Hot Toys- Man of Steel new teaser images

[SnakeDoctor]

Extra hands, a base, and hopefully the heat vision headsculpt everyone has been begging for since this got announced.

There could be more accessories than you'd think. He obviously doesn't carry weapons ... but he may interact with objects that are worth including. For instance, Reeve's Kryptonite chain. Would've been cool if Reeve Superman had come with the green crystal, or the big-rig sideview mirror he used against Zod's heat vision, or the manhole cover he took to the gut. Or Richard Pryor.

From what we've seen, MOS Superman ought to at least come with handcuffs. We'll see if there's anything else worth having.

SnakeDoc

 

[HeubertMichael]

There was another suit for a JJ Abrams Superman movie that also didn't look terrible ...

SnakeDoc

Me, I don't get why some fans/audience/artists/designers etc think that adding too much lines and making designs too complicated = modern and BETTER designs.


(not directed at you, Snake Doc. You only said that the costume didn't look terrible, to which I agree, and you didn't also say that it's a better costume anyway)

 

[Gipetto0812]

Think that he'll probably come with the Fortress Key

 

[floreairfoot]

Maybe, I thought about that too, but it's pretty small.

We won't have Kryptonite in MOS, so no green rocks.

 

[SnakeDoctor]

Me, I don't get why some fans/audience/artists/designers etc think that adding too much lines and making designs too complicated = modern and BETTER designs.


(not directed at you, Snake Doc. You only said that the costume didn't look terrible, to which I agree, and you didn't also say that it's a better costume anyway)

Production value. On screen, textured and intricate tends to look a bit better. For instance, the textured suit in SR and MOS looks more well put-together than the old Reeve suit ... which was fine for the time, but wouldn't work today.

Movies are higher definition, on bigger screens -- and audiences want a more impressive and well-designed suit. Texture and intricacy in the suit is the difference between the Spider-man TV suit and the Raimi suit ... or the Captain America show-suit from early in the first movie, and the real thing from later in the movie ... or the West batsuit and the Bale batsuit.

Just ends up being a more impressive creation when its more intricate. Lines also help divide things up a bit ... so Superman doesn't just look like a bluish blotch on screen.

SnakeDoc

 

[HeubertMichael]

Production value. On screen, textured and intricate tends to look a bit better. For instance, the textured suit in SR and MOS looks more well put-together than the old Reeve suit ... which was fine for the time, but wouldn't work today.

Movies are higher definition, on bigger screens -- and audiences want a more impressive and well-designed suit. Texture and intricacy in the suit is the difference between the Spider-man TV suit and the Raimi suit ... or the Captain America show-suit from early in the first movie, and the real thing from later in the movie ... or the West batsuit and the Bale batsuit.

Just ends up being a more impressive creation when its more intricate. Lines also help divide things up a bit ... so Superman doesn't just look like a bluish blotch on screen.

SnakeDoc

I'm actually okay with textures. Like the ones that the MOS costume has, the honeycomb-ish pattern Raimi Spider-man suit has, etc. I'm with you that these textures look better, especially now that we have HD even at home. It's the excessive piping that some designs tend to have that I actually don't dig, like the random curve lines on this Abrams Superman costume. To me they are rather distracting, and makes the costume too busy.

 

[Chuck72586]

Think that he'll probably come with the Fortress Key

I think it would be cool if it came as a prop like the Joker card or batarangs that came with their respective figures.

 

[Ultron-7]

I think it would be cool if it came as a prop like the Joker card or batarangs that came with their respective figures.

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[Ramatuelle]

But think about how the Avengers were released.

Nick Fury
Hawkeye
Cap Avengers
Thor
Loki
Black Widow
IM Mark VII
HULK


What most would consider 2 of the least popular ( maybe not here ) were released 1st and the 2 most popular, were released last.

I've excluded Coulson and anything else that may come out because he came a bit later.

So to me, I think Jor-El will probably be first.

That's a very good point, I didnt think of that. That's probably what's happening.

 

[Ramatuelle]

Yea same here. I do hope they include both masks though. The skeletal one and the one that's coming with the that PAK figure and the MM armored Zod.

