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

[Invictus Sol]

I think good public relations would be to provide reasoning with the delays.

I think every newbie to the hobby says this the first time they get a big delay on something they covet (sadly, some also never seem to learn by experience). HT doesn't care and honestly, neither should we. I just accept there's good internal business reasons for it. Would I love to know exactly the reasons, yes, but we'll never be privy to it, unfortunately.

Hot toys has never heard of anything called public relations

Yep.

 

[dw316]

LOL, I never care if something is delayed or not. I have enough toys to play with already, haha. When it comes, it comes, and I'll be just as happy as if I got it months earlier.

 

[SurlyJ]

Weird that this is delayed so long, yet War Machine is even a little early. You'd think the main IM armor from the movie would be the one rushed to the public.

 

[bransen2099]

I was wondering the same thing and WM MKII wasnt even featured in IM3

 

[Centrocal]

No, the star of the show doesn't go on before the opening act.

 

[adello25]

The Mark XLII was the last one to show up in the House Party Protocol

 

[jacerc130]

I wonder if the painting has something to do with it, considering the WM MK II is all grey and silver and the MK XLII is brighter colors. They may be having issues with the die cast paint adhesion. Also lets not forget the WM MK II doesn't come with a lot of interchangeable BD parts like MK XLII. We went through the same thing with the MK VII. It was originally scheduled to release in March, then April, then June, and didn't actually arrive till July. Maybe they are just basing their delay time frame on how long it took them to get things done with the MK VII. I'd rather have one long changed expected update rather than how they did with the MK VII.

Oh well, I guess that makes 2 figures I won't see before I go on my deployment. (MK XLII & ZOD)

 

[dw316]

The Mark XLII was the last one to show up in the House Party Protocol

I see what you did there....

 

[The Chev]

Wasn't War Machine Mark 2 already delayed though before? Wasn't it supposed to be out in December originally?

 

[The Chev]

I see what you did there....

The Prodigal son returns!

 

[amvmm]

I wonder if the painting has something to do with it, considering the WM MK II is all grey and silver and the MK XLII is brighter colors. They may be having issues with the die cast paint adhesion. Also lets not forget the WM MK II doesn't come with a lot of interchangeable BD parts like MK XLII. We went through the same thing with the MK VII. It was originally scheduled to release in March, then April, then June, and didn't actually arrive till July. Maybe they are just basing their delay time frame on how long it took them to get things done with the MK VII. I'd rather have one long changed expected update rather than how they did with the MK VII.

Oh well, I guess that makes 2 figures I won't see before I go on my deployment. (MK XLII & ZOD)

Heartbreaker was delayed 6 months too and it isn't diecast

 

[subzro]

It could be that there were not a lot of orders for WM MK II and it was a much smaller run

 

[Samuraimasta]

Meh. Hopefully Canadian dollar won't be completely worthless by then (or I can hoard as much US Dollars as possible)

 

[spindrift]

BBTS sold out on PO now!

 

[guy66657]

Have there been any display pics without any of the battle damage or at least without the exposed Tony sculpt?

 

[HDGuy84]

Ugh... I'm concerned SSC will sell out of the preorder on this.

 

[Y4NK33 PL4N3T]

Get your pre order in now HDGuy! I wouldn't want to hunt through the secondary market once it sells out, odds are good it will sky rocket in price when considering the initial success of the War Machine Mk II release.

 

[Invictus Sol]

Yeah, I'd agree with that. I think all three of these are going to be very expensive after-market, especially if they're the last diecast armours for a while. Howard seemed really non-committal about whether the line would survive past these three armours. I wouldn't chance it.

 

[bransen2099]

Agreed with Invictus, if this line has a small run of figs, it'll just add to the "collectible value"

 

[spindrift]

SS now says JULY for this! Crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!