Hot Toys and Enterbay both make high end collectible figures. For the most part they seem to have different licensing or just going for different merchandising; They seem to rarely tread into each others territory and when they do, it’s with significant time not to really compete with each other. Well that seems to have changed now. They both have jumped in the 1/4 scale market (19inches), and both figures are based off of Christopher Nolan’s Batman. Enterbay has done the Dark Knight Batman based on the Batman Begins suit in the beginning of the film.  Hot Toys has done the Dark Knight Rises figures that comes with EVERYTHING affiliated with that suit.  Both figures are set to drop in 2013 but if you could only get one… which one do you get? Here are the specs:

Enterbay’s Dark Knight Figure

(Three eyes and facial expressions are different) Batman 3 seed head

Battle-suit costume in the drama of cloak-Batman the elementary body “HD-TDKT” a new mobile (rubber, shoes, gloves, Berutto, magnet, 30 or more places a seed head of the ultra-elaborate play Bruce Wayne Christian Bale utility belt is detachable accessories)

• Two bat-eight rungs of size larger hand with glove, bat two grenades and large three rungs of small size (one after the initiation of the state) four, grenades (two of the state after initiation)

Dedicated nail-Batman, Batman dedicated base Bronze Gun “The Dark Knight”

Hot Toys Ultimate Dark Knight Rises Figure

Three (3) interchangeable heads including:

One (1) Batman head with patented Parallel Eyeball Rolling System (PERS)

Alternate Batman head features the sonar vision device with light-up eyes(cell button battery operated-included)

Three (3) interchangeable lower face parts capturing his classic facial expressions, can be fit onto two functional heads

One (1) newly developed head sculpt of Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne in the movie with accurate facial expression, detailed wrinkles and skin texture Batman body with over 32 points of articulation

Three (3) pairs of interchangeable gloved palms including:

One (1) pair of fists

One (1) right relaxed palm

One (1) left open palm

One (1) right palm for holding grapnel gun

One(1) left half open palm

One (1) newly developed complex Batsuit featuring fabric costume covered with armor

One (1) cape

One (1) flight pack

One (1) utility belt with accessories

One (1) pair of forearm gauntlets

One (1) pair of black boots

One (1) grapnel gun with bullets

One (1) transformable sticky bomb gun

One (1) functional ultrasonic cutter

One (1) functional radiation detector

One (1) light-up EMP gun

Three (3) batarangs

One (1) miniature mine

One (1) figure stand imitating the movie scene with the masks of Bane, Joker and Scarecrow, and the movie logo

AND THE WINNER IS…

They are both very well made figures and they both will cost around the same amount ($430 and up depending on where you get them).  Enterbay’s Batman really captures the stiffness and the bulk of the first suit.  The problem is it looks like a statue at times.  The sculpt of Bruce Wayne’s head as good as it is, it feels a bit expressionless.  The Hot Toys Batman on the other hand, it has me fooled for a bit longer.  At first glance, I think that’s actually Christian Bale playing Batman.  The motion eyes keeps that illusion going along with the interchangeable mouths.  The Bruce Wayne sculpt has more life in its face;  the pores, the pigment, it all gives it a great presence.  It’s not just Hot Toys DKR comes with WAY more than Enterbay but mainly Hot Toys just looks more theatrical.  It may be the way Hot Toys photographs their figures, but Hot Toys Dark Knight Rises looks like he jumped right off the screen.