When we get into the second half of 2015, Star Wars is going to be everywhere–and I mean everywhere. But we’re still in the first half of 2015, and for now, everything is coming up Avengers! And in honor of what may become the highest-grossest superhero movie ever this summer, a whole new series of statues have now been announced: movie-based Kotobukiya Avengers Age of Ultron ARTFX+ and ARTFX statues!

One of the best surprises of 2014 for me turned out to be the new line of Kotobukiya Marvel ARTFX+ statues. While I wasn’t as excited as I could have been about the character selection (seeing as how we’re getting the core six Avengers in every line under the sun these days), I was very impressed by the overall quality of the Kotobukiya Avengers ARTFX+ line.

And while the Kotobukiya Deadpool and X-Men ARTFX+ statues lined up for later this year will bring a nice change of pace character-wise, Kotobukiya is also preparing to go back to the Avengers well once more–this time, for ARTFX Age of Ultron figures! According to today’s announcement, Kotobukiya will be producing both 1/6th scale statues and 1/12th scale statues based off of this summer’s Avengers: Age of Ultron movie character designs.

I think anyone who’s seen the magnificent Kotobukiya Juggernaut Fine Arts Statue is salivating at the idea of a similarly-sized ARTFX Kotobukiya Hulkbuster Iron Man statue. I don’t know if one is in the cards or not, but hopefully we’ll find out at New York Toy Fair 2015 next month!

Meanwhile, it seems pretty likely that we’ll be getting realistic ARTFX+ statue versions of the same six Avengers we just got in 2014, but I’m hoping we’ll see Ultron, Vision, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch represented as well.

I’ll post updates from the 2015 New York Toy Fair and wherever else Kotobukiya reveals more about this new Avengers Age of Ultron statues line, and you can ‘Like’ Marvel Toy News on Facebook to have news and photos sent right to your Facebook Newsfeed!

What do you think of the announcement of Kotobukiya Age of Ultron movie statues, Marvel collectors? Are you interested in collecting a series of 1/10 statues based off the Avengers movie designs, or are you satisfied with the comic-based ARTFX+ Avengers Kotobukiya has been releasing already?