It’s surprisingly rich lore-wise. I appreciate that it just jumps into the world and shows you the character doing his thing. You have to make inferences about what’s going on at times regarding heave and hell, but it all seems to work. I liked that. The performances are good.

I know some would prefer the comic book version of the character, a Brit who‘s inspired by Sting. But I‘ve never read a single Constantine comic. Although I have watched the animated JL Dark movie. But anyway, I have no such bias. And I’m a big Keanu Reeves fan.

Keanu has said he‘s really hyped to return to playing the character again. I‘m crossing my fingers that this has the potential to be a big hit for the DCU.
 
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I have plans to mod this figure. I’m going to replace the body with a worldbox body that has continuous hands on the forearms. The stock forearms are just cylinders. I want to be able to pose him thusly:

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Which will require painting the tattoos on his forearms.

Here’s what the stock forearms look like:

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And what the worldbox forearms look like:

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I have plans to mod this figure. I’m going to replace the body with a worldbox body that has continuous hands on the forearms. The stock forearms are just cylinders. I want to be able to pose him thusly:

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Which will require painting the tattoos on his forearms.

Here’s what the stock forearms look like:

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And what the worldbox forearms look like:

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You’ll want that WB AT020 with the ridiculous butterfly joints that give a huge range of motion. I doubt any other body would be able to connect the forearms in that way.
 
You’ll want that WB AT020 with the ridiculous butterfly joints that give a huge range of motion. I doubt any other body would be able to connect the forearms in that way.

Thanks! Good to know about the range of motion for the shoulders! Because that pose will be tough to pull off I’ll bet.
 
This I guess is the symbol used for his forearm tattoos? Same on both forearms and when he brings them together they form two halves of the same symbol?

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Well, I pulled the trigger on the Worldbox AT020S body with seamless forearms/hands.

And I also decided to get this custom head sculpt as well:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003711299136.html
It’s most likely a recast of the excellent AKS head sculpt which is shown in these photos. But from what I’m hearing sometimes it works out really well depending on the paint job. Here's hoping that the paint job is as good as the prototype!

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Just got mine today. Decent enough figure but in all honesty it could have been better. I'll have to get better shoes and sculpt the coat isn't to bad but it definitely isn't Yunsil, hands also suck not much detail.
 
Just got mine today. Decent enough figure but in all honesty it could have been better. I'll have to get better shoes and sculpt the coat isn't to bad but it definitely isn't Yunsil, hands also suck not much detail.

If you get the time please post some pics!

Just judging from the videos I've watched it looks like for the half dozen or so versions of 2005 Constantine some aspect is lacking or off. No homeruns out there. I'm just hoping for at least a solid line drive double.

Crossing my fingers on the head sculpt I ordered is an improvement over the stock one. Which I'm assuming is probably a recast of the AKS. Folks on FB that have gotten one tell me that when the paint job good it's a very good sculpt.

This is the AKS head sculpt:



Wish the stripes on the coat lining were more muted like in the film, but that's relatively small potatoes.

I'm looking at shoes on eBay. Not sure about a matte color versus shiny, i.e., which it is in the film. Already ordered a pair of socks!
 
Well, the head sculpt shipped. I'm surprised. My first time using AliExpress and it got right down to the wire for the 'ships-in-10-days-or-automatic-refund' window. But the site says it has shipped. Or at least packaged with a label and ready to be shipped or whatever. Still hopeful that the piece I'm getting will be a very good quality paint job on a well executed recast of the AKS sculpt.
 
I ordered these on eBay.

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After checking to see what type of shoe he wears in the film, I can see that they are shiny.

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Found another review, which although not in English (the only language I speak) shows the figure.

I mean, honestly, this looks pretty good to me. It looks very acceptable, at least. For a third party figure anyway. I’m upgrading mine with a Worldbox body, custom head sculpt, socks, and some nicer looking shoes, so I‘m allowing myself to have fairly high hopes that this could be end up being a really satisfying addition to the collection.

 
Either Thunder Toys or Daftoys looks like it has the most faithful head sculpt.

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Man, I love how Giantoys packs their figures! Why Sideshow and the other sellers don’t do this?

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Anyway, it’s getting wrapped and not opening it until Christmas. Plus all the various accessories I got for it.

And finally I’ll be doing shoots with an iPhone 14 Pro. After the last 3 years of using iPhone 11. I’ll be able to get some hopefully really hi res photos of this figure. For my entire collection, for that matter. I’ll be busy for months taking new pics of all my figures.
 
So although I wont open everything I’ve ordered fot this figure until Christmas Day, yesterday I received the head sculpt I ordered through Ali Express. As mentioned I haven’t opened it up and looked at it, but the box it came in is a nice looking silver colored aluminum box with the X-Studio logo.

So apparently I do have the X-Studio version. And I do see it on eBay going for more substantially than I paid. Mine went for about $60 (a bit less with coupon codes):

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1754780642...ZoG_iJGRIS&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
And again, this X-Studio version might just be using the AKS Studio photos, and is likely a recast of the AKS although its painted by X-Studio artists. On eBay the comments and ratings I see for this X-Studio Constantine head sculpt is that it’s a pretty darn close likeness to the AKS (?) photos.

That encourages me! I’m trying not to get my hopes up too much for an AKS quality head sculpt. But even if it’s 85% that good, I think I’ll be pretty happy.
 
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As far as likeness goes, I'd say the Daftoys is the best of them all.
It does look a bit soft on details and paint apps in the review though.
 
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