Comics Marvel IronmanComic ComicsSuperheroes ComicsMarvel DcSuperherosStark MarvelMarvel ArtsMarvelcomics TonystarkMarvel MarvelcomicsForwardIron man ( tony stark ) has 35 suits! He's like Oprah with them u have a suit! U have a suit! Plastic Iron Man figures are all well and good, but its hard to maintain the illusion of metal armor when your toy is light as a feather. Weighing in at four pounds, Comicave’s Iron Man Mark XXXVIII Igor figure is pretty heavy metal. Courtesy of my friends at Bluefin Distribution, bringers of all things amazing and Japanese, Igor isn’t quite iron—the die-casting process generally deals with non-ferrous metals—but he’s pretty much as close as an articulated figure is going to get. Three-quarters of the eight inch figure is die-cast metal, with plastic pieces filling in in areas where intricate detail and smooth movement are called for. Igor is Tony Stark’s heavy-lifting armor, because Tony’s far too delicate to just buy some furniture straps.
He appeared briefly in the Iron Man 3 film, during the bit where all of the armors showed up for the final battle and then exploded.We hardly knew ye. Though his film career was cut short, Igor’s been a favorite subject among toy makers tired od simply retooling the same basic figure over and over again. His hunched over appearance makes him stand out in a field of multicolored armor, though he does quite well on his own. Look at this beautiful thug. He’s downright majestic, in a gorilla sort of way. He sort of reminds me of some of Optimus Primal’s appearances in the Beast Wars Transformers series, crossed with the shiny metallic appliances from the 50s and 60s. The way the paint is fading around the edges, the distressed metal effect—this is a figure with some history behind it. Also a figure with an articulated metal spine behind it. Igor is a high-tech industrial machine with sliding forklift attachments on his forearms. Between the white stripes on his blue frame and the warnings stamped across his surface, its clear Tony Stark created Igor for much more than his own personal use.
And despite his bulky appearance, this is a suit of armor that is meant to move. He features more than 60 points of articulation from his hands, with articulated fingers that do rude things I decided to restrict to the video up top... ...to his feet, which are delicate, like a ballerina. Here are his official specs, as featured on the Comicave product page.The only disappointing thing about my Igor here is that while his chest lights up, his eyes haven’t done so since I received the figure. I like to think he’s just sad because Tony Stark destroyed him, though I suspect collectors who paid $184.99 for him might not be quite as imaginative. Then again, collectors paying that much for an eight inch, four pound monster like this will likely turn the lights on, nod appreciatively, then turn them off and take out the batteries to avoid future leaks. Never can be too safe. Update: Eye lights work! Problem was this figure didn’t have instructions, so I did not know to do this:
Honestly I would have never know that top bit came off if Bluefin’s PR guy hadn’t emailed me, so kudos to Comicave for a nearly invisible battery and switch compartment! Ultimately Igor here is a keeper. While I’ll always appreciate the level of detail a company like Hot Toys puts into its Iron Men, there’s just something about a metal suit that’s actually made out of metal. This is Iron Man, not Plastic Man, which is good as no one wants to get sued. or find him on Twitter@bunnyspatial.Science Fiction & Fantasy Sign up or log in to customize your list. Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question The best answers are voted up and rise to the top It looks like there are about fifty Iron Men in the new Iron Man Movie: Iron Man 3. Who are all these Iron Men? Is Pepper Potts one of them? Or is it all The Avengers, but wearing Iron Man costumes? Here's a snapshot from the international trailer: This is an allusion to the Argonauts
As well as this image by Oliver Coipel where Tony demonstrates his ability to control several armors at once using tech similar to the NTU-Telepresence armor. You can see in this still shot he is wearing what I believe is a Telepresence headset. Elsewhere in that same trailer, we see a flying Iron Man suit that Tony jumps into. The back of the suit is open, and he leaps into it, then takes over. This suggests that these suits may be remote controlled, so it's likely that most of them are empty in that image. It's unlikely that if there are pilots in the suits that they would be Avengers, as Kevin Feige, Marvel Studios President stated in an interview: Journalist: After cell phones came out horror directors had to come up with elaborate ways to explain why people wouldn’t call someone on a cell phone for help, now that all The Avengers know each other do you have to come up with excuses for why Tony Stark wouldn’t reach out when he needs a hand? Feige: It’s a good question, and it’s sort of half and half.
I am betting that like the comics you don’t have to keep – if you are reading a standalone “Iron Man” comic, they don’t spend every page explaining where every other Marvel hero is. The audience kind of accepts that there are times when they’re on their own and there are times when they are together. I’m betting that movie audiences will feel the same way. That being said, there is a little bit of lip service here and there to that. There is also just the very nature of Tony wants to, once he barely survives that house attack you saw today, and even you saw it in the message he left for Pepper, he’s basically saying “I’m going off the grid to try to figure something out.” It's currently unknown who is controlling them remotely (Tony, JARVIS, a villain, etc.), as the film is not yet released. It's likely that Tony is doing so, as in a previous trailer (Trailer 1 at 0:27) we see him wearing a device on his head and remotely guiding components of a new Iron Man armor onto himself.
In addition, it's been discussed in interviews that the movie will adapt the Extremis storyline. In that storyline, Tony gets some augmentations to himself, which allows him to remotely guide and control Iron Man suits. They are remotely controlled by him: Operation "House Party" The movie came out last week in japan (4/26/2013) Armors in the film were mark 25 striker mark 33 silver centurion mark 38 igor mark42 mark 17 heartbreaker mark 40 shotgun mark 39 starboost mark 35 red snapper mark 37 hammerhead.. These are the armors Stark built in the film. The suits were all (almost all) unmanned, and controlled remotely by JARVIS as part of operation "House Party". They are all the various prototype and production suits Tony had built. During the battle in which they participated, Tony jumped from suit to suit, as needed, which is why I say "almost all" are unmanned. We've had an example of someone else wearing Iron Man Armour in War Machine, if a big enough threat makes it's self apparent there is no reason Tony couldn't have a military unit suited up in a set of Iron Man suits.