Re: Hot Toys - MMS??? - Spider-Man: Homecoming - Iron Man Mark XLVII? Speculation Thr
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Do you know why the 43 is exactly the same as the 42 only red? It is because Joss wanted a red armor and not a gold one. It is not because there is some elaborate backstory happening with Tony Stark, it is because the people making the movie had an anesthetic choice, and the copy that they put in the art books makes up a paragraph of backstory to fit it.
Why is there 36 armors in Iron Man 3 but seemingly many of them are just repaints and parts of others? Because Digital Domain and Weta had the resources to model 12 hero suits, and the rest had to be made of those assets. And then write a backstory about prototypes and variants and etc etc.
We'll know once the movie comes out, but it looks like this is happening- Homecoming crew: Iron Man is in this, we'd like to change up the suit a bit to give this movie its own distinct visual of Iron Man, but he's probably in it for once scene so spending months to top to bottom design a new armor is not plausible. Art team: here are some new colorways based on the 46 chassis (they do this for every movie, all the art books are full of many colors of Iron Man, one or more designs was clearly inspired by Ultimate Iron Man). Director: I like that one. -end scene-
There will be some discussion in the art book and press tour, but it will boil down to "we wanted it to be different and that's what we picked." An intern will write up a few lines to go with the action figures and art books about why the suit looks like this (did you know the 46 has mini arcs because it was envisioned as a stealth suit and those were there to illuminate the environment and project an image of what is behind it? Of course it never came up but that was how the concept art people justified a bleeding edge inspired suit. In the film the justification was literally nothing. It just looks cool and comic book fans will squeal and clap their hands).
Its not "half painted" and oh, Tony has to tear it out of the fabrication machine and run off to battle. It is designed and painted to have a grey/silver midsection. Its a nod to Ultimate. Its a way to give a short Iron Man presence a unique look without breaking the bank and making an all new armor. There will be some justification for it that will probably not be mentioned anywhere but in the caption of some concept art, but it will boil down to a visual preference that the people making the movie had. And it will have a Mark number. The idea that this just isn't "special" enough to be "honored" with a Mark number is ridiculous. THERE ARE 46 SUITS ALREADY, in just six movies. And half of them are just repaints, including 2 of the beloved "original 7", and several never appeared on screen at all. It is not an exclusive club that a suit with 10 seconds of airtime and a repainted chassis isn't worthy of, considering that describes most of the members of that club already.
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