You know, last night, when it took *&&^% hours to install all those batteries, I wondered if the folks at Hot Toys were laughing hysterically over drinks at exhausted (and poor) collectors. That Hot Toys is infiltrated with Hydra agents who think it's funny to use a cheap glue stick for those magnets (yep, one of my shoulder plates has the magnet stuck to the shoulder, right out of the box)
But hafta admit when you get there, lit up it DOES look *&^%$ incredibly BADASS....
. No wimpy LEDs here.
A few nerve-wracking cell shots (because I thought it would be cool to have a dirtied up background and it didn't occur to me what might happen if this figure fell over on patio bricks etc.)
Overall - well, this is my first Iron Man. My first diecast. And while there are IMO those design issues
and some *fragility* I wasn't expecting - like the back ankle plates;
guess "diecast" to me translated as "those toy cars you can throw across a room" - overall IMO Holy *&^%!!!
Even without the lights this is a beautiful fig. Stunning.
I'm surprised I'm thinking I wanna display him w. the armored head - as great as the sculpt is. I think it's because I have such a great memory of seeing the first IM and those shots of the armor plates opening and closing. (Think I will kitbash a Tony with the sculpt.) I'm pretty happy with this purchase - don't have anything to compare him to, but happy I went with this IM. Nothing but good things to say about the details, the paint, articulation. He's gonna be amazing on the shelf.
PS. All my LEDs work - I don't know if having SSC double-box helped. But for the long term taking out all the batteries anyway.
