A Body for Hot Toys 'Michael Caine' as Alfred from Batman: Dark Knight

  Waaay back in January I showed you the Michael Caine head Ken bought for me. It was my alternative to the VERY expensive Michael Caine as Alfred from Batman: Dark Knight, made by Hot Toys.(Makes me feel old that Michael Caine has been playing Alfred!) There's no way I can afford the entire Hot Toys Michael Caine doll. So Michael didn't have a body at the time.

 

The Hot Toys dolls are amazingly real looking, but also amazingly expensive. The Batman armory set with Batman and Alfred sells for between $350 and $700! 

The Batman: Dark Knight armory set. Lots of spare hands and weaponry.

The Michael Caine alone sells for over $100.But the head was only $30.
  This body was even cheaper than that. I think it came to $15 with the shipping. Ken bought the body for me for my birthday. I just never got around to showing it to you. I think it's worth seeing, because the body is a really great articulated body, and was really cheap too! I was a bit afraid it would be too cheap and would fall apart on me, (Or at least on Michael!), but it turned out to be pretty good quality.

Michael is enjoying it.

The body came with spare hands...

a couple of different neck knobs...

Sorry about the Blu Tac on the little one. It's the on he's been using.

and leg faulsies!

That's in case Michael wants to impress the chicks with his muscular thighs.

Here is is with a jointed Ken doll, so you can compare their flexibility.

And the skin tones. These bodies are much less pink than regular Kens.

Here are some more pictures to show you what this body can do.

He can tell fishing stories...

He knows karate, jujitsu, and seven other Japanese words...

He can throw his back out. Just like me!

Ok, what else?

The arms look too long here, but it's just the camera angle.

See?

Hear no evil...

Ok, maybe a little...

See no evil...

No peeking...

Speak no evil...

This move causes a little weirdness in his mid section...

Which is ok if he's clothed.

                                                       He's all worn out from all that posing.

Here are some close ups of the jointing.

As I said, the set of extra parts comes with two different neck knobs to accommodate different heads.

Here's a look at the body's neck knob.

I couldn't use Michael's head on the bigger one since his head already had a neck of it's own.To use the shorter one I had to remove the very inner ring from the inside of his neck.

The problem with this arrangement is that the head won't stay on. I watched a tutorial where the guy used Blu Tac/sticky tac, but it's not working for me. Also,the neck looks too long.

Maybe he could wear an ascot...

Yeah, I wonder why it looks like that...

 

Although as long as he wears a shirt with a collar it looks ok.

Hey! How about this one?

That's better. This shirt works pretty well, apart from not being his style AT ALL.

Way too young for him. Maybe the Happy Family Grampa shirt will fit him.

  

Finding clothes is proving to be a problem, since this body seems to have longer arms and legs than your standard Ken body. Most of the sleeves and pant legs are too short. There are other problems too...

While these pants looked ok from the front, there are real problems going on back here. He has wider hips than Ken too, apparently.

I also tried the shoes on him, but even thought there was the split up the back I was afraid to push them on any farther in case the foot got stuck in there.

I think the original Alfred shoes are the entire foot and you just change the whole thing.
He is limited to this outfit until I find him something better, and no shoes.

  I'd love to get him a suit, but the real one would put me back up over $100, and I don't sew well enough to make him one. I put the idea to my sister the ex-seamstress, but she said Michael Caine would have to cough up a lot of money for her to sew him a suit.
  The body is super poseable, and holds a pose well except for his toes always wanting to curl up. The various hands are nice too. I do worry that the little posts attaching the hands and feet to the body might break with a lot of use. For such a cheap, (as in 'low priced') body it seems pretty sturdy. It came a long way and they only put it in a plastic bag for shipping! But it didn't break, which may have just been luck. It's always a  little risky buying the cheap stuff that ships all the way from Hong Kong or China. I'm also not sure how they can sell what seems to be the exact head and body from the Hot Toys line for such a cheap price. I'm not sure I chose the right body for this head. Maybe there is another one. Since this was my first experience buying this stuff I may have just gotten the wrong body. There are people out there who are experts know exactly what to buy. I'm not one of them...yet. Have you seen these Hot Toys sculpts?!

Hot Toys Michael Caine as Alfred from The Dark Knight

  My last Christmas present finally came in the mail the other day.

Is this guy amazing or what?! This is the Michael Caine sculpt from Hot Toys, based on his portrayal of Alfred in the Batman movie The Dark Knight.(To see the Hot Toys website click HERE.) I'm showing my own age by saying I can't believe Michael Caine is old enough to be playing Alfred!

I think they did an unbelievable job on this doll, but then they usually do an unbelievable job.

Don't mind the bits on his face. I dropped him by the back door and he picked up dust and lint that I didn't see until I looked at the pictures.

The likeness to the real Michael Caine is really...well, amazing.

The real Michael Caine in The Dark Knight.

All the wrinkles, and that little vein under his left eye. This is a work of art.

Another picture from The Dark Knight.

Michael Caine is one of my favourite actors. I REALLY wanted this doll. Unfortunately, he only seems to come in the Batman Armory set, which is hundreds of dollars. Just the Alfred doll is over $100. So I asked Ken to buy me just the head. I'm going to try to put it on a cheaper body.

 This head is for a 1/6 scale figure, and yet, even enlarged this much it still looks so real.

I didn't get a neck knob with the head, so I'm hoping I can make it work. It will depend on the body I find.

I think about the only flaw would be that the hair could have used some variety of colour to look more real.

It's the only unrealistic thing about the head, but then, being molded instead of real hair was going to cause that anyway.
  Michael Caine was born in Rotherhide, London, England on March 14, 1933. He has won two Oscars and two Golden Globe Awards. In 1992 he was awarded a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire.) In 2000 he was knighted by the Queen of England, but what most people don't know, (And no pun intended here about his books "Not Many People Know That" and "And Not Many People Know This Either".), is that he took his knighthood under his real name. He's actually Sir Maurice (Pronounce like 'Morris' in England.) Micklewhite. I think that was a pretty cool thing for him to do. 
  Here are some more pictures of Amazing Michael.

They even got his turkey neck.

  See you soon.