Hooray for Paintshop filters! It almost looks like Marvel vs Capcom 3! (no not really)
I changed the colors of the blog. I don't know if it's really any better or worse than before. I have no idea what I'm really doing and no one says anything about it! One of these days, I'm going to sit down and make a new header that isn't so lame and shitty. Also, page breaks were finally researched. I suck at websites!
And to think, I used to make forum signatures rather frequently.
So next up is Sci-fi Revoltech Iron Man, which came to me in the same shipment from
Amiami as Ymir. Kaiyodo's getting a bit crazy with all these Revoltech sub-lines.
Something I wanted to mention in the Ymir post, but forgot: I think I'm tsundere for Revoltech. I'm still not completely satisfied with the Revolver joints, and a number of their figures that I've owned have been kinda annoying. But dammit, they did Yotsuba, and then they got Queen's Blade, and now they're making marked improvements while giving me an Iron Man and Jehuty. WHY CAN'T I QUIT YOU, REVOLTECH?
At least I haven't really fallen for Figuarts, Robot Damashii has stabilized, and I'm mostly burnt out on Nendoroids. Being heavily into Figma and Revoltech is enough for me.
Before I start talking about Iron Man, a story!
"And now, Menace dance!"
"God dammit Stark! Stay out of this, you ruin everything!"
"REGISTER."
"Huh? Nothing happ-"
"WHAT THE HELL?!"
"OH MY GOD WHAT IS HAPPENING TO ME?!"
"It won't stop spreading! IT WON'T STOP SPREADING!"
"NOOOOOoooooo..."
"..."
"Registration complete."
Iron Man's box is a bit nicer than the standard Revoltech box, as it has a door, the backside of which is covered in a wall of moonrunes that I guess summarizes the plot of the two Iron Man movies. Out of the box, Tony looks pretty damn good. Basically as good as he does in all the promo shots. For accessories, he has a pair of fists, pair of splayed hands, pair of repulsor blast-pose hands, pair of repulsor blast-effect hands, a thrust effect piece/stand, name plate, and typical Revocontainer and Revochip. This is the first "Sci-fi" Revoltech I have, so I don't know if not having a normal stand is normal for the sub-line or not. I also don't really know what to do with the name plate, it has a peg hole as if it is meant to be put on something, but Iron Man doesn't come with anything to put it on. I'm guessing it's something else that has to do with the Sci-fi series.
Need to focus on these hands for a moment. The three normal pairs of hands, the ones that are not used with the repulsor blast effects, fit onto the tiny wrist joints. The wrist guard plate on the top is also hinged, though more with some kind of plastic crimp instead of a real hinge, so I'm a bit worried about the durability there. The effect-part hands, however, are completely unarticulated. They even have a solid fake joint scultped onto them, so they aren't attached to the normal wrist joints, and the guard plate is sculpted in a raised position. The normal hand is on the left in that picture, with the effect hand on the right, and you can see that the effect parts are also removable.
Overall construction is nice. There are some things worth pointing out! The neck has two joints and a lot of room to move around, enabling Iron Man to look up or forward for flying poses. The pauldrons are on tiny joints of their own, so they can move around pretty well and easily be popped back into place if you manage to force one off. The abdomen plate is on a weird hinge like the hands have. It's kinda odd at first, since it pushes in when you move the chest forward, so if you try to grab the figure there you end up pushing the plate in a bunch. The hips don't use Revolver joints at all, and probably for the better. They're more akin to Figma hips, and there are little armor plates on the hips that can be rotated. The knees are the only double-joints on the figure, and the knee pads are attached by tiny joints like the shoulder pads. Though, kinda oddly, the knee pads are attached to the thighs instead of the shins or the knee joints themselves.
Now, if I were a good reviewer, I'd post a bunch of pictures showing the whole range of articulation and whatnot, but I'm not a good reviewer, and just
look at that picture. Revoltech Iron Man can do his iconic pose (it's even what they used for the big picture on the front of the box)! Though I think I don't have it quite perfect here, but it was rather easy to get him into that pose, much easier than I imagined.
The various effect parts are mostly there to put him in flight poses. The base even has two joints itself, so the puffs to the sides can be moved around.
Unfortunately, Kaiyodo didn't provide a flight stand for Iron Man, so if you want to have him flying in any way other than straight from the ground, you'll have to have some other stand (using a Tamashii Stage Act 4 here).
Other figures can use the thrust effect, at least!
Since the neck is made to accomidate flight poses, it can do some interesting things.
Of course, the repulsor blasts can be used for attack poses!
This is one of those "I don't know" pictures.
Now Yotsuba can play, too!
A lot of people have wanted to know how this Revoltech Iron Man compares to the 6" Hasbro Iron Man figures. In this picture, the Hasbro RDJ Mark IV is on the left, Revoltech in the center, and Marvel Universe (the 1/18th-ish line) Classic Iron Man on the right. The Revoltech is just slightly shorter than the Hasrbo one.
The size difference isn't enough to make the Revo incompatible with the Hasbro figures, I think. A little clever manipulation of angles and stances can easily even out height differences.
So, between the Revoltech and the Hasbro, which is better?
Well, I dunno. The Revoltech certainly has better articulation and a better paint job. I personally find the sculpt and proportions of the Revo to also be better. But the Revoltech has one major strike against it: no hands that can hold things. Which means the Revoltech can't hold his precious alcohol, while the Hasbro ones can, since they have holding-things hands. The Hasbro figures are also much cheaper at retail and available in a variety of forms and characters, that I know of Mk. IV, Mk. V, Mk. VI, War Machine, and Titanium Man are all available from Hasbro with optional hands. Revoltech only has the Mk. VI for now, but an exclusive Mk. IV is being released, and there may be more in the future. At this time, Hasbro Iron Man is also the only one that has a RDJ head.
So, ultimately, it comes down to preferences. Or you can be like me and just have both! I think I have as many versions of Iron Man as I do Haruhi...
But hey, now I have an Iron Man head compatible with my Figmas!
Now just to do pictures for Composite Haruhi...which I sorta don't have much motivation to do. My initial impression of the figure has been kinda disappointing.
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