Hot Toys - MMS 103 - X-Men Origins: Wolverine - Wolverine Figure

[JustinLuck]

Anyone know of a place we can order those fake buttons in case we lose a couple?

 

[lawtonn22]

Picked mine up from a UPS customer centre last night..... Good God !!!, what a figure - almost none of the pics do him justice, the headsculpt may only look like Jackman for certain angles but the "character" that comes across is most definately Wolverine.
The body is great, the paint apps are fantastic & you can't tell from any pics that the neck is actually poseable, i thought the chest neck would be a hard, almost solid rubber. I'm totally blown away by every last detail on him.

 

[breakersrevenge]

After all that I sold, didnt even keep one for my self!!

Time to source one methinks!!

Glad u got yours OK lawtonn22!

 

[nicky]

I don't recall him ever being that bloody in any of the movies, only when Rogue took his powers at the end of X-Men part 1.

That's why it was a custom job...doent have to be a look in the movie.

 

[Lord Vicious]

Damn I hate the wait; I ordered mine from studiosunny, it shipped at the end of december, and still nothing

 

[MaulFan]

For all the awesomeness HT can turn out, it REALLY hurts their clothing when they use cheap, glue on buttons. Even if you don't pose heavily, often they are so small, they can fall off and be lost just taking it out of the box. My Jack Sparrow and Will turner coat's loose buttons, I worry about the Joker's purple coats with the tiny black ones on the sleeve. Personally, I'd rather some moderately out of scale buttons that are sewn on and very likely to stay on than cheaply glued down, in scale buttons that eventually can fall off and be lost and ultimately hurt the look of the item because you can see buttons are missing. I just ignore it with the POTC figures best I can because they're pirates so imperfect clothes are somewhat believable, but it still bothers me, and something like Wolverine where it's supposed to look sharp would bother me. The buttons on the Joker's vest don't look too big, and they're sewn down, I say just use buttons like that in the appropriate color.

 

[RED5150]

Anybody who was lucky enough to already have the Wolverine, will the head scuplt work with a regular Tru-type? I was thinking of saving a few bucks and just getting, if I can find one, the head, claws, belt and jacket and bashing the rest with what I already have.

 

[DinoLast]

Anybody who was lucky enough to already have the Wolverine, will the head scuplt work with a regular Tru-type? I was thinking of saving a few bucks and just getting, if I can find one, the head, claws, belt and jacket and bashing the rest with what I already have.

Yes it can, but trust me, that will end up costing almost as much money as the complete figure

 

[MaulFan]

Yup, if you wanted just the head and claws, would be pricey but still cheaper than a figure, but to get the clothes and all, it'll cost about as much as the figure itself, might as well just get the whole thing at that point. The head alone will probably run $50 or higher.

 

[Voorhees27]

1/6 buttons are not my friend. I lost one of Wolvies the other day ........... oh well.

 

[JustinLuck]

I actually prefer the in scale buttons. But it would be nice if Hot Toys could give us a sheet a stick ons so we didn't have to worry if a few fell off. I'm sure they are extremely cheap, where ever they source them from.

 

[MaulFan]

You shouldn't have to reassemble a figure like that, they should just use a method that's durable.

 

[JustinLuck]

Yes, but in my experience, the buttons don't fall off too easily. Of course there might always be a few rogue buttons from the factory that aren't glued down as well as the others. It also probably has to do with the type of fabric they are glued on.

But, for me, it is a trade off I am willing to take because I find the sewn on buttons distracting in most cases. For the Joker's vest, they look acceptable because the buttons on the actual costume are larger slightly larger than average. But for a dress shirt, they look too big and take away from the realism (e.g. T-1000 police uniform).

 

[MaulFan]

Well I agree some are too big, I think the Joker's vest buttons are a perfect middle ground, big enough to be sewn and not cheaply glued, but small enough to still look pretty close in scale compared to other sewn buttons.

I'd rather a little larger and staying attached to perfect size and falling off, what good is the right size if it doesn't stay on there.

 

[The Josh]

That's an area for sure where ht can get better. It's funny that for all they're good at they do things like glue on buttons.

 

[MaulFan]

At least the glued buttons are a step above the "magic tape"

 

[JustinLuck]

Hot Toys is limited to what they can source. If buttons aren't made smaller than a certain size, then that is the best they can do. Sideshow, Hot Toys, Saturday Toys, etc all use the same sized small buttons, so I imagine that is the case.

And truthfully, I've had more sewn on buttons fall off than the stick ons. My T-1000 is missing a button on his shirt and I don't even know how that happened. And when I was using a Saturday Toys suit for X-files Skinner, one button on the dress shirt was already loose in the package while another one fell off when I futzing the clothing.

 

[Russell1982]

I'm of the kind that it's HT or nothing. If HT don't make a Sabretooth then I don't have one. An X-Men Trilogy Magneto would be cool too....

Does anyone know if Hot Toys are actually planning on doing figures from the X-Men trilogy? I heard they were doing X-Men but wasnt sure if the Origins Wolverine was all they had planned.

 

[MaulFan]

Does anyone know if Hot Toys are actually planning on doing figures from the X-Men trilogy? I heard they were doing X-Men but wasnt sure if the Origins Wolverine was all they had planned.

Yes, over the summer, Hot Toys announced they had the X-Men, Blade and Spiderman trilogy licenses.

 

[dcflake]

At least the glued buttons are a step above the "magic tape"

My JC instantly broke the second I took him out the box it's appalling how poor quality it is. His knife is glued to his arm and I can't really do anything about it without breaking the glue and re-gluing it.