1/6 Hot Toys - Iron Man 3: MMS197D02 Mark XLII Diecast Series Official Spec/Pics

[Wulf]

Because it's a joke when you have the Play Imga Mark VII for 80% metal + HoA (Also made a bit of metal) that sells for $350.

I'd take the plastic HT Mark 7 over the play imaginative version any day. 350 dollars, American dollars? Is that the price in Singapore or in the US?

 

[tommyh84]

Some decent pictures from ToysDaily

Damn that ab-section is fugly!!

 

[Crimsonbob]

I like the design but that is far too much gold for my taste.

 

[The Ween]

Is this the only way we'll be able to buy this suit is die-cast?

 

[Gage]

Damn this thing is sold out at BBTS already. Yesterday when I checked they had a lil over 350 for po.

 

[DrQ2]

I keep hearing this, or things like this.

For the record, it's not only misguided, it's flat out wrong.

Don't expect disney to suddenly "kiddefy" the marvel movies.

It's simply not going to happen. It would be bad buisness, and generaly a stupid move. The marvel aspect is intended to target the male 15-30 demographic, which is an area that disney is historicly weak in.

Here are some other "more grown up" projects disney made.

Kill Bill 1 and 2 were disney films

End of Days
Dirty Pretty Things
Rounders
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
some of the newer Halloween movies
Insane Clown Possey was a disney music label for a VERY long time.

Here is the thing. ALL of these were released under other companies. Touchstone Pictures, Miramax, etc. All of whom were Disney companies.

Marvel pictures is the same.

The movies you are taking about does not have toys per say out. What I am saying is the costs of the items. They will or want to sell in walkin store's over hat we buy here. Remember I bought 28 marks the other day. Sure they are 3.75 but at $6 each. They have my money. Again I have the most wanted 3 75 in hand. But HT they are going to take over or close to a year before the 1st mark is out.


You have to see it from the business side not the collected sued. Again I like HT but a year come on. I will have all 42/43/44. Marks before the end of April

 

[Buttmunch]

Damn this thing is sold out at BBTS already. Yesterday when I checked they had a lil over 350 for po.

Its because they are the only place without a cancellation penalty/no NRD. We're all playing the waiting game on these. Seeing if its only going to be diecast versions made, a 2.0 or just see if the diecasts are a horrible idea all together.

 

[ThatIsTooReal]

I'd take the plastic HT Mark 7 over the play imaginative version any day. 350 dollars, American dollars? Is that the price in Singapore or in the US?

Singapore converted to USD. So lets say you went to Singapore, you would basically pay $350 converted to their currency and be able to buy it.

And that's not the point to why I was referring too. I was referring to what you said.

Hot Toys: $310 - 60% plastic + 40% Metal
Play: $350 - 80-88% Metal - Hall of Armor (Made by some metal) with remote controlled lighting

But at the end of the day, we're stuck with the Hot Toys one.

 

[lerath666]

Speaking just on the merchandise,
Disney sells to different markets. Yes, teh disney store caters to "mall buisness". I strongly doubt you'd see Hot Toys in a disney store. But you can go to the parks, and possibly find them there. You can also purchase insanely expensive merchandise from disney mail order.

Lastly, disney has been involved in the lisesing since the first THOR film. while the liscensing fees have probobly gone up some, I highly doubt they've gone up THAT much.

 

[Hydeous]

PO price here in my local dealer is $230USD. Not bad compared to what you guys are paying over there, POed 1 just in case i like the movie.

 

[Spanbauer]

Alter Ego's put him up for pre-order but they've got him at full retail price; what gives?! Iron Patriot retails for $309 but they sell him for $294. Why wouldn't the Mark XLII be exactly the same?

 

[bonestockbrz]

Bbts doesnt charge an nrd.....all you cheap bastards have taken bbts and cornerstore from me...patiently waiting on alter ego......

 

[bonestockbrz]

Seriously Alter Ego...Full Price is mega lame....flex play and sideshow for me.....and I always buy from AE because its cheaper, on the count i pay CA tax.. Mega lame.

 

[Spanbauer]

Seriously Alter Ego...Full Price is mega lame....flex play and sideshow for me.....and I always buy from AE because its cheaper, on the count i pay CA tax.. Mega lame.

Put my order in with Sideshow - and used $19 in reward points to get that price down to what I had expected to pay at Alter Ego. That's twice in a row now that I've tried to give Alter Ego my business but couldn't.

Anyhow, this figure's freaking awesome. Hate that we won't have it for a whole freaking year, and I sure hope the die-cast does not disappoint. Now I just have to sell my Mark VI to clear some shelf space...

 

[The Mike]

Plus War or Not. Disney wants their stuff be to sold in their parks, and in stores. Go to any store and you will see items that are over $30 getting old or marked down. I just happen on them putting out 3 case of the new IM3 marks. They will make more from Target (I bought them from Target) in one day. Then 5 years from HT/SSC. 28x$6 do the math ($168). An they are putting out 42 of them.

This isn't that accurate. Sure Disney oversaturates their markets but when Master Replicas was out and about I remember seeing full size lightsabers, FX lightsabers, mini lightsabers sold inside Star Traders for a mark up themselves. A $35 mini that could be bought from MR's own site was $70 there....and people were buying them. I'll never forget seeing someone walking around with an FX lightsaber having paid $250 for it just because. Disney charges their licensing fees but then when they sell these items in the parks they charge higher than HT would even charge. There are stores in Downtown Disney that sell HT and charge far above the MSRP, the thing is that there are times where those figures are still there are that $300 pricepoint while on eBay it's for twice that. Disney has no influence on HT's pricing, just charging them the licensing which they've been doing for a while now. HT is raising costs for two reasons, 1: to offset R&D and projects that didn't sell like they thought it would by charging more for a sure fire seller and 2: because they can and people will pay.

