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And after a few years of waiting for his JL Supes...

 

[Username]

HT must be making a killing with those Iron Man figures, otherwise I really can't understand it. I mean, I don't think the tooling for all those different suits is cheap...

It's a few different things at play in the "IM Armour Vs Every other type of figure" debate.
One is undoubtedly the far eastern love of mecha in any form. And the general fandom love of Iron Man in general.
Another reason behind so many Iron Man figures(And repops), is the fact that it's basically a big model kit(From their point of view). No clothing to make, and the only accessories are just more armour parts.
I read many complaints on this forum in regards to a figure with clothing(When it's sold out, and suddenly people want one) where people moan and say: "Just mold some more copies and then sell them again!!!", without realising that, while that is very easy to do with Iron Man(Molding new copies), it's a very different matter with a new Superman, or Matrix, or Batman, etc. The reason is that for every single Superman, that material needs to be fashioned into a costume. It needs done correctly every time, sewn the exact way every time, the boots pattern done perfectly every time, with the sole glued on every time, etc.
"Mold more copies" is a huge undertaking for a figure even wearing a suit, shirt and tie. But with something like the suit for Superman, it's probably incredibly tough. Arguably far more tough than making ten new Iron Man armours(Which can all be designed in the computer, 3d moulds cut from steel, and all injection moulded without ever having to even think of cutting cloth.
And it's the main reason that Ten new Iron Man armours will be less of a headache for them to make than one new Superman figure.
I'm not being an apologist for them, but just trying to make some of our less knowledgeable brethren(And sistren), realise that a scale clothed figure is harder to make than a scale Iron Man armour.
Now... If they made Iron Man armour that could be posed like it is now, and the armour could be removed from Tony... Now *that* would be a feat on engineering. But as it is, Iron Man(Regardless of the level of complexity of the figure), is still way easier to conceptualise and make than even the simplest clothed character.

 

[Fadz]

Guys,

You hear that ?

 

[abake]

It's a few different things at play in the "IM Armour Vs Every other type of figure" debate.
One is undoubtedly the far eastern love of mecha in any form. And the general fandom love of Iron Man in general.
Another reason behind so many Iron Man figures(And repops), is the fact that it's basically a big model kit(From their point of view). No clothing to make, and the only accessories are just more armour parts.
I read many complaints on this forum in regards to a figure with clothing(When it's sold out, and suddenly people want one) where people moan and say: "Just mold some more copies and then sell them again!!!", without realising that, while that is very easy to do with Iron Man(Molding new copies), it's a very different matter with a new Superman, or Matrix, or Batman, etc. The reason is that for every single Superman, that material needs to be fashioned into a costume. It needs done correctly every time, sewn the exact way every time, the boots pattern done perfectly every time, with the sole glued on every time, etc.
"Mold more copies" is a huge undertaking for a figure even wearing a suit, shirt and tie. But with something like the suit for Superman, it's probably incredibly tough. Arguably far more tough than making ten new Iron Man armours(Which can all be designed in the computer, 3d moulds cut from steel, and all injection moulded without ever having to even think of cutting cloth.
And it's the main reason that Ten new Iron Man armours will be less of a headache for them to make than one new Superman figure.
I'm not being an apologist for them, but just trying to make some of our less knowledgeable brethren(And sistren), realise that a scale clothed figure is harder to make than a scale Iron Man armour.
Now... If they made Iron Man armour that could be posed like it is now, and the armour could be removed from Tony... Now *that* would be a feat on engineering. But as it is, Iron Man(Regardless of the level of complexity of the figure), is still way easier to conceptualise and make than even the simplest clothed character.

That's a very good point.
I always considered molding and tooling new parts to be the most expensive part of doing a new figure, but you're right, sourcing, tailoring and fitting such complex outfits must be much more labor -and thus cost- expensive.

 

[Alatar]

Sigh. Email from SS arrived today pushing back ship date to Dec. 5th.

 

[Hoody999]

Sigh. Email from SS arrived today pushing back ship date to Dec. 5th.

From US ? So is this another that will be shipping a the same time as Hong Kong ? Sorry if this has already been mentioned. I might be a bit slow on the uptake

 

[sj2106]

From US ? So is this another that will be shipping a the same time as Hong Kong ? Sorry if this has already been mentioned. I might be a bit slow on the uptake

Sideshow are simply taking an educated guess with that estimate. Once it releases in Hong Kong it will be around 4-6 weeks before Sideshow get it.

 

[becausebatman]

Sigh. Email from SS arrived today pushing back ship date to Dec. 5th.

Seems like a big shipment will be coming into SSC during that time. The new Iron Man Mk. VII is also supposed to charge & ship on Dec. 5th

I wonder if any other figures will be joining that same shipment batch...

 

[sj2106]

Noticed this Kent figure on TNS. Is it just me or does the face look more like Tom Welling in some pics.

https://www.tnsfigures.com/pu-studios-1-6-scale-a-reporter-figure-pre-order-deposit/

 

[Alatar]

Seems like a big shipment will be coming into SSC during that time. The new Iron Man Mk. VII is also supposed to charge & ship on Dec. 5th

I wonder if any other figures will be joining that same shipment batch...

I think Gamorah (IW?) was also delayed, as was one of the Spider-Man figures? There were a couple others that got pushed back last time along with JL Superman.

 

[Gipetto0812]

Noticed this Kent figure on TNS. Is it just me or does the face look more like Tom Welling in some pics.

https://www.tnsfigures.com/pu-studios-1-6-scale-a-reporter-figure-pre-order-deposit/

I actually think this sculpt looks pretty good. Just needs a good repaint to bring out the features.

 

[jam2315]

Wonder if this Friday will be the day lol

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Wonder if this Friday will be the day lol

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Man, I laughed so much at your joke! You should consider stand up comedy!

 

[jam2315]

Man, I laughed so much at your joke! You should consider stand up comedy!

Lol I tried...

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[TexasFi3nd]

I had a whole conversation about JL Supes earlier and I just realized it was in the JL batman thread. Oops. [emoji102]... what I was discussing was if JL Supes doesnt release in HK by next week, then I have a good feeling we wont see him until after the Chinese new year. I'm hoping for a miracle where maybe if HT does release him before xmas that hopefully SS will get him and start shipping about a week after the HK release which is what happened with Bucky Barnes last month. I really doubt that'll happen, but who knows?... I've already accepted the fact that we wont get him until next year. As far as releases go, The past few weeks all I've seen are spiderman, bucky Barnes, killmonger, iron man mk7, star wars, iron man 1/4 scale... so going off that pattern, HT can give two s h ! T s about DC right now.

 

[jam2315]

Have u guys seen the JL Cavill sculpt from modern life....

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[Ezzeppelin]

Got this yesterday.

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[creasy]

I think sideshow are less in the loop than we are when it comes to release dates.
They just announce delays when the release dates they state expire


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[Gipetto0812]

Have u guys seen the JL Cavill sculpt from modern life....

yes but those Modern Life sculpts are ridiculously expensive. I think their Tom Hardy Bane sculpt was about $400. Spending that much on the painted head plus the price of the figure, might as well buy the Prime1 statue IMO

 

[Captain Clown]

Yeah, I was interested in their heat vision BvS Superman head but it was way out of my price range for something that isn't Reeve. I think it was around $400-$700, not sure.