Hot Toys Indiana Jones Figure
 

Hot Toys will be revealing their first RotlA Indiana Jones figure next week. :up:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...24.58690437343

With this collaboration between Sideshow and Hot Toys I think it will be very possible that we will see female characters from the four films very soon.

as good as they probably will look, Im happy with the Sideshow dolls at the price I paid. Hot Toys is too rich for my blood, especially for dolls I want to take out of the package and play with:)

Hot Toys are expensive, but they blow the competition out of the water. (They make Medicom look like Barbie Dolls!)

Because of the cost I only have two -DX01 Joker (with the moving glass eyes) and Policeman Joker.

This is good news, and something I will probably be saving for.

I saw a thread on it on another toy forum. They are very nice toys. But too rich for my tastes. Sadly, more Indy toys I'll be missing out on, unless I find them cheaper

I almost caught a heart attack when I saw this Hot Toys announcement. Looks like there will be other surprises to be announced as well!
http://toynewsi.com/news.php?catid=273&itemid=16675

This is AWESOME news! Hot Toys does amazing work. I am already saving:up:

Montana, how much do the dx figures generally go for?

I am good for at least the ROTLA Indy but, yeah, collecting a full blown line is probably out of the question for me.

Can't wait to see pics!

I paid £129.99 delivered for the Joker - that was for the complete Joker with body, plus the police uniform and the policeman head. I've never regretted that purchase. The sculpting, and level of detail and quality in the clothing and accessories never fail to blow me away (right down to the miniature safety pins that hold the grenades to the harness inside his overcoat).


That's the frightening thing. I almost hope they don't make any more after ROTLA. The temptation is dangerous!



EDIT:

How could I forget these?

I also have 3 Hot Toys Planet of the Apes figures:









I bought these second hand, but they were mint boxed, so cost less than retail.

usually $200+ USD...

anybody else check out the Hot Toys facebook page? Kinda sickening that they announce the Indiana Jones figures and all the feedback/comments are people being excited that Star Wars figures may not be far behind. C'mon! It's Indiana Jones! STAR WARS CAN SUCK IT!:mad:

I hope the Star Wars speculation isn't true. I collect both SW and Indy. I have too much $$ invested in Sideshow's SW line to start over now. I can make an exception for Indy though. :whip:

I would be interested if the line does well enough to produce TOD Indy and Mola Ram...here's hoping it gets that far.

Since this will be a collaboration between Sideshow and Hot Toys I think we will see some Star Wars figures never produced by Sideshow, like Chewie or Boba Fett. On the other hand, main characters like Han, Luke, Leia and Vader would be great as well.

As for Indy I think we will get the ultimate RotlA figure. Maybe with all the different costumes he wore through the film (Professor, Map Room, German Uniform). Maybe whishful thinking. After that I would assume we get the predicted ToD figures. The Hot Toys Muscle Body is perfect for an ToD Indy. Also the female bodies are way superior to Sideshows, so the female characters will be most possible released by Hot Toys.

Sideshow Boba is allegedly already on his way.

Hot Toys could definitely step in to make Chewie a reality, though. They know how to make manageble 'fur' as with the very controllable ape fur.


Nice idea, and they'd sell a lot of naked Truetype figures as long as the 'Ultimate ROTLA Indy' came with a head for each outfit.


I'm not sure on muscle bodies if they're the rubber ones. I wouldn't lay out serious money for a rubber body, not after hearing stories of how some have cracked and perished. I would have loved to have Hot Toy's Hellboy, but not after I heard some people were desperately rubbing baby oil into his chest to preserve him. :eek:

Oh, great. I totally missed this.



You're right. The rubber bodies are far from perfect. I thought more about the new muscle body like they used on Predators Royce. The elbow articulation is a little bit limited, but the look is great.

Hot Toys already did ROTLA Indy, and honestly, I thought the Sideshow Indy was way better. the Muscle Body does intrigue me, however. Two words : German Mechanic!

Word has it Sideshow has Short Round in development. Mostly, I'd like Sideshow to collaborate with Hot Toys, using the greatest strengths of both (I prefer Sideshow's jackets with fake- but in scale- zippers and also I really like the Sideshow Prometheus body) to create a line that includes somebody besides friggin' Indy! :mad:

Two villains and Indy's Dad is not much of a toy line.

