Hot Toys The Avengers: 1/6th Scale Iron Man Mark VII (Stealth Mode Version)

[Budget Stark]

No offense to any Hot toys iron man fans out there. But if we asked any die hard fans for opinion, he/she will always back every hot toys iron man figure. I wouldn't take their comments too seriously.

I am a die hard iron man, I did not pick up the mk1 2.0, passed on the diecast hot rod, probably passing on the mk3 diecast, not a huge fan of the mk42. Maybe you are use to hearing the well known figure reviewers backing every iron man figure, so you generalise other iron man collectors with this brush.

Personal preferences play a huge part on decision making and so not everyone will back every iron man figure.

 

[Music Man]

That's some nice generalization thinking you got going there.

Let me guess, you are probably not an IM fan and hate all HT IM figures right?

I don't hate HT iron man figures and in fact I have mk 1, mk 1 2.0, mk 6, mk 7 bd. I only collect selective iron man. But just felt disappointed with the stealth colour.

 

[subzro]

No offense to any Hot toys iron man fans out there. But if we asked any die hard fans for opinion, he/she will always back every hot toys iron man figure. I wouldn't take their comments too seriously.

Not every HT Iron Man, there are plenty i have and will pass on because the design did not do anything for me but i have never seen one with a bad paint job.

 

[Budget Stark]

Product description stating different shade of black, no mention of blue.

This is why I don't understand collectors being disappointed that it is black. The prototype on display is exactly the product description.

 

[Budget Stark]

Not every HT Iron Man, there are plenty i have and will pass on because the design did not do anything for me but i have never seen one with a bad paint job.

Some of the old MK3 paint jobs were bad!!!

 

[subzro]

Some of the old MK3 paint jobs were bad!!!

OK, nothing recent

 

[subzro]

So Budget Stark what is your honest opinion on this?

 

[Budget Stark]

So Budget Stark what is your honest opinion on this?

I commented already #1138.

Excellent paint app, exactly what I was expecting from the product description. As it is based on the MK7, nothing new in terms of the body, the paint app is fantastic showing the different shades.

There are some pix on my fb page.

 

[Music Man]

Just wanted to know is there anyone in the past ever tried to recreate the same photo shoot as the pics shown by HT with a final product and see if it can be achievable or is it really a big difference between the final product and HT prototype?

 

[DiFabio]

I think people were just tricked by Hot Toys photography, studio lighting and photoshop to be honest. It's hard to take a picture of a glossy, pure black figure without numerous light sources. The blue and other magnificent shades people are seeing are from those light sources,



When in reality, without those studio lighting it's just as the description states, black and black,






Us Robocop collectors experienced a similar situation. We got these gorgeous prototype shots of a cool, bluish, metallic, purple hued figure,






When in reality, he was a straight up dull silver in hand,

 

[Music Man]

I think people were just tricked by Hot Toys photography, studio lighting and photoshop to be honest. It's hard to take a picture of a glossy, pure black figure without numerous light sources. The blue and other magnificent shades people are seeing are from those light sources,

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When in reality, without those studio lighting it's just as the description states, black and black,



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Us Robocop collectors experienced a similar situation. We got these gorgeous prototype shots of a cool, bluish, purple hued figure,


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When in reality, he was a straight up dull silver.



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Same thing happened to mk 7 BD. I really hope this will turns out better than I thought.

 

[Medusoid]

That's really deceitful. I would have returned that Robocop figure immediately.

 

[YankeesFanboy]

Us RoboCop lovers gotta take what we can get.

 

[DiFabio]

That's really deceitful. I would have returned that Robocop figure immediately.

It felt like BS at the time, sure, but in hindsight, they technically didn't lie when you reread the specs,

"light grey and silver armor"

They straight up told you that it was grey and silver even though the pics showed off a hue that was just like the film. Same thing with the die cast elements. It was labeled as a "die cast figure", but contained maybe 10% of diecast between his shoulders and feet. Again, Hot Toys technically wasn't lying because they did state, "contains some diecast material" in the description.

 

[Remy]

I think people were just tricked by Hot Toys photography, studio lighting and photoshop to be honest. It's hard to take a picture of a glossy, pure black figure without numerous light sources. The blue and other magnificent shades people are seeing are from those light sources,

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When in reality, without those studio lighting it's just as the description states, black and black,



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Us Robocop collectors experienced a similar situation. We got these gorgeous prototype shots of a cool, bluish, metallic, purple hued figure,


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When in reality, he was a straight up dull silver in hand,



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Exactly. I'm guilty of skipping the first page descriptions most of the time and go straight to looking at pics that I thought this
was supposed to blue also.
But fortunately, before the new pics came out, someone pointed it out that it appears to be black like in the description. And that the blue might be from a filter.
So I read it...was hoping it still has a hint of blue, but not completely surprised that it is black.
The only thing that surprised me was how dark it turned out on these new pics.
But the more I look at it, the more it grew on me.

Robocop though on the other hand, I could not get passed the lack of blue hues on it.
The blue hues on the costume in the movie was done extremely well, that its like its part of the suit.
Seeing it just silver...I just couldnt get pass it, that I cancelled my PO.
Still bummed about it cause I was really looking forward to get the figure.

 

[toyszoned]

Hey Guys !
Check this
(First Look!) Hot Toys - The Avengers: 1/6th Ironman Mark VII (Stealth Mode Version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aleIf1W37ks

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[DiFabio]

$249






$299






$339









So what will the next inevitable Mark VII repaint be? What color? $390? $400?

 

[aeluna]

I really wish the light ups on this had been red. There is something about movies in general when something goes 'stealth mode', the general lighting effect to illustrate the phase change is red. I've seen a few photoshop'd pics with red lights and it just makes it look even more bad a.

 

[Medusoid]

I really wish the light ups on this had been red. There is something about movies in general when something goes 'stealth mode', the general lighting effect to illustrate the phase change is red. I've seen a few photoshop'd pics with red lights and it just makes it look even more bad a.

You could put some clear red paper in the chest and head to make it have red lights. I don't think you would be able to do that for the hands, though.

 

[Budget Stark]

I think people were just tricked by Hot Toys photography, studio lighting and photoshop to be honest. It's hard to take a picture of a glossy, pure black figure without numerous light sources. The blue and other magnificent shades people are seeing are from those light sources,

View attachment 177156

When in reality, without those studio lighting it's just as the description states, black and black,



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Us Robocop collectors experienced a similar situation. We got these gorgeous prototype shots of a cool, bluish, metallic, purple hued figure,


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When in reality, he was a straight up dull silver in hand,



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All I see in that promo pic is different shades of black, no blue. So this is like that blue/white black/gold dress thing again.

I know collectors who skipped on figures as they didn't read the product description, eg assuming the whiplash 2.0 diecast whips didn't light up, the falcon backpack didn't light up, all of which are stated in the product description that they did.

I think the lesson here, read the description and don't just rely on the picture as it is obvious that the photos need some form of artificial lighting for the promo pictures to come out.