Iron Man 2 Figures Unboxing: Classic Red and Gold, Mark IV, Mark II

March 16, 2010

This is a continuation of yesterday’s unboxing post. Too much awesomeness contained in a single entry might damage your retina and cause your brain to ooze out from  your sweat glands. You guys can thank me later.

So, like I mentioned last time, these items were acquired over at Megamall during the Iron Man 2 action figure toy launch, courtesty of Cybertron PH. I should seriously feature those guys here. They’re awesome and they deserve the props. I got 11 figures, 10 of which were already opened and displayed in my mini-armory. I really have to find a way to fix that thing up. It looks uninspired right now.

Anyway, I am posting the unboxing pics and mini-reviews in the order in which I opened them up. In this post, we’ll be looking at the Classic red and gold armor, the Mark IV, which was the replacement armor for the battered Mark III, and the fan favorite Mark II.

Classic Red and Gold Armor

This is probably the image of Iron Man most old comic book fans get in their brains when they of him.If I’m not mistaken, this is the armor he wears in the 60’s cartoon. “Tony Stark makes you feel, he’s a cool exec with a heart of steel.” Appearances of this armor in the comics here and there are always welcome, even if they are just in the covers.

Everyone’s pretty much packaged the same way, so this image doesn’t really change across the board. It doesn’t look like much in the box, but when I took it out, I can’t believe it would be legal to make something so gorgeous.

It looks great, it’s shiny, it’s poseable and it comes with more accessories than the others. It has a red dildo repulsor blast, a blast off stand, a regular stand and the armor cards.

The sculpt looks absolutely fantastic. There was an MU version of this armor that came out in the 2nd or 3rd waves, but this one clearly dominates that in every aspect. The MU one looks so thin that if someone stepped out of it, he’d be a lanky 14 year old girl with an eating disorder. The classic armor from the Iron Man 2 movie line is buff enough for it to look like Tony Stark could fit inside. The sulpt of the whole body looks like it jumped out of a comic book page.

Besides it being built like a god, it is shiny where it needs to be shiny. The paint is so simple on this thing that it will take actual conscious effort to mess it up. “Oh woops. My clumsy fingers dropped four pints of paint on it. Sorry.”

I’ll show how posable this thing is in the next images. It seems to have more poseability than the other movie version sets of armor. It has ball joint neck, shoulder, wrist twist, single joint elbow, chest, ball joint hips, double jointed knees and swivel ankles.

It looks utterly ridiculous with the red “repulsor blast,” so I decided to pose it without that damn thing. I am a big fan of sculpted hands, and this figure proved how awesome those are. Those hands show so much more than they let on. Simply moving them around changes the emotion the figure expresses.

“I AM IRON MAN!”

The blast off platform is quite useless or maybe I haven’t figured it out yet. It only has one peg so you can only secure one foot at a time. Because of that, the figure becomes quite unstable. To shoot this pic, I had to be really quick.
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