That sure looks like a fake pic to me but I wouldn't doubt they do stuff like this with all the suits made of parts already molded. This suit is just mk 7 and heartbreakers feet with the colors changed, not too hard to fake.
It does certainly look fake. Python is mostly the Mark VII, but it has Heartbreakers legs and the Mark IX helmet. I would hope if HT released it they would do the right helmet.
Edit: Actually, it looks like the Heartbreaker legs are used for the first time on the Mark XI. So they're technically Mark XI legs
It maybe fake but I think its still possible to get another repaint as Comic Con exclusive considering that they already have 1/4 scale busts of Blue Steel and Tank which are nothing more then repaints of Silver Centurion and Heart Breaker.
So in keeping in line with Hot Toys typical business practice I think we can expect to get these repaints as possible Conventions exclusives.
Looks to be fake. But if it's the real deal, count me in.
Howard, I know you are milking this but don't you dare skim out on the accuracy and accessories just because it's a repaint and a mash-up. Include that bloody light-up base at the very least.
There's been one official mark repaint, unless you count War Machine Mark II and Iron Patriot. Hardly an array. More like the array of repaints and part swaps that will happen.
I like the style of the IM bases but they are so chunky, I wouldn't want a collection of them floating around my Detolfs. I'd much prefer they chop the tops off of them and just leave it at that if we aren't getting the light up function anymore.
Definitely a photoshopped image. Besides it's too early for HT to announce summer exclusives; but it's entirely possible if they actually make this figure in the future.