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Originally Posted by JerpJerp

Me toooo, this Joker is interesting but the HUSH version would be appealing to a wider audience.

At the rate Mafex is popping out new fig orders right now, I'll think we'll see it sooner than later. Hopefully, they slow just a tad to bake that QC, just saying.

Seeing this "weird" Joker is actually making me think we'll see A LOT of Jokers from MAFEXy.

A couple of points just to flesh out the Mafex line on the evergreen properties Medicom works with.

First, Japan tends to love Jim Lee's Batman designs, especially HUSH. The recent animated film has further revitalized that interest, despite not being the best adaptation or animated film DC has put out. Medicom has 2 Batmans, Superman, and Catwoman coming in the Mafex line. This is going to keep going.

Second, if you look back at the RAH line of figures, you can get a decent idea of what other figures they have planned. Out of the 6 from that line, 4 have been converted to Mafex releases. Joker and Harley are left with the possibility of Hush being slightly higher to extend the line in Mafex due to lower price point for consumers and possible lower overhead (this is speculation).

Now The Dark Knight Returns has been evergreen for decades globally and figures are still being produced, but there are notable gaps in any scale for specific characters. Mattel hasn't produced a premium-quality line for it, Mezco only released 2 characters before getting sidetracked, and now Medicom is revisiting a property they made an average "1/6 scale" figure of years ago (it's probably close to 1/8). The Batman figures look great and I hope the paint on both turn out solid, but the Joker is a bit of a unicorn. There hasn't been a decent figure or this design produced since it first appeared, let alone something like this.

Both lines are shaping up terrifically, but the TDKR line is already addressing a BIG hole in the collector's market and helping address problems customer may have with the Mezco line (fabric costume, un-wired cape, rarity/secondhand price)