The Iron Men

Hasbro's Iron Man 2 line continues to be a winner. For someone like me, who's been a fan of Iron Man for over thirty years, I love being able to play with and compare all of the different Iron Man costumes.

The most fun so far has come from having both the film and comic book first versions of Tony Stark's invention to contrast. They're really good toys, and though neither of them is completely perfect, Hasbro has managed to do a lot more with the big clunky gray suits than I imagined they would at this small scale.



Comic Book Iron Man is brilliant. They gave this one much more articulation than the suit probably had in the old comic books, and there's some nice paint and weathering going on, though they seemed to ignore the back of the figure, which is unfortunate.



Mark I Iron Man from the first film is actually just a scaled down version of the 6-inch figure that Hasbro released for that film. It's not a bad thing that they rehashed the old figure somewhat, as they did a nice job scaling it down, and the detail is great.

The one thing that I would have liked to see them lose, is the big stupid missile launcher that clips onto the figure's arm. It looks more like a Super Soaker firing a giant cheese puff than anything in the Iron Man universe.



When putting the two figures side by side, I'm a little surprised by how the film version is so much shorter than the comic book version. But that's just about the only "off" thing that I'm seeing. For the most part I think they're great, and they definitely inspire me to collect other film and comic book related Iron Man figures.