One reason I want to know what the line-up is, is because I am trying to decide whether or not to buy this figure. I may do it regardless, because unlike many I think PAK figures are pretty cool - and I dont play with them that much to where the durability of the joints becomes a problem.

Plus HT will make us wait NINETY NINE FOREVERS until they release a figure of this complexity. And this figure looks awesome..... but then I could put that $75.00 toward the HT version. Decisions.

 

[DarkMagic]

Accessories that would be cool for the figure:

-That huge mangled vault door from the first officially released pic of him in the suit, but that would probably be pushing it as being too big of a thing to include.

-A "steel" construction I-beam that looks like it's been fried by heat vision and or twisted by super-strength.

-Arctic base that has all of the cracks in it from when he is "powering up" for his launch (though that's a little too similar in look to the Reeve base)

 

[King Kobra]

Some hancuffs

 

[dominishin]

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Noo that would be lame. EX's should be items that are in scale with the figure.

 

[theduddler]

That's the thing--it's a comic book movie.

That's never an excuse for it to be dumbed down, even if the scenario is one of the fantastic. Good is good and none of what you describe bothers me in the least.

That's why I appreciate The Dark Knight trilogy because it takes something unbelievable and makes it believable. Giving things reason instead of "Just because" makes it so much more immersive

 

[Burning Saber]

If Superman comes with a couple of pairs of hands, a base I can put him into a flying or hovering pose with and a cape that's wired so I can pose it in said hovering/flying position than I will be a very happy monkey. Though any other extras would be cool and appreciated as well (love the heat vison head idea).

As for the suit itself, I really, really like it, more than I ever thought I would. I think the film suit got it right in "modernizing" Superman and Jim Lee's new 52 suit got it all wrong. In fact, I hope the movie does so well, that DC ends up tweeking the new 52 suit to look more like the film's.

 

[Ramatuelle]

That's why I appreciate The Dark Knight trilogy because it takes something unbelievable and makes it believable. Giving things reason instead of "Just because" makes it so much more immersive

Well, but Batman is inherently more believeable than Superman: he's a human, from Earth, lives in this dimension, has no inherent special powers and cannot fly. Almost nothing he does could not be learned in real life. Tough, but not impossible.

Superman just turns every bit of that on its head. We regular humans cant do ANYthing he does, except put on a pair of nerdy glasses Actually there is room in my heart for both kinds of characters, the earthbound and the cosmic. Movies about both types of characters are fine, so long as they be well executed.

Now, Green Lantern..... I am still trying to figure out: which was worse, GL or the Fantastic Four movies? These are examples of cosmic done WRONG. I am hoping so much Man of Steel avoids all the pitfalls these films embody.

 

[Burning Saber]

Green Lantern. Fantastic Four was an okay but watchable film. Rise of the Silver Surfer was okay but would have been better served as a straight up Silver Surfer film instead of being passed off as a FF sequel. That being said, FF2 was another allright film that ended up being ten minutes to short and extremely anticlimactic. Green Lantern was just a horribly made film. It looked like there where too many cooks in the kitchen and it ended up just being one giant cluster**** of a film. And I say that as a pretty big Green Lantern fan.

 

[Ramatuelle]

I hope the head sculpt looks very similar to this picture.

7-ELEVEN, WHOOOOOOOOO!

......lol

I bet that is just coincidence. Yup.

 

[King Kobra]

I just hope that Hot Toys has a more new products to show as at this years Comic-Con unlike last year.

 

[Ramatuelle]

Green Lantern. Fantastic Four was an okay but watchable film. Rise of the Silver Surfer was okay but would have been better served as a straight up Silver Surfer film instead of being passed off as a FF sequel. That being said, FF2 was another allright film that ended up being ten minutes to short and extremely anticlimactic. Green Lantern was just a horribly made film. It looked like there where too many cooks in the kitchen and it ended up just being one giant cluster**** of a film. And I say that as a pretty big Green Lantern fan.

You are way kinder than me re F4 - either film, but otherwise you are probably right: GL was actually a worse film. I couldnt sit through more than 15 minutes of GL. I was shocked at how bad it was.

I really like GL too, so that was a big disappointment. Please DC, have learned something from so much wasted cash, time and talent.