1/6 Hot Toys 1/6 Iron Man Mark 7 Diecast

[medicomsucks]

I don't hate the pod i hate that you have to use the figure to make the pod. So it's a gimmick to me because it will never get used. I would love to display both at the same time and when i 1st looked the pictures i thought you could so was I already planning a custom Tony to put under the pod to recreate the suit catching up to him.

That's what i thought as well. I don't mind the pod, just doubt I'll use it. About the only way it will be displayed as the pod is if it comes out of the box that way, it'll be in that pod mode for about 2 minutes.

 

[Motuxmen]

Diecast armors just seem better engineered & weight is just one of those 3 dimensional properties that can’t be ignored when holding an item. Ordered through BBTS because the exclusive doesn’t warrant the SS tax IMO.

Engineering has nothing to due with diecast. It’s just a newer figure. They could do the same thing with plastic. Look at the 1/4 figures.

 

[yacobschlomo]

Diecast armors just seem better engineered & weight is just one of those 3 dimensional properties that can’t be ignored when holding an item. Ordered through BBTS because the exclusive doesn’t warrant the SS tax IMO.

The engineering on the recent plastic ones were just as good as the diecast. for those that handle their figures a lot, i guess the perceived value of a heavier figure is worth it. but for many of those that have a lot of iron man figures and just pose/display them - diecast is an unnecessary added cost and more difficult to pose (e.g., flight poses).

 

[TurdFurgusonsHat]

Diecast armors just seem better engineered & weight is just one of those 3 dimensional properties that can’t be ignored when holding an item. Ordered through BBTS because the exclusive doesn’t warrant the SS tax IMO.

I agree that the exclusive sucks but I might still go that route. Exclusive almost always does better on the resell no matter how bad it is.

 

[Rudimus]

Engineering has nothing to due with diecast. It’s just a newer figure. They could do the same thing with plastic. Look at the 1/4 figures.

Gotta disagree, the added weight has to be accounted for when it comes to statics of a figure that needs to stand on its own. SS couldn’t make DC figures probably as their figures fall on their own lol

 

[yacobschlomo]

why does it need to stand on its own? no way i leave a diecast figure freestanding.

 

[Motuxmen]

Gotta disagree, the added weight has to be accounted for when it comes to statics of a figure that needs to stand on its own. SS couldn’t make DC figures probably as their figures fall on their own lol

The plastic figures with new engineering stand as well, or better, then diecast. Disproportionate and random weight do not make a figure more stable. And overtime that weight weakens joints much faster then plastic.

It’s funny how no one cares what the weight for anything else is. I mean I don’t see a lot of Thor is the best normal man figure because the rubber makes him heavier. Don’t recall hearing that much.

If all things where equal I’d prefer diecast as the weight is a nifty thing. However all things are not equal, and because of marketing and clever salesmanship they have managed to use it to increase the price 30-35% for a product that costs no more to make.

 

[subzro]

My DC figures don't stand on there own very well at all. I have to use a stand.

 

[Rudimus]

The plastic figures with new engineering stand as well, or better, then diecast. Disproportionate and random weight do not make a figure more stable. And overtime that weight weakens joints much faster then plastic.

It’s funny how no one cares what the weight for anything else is. I mean I don’t see a lot of Thor is the best normal man figure because the rubber makes him heavier. Don’t recall hearing that much.

If all things where equal I’d prefer diecast as the weight is a nifty thing. However all things are not equal, and because of marketing and clever salesmanship they have managed to use it to increase the price 30-35% for a product that costs no more to make.

Maybe so, but the engineering has to be better on a diecast just for gravity’s sake believe me. & I know most everyone likes the diecast Mjolnir & Caps shield better than their plastic counterparts, us humans are easily satisfied.

 

[Rudimus]

My DC figures don't stand on there own very well at all. I have to use a stand.

My first iron man was the DC mk. 43 & it still stands perfectly fine on its own. though of course I still use a stand as I live in California, but I know some collectors like to display their figures raw dog lol

 

[CollectorGuy]

I just don't understand the hate for the pod. Calling it a gimmick. Personally I think it's a pretty sweet innovation that you can choose to or not to display.

