I won't try to tangent off to Age of Ultron but that movie was awesome! So, with a movie with that, of course Iron Man would be out with a new armor! So with that said, here's his new armor! Mark 43! So figure wise, is it as epic as it was in the movie? Let's find out.
Here's Iron Man in the box! Noting new with Hasbro's easy to swap packaging! So let's move on to the figure itself then, shall we?
This suit is exactly the same as his Iron Man 3 armor, the Mark 42, the only difference aesthetic wise is that the majority of it is red; Mark 42 was mostly gold. Function wise, in the movie, it seemed more stable. I think Stark perfected his 'sentry' program. So as an action figure, I think it's actually a bit more dull as mostly red. Now don't get me wrong, I do like the dominant red, but since his armors in the movie are almost always identical, minus a few little difference here and there, to have a strikingly different armor coloring scheme is something accepted. Though the figure does a fine job capturing the essence of the armor's look as how it appears on screen. The mold is something we have seen before so nothing really grand.
The only real difference with this figure and the figure with the exact same mold that came before is that this one comes with an alternate head. We'll take a good look of that later but let's just also take note that he also comes with one of Thanos' legs.
It doesn't really look like Robert Downey Jr. one bit, but at least it is a recognizable Tony Stark head. The one perk about this is that it works adequately with the Mark 42:
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His articulation isn't bad at all, but Hasbro doing nothing to fix the hands(variant hands ya think?!), this Iron Man is as limited as his Mark 42 form. One open palm(which barely represents a repulsor attack) and a closed fist may be ideal, but it restricts him from his signature flight pose, one hand fist takes him out of a lot of fight pose, so what can I say? It really does fall short in this department.
Though there are certain poses that I can get Stark in that really captures the Iron Man ambiance out of him.
There's some comparison pics between Mark 43 of this wave and Mark 42 from the Iron Monger BAF. Again, same mold and paint just inverted; it really does make a difference.
All in all, he is basically needed for the sake of finishing Thanos. I mean, how hard core is one to be an Iron Man to own this figure? For the sake of having Age of Ultron figures of Iron Man, I suppose its essential. Trust me though, one can't have enough Iron Man armors if one is an avid fan of the Iron Avenger! Though this figure does fall on a 6 out of 10 so that's a shame.
