DCUC series 10 body & tip of cane, Batman Legacy coat & arms, DCSH cane head, wooden sculpting dowel as cane shaft, 1989 Toybiz hat.

I love the DCUC series 10 Joker, but my favorite look for the joker has always been in a coat and hat. This has shown up in all media containing the joker, from the golden age covers, to the animated series (see the beginning of the Laughing Fish episode). I have always loved the images of joker outside, in his coat and hat, battling it out with the world's greatest detective. Marshall Rogers covers of the Shadow of the Batman would depict this, with incredibly detailed cityscapes providing the players a stage. That is how I love my characters to look, engaged and subject to an intricate world and not immune to its qualities.

I started with the series 10 body, removing the suit Jacket was easy due to the soft material. I heated up the vested torso, cut the seam with an exacto blade and opened it with a wide flathead screwdriver. I was lucky and did not damage the seams at all. I did the same to the Legacy Joker, an also trimmed the peg within the trench coat (that fits the slot in his back) so it would lie flush against the suit jacket of the series 10 body. I replaced the original arms with the new magenta ones, and once again secured the torso with superglue, while being extremely cautious not to freeze the joints or encounter slop or "frosting". I then slipped the suit coat on once again, lining it up with the matching-color square on the figure's back and trimming the shoulders so they wouldn't stick out too far under the trench coat arm hles. I then proceeded to fit the magenta overcoat on. I found that the fedora-style hat on the 1989 Toybiz "Nicholson" movie figure was too large for its five inch scale, making it the perfect size for a six inch figure. It also is nearly the exact color as the legacy coat, a happy coincidence. I do not own a dremel, so I carved and sanded the interior to better fit the Joker's hair. It fits securely without falling off, but is also removable. I then wanted to fix the warped cane, and found darklord1967's tutorial on using sanding and painting wooden dowel, big thanks to darklord1967. However, I was not pleased with the head on the series 10 cane. The original DC Superheroes joker (the one that came out alongside Zipline Batman, Michael Crawford's perennial favorite) had a version released with a cane as well, the head on it was such better IMO, featuring a less stylized sculpt, and a jester plume extending backwards to use as an actual handle. So I used the tip of the series DCUC cane, and the head of the DCSH cane, and I think the result is a happy marriage. All in all, I am very pleased with the result, this is the joker I've always wanted, I personally favor mix-and-match style customs like this as I think the consistency in style is maintained.