Earlier today on this 4th of July holiday, Hot Toys announced their 2013 Toy Fair Exclusive Captain America Star-Spangled Man Version sixth scale figure! Hot Toys isn’t the only high-end Marvel collectible manufacturer feeling patriotic, today, though! As part of their Online Comic Con 2013 celebration, Sideshow Collectibles announced their Iron Man 3 Iron Patriot Life-Size Bust today and revealed their first preview photo of the gorgeous piece!
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It’s a funny thing going to your local comic book store to take photos of an action figure that you know you’re not going to buy there, but that’s just what I did today. See, I don’t like the above-suggested retail prices at my comic shop, so I don’t typically buy figures from them. But today a figure I’ve been waiting months to see in person was finally arriving, so I had to drop by to get impressions and take some in-person photos of the Iron Man 3 Marvel Select War Machine 2.0 figure…
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I did a little bit of a double take when I saw this week’s Diamond Comics Distribution shipping list, as it confirmed that a figure that’s been delayed a handful of times was finally on its way to collectors’ hands this Wednesday. Though the Iron Man 3 movie was released in theaters close to two months ago now, the Marvel Select Iron Man 3 figures have been lagging behind a bit.
But hungry Iron Man fans don’t have to wait any longer–the Marvel Select Iron Man Mark XLII figure was finally released in stores today!
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We’ve known for months that there were going to be two limited release Marvel Select Iron Man 3 figures in addition to the Iron Man 3 Marvel Select War Machine and Iron Man Mark 42 mass release figures, and today Diamond Select Toys finally broke the news of the identities of this final duo of movie figures.
It’s not exactly a big surprise, but the pair now stand revealed as Iron Man 3 Marvel Select Iron Patriot and Battle-Damaged Iron Man Mark XLII!
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Last week I discussed the upcoming Disney Vinylmation Marvel Series #1 lineup of Avengers Marvel vinyl figures–but Disney isn’t the only toy company looking to cash in on Marvel vinyls in 2013! Coming up later this summer, Kidrobot will take their own crack at Marvel designer vinyls, when they release their first wave of Kidrobot Marvel MUNNY vinyl figures in various sizes and even keychains!
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Now we come to what I expect to be the final Marvel Minimates SDCC 2013 Exclusive to be announced, and it’s a big one: the Marvel Minimates Iron Man 3 Hall of Armors 10-Pack coming from retailer Action Figure Express! On paper, this sounds like it has the potential to be one of the coolest Marvel San Diego Comic-Con 2013 exclusives. In execution, well… not so much.
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Another day, another San Diego Comic-Con 2013 exclusive announced! Marvel Funko POP! Vinyl collectors have really dodged a bullet this time, as it briefly appeared that one of the most wanted Marvel Movie POP! Vinyl figures ever was going to be an overseas exclusive not available in America at all.
Luckily, word has now come out that the hotly anticipated Funko POP Iron Man 3 Mark 42 Unmasked Tony Stark figure will also be available next month as a SDCC 2013 exclusive!
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Supposedly “it’s better late than never”, but I feel like that expression is getting stretched just a little bit by the new Marvel figures just released by Bandai. While the rest of the toy companies of the world have rushed to flood the market with figures and products from the 2013 summer blockbuster “Iron Man 3” movie, Bandai is countering with two all-new figures based on “Iron Man 2”! Yeah, as in, “The Iron Man movie from 2010”. But hey, even if the figures are a little late, at least Bandai is bringing something rockin’ to the table–the S.H. Figuarts Iron Man Mark VI and War Machine figures!
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The Battle for New York seen in last year’s “The Avengers” movie is nothing compared to the war that Hot Toys is waging on Hot Toys Avengers and Iron Man collectors this spring! After a somewhat light fall and winter, Avengers Hot Toys figures like Black Widow, Thor, and Agent Coulson have been released one after the next. And things are about to get even more expensive for Iron Man Hot Toys fans, as the long-awaited Avengers Hot Toys Iron Man Mark VII Movie Masterpiece Series figure has now been released overseas!
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We only saw Diamond Select Toys unveil the full Iron Man 3 Minimates series in full last month, but the series has now arrived in comic book stores (slightly after the Iron Man 3 movie)! While I came out short in my quest for the Toys R Us exclusive Iron Man 3 Minimates figures two-packs, I did manage to see the entirety of the rest of the series–including the specialty shop exclusives–at my local comic book store…
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Hot Toys sent along an assortment of their upcoming Hot Toys Iron Man 3 figures and collectibles to this weekend’s Disney Toy Collectors’ Forum Exhibition in Shangai. All of the figures and news that Hot Toys brought to the event are things that we’ve already seen or known about, except with one key exception. At the event, Hot Toys displayed a slide of upcoming Iron Man 3 Hot Toys figures, including the Iron Man Heartbreaker Armor, The Mandarin, the Iron Man Igor Armor, and… the first confirmation of a Hot Toys Iron Man Silver Centurion figure!
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If you’ve been waiting to read impressions and reviews of the finished product before ordering the next two upcoming Hot Toys Avengers figures, you may be out of luck! Following a slew of other sell-outs in the sixth-scale Avengers Hot Toys Movie Masterpiece Series including Hawkeye, Nick Fury, Black Widow, Hulk, and Captain America, the latest two figures to join the “sold out” club are none other than Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and the regular edition of the Iron Man Mark VII armor figure…
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The rapid-fire onslaught of Iron Man 3 merchandise continued today, as Hot Toys dropped the curtain and revealed the Iron Man 3 Red Snapper Power Pose Series sixth-scale figure today! Along with improved articulation, Hot Toys spotlighted a new feature of the Power Pose Series with this unveiling, which is cross-compatibility with their Movie Masterpiece Series! Is this feature enough to make the Iron Man Red Snapper armor a must-buy?
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While Tony Stark may have billions of dollars to spend on building his fleet of forty-plus Iron Man armors in this year’s “Iron Man 3” movie, most collectors are a little (okay, a lot) more strapped for cash. Even so, Hot Toys collectors have been willing to open their wallets again and again to add to the amazing series of Hot Toys Iron Man Movie Masterpiece figures. This year Hot Toys is raising prices and upgrading the Iron Man 3 figures to feature diecast parts, and the second figure in the new Hot Toys 1/6 Scale Diecast figure line will be the main “Iron Man 3” movie armor–the Iron Man Mark XLII…
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Though we’re still a month or two away from the long-awaited Avengers Hot Toys Iron Man Mark VII figure being released, today Hot Toys announced a limited-edition Battle Damaged Iron Man Mark VII Movie Masterpiece figure! Details surrounding this figure’s release are still a little bit sketchy, but we’ve seen ample shots of the figure itself and all its differences from the regular Hot Toys Iron Man Mk. VII. And I have to say: this Battle Damaged Iron Man Mark VII Movie Promo edition is glorious…
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