Iron Man 2: 1/6th scale Mark II (Armor Unleashed Version)

[jedijim3002]

Congrats bro. Welcome to the party.

 

[Cyberseven]

Thanks man...I am glad I finally got the Mark 2. Definitely iconic in the Iron Man series.

 

[jedijim3002]

I bought an extra reveal helmet to make a stark reveal. Does anyone have the 3M head? It looks pretty good from pics.

 

[Cyberseven]

I bought an extra reveal helmet to make a stark reveal. Does anyone have the 3M head? It looks pretty good from pics.

I got the Mark 2 for kind of the same reason. I have the Mark 7 on preorder and I thought I could occasionally swap the head out with the Tony Stark head that comes with the Mark 7. A 3m head is a cool idea too.
Don't have one though myself.

 

[Cyberseven]

Some new pics I took with my phone.

 

[Doomsday]

thank you SSC!

 

[ThatIsTooReal]

Great to see that a fellow NYer won it! Congrats!

 

[Cyberseven]

Congratulations Doomsday! Nice pics too.

 

[moose]

Is it safe to say that the if they were to release an update mark 3 based on this mold that it would be in diecast ?

 

[jedijim3002]

Is it safe to say that the if they were to release an update mark 3 based on this mold that it would be in diecast ?

Huh? Diecast? Where did you get that idea? This is plastic and so is any ht iron man figure past present or future. The only die cast would be tamashii.

 

[Balrog]

Huh? Diecast? Where did you get that idea? This is plastic and so is any ht iron man figure past present or future. The only die cast would be tamashii.

Might wanna do some reading up on things man.

 

[ThatIsTooReal]

Huh? Diecast? Where did you get that idea? This is plastic and so is any ht iron man figure past present or future. The only die cast would be tamashii.

Not for long.

 

[cofphoto]

Exactly correct.

Except for the upcoming Hot Toys Diecast line.


https://www.hottoys.com.hk/news.php?newsID=56

 

[Username]

Huh? Diecast? Where did you get that idea? This is plastic and so is any ht iron man figure past present or future. The only die cast would be tamashii.

You might want to do a forum search for diecast.
It's been news for at least three months.

 

[jedijim3002]

Wow!!! My bad. Must have missed that announcement. Obviously. This is awesome!!! Does that mean we will all have to get rid of our old marks and buy the die cast ones? Crap!!! I'd better start saving now.

 

[cofphoto]

well.......you don't HAVE to do anything.

 

[Username]

Wow!!! My bad. Must have missed that announcement. Obviously. This is awesome!!! Does that mean we will all have to get rid of our old marks and buy the die cast ones? Crap!!! I'd better start saving now.

Well, there are two schools of thought.
One is that with the incredibly high costs of petroleum right now(And the knock on effect of plastic polymers being high as a result), die-cast metal armours made out of aluminium might work out cheaper.
Oil is about $100 per barrel(With about 130kilos per barrel of weight). Aluminium is about $1840 per metric ton($239 for 130 kilos worth), but you don't have to refine the alu to get it into the mould. You only need to melt it and pour it.
With the petroleum refinement to extract polymers, plastic works out more expensive in the long run.
While this may seem to be a "yaaay" moment(A metal MKVI costing $100 at retail), HT are likely to jack the price up to make even more profit as most people out there will *assume* the metal armour cost more to make and as a result is worth the extra cost.
Time will tell as to whether HT follow through and if they are *better* than the plastic versions.

 

[bandito]

Well, there are two schools of thought.
One is that with the incredibly high costs of petroleum right now(And the knock on effect of plastic polymers being high as a result), die-cast metal armours made out of aluminium might work out cheaper.
Oil is about $100 per barrel(With about 130kilos per barrel of weight). Aluminium is about $1840 per metric ton($239 for 130 kilos worth), but you don't have to refine the alu to get it into the mould. You only need to melt it and pour it.
With the petroleum refinement to extract polymers, plastic works out more expensive in the long run.
While this may seem to be a "yaaay" moment(A metal MKVI costing $100 at retail), HT are likely to jack the price up to make even more profit as most people out there will *assume* the metal armour cost more to make and as a result is worth the extra cost.
Time will tell as to whether HT follow through and if they are *better* than the plastic versions.

Weight is one thing but volume has to be taken into consideration. Density being the key word. Aluminum is approximately 3x denser than plastic. Analogy you can make 3 IM with plastic than with Aluminum.

Plastics is still cheaper to aluminum products by a large margin...

While you can cast plastics rather easily... Aluminum parts in most cases requires milling the shape, not just casting... and you also need to anodized it to make the surface lasting/durable

Aluminum being not the cheapest metal, you can be sure will not be used in abundance in die-cast toys/models.

 

[Username]

Weight is one thing but volume has to be taken into consideration. Density being the key word. Aluminum is approximately 3x denser than plastic. Analogy you can make 3 IM with plastic than with Aluminum.

Plastics is still cheaper to aluminum products by a large margin...

While you can cast plastics rather easily... Aluminum parts in most cases requires milling the shape, not just casting... and you also need to anodized it to make the surface lasting/durable

Aluminum being not the cheapest metal, you can be sure will not be used in abundance in die-cast toys/models.

I was using aluminium as an example, but you *can* cast it in moulds. There's a metal foundry near my house and they cast aluminium.
We will have to wait and see what happens with this development.

 

[Ellatron5000]

anyone wanna sell me there MKII?