Because you can't display it without a proper stand, a stand that HT has not yet bothered to create for these die cast figures. The prices these things are increasing and yet they choose not to provide us with what we need. If it had just been plastic that could have been avoided. Also without a tony to display with it what's the point of the pod? The pod should have been sold with a tony like the gantries, not with the mk7 itself.

 

[subzro]

Maybe so, but the engineering has to be better on a diecast just for gravity’s sake believe me. & I know most everyone likes the diecast Mjolnir & Caps shield better than their plastic counterparts, us humans are easily satisfied.

I took apart a DC war machine MK1 to get a replacement and the it was engineered very well but the top half the torso, head and arms are 97% plastic. The Diecast on most of these are in the legs. So the joints (at least on that one) are not overly built because they are supoorting the same weight as a fully plastic one.

True for whatever reason everyone likes the diecast shield and hammer. I like the pastic ones just because of the lighter weight they can hold them up better. I'm not putting down DC as i own every single one HT has made so far minus the new MKII just saying IMO it's not the holy grail that some make it out to be (not you just in general)

 

[Motuxmen]

Maybe so, but the engineering has to be better on a diecast just for gravity’s sake believe me. & I know most everyone likes the diecast Mjolnir & Caps shield better than their plastic counterparts, us humans are easily satisfied.

The engineering doesn’t actually have to be better. It should be, to support that additional weight long term, but that doesn’t mean it has to be, or is. Take apart a new DC and a newer Plastic and the joints are identical. The diecast are heavier. That’s it. Take a plastic figure, a newer one, put some pot metal in the legs and it’s identical to a diecast. No new engineering.

And again...nothing against diecast as an idea. But it is the application that’s an issue. As well as how it’s touted as far superior. Even though it’s not in any way other then weight. For an extra hundred bucks a figure.

 

[Rudimus]

The engineering doesn’t actually have to be better. It should be, to support that additional weight long term, but that doesn’t mean it has to be, or is. Take apart a new DC and a newer Plastic and the joints are identical. The diecast are heavier. That’s it. Take a plastic figure, a newer one, put some pot metal in the legs and it’s identical to a diecast. No new engineering.

And again...nothing against diecast as an idea. But it is the application that’s an issue. As well as how it’s touted as far superior. Even though it’s not in any way other then weight. For an extra hundred bucks a figure.

If you say so...

 

[subzro]

It's also misleading. A while back someone posted photo on facebook of an IM figure head and the top had melted because it was to close to an overhead light in the display case. He was confused how it happened because it was a diecast figure.

No excuse for having any figure that close to a hot light but there are a lot of people who think these are 100% diecast and i'm sure HT knows that. It's just like a drink that say lemonade on it and it's actually only has 3% of anything related to lemons.

Just like Motuxmen said These are really plastic figures with some metal. HT is playing us but i keep buying because i love these things.

 

[Motuxmen]

Yep, another good point.

 

[kiwiatlarge]

LOL when people say they are out after this figure. You just know the Mark 1 is going to get the "diecast" branding to complete the set... It'll be big and beefy like War Machine, and they'll slap a $450 price tag on it, and people will buy it.

 

[Motuxmen]

I will. Lol

 

[subzro]

LOL when people say they are out after this figure. You just know the Mark 1 is going to get the "diecast" branding to complete the set... It'll be big and beefy like War Machine, and they'll slap a $450 price tag on it, and people will buy it.

Nope not me, not a chance, never, ok maybe just one.


It will be intresting to see how they do it. I look at my Mark 1 2.0 and there is not a lot of metal to that suit. Tony should have been so very dead before he even got out of the cave .

I'm guessing they will add the weight in the legs of the Tony body under the suit. The suit is way to thin and open to really add weight any other way (that i can think of)

 

[wamphyri13]

This latest Mk VII is just proof that Hot Toys is a despicable company whose only real interest is milking the public for every last dime they can collect. Their greed is limitless and their morals are non existent. This figure will undoubtedly by remarketed in many various paint schemes to suck up even more cash. That being said....I PO'd already.