>2008>the coolest movie of all time, The Dark Knight just came out>ask your rents for a Heath Ledger Joker action figure for your 20th birthday>the day comes>you open the present>it's this
>>11907939>super serious movie doesnt have highly articulate toys on day of releasewow im fucking amazed
>>11907939>2008>go to walmart>see this in the cereal aisle>man i can't wait to see what cereal toys will look like in 18 yearswe were robbed of our future
>>11907939You got Jokestered
>>11907939Sucks to be you, I got this one.
>>11907939NEVER RUB ANOTHA MANS RUBARB
>>11907939Story goes that the WB got cold feet on doing Joker toy merch for The Dark Knight after Ledger overdosed. So the first round of figures had an off model Joker head. Supposedly Mattel had to put the boot to the crotch of Warner Bros to be allowed to release Ledger likeness Joker figures
>>11907939Did the rocket at least shoot out of the bazooka?
>>11907939>heat legend
>>11908345Did they ever make Bane in that size
>>11908550Sounds liek a pron star.
>>11908462WB knew the Nolan movies were becoming less kid-friendly, but kids would still gravitate to Batman, so they tried to split the difference by making a kid friendly alternative visual to the movie Joker. Around this time Mattel started doing Collector based lines for DC with DCUC, and Movie Masters for the movie line. That's where they released a more movie accurate Joker, but it did release a little later in the year than the movie. So it could be that they had to push for it more which delayed the release.
>>11907939Unironically what’s wrong with it? Maybe the hair looks a little silly but that’s about it.
I had this one.
>>11908715>with crime scene evidenceJust sounds like a euphemism for cum when they say it that way.
>>11908715I was working at TRU when this shit found its way onto pegs and aaaaaaall the fags and scalpers were buying them up.
It was so much easier to find that cartoony version of the joker for that movie I remember
>>11908715There was a time this was the most hyped figure ever for me. Crazy to think how many 6''Ledger Joker figures we've gotten since.
>>11908597No. He would be too big.
>>11909646The first batch of the Movie Masters figures (Seen in >>11908715) came out while hype for the movie was at a fever pitch. Everyone was trying to find them like crazy because they'd sell out as soon as they hit the shelves. But then suddenly there was a recall on the figures and they were pulled from shelves leading everyone to speculate it was because the of the Joker figure. The kiddy movie line was already out and people were going off of the rumor that they released the cartoony looking Joker because the movie one was too scary and that someone must have complained and got these figures pulled. Mattel didn't announce the recall and didn't tell people right away why it was happening so people were going even crazier and paying insane amounts of money for these figures on the secondary market because they thought it was the only chance they'd get at a movie-accurate Joker figure and had no clue what the fate of the other figures were either. Then Mattel finally put out a statement that they didn't put out a recall on the figures but asked stores to return the first batch because they, "Didn't meet their quality standards but the toys themselves are safe." and that they would be back on shelves. They started showing up again about a month or two later and the only change is they put some ventilation holes on the side of the package. All that fervor and innuendo about the Joker figure on the internet and it was just because of the packaging.
>>11907939Honestly you add just a little more paint to the face, add some eyebrows, you end up with a pretty decent "cartoony" version of Ledger Joker. Even if it does look a little drag queenish.