I'm glad that Indy is getting more exposure, and I'm a fan of Hot Toys Iron Man stuff. But, I also think that a lot of companies have the license, and we've gotten quite a few of the same toy (albeit different sculpts).

Of course Hot Toys will release a standard Indy, but I hope that they diversify the line immediately.

If the Indy characters look as good as the joker, I will buy them all!

Okay, wait, I was thinking Medicom and Hot Toys were the same company. Disregard.

So, apart from Indy, Toht, Belloq and Henry Sr., (and Short Round? )who would you most like to see as the next action figure from Hot Toys/Sideshow ?

All I really, really want to see is a TOD Indy. After that, everthing else is just gravy.

I'm excited for this. No matter how many Hot Toys Indy figures they release, I only will buy Indy

How about the ladies - Marion, Willie and Elsa?

Herman or the Library nerd

Three days to go until we hopefully get to see an image.

What do we expect?

To quote from Action Figure Pics:


http://www.actionfigurepics.com/2010...ost-ark-teaser

The eyes are a fantastic innovation (a huge leap forward from the old Eagle Eye GI Joe/Action Man). Glass with fully detailed irises perfect for giving an individual look to suit a diorama.

This should be the figure that I've been waiting so many years for. A real ultimate Indy. With Hot Toys I feel much easier justifying the outlay of cash.

Apart from Medicom's Mutt (which is ironically my favourite Medicom figure from the Indy line), Medicom are generally the great pretender to 1/6 quality. Too many misses with their hits. Way too skinny, rubbery sculpts, and often too short to display with other 1/6 figures.

Sideshow are good, with more detailed and harder sculpting, but their bodies have been floppy, skinny, and the heads sometimes oversized.

Hot Toys, however, have never failed to impress me from images, and in hand. Their quality is top notch, the detail so fine, that I don't like to handle them much. I pose them, and I leave them. (I just wouldn't buy anything with their rubber bodies or suits).

I have serious mixed feelings. Hot Toys figures are fantastic. No mistake. The Pirates of the Caribbean figures they did were eerily lifelike.

They are also expen$ive.

On top of that, I feel sort of invested in the Sideshow figures I already have.

It sounds stupid, but I'm sort of finding this stressful. :(

I'm glad I only bought one Sideshow Indy, and only two too many Medicoms.

My Star Wars Sideshow loyalty is much stronger, and I couldn't afford to go all Hot Toys with that line!

I've got most of the Hot Toys Iron Men and they are terrific. Ironically, the best one is actually the Mark I because it's not just an armor sculpt, but an actual Hot Toys figure inside of Mark I armor.

I love the Medicom stuff, but I'm definitely looking forward to this.

I'm warming up to the idea of a Hot Toys line, I just hope that:

a) my bank account can handle it and
b) they do a full line and not like 3 and done.

I don't own any Medicom. I had a preorder for the Rocketeer v 2.5, but had to cancel it when I was downsized a couple years ago. :(

Is it true they're kinda short? Are they still using the old GIJoe based body?

That's the catch. Which is why I hope they only do one! (Or leave =very big gaps between them!)


I don't know what they based it on, but as a jointed body they're good, just very slight compared to most other makes. Medicom Mutt happened to be tallish for a Medicom, so he's okay with Sideshow Indy. Medi ROTLA Indy had a terrible face, even compared to Hasbro versions.

I thought the standard Medicom Indy head was pretty good, while the Crystal Skull Indy head left a lot to be desired, no?

The problem with the diverse licensing of the Indy IP for 12" is that ever company has to produce a "definitive" Indiana Jones and the lines usually peter out before experiencing any diversity.

Depending on how good the Hot Toys figure looks though, I might actually sell my Sideshow Indy towards the Hot Toys. I don't usually do that, but I don't want to keep buying what is essentially the same figure.

Besides, the body on the Sideshow Indy is pretty awful, and the 5 o'clock shadow on the head sculpt looks more like a bad wolfman beard.