I keep hearing this, or things like this. For the record, it's not only misguided, it's flat out wrong. Don't expect disney to suddenly "kiddefy" the marvel movies. It's simply not going to happen. It would be bad buisness, and generally a stupid move. The marvel aspect is intended to target the male 15-30 demographic, which is an area that disney is historically weak in.

This is right on the money.

Disney has said since the purchase of Marvel that it was to fill a need. Little girls love princesses from the moment they can remember and some until they lose the capability to remember things. They have the girl demographic locked up from adolescence until adulthood and even have tween markets like Hannah Montana, Shake It Up, etc that hit that market hard. They tried before acquiring Marvel to give their male characters an edge (remember Disney's Adventurers line? that tried to take the princes, Tarzan, Peter Pan, etc and make them action heroes?) but it failed miserably. They bought Marvel to plug into the kid demographic and the teen male demographic knowing full well that they'll be grabbing adult males who are nostalgic about their superheroes just like women are about their princesses.

Kevin Feige has said countless times that Disney is hands off when it comes to Marvel Studios and that they get more input from Marvel Comics than them AND that Disney specifically requested cartoons and kids aimed projects that they can market to the youngsters while leaving Marvel alone to keep doing what they are doing.

They've been working with LFL for years to fill this gap as well, the purchase simply solidifies this and gives the boys options in a merchandising world that almost exclusively catered to girls past the age of 5.

Speaking just on the merchandise,
Disney sells to different markets. Yes, teh disney store caters to "mall buisness". I strongly doubt you'd see Hot Toys in a disney store. But you can go to the parks, and possibly find them there. You can also purchase insanely expensive merchandise from disney mail order.

Lastly, disney has been involved in the lisesing since the first THOR film. while the liscensing fees have probobly gone up some, I highly doubt they've gone up THAT much.

You will, I wouldn't be shocked if a couple of Luke Bespin HTs ended up in Star Traders for a nice price hike. The problem with Marvel is that due to existing contracts in terms of licensing anything "East of the Mississippi" is owned by Universal for life, which means that Disney cannot put Marvel into their parks except for some merchandising. That is where they have the most room to expand. They are allowed to do things abroad and in California but in CA they've run out of room for the most part and are in process of expanding DCA for newer projects. If there were a Marvel ride in one of the parks, I would bet that their gift shop would have a couple of Marvel HTs in there to try and get impulse vacationeers who would have seen it nowhere else.

 

[Wulf]

Singapore converted to USD. So lets say you went to Singapore, you would basically pay $350 converted to their currency and be able to buy it.

And that's not the point to why I was referring too. I was referring to what you said.

Hot Toys: $310 - 60% plastic + 40% Metal
Play: $350 - 80-88% Metal - Hall of Armor (Made by some metal) with remote controlled lighting

But at the end of the day, we're stuck with the Hot Toys one.

You're comparing the price in Singapore to the price in the US. If the play imaginative figure sold in the US I higly doubt it would go for 350 us dollars. The Iron Patriot is about 260 dollars in Singapore compared to 310 us dollar in the US.

Lets say you went to Hong Kong to buy it, do you think you would be paying 310 US dollars?

 

[Bizzitty]

LOL! I have been doing the PO thing with BBTS for a while on items I am on the fence about...love BBTS! And I end up giving them my business alot of the time. As we all know I'm sure HT will be releasing several suits from IM3 and I'll probably end up cancelling my order in favor of an armor I end up liking better to represent IM3. I really hope HT has the Mark III 2.0 on the horizon considering the Armor Unleashed Mark II is pretty much it...just needs some paint and no rivets.

Bbts doesnt charge an nrd.....all you cheap bastards have taken bbts and cornerstore from me...patiently waiting on alter ego......

 

[DrQ2]

Speaking just on the merchandise,
Disney sells to different markets. Yes, teh disney store caters to "mall buisness". I strongly doubt you'd see Hot Toys in a disney store. But you can go to the parks, and possibly find them there. You can also purchase insanely expensive merchandise from disney mail order.

Lastly, disney has been involved in the lisesing since the first THOR film. while the liscensing fees have probobly gone up some, I highly doubt they've gone up THAT much.

Keep in mind that they make 1,000, 000 a day. I really don't see ssc and ht getting renew. If they did the price will go up. The mouse rules, as a stock holder I like it. As a collect don't care. I have stock. So show me more money!

Ironman 3, is the start of the mouse. Just look at the prices. Why not 1/6 figures the Starwars 3.75 are $10. 00, I was shocked to see the Ironman 3 marks @$6.00. 28*$6.00

Keeping with the 1/6 $280.00 for Ironman is just the start. Look to see the line at $310 to $400 before the year is up.

Even the new clone commander is $160.

 

[JonWes]

More tempted by this than Iron Patriot. But I really have no use for die cast. But it does look good and if this is the only way to get it... hmmm... still, I'm going to wait to pre-order since it's a good year away.

 

[DrQ2]

LOL! I have been doing the PO thing with BBTS for a while on items I am on the fence about...love BBTS! And I end up giving them my business alot of the time. As we all know I'm sure HT will be releasing several suits from IM3 and I'll probably end up cancelling my order in favor of an armor I end up liking better to represent IM3. I really hope HT has the Mark III 2.0 on the horizon considering the Armor Unleashed Mark II is pretty much it...just needs some paint and no rivets.

And people ***** about a nrd! This us why I had to pay $31.00 on my mark 42. I really hope bbts does a fix to their open site and start to charge a nrd. Wonder how much they would pay to fix this?