Hot Toys SDCC exclusives

It's an annual thing for Hot Toys yeah, 4 items again this round; Iron Man Mk XXVII Disco, the Jumptrooper from Battlefront, Joker from the Suicide squad and "Knightmare" version of Batman from BvS... gonna be crazy ex as usual.

Hot Toys Iron Man Mk XLVI

So we're up to 46 now... I wonder if we'll hit 50 by time the next avengers movies come along? This one is looking good too tho, looks less 'fat' than the mk45.

Hot Toys IM Mk III Construction Version

Decided to pick this up cos... It looks kinda cool... In a ghoulish way haha! Still, its just a diorama but makes a nice backdrop for the other figures :) the lighting is pretty awesome.

Hot Toys Mk IX and.. Pepper?

Wow, totally unexpected this!

Hot Toys Iron Man Shotgun

It's another armor but... so cool. At least it looks different! :)

Comicave Hulkbuster!

Ok, pretty impressive! Although the company in question doesn't exactly have a good reputation with some collectors. They used to be called "Play Imaginative"... their outlets in CSC and Bugis have closed a while back.

SDCC Preview Night!

Hot damn, some cool stuff coming out, they're finally releasing the Mark XL "Shotgun" iron man fig, not a repaint (mostly) woo! The 1/6 Millenium Falcon cockpit looks insane... only for those with a lot of space haha! But what's crazier is the 1/6 TIE Fighter! WTH.... :p

Hot Toys! Hulkbuster!

No, as in its a Hot toy! :p haha Still, it has good detail, and i think would look great if it was repainted and detailed up! :)

Hulkbuster Pt 2

I'm sure there'll be better pics, but here's a peek at the torso of the mk 43 in the hulkbuster suit! Prob a exclusive and costs 100 bucks more haha!

UPDATE : Holee! 1.1K at usual place, 990 from authorised seller... scary!

Hot Toys Hulkbuster

Looks the official pic is out, though we've seen it many times from pics of the Korean toy show. It's definately gonna be a big one!

Hot Toys Starboost

This was just released not too long about, about a month back? Looks awesome, not the typical iron man look, plus it looks like a Astronaut EVA suit haha.

Warmachine still ROX!

Or should i say Iron Patriot? It's basically a recolor of the Mk-II, but at least they give the HS for Don Cheadle! :p Packaging is identical too. :)

The paint scheme is pretty snappy though!

Warmachine ROXXXX

Got some time today, so went ahead to open up my WM-mkII figure. I dun think it actually appeared in the IM3 movie rite? It was shown repainted as the Iron Patriot... Can't remember!

Anyway, the fig is pretty hefty! Mostly diecast i think. I love the box for the mms diecast series, too bad they can't have it for all the figs! :p

Hot Toys Iron Man Mk 17 - Heartbreaker

Admittedly, it's been a while since i've bought any IM figures; mainly cos they've all been looking the same, and the price has been spiralling upwards for each release!

However i picked up two recently, cos one thing was the price was good on these two, and the look for these two are unique enough to warrant a purchase.

So i've opened up the Heartbreaker first, awesome finish and build quality, and most importantly, the batteries are not installed in the figure by default!

HB looks bulky and less streamlined than the other armors, guess thats what makes it look unique. It's a 'artillery level suit' whatever that means, but looking up on the webs says that the HB has a larger arc reactor, and has a larger coolant system to compensate.

Iron Man 3 - Mini Review

Caught this at Bugis+ last night, it wasn't too bad, off the bat i can tell you it's better than part 2; at least the "final battle" was more satisfying than the wasted opportunity in part 2. This movie takes place after the events in The Avengers, so there are a lot references to the events there.

Truthfully there are more scenes with Tony without the armor on than with the armor, the movie seems to be trying to make a point that it's the man beneath the armor, rather than the armors themselves that are important. I mean, the show starts off with Tony testing the Mk 42 suit.... boy, he's sure had a lot of time since New York! His new armor is cool, there are references to the extremis 'virus', but it's totally different again from the comic version, although extremis itself does play a pretty big part in the show.

The bad guy this round is The Mandarin... no spoilers but after seeing the movie, you'll know how "important" he is to the show, no doubt that Ben Kingsley steals most scenes he's in, at least they removed the weird slur he had in the trailers.

So, it's entertaining throughout, but to me it felt kind of messy, the scenes were all over the place and not in very defined acts, guess i'll need to watch it again to make sense of some of the parts. Will definately get the BD once it's out, but not the HT figures; most of the new armors appear onscreen for a couple of secs at most.

I'll give this a 7.5/10, fun to watch but needed to be more focused! Oh, stay till the end as usual for the secret ending after the credits, and spot Stan Lee!

Iron Man 3

Going to watch soon, hope it's ok! :p

IRON MAN 3

Oh boy, Hot Toys is gonna be pretty busy, and i hear wallets screaming in agony! There's going to be a new trailer for IM3 out today... from what i hear about it, it's pretty awesome. :) Check out the new poster below.

There's supposed to be like, 8 new armor types in this movie?

Iron Man 3

Coming soon! May 2013... looks to have a darker storyline... prob because the director is now Shane Black? Still think the new armor is too.... golden.

 

Armor even matches the furniture! ;p



 

Iron Man MK IV

Got around to opening the MK IV from the Gantry suit-up set, nothing really new about this suit as it's been released before (except the chest plate is supposed to be magnetic which the previous version wasn't, so that it could attach to the robotic arm).

Decided to put this on display, cos have been spending the afternoon packing stuff for storage, so made so more space available! :)

Well, the MK VII is on the way.... which looks like the previous versions, but i guess it'd be cool to have a 'hall of armor' type of display!

SDCC 2012 - IRON MAN 3!

Check out this display from SDCC! The Iron Man armors from MK I - VII!

Truthfully am not EXACTLY looking forward to part 3 even though i love Robert Downey Junior's performance as Tony Stark; Part 2 was so-so only. But this will have a new director, so who knows?

Also, time to change the armor. It's like the designer's getting lazy, and each armor to the next are just slight variations of the suit! If they're really going to do something similar to the extremis storyline, then that WOULD be cool! ;)