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Originally Posted by DESTRO

I see you must be a Hot Toys Collector for $250+ because your not going to find a better Joker like this one with actual PAINT at this price point.

The only other Joker in this scale to compare is the Mafex one and while it arguably has better paint its actual sculpt doesn't look right. The hair on the Mafex one is too tall on top but not long enough on the sides and back, also something about the shape of the face feels off like it's a little too tall or the jaw isn't wide enough. NECA definitely has the better sculpting and actually gave him the scarring effect sculpted whereas it looks like the Mafex one just painted on the scars. I will say that the NECA figure doesn't have the smeared/sloppy look to the face like he had in the movie but reckoning that the Mafex one is a little over twice as much (or it was when it was new) the NECA one is easily the best in the scale and at price (plus the NECA one is 7" tall while the Mafex is closer to 6" tall). On a personal taste level I hate all of the glaringly obvious pose joints on the Mafex figure such as the elbows, NECA has visible joints but they're all ball hinges which keeps a smooth silhouette. Just in general I think double-hinged elbows look awful on figures wearing coat/jacket-like sleeves. I'm not against the Mafex figure in fact there was a time when I considered it since there were no other good Ledger Joker options but this NECA version blows it out of the water by price and actually looking like Heath Ledger, the NECA one is the Joker I've been waiting for.