Hot Toys has already announced an impressive lineup of Avengers figures to accompany the movie, which recently became the third movie to top $600MM box office receipts in the United States (the other two being Titanic and Avatar) , but they keep on going. Over the past few weeks, they’ve highlighted:
Shortly after Hot Toys revealed Joker 2.0, they teased their upcoming Dark Knight Rises Batman, which I’m sure most of you figured was a forgone conclusion. Now bring on Bane!
The feedback on The Joker 2.0 that we just launched is incredible! Thanks fans for the likes!
We are not only announcing The Joker from The Dark Knight movie, but also proud to unveil our brand-new 1/6th scale Batman Collectible Figure from the upcoming The Dark Knight Rises movie which will only be presented by Hot Toys!
Batman fans, please stay tuned tight for unexpected surprise!
via Hot Toys.
I am a huge fan of the original Hot Toys The Dark Knight Joker MMS DX, and they’ve just revealed the second version, which they’re calling Joker 2.0. I can’t tell if the PERS head is changed from the original, but the sequel will come with an alternate laughing head, a bunch of other accessories (including a desk with magic trick pencil – uh oh!) and upgraded cloth goods, which are described in this interview with Hot Toys costume artist Kato.
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It was nearly three years ago that Hot Toys secured the Marvel movie license. Arguably, their biggest success has been the Iron Man figures from the two film and counting franchise that has spawned a figure or two for each version of the armor as well as a couple of the supporting characters. But with the success of The Avengers movie that shattered domestic box office records with its $207.4MM opening last weekend, we could see a new cash cow for Hot Toys. I suppose it’s more of a life extension for the existing cash cow, as Iron Man is also part of this team.
Every time I see these pictures of the upcoming Hot Toys Odin figure from the Thor movie, I flip flop. My first impression was that the likeness could use a little more work to get it to match up with Anthony Hopkins, but now I’m in the camp that it’s pretty good. What do you think?