1/6 1/6 Hot Toys - MMS - Avengers: AoU - Iron Man Mark 45

[Chiefrocka]

Take a look at hot rod on the shelf. You can Def tell it's made from diecast. The mk 42 as well. Imo you can tell the difference. I personally prefer diecast armors over the plastic ones. Even though the mk vii is still my favorite suit. Lol

 

[Y4NK33 PL4N3T]

You can't tell the difference looking at them from normal display difference.

 

[subzro]

Take a look at hot rod on the shelf. You can Def tell it's made from diecast. The mk 42 as well. Imo you can tell the difference. I personally prefer diecast armors over the plastic ones. Even though the mk vii is still my favorite suit. Lol

How? you are looking at the paint not the material. I have IP, Hot Rod, WM MKII and MK42 and they look good but none of my friends can tell the difference. If you could tell it would look like crap because 60% (give or take) of what you are looking at on the diecast figs is plastic. These only have diecast content, they are not 100% diecast.

 

[Malgus]

Take a look at hot rod on the shelf. You can Def tell it's made from diecast. The mk 42 as well. Imo you can tell the difference. I personally prefer diecast armors over the plastic ones. Even though the mk vii is still my favorite suit. Lol

You are amazing at deluding yourself.

 

[ScottPSU]

I just took a look at my figures, some DC and some plastic. To each his own, but I can't tell any difference. In fact, some of the plastic ones, such as Heartbreaker, look more metallic than some of the DC ones.

YMMV, of course; this is just my opinion.

 

[Brainiac]

I just took a look at my figures, some DC and some plastic. To each his own, but I can't tell any difference. In fact, some of the plastic ones, such as Heartbreaker, look more ,metallic than some of the DC ones.

YMMV, of course; this is just my opinion.

Silver Centurion and Heartbreaker both look amazing for plastic figures, very metallic looking

 

[ScottPSU]

Silver Centurion and Heartbreaker both look amazing for plastic figures, very metallic looking

Agreed - Silver Centurion was the other one I noticed when I looked!

 

[Free]

I hope the 45 comes in diecast. I have the War Machine on preorder and I want to display it along side the 45 since they were together in the movie. I know it shouldn't mean anything for them to be different materials so long as they look identical, but simply knowing that WM is diecast while IM is plastic would bug me.

 

[Motuxmen]

How? you are looking at the paint not the material. I have IP, Hot Rod, WM MKII and MK42 and they look good but none of my friends can tell the difference. If you could tell it would look like crap because 60% (give or take) of what you are looking at on the diecast figs is plastic. These only have diecast content, they are not 100% diecast.

You sir are correct. Most people can't tell which parts are dc and which plastic. And once a material is painted you can't tell any difference. The substrat matters very little in this case. I agree the weight of them is very cool. But outside of the few times I move to dust or repose they are just eye candy. So as I said before that part really is just a neat secondary feature. And because you can't tell the difference visually is why dc has not caught on.

 

[Brainiac]

Agreed - Silver Centurion was the other one I noticed when I looked!

Yeah I love that armor, quite possibly the best HPP armor to date

 

[LexiKon318]

Love Mark 33 but Heartbreaker gets my vote.

 

[justdafty]

Gemini ftw.

 

[Y4NK33 PL4N3T]

Gemini ftw.

 

[ScottPSU]

Yeah I love that armor, quite possibly the best HPP armor to date

We just got done watching IM3 (first time for my wife) and it was fun to see all the HPP armors again. Silver Centurion looked great in the movie, as did a number of other suits. As an aside, I really want HT to release a 1/6 Mark 40.

 

[Brainiac]

We just got done watching IM3 (first time for my wife) and it was fun to see all the HPP armors again. Silver Centurion looked great in the movie, as did a number of other suits. As an aside, I really want HT to release a 1/6 Mark 40.

Ugh! Don't we all, really need that thing

 

[Malgus]

I hope the 45 comes in diecast. I have the War Machine on preorder and I want to display it along side the 45 since they were together in the movie. I know it shouldn't mean anything for them to be different materials so long as they look identical, but simply knowing that WM is diecast while IM is plastic would bug me.

What should bug you is the fact that these figures that people like you call Diecast (clearly after drinking too much of that Hot Toys kool aid) is mostly plastic anyway. Its silly to buy into Hot Toys bs and convince yourself that a mostly plastic figure is Diecast.

 

[Motuxmen]

I wouldn't say hot toys is full of BS. Or misleading about these. They have diecast parts.

And trust me, it wasn't like hot toys wanted to retool half their operation to make diecast figures. It's new tooling, it's new design and engineering to learn, it's new machines. It was the fans that wanted diecast.

Even though there's no way to do a real 100% dc figure with articulation and paint that will last. Hot toys has done a pretty good job of adding the "weight" that diecast supporters want while still keeping the full articulation, detail, and durability that plastic brings. If people expected larger percentage of these to be dc that's not on hot toys.

 

[justdafty]

You'd lose tremendous amounts of detail if the figure was entirely diecast anyways.

 

[Free]

What should bug you is the fact that these figures that people like you call Diecast (clearly after drinking too much of that Hot Toys kool aid) is mostly plastic anyway. Its silly to buy into Hot Toys bs and convince yourself that a mostly plastic figure is Diecast.

Not really a fan of kool aid but thanks for assuming that I'm under the impression that they're 100% diecast. I am extremely new to this hobby. Heck, I'm literally still waiting for my 1st figure. But it doesn't mean that I'm a naive Hot Toys hypebeast. I'm simply an Iron Man fan who was drawn into these figures after seeing the amount of craftsmanship and attention to detail put into these figures. I was into Nike/Jordans until their quality plummeted so it's nice to be introduced to a hobby with such a passionate community where quality is the placed above all.

IMO, diecast just seems appropriate for Iron Man and War Machine. Maybe in the toy world that's just being ignorant as mostly everyone has claimed that there is visually no difference, but that's just my pov right now. Either way, I'm open and willing to learn about this hobby that has totally drawn me away from all sneaker forums.

 

[ScottPSU]

Not really a fan of kool aid but thanks for assuming that I'm under the impression that they're 100% diecast. I am extremely new to this hobby. Heck, I'm literally still waiting for my 1st figure. But it doesn't mean that I'm a naive Hot Toys hypebeast. I'm simply an Iron Man fan who was drawn into these figures after seeing the amount of craftsmanship and attention to detail put into these figures. I was into Nike/Jordans until their quality plummeted so it's nice to be introduced to a hobby with such a passionate community where quality is the placed above all.

IMO, diecast just seems appropriate for Iron Man and War Machine. Maybe in the toy world that's just being ignorant as mostly everyone has claimed that there is visually no difference, but that's just my pov right now. Either way, I'm open and willing to learn about this hobby that has totally drawn me away from all sneaker forums.

Much respect for your open-mindedness! I'm relatively new to collecting these too, as I just got into it a few months ago. I held my impressions until I owned both plastic and DC figures. Before I owned any of them, I sort of defaulted to a "DC-is-better" perspective. However, now that I own them, I've done a 180. All credit to Hot Toys; their plastic figures are done so well that I can't tell the difference. However, my wallet notices the difference, I will tell you that. And, there is more posing flexibility with the plastic ones, as evidenced by the ability to put plastic figures into flying poses, for example.

I do appreciate the "Iron Man is metal, so the figures should be, too" argument; there's logic in it. For me, as I look at my figures, that thought doesn't enter my mind because they all look metallic to me.

Enjoy this hobby; it's both fun and exhilarating!