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Hot Toys Movie Masterpiece 1/6 Mandarin Figure
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Even the "Mandarin" thread has twist .....
The haters don't like that twist either. So hard to please...
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In all seriousness, for those who are big comic fans that hated what they did to The Mandarin in IM3, you could make a pretty badass Mandarin figure if you just switched to a cool looking Asian head. Maybe not, just a thought?
Our problem wasn't with him looking asian or anything, or problem was the rings were just jewelery and he had no power and wasn't even a villain.
Im getting this figure as I can imagine in my own head that its a mandarin from the comics..
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And thats why I love this movie SO much 
Ah, so like 12 people. I see.
Ok, well enjoy this figure you guys.
I will, I loved the twist. I'm looking forward to having this guy on the shelf.
Could care less if anyone else likes it or buys it.
Couldn't. Couldn't care less. Man we need a SKIMAN thread for that mistake. I will petition him....or **** it I might start it myself
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PO'd it.
Like the figure a LOT. Whoever did the posing/futzing for the product page shots gets a big thumbs-up, very good. The only thing missing there is a shot of him with the hood up....hope the costume will allow for that display option.
Like the figure a LOT. Whoever did the posing/futzing for the product page shots gets a big thumbs-up, very good. The only thing missing there is a shot of him with the hood up....hope the costume will allow for that display option.
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Couldn't. Couldn't care less. Man we need a SKIMAN thread for that mistake. I will petition him....or **** it I might start it myself
Even grammar has a twist in the Mandarin thread.
Anthrapoid
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I could not, under any circumstances, care less than I care at this moment.Couldn't. Couldn't care less. Man we need a SKIMAN thread for that mistake. I will petition him....or **** it I might start it myself
Please don't ask me to care less, for it simply is not possible for me to do so.
I ordered this, and I loved the twist.
Solarsailor
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This figure represents what I've always thought about some collectors. It's only about what it looks like. The back story and character have actually nothing to do with the decision to part with the hard cash.
Not that it's a bad thing, just a very interesting insight into figure collecting habits.
Not that it's a bad thing, just a very interesting insight into figure collecting habits.
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This is true for most HT stuff, until you get into something like micheal jackson,
Anthrapoid
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That statement doesn't apply in my case at all. I have to care about the character and like the film, or else I have no interest in collecting figures from it- no matter how great the quality, or the price. I was 14 when Superman The Movie came out, and I love my HT CR Superman because 1) nostalgia, and 2) because HT did it right. The same applies to the HT figures from the '79 ALIEN film, although I wish they had done a MUCH better job on those.
Now I'm waiting for HT to do an (Arnold) Conan series of figures, hopefully before I DIE!!!
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Solarsailor
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I'm just not sure how anyone could relate to a figure of man who's not in fact the character, he's just pretending. I guess unless through some self cannon you could decide that this was the real Mandarin.
It just makes the writers decision all the more bizarre when it translates over to action figures or add ons.
Again I'm not saying this is not a cool figure, it's very cool, knowing he's just a small part of a scheme by another character just makes it feel strange to me though.
DGTWoodward
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But the 'other' guy was just a bloke in a well cut suit...and unless your name is Phil, you play the cello and have chest-wound scarring, it will not sell.
Within the context of the film, he was the Mandarin to the whole world until the reveal/twist. He was the vital factor of the whole scheme, the pivotal piece that the deception kept the eyes of the world focused upon.
The whole point is that, in the film, his importance to the plot makes him a worthy shelf addition, this image...
...kept the world scared.
Solarsailor
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That's just it though, he's not important to the plot. At all, he's more of a giant gag.
The box say's "The Mandarin" yet Killian is clearly the Mandarin. Which ever way you spin it your getting a figure that's not the Mandarin.
After seeing the movie I asked myself the question - "Would this movie have been been worse if Kingsley was the Mandarin and there was no twist?"
I couldn't come up with an alternate version of the movie where the real Mandarin made the movie worse or was a detriment to the film. All I kept thinking was it would actually have been better.
DGTWoodward
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That's just it though, he's not important to the plot. At all, he's more of a giant gag.
The box say's "The Mandarin" yet Killan is clearly the Mandarin. Which ever way you spin it your getting a figure that's not the Mandarin.
After seeing the movie I asked myself the question - "Would this movie have been been worse if Kingsley was the Mandarin and there was no twist?"
I couldn't come up with an alternate version of the movie where the real Mandarin made the movie worse or was a detriment to the film. All I kept thinking was it would actually have been better.
I know he wasn't, we know he wasn't, anyone who watched the film knows that he wasn't....but in film context, the whole world thought that he was until he was exposed as a fake. Had that not happened, it would have continued to do so.
The plan (such as it was) meant that the eyes of the world would be focused on 'the Mandarin' and what they thought he was up to...whilst THE MANDARIN was able to move in and out of high powered talks and situations with relative freedom, free to execute his nefarious schemes.
It makes me s****** too, that a lot of people had a problem with Ben Kingsley as the Mandarin. The idea of an older, short, half Indian/British actor playing an (originally) oriental character seemed to be anathema to some.
But a tall, young, handsome, white Australian in the part didn't seem to phase people one little bit
EDIT: DEAR LORD...the auto-correct/profanity filter will not allow me to use the word s.n.i.g.g.e.r. Just how stupid is that?
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