For the record, here's Medicom ROTLA Indy (he's so bad I hide him behind everyone else now):



Sideshow ROTLA Indy is a much more life-like sculpt (even with his shiny sweaty face and neck). I was lucky with the Pro body on mine - it's tight and holds a pose (unlike my Lando who is really floppy):



I really like Medicom Mutt:



Medicom Young Indy, to the back or right of the photos, has never looked right. Just skinny and awkward with useless hands. I changed his really poor plastic shoes for DiD lace-up boots, but it doesn't really help much.

as this is a joint venture between Sideshow and Hot toys I wonder if that means that the Sideshow line will come to a complete stop? I have all of the sidehow Indy figures and am totally looking forward to Hot Toys take on Indy, but unless Hot toys really improves on what sideshow has already done, I don't really see replacing the figures I already have Of Henry sr., Toht, or Belloq. I would love to see a Sallah, Marion, and Short Round however, as well as Mola Ram.

Oh yeah, the paint job and googly eyes really stand out on him in those pix. I still love the Medicom Mutt and Henry Sr. though. The Crystal Skull Indy could've used a better head sculpt too as opposed to "random old guy". The Young Indy has an awful tan going on there too...

Medicom's Young Indy wasn't too bad, apart form his sort of "manga" hair. I agree, though, that Mutt is the best of the lot.

Is the tan on Young Indy as crispy bacon looking as it appears in the picture above?

He is dark, like ROTLA Indy, but they also gave him a dirty face which makes him look even more tanned. He has a silly painted on chin scar.

Young Indy's uniform makes his legs look even more skinny, the tunic bulks around his skinny waist, and the scarf is enormous. His original shoes looked like Ken's cast offs. Like his older self, he's condemned to stand at the back!

I got all three at much reduced prices. None of them merit the £99 UK price tag.

Nice! :whip:
I still wouldn't mind picking up the Young Indy if only to add to the diversity of the line.

HT Indy should be revealed sometime today...can't wait! :D

The word on the street (that is, on Sideshow Freaks), is that nothing should be expected until late Christmas Eve. Today is VIP day at the '10th Anniversary Exhibition in Tokyo', so leaked photos may be slow to emerge.

The suspense is killing.

Here he is.

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...id=58690437343

I'm a little bit disappointed in the hat and the headsculpt. Everything else (the idol base, Map Room Disguise) is great. Maybe the actual product will be improved. :up:

I hope he gets improved. The verdict so far is one of being generally underwhelmed.

Only a single headsulpt, an Idol enviroment that I don't want to pay for; a map-room disguise that I'd have no intention of using. There's an opinion that the missing headpiece signifies a companion Marion figure may be following.

Need to see some more pictures of the head under better lighting.

The quality and improvement over Sideshow will be in the details, that will no doubt be apparent when in hand.

Bigger pictures have surfaced:





The Ford Finger! :

In this shot it looks like the headpiece is there at the top of the staff:



I'm pretty impressed so far, but would like to see more pics from different angles. Assuming there is only the one headsculpt included, it must have a removable hat. Looks like they did a pretty good job on that.

It does, which knocks the Marion theory on the head.


I haven't ever followed the progress of a Hot Toys figure from prototype to production, but those who have are under the impression there will be another head, and also that the head already shown will invariably undergo further work.

I'd like to see a classic smirking Indy expression to go with the determined one.

It's funny that over on Sideshow Freaks, people are already stating which parts they're going to be upgrading.

A lot of folks on that board are a little too anal:rolleyes: I showed my wife the pics and she thought it was a still from the movie, till she looked closer.

This will be my first Hot Toys figure, so I don't know that much about them either. The always have looked good to me, I just don't have that kind of cash. For Indy I will definitely make an exception.

I never got the idol pedestal, so I am pretty happy about it's inclusion.

That's a good way of putting it! :D

Sometimes over there it looks like a life or death struggle.


At the moment I think it's the shadows that are throwing the face off. They certainly know how to do lifelike skin texture. I'm really eager to see more angles and with more light. Apparently he has the PERS eye system, so that will change his look.


With luck he won't make an appearance for many months, so he can sit on order as something to look forward to!

well thanks for the photos everybody , the head scuplt doesn't look to bad. would say it doesn't need the cleft in his chin tho, thats what i see anyways.
the clothing looks good , except that hat! man does that brim look terrible. hopefully it can be heated up and shaped and made to look better. but i great christmas eve surprise to see this. well let's hope we see more about this in the near future , was there any word about price or did i miss that on someone's post.....?:D

No price was given for this that I know of but the DX figures seem to be going for around $200. I am already saving for this one :up:

This does look really good. Would love to see more face shots though.

What's up with the white on the shoes?? They look like boat shoes.

Great looking figure, didn't quite blow me away like I expected it to, but still a must have:D