{"id":31584,"date":"2015-07-28T20:05:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T01:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=31584"},"modified":"2015-07-28T20:05:46","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T01:05:46","slug":"marvel-two-a-day-hulkbuster-legends-iron-man-now-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=31584","title":{"rendered":"Marvel Two-A-Day
Hulkbuster Legends
Iron Man Now Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> “I never pretended I was a damn gentleman.”<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 Tony Stark. Marvel NOW! Iron Man #1 (August, 2014).<\/p>\n

When I reviewed War Machine yesterday, I knocked it a little for being a straight repaint. I don’t really mind a ton, but that figure is really done justice thanks to the “but wait! There\u2019s more!” Rhodey head sculpt. This Iron Man figure is in the same boat. Except there’s no “more” to catch my attention. They’re stealthy Marvel NOW! color scheme is really cool, but I can’t shake the notion that this is just a movie Iron Man figure repainted into comic colors. <\/p>\n

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I suppose I shouldn’t say “just”. The basic figure gets the job done. In Marvel NOW! Tony’s armor get a redesign very similar to what we see in the films, albeit black instead of red. This figure captures that with little issue thanks to the “original” design. And the tooling & development here surely helped out with Hulkbuster or one of the other figures. I get that that how this works. Figures like this are supposed to be the money saver, but I just want more…<\/p>\n

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The sculpt is a solid movie version of the Mark III with great articulation: ball-joints at the neck, shoulders, wrists, mid-torso, hips, and ankles; double-hinges at the knees & elbows; swivels at the biceps & thighs. Everything works like you’d expect and you can get some great poses out of the figure. My joints are a little loose, so I don’t know if this mold is getting a little long in the tooth or I’m just that lucky. I don’t quite recall where we got the original figure. If memory serves there was a brief 6″ Iron Man 2 line that the original figures hails from (and that line had a black\/gold figure of the Mark V. I bet that figure would look great along side this guy). <\/p>\n

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The paint is basically what sets this guy apart and it does a good job. The satin black looks great and distinguishes itself from the shinier War Machine in the same wave. The gold paint makes for a great contrast and a good package deal. There are few other random areas of paint where the sculpt isn’t suited to this particular design. The biggest thing are the extra light up areas at key joints. Those should be sculped and recessed, but some quick tampos are doing the work. That doesn’t quite work, but overall the package works overall and makes for a nice looking figure. The back of figure isn’t really painted – but neither is the armor in the comics. It’s like a win-win. Continue to Page 2…<\/a><\/p>\n

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That brings us to accessories.<\/p>\n

There are none. Again, I get that this guy is a money saver. And there are no obvious accessories for him to come with. His brother in an iron lung? We don’t do energy effects in this line, so there’s no real reason to get near the budget. But! This particular mold has a ton of alternate hands. Fists, open hands, repulsor hands. The hands we did get pop off easily. It’d be nice to get thrown a bone; even just one of those would probably go a long way to sprucing up the figure. Now I really wish I’d gotten the other black\/gold figure. I could reuse the hands!<\/p>\n

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Overall, this isn’t a bad figure. Even though it’s a film-based buck, it looks great with the comic figures. It also happens to blend in as a stealth armor on your movie shelf if you were so inclined. The old, but solid, sculpt shines under the new deco and gets us all one more body for our Halls of Armor. There’s a lot to like here even if he’s on the cheaper side of things. I think the one big commentary I have on this figure, and this kinda echoes my thoughts on Vision yesterday, is that newer costumes change so often anymore, I don’t know why or how the toy companies try to keep up. <\/p>\n

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I bought and enjoyed Now! Cap & Now! Thor. Now! Iron Man is okay too, but none of those costumes are accurate anymore. Even before Secret Wars & Battleword, all the Now! status quos were long gone. Iron Man was back in white and then missing. Thor lost Mjolnir and his arm. Cap was doubled in age and replaced by Falcon. And I’m not saying toy companies should shy away from these new figures – I want a Sam Wilson Captain America, but if we get it, it’ll probably be around the time that Cap takes his shield back. I love new alternate costume figures, but I wish they’d run a little closer to when they appear. It’d at least feel better. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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