Hot Toys MMS Iron Man Mk1 DIECAST

[TurdFurgusonsHat]

This is too big a job. HT will ignore.

No doubt. HT had ten years to make good on an iconic suit and they did a straight reissue. RDJ himself could call Howard and Howard would hang up.

 

[medicomsucks]

This is too big a job. HT will ignore.

Or they will announce a properly scaled version a week after this comes out.

 

[chrisstbh]

Mk1 next to other suits.

 

[Gipetto0812]

Every other company that’s made this - Revoltech, Bandai, ZD Toys, King Arts, Queen studios, Iron Studios, the list goes on - has made it roughly the same height as the other Iron Man figures/statues.

I could be mixing it up, but from pics, the Queen Studios MK1 looks really small next to their other armors as well.

 

[chrisstbh]

Classic Youtuber defending the height because Robert Downey Jr is short, Tony Stark isn’t though (he literally wears heels to achieve the height), I’m buying the character not the actor.

The Bo-Katan figure is too short too, they did the actresses height (5’6”-5’7”) and not the characters (5’11”).

 

[yacobschlomo]

Its almost as if HT is acknowledging this turning point in the films. Its like their logic is, "Of course these other armors are bigger- these are the CGI armors! They are depicted as being bigger on screen, because Marvel changed Tony's proportions half-way through the series and we have captured that perfectly!" Therefore the physical prop armor should be smaller because it was prior to the proportion change. (As if thats canon to the story. He got bigger because special effects improved) Thats how they are justifying this in their head. And i guess Marvel agrees with them.

I think they're just being lazy. This Mark I is staying the same height as the previous release from 2012, but all the other updated figures increase in height? For example, they increased the Mark V by almost an inch when the original release was the same height as the Mark I. Or we'd have to assume they are somehow correcting a mistake they made in the past, and it just happened that the mistake they made in the past turned out to be exactly the height it was supposed to be.

 

[TheDucky]

Wonder how many pages of “figure is short” will go on before the horse that is being beaten is grounded into ash.

 

[Dave_W]

I'm just glad no one is saying the Mk 1 is woke or HT have an agenda. I see that as a win.

 

[Asta]

Classic Youtuber defending the height because Robert Downey Jr is short, Tony Stark isn’t though (he literally wears heels to achieve the height), I’m buying the character not the actor.

The Bo-Katan figure is too short too, they did the actresses height (5’6”-5’7”) and not the characters (5’11”).

The Bo-Katan is her live action height, which presumably differs from her animated height.

I never paid much notice to Tony/Iron Man's height, as I didn't pay much notice to the films themselves.

If you're collecting figures from the same series then it's an issue, but when I got the Mk. I 2.0 it was purely because it looked really interesting as a guy in a suit of home made armour.

Making figures in a larger scale makes the original versions obsolete if they're going to be displayed together. It really comes to something when a Hot Toys figure is obsolete even before it's released.

 

[The Iron Koob]

My take on the true height argument is that displaying the Mk1 next to the newer armors (which most people will do) makes the Mk1 look hilarious.

For that reason, it's really not worth the price tag. Maybe as a standalone piece.

 

[Nailz]

The new diecast has pinstripe suit pants , altho they do not look pinstriped in the desert scene when he was rescued.

The 2.0 has grayish pants

 

[Wor-Gar]

Well, Tony's suit pants were a kind of pinstripe but not really like the ones on the new v3 Mark I.

But credit to HT for at least noticing that and grabbing what they had.

 

[Rbeato]

Could have used the mark V suit up body, could have used the mark V suit up sculpt with different hair/facial hair...but no. Instead rehash 90% of the old figure and turn some pieces metal
Putting this next to the mark V suit up you’ll have no choice but to think Stark created a body stretcher.

 

[More Battle Damage]

I am guessing HT is using CAD drawings they get from Marvel as their basis of design. Since this suit was never used in another Marvel movie other than IM 1, it never got revised (upscaled), and they are using mostly CADs from 2.0 ie 10 years ago. Upscaling a piece like this would take a great deal of time, as there are so many unique pieces and moving parts, but that is what I thought they were doing with the delay in introducing this in the first place

 

[ZE_501]

I can't find the video I've linked a few times over the last couple of years regarding the design of the Mark VII which is where proportions really departed reality, but just ran across this:

 

[ZE_501]

Here's the other video:

The evolution of how Marvel animated Iron Man

 

[Dave_W]

This is the best example of the suit changing size from the Mk4 onwards. I think he means to say size difference between the Mark 4 and the Mark 3.

 

[ZE_501]

This is the best example of the suit changing size from the Mk4 onwards. I think he means to say size difference between the Mark 4 and the Mark 3.

Hard to say. The Mark 3 isn't shown anywhere in the video that I saw, the Mark 4 asset on the right is smaller so maybe they're trying to show they upscaled? It was a practical suit at one point. That second video I posted does go in-depth about human proportions vs. armours.

The first video gives us a clear look at the actual Mark 1 though.

 

[subzro]

I am guessing HT is using CAD drawings they get from Marvel as their basis of design. Since this suit was never used in another Marvel movie other than IM 1, it never got revised (upscaled), and they are using mostly CADs from 2.0 ie 10 years ago. Upscaling a piece like this would take a great deal of time, as there are so many unique pieces and moving parts, but that is what I thought they were doing with the delay in introducing this in the first place

They spent a LOT more time engineering this than the MK1.

 

[rocbolt]

I am guessing HT is using CAD drawings they get from Marvel as their basis of design. Since this suit was never used in another Marvel movie other than IM 1, it never got revised (upscaled), and they are using mostly CADs from 2.0 ie 10 years ago. Upscaling a piece like this would take a great deal of time, as there are so many unique pieces and moving parts, but that is what I thought they were doing with the delay in introducing this in the first place

Weird they found time to improve and make the Mk4, 5, 6, 7 bigger and better in diecast form