Tuesday 21 October 2008

"I need a new suit"

In The Dark Knight movie, Bruce Wayne needed to upgrade his Batman suit for better protection & mobility. "$Cha-ching$!" With that, Toy companies with the TDK license could already hear the cash registers ringing. Hot Toys being one of those companies, released their 12" version of the new suit as part of their TDK line. Early reports & comments were that the HT TDK Bats looked slighty chubby, so it went through quite a few modifications prior to release. After getting mine, it looked perfectly ok to me. Due to the design of the TDK suit, it allows for better posing, especially the neck. It does come with a shorter cape (I'm guessing so that it'll look better when riding the Batpod) than the Begins' version. The cape is removable & tends to fall off easily, that's my only complaint with this figure. The Bruce Wayne head included also looks better than the one included with Begins, this is due to a less "orange peel" texturing effect on the face & a lighter skin tone. The figure comes with his grapple gun, 2 bat-a-rangs & a mini bomb/ mine.