So, I'm curious; does the neutral faceplate legitimately look like Bale, or is it just because he actually looks like a normal human being that we like it so much?
You're actually right. I think the only reason I dig the neutral face is because it doesn't look strange. It actually doesn't look a whole lot like him, but it's the only one that look proportionate and human out of the 7 we've gotten so far between this and the DX 12. We had "smirky", "toothy", "meanie", "fappy", "blue steel", and "chimpmunk", so an expressionless one is actually a breath of fresh air, regardless of whether or not it looks like him. We can just be thankful that it fits in the mouth hole properly and looks proportion with his upper face.
Man, Hot Toys killed with the DX 02 expressions and the QS 01, even the "goofy" expressions looked like the goofy faces Bale made (the "cooing baby" being my favorite. Why can't they recreate that magic any more? They nailed Keaton and West, so much so that I actually display West with the "oh ****, this bomb is about to blow" face.
Anyway, yeah, it boggles my mind, too. Keaton, West, the QS; hell, if the final product turns out like the proto, I'd say the Arkham Batman looks just like the source material, too. Think about that, for a second: Hot Toys can accurately sculpt a proportional nightmare of a design (one that you explained to me, I might add), but they can't get a normal Bale likeness in 1/6th, for the life of them. At this point, they should just do accessory packs with new Faceplates included twice a year. 
If we could imagine for a second, DX 12 Batman and this guy without their masks, their head and facial structure would definitely be the result of fetal alcohol syndrome. Yeah, compared to these 1/6 Bale figures, Arkham Batman looks like a genetically perfect human being.
HT should of made Mr Fox
