Re: Hot Toys - MMS DX 02 - TDK- BATMAN full spec and pics
Wow the silver really pops in thes pics!
Also this pic illustrates what I was trying to say earlier about capes. I think I have the one on the right, but i wish I had the one on the left.
I'm gonna go ahead & say what I think others wont. One can't help but wonder if maybe HT should surrender some of its vaunted POA on it's TT body. Because NONE & I DO MEAN NONE, of it figures that wear rubber suits have (or should I say) are able to maintain any real amount of poseability. It has become cyrstal clear to this high end toy collector that the 30 some odd POA of HT (& maybe even DCD) body gets wasted due to costume constriction.
Although I do wish the rubber allowed more display posing possibilities, I am glad they have the points of articulation that they do. Many of us really get into tweaking poses to the point of OCD. With patience, one can achieve some really amazing things even with very basic poses. For example getting the arms to hang naturally takes a lot of little tweaks to all the joints HT gave us. I love watching a figure transform from a toy into a miniature person. This is only possible with many POA.
If this is the way its going to be.....only have hyper poseability if you are a professional photographer & are willing to damage the suit to obtain the desired pics (& lets be honest here, you damn well after the Offical HT photo shoot that fig's suit was trash), then you may as well as be content with noble poses that can be obtained with 24 POA.
This is preposterous imo. I agree that extreme poses held for weeks could cause stretching and maybe even tearing, but the brief amount of time needed to take some pictures is not gonna hurt anything. Just look at MaulFan's pics.
I believe one of the members expressed disatisfaction with the lower half of Bats body & wondered if it was just him......NO ITS NOT! The legs & hips do indeed look awkward due to the running change that was made from rubber to hard plastic. This might not have been such a big deal IF THE PLASTIC TORSO ARMOR WERE TAYLORED TO FIT! It all to obvious that the posst production armor sculpt was rushed & as a result causes Bats butt to stick out one end & gut stick out the other.......just like a fat dude wearing cloths that don't fit. So yeah....that why it reminds you of your fat relatives.
When I first saw pics of the DCD batch of DX02's I thought the gut looked like it poked out further. But when I got mine I realized that it is again a matter of using the figures articulation correctly.
I have been meaning to post these pics for a few days now:
The figure comes out of the box with the abs basically looking like this:
It seems that many leave it like that and it looks a bit silly.
With a little tweaking, it can look like this:
In context with the belt and everything else on, this goes a long way towards making this figure look sharp and realistic.
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