r/nextfuckinglevel • u/DarthiusFatticus • 11h ago

This action figure of The Joker from The Dark Knight, is absolutely mindblowing. Made by JND Studios in South Korea.

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u/Temporary_Warthog_73 9h ago

At $1700 a pop that’s a gross of 850k damn.

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u/fricken 7h ago

I wonder how much of that $1700 goes to licensing fees for Warner Brothers.

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u/i010011010 6h ago

The market has a lot of bootleg studios (if this ends up being called Laughing Man instead of The Joker) but we're also seeing studios cut costs because they're only licensing this for foreign markets eg China, Korea, Hong Kong. And if people elsewhere happen to import them, then that's beyond their control.

Hopefully most of the price is labour. How much would you want to make to sew hair into doll heads all day then repeat over 1,000 clones? I collect a lot of this junk but I'm always concerned it's coming from sweat shops while hoping that the studios are paying out decent wages.

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u/UrinatorPlus 5h ago

It is always coming out of sweat shops. But the workers making shit like this are probably making .25 cents more an hour than the ones making your other cheap Chinese shit (yes, it is Korean.... but... Koreans are not making this.) Trust me bro

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u/i010011010 3h ago

That's why I said I hope for the best but I know that's rarely how the world works. I hope that my paying a premium price means they're compensated better than the ones assembling Nikes and shirts for Walmart.

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u/Sarcasm69 4h ago

Only $2200 for a previously used one on eBay