Saturday, April 9, 2016

TOY NEWS FOR 4/9/2016 - HOT TOYS - CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR - BLACK PANTHER

I think the character I'm most interested in seeing in Captain America: Civil War is Black Panther.

The character has been around a very long time, debuting in 1966 in Fantastic Four #52. He has a very cool and interesting back story-- which I presume will be explored in full in his own film in a few years. Black Panther-- T'Challa, king of the people of Wakanda-- is mostly just an ordinary man-- but an extraordinary ordinary man. He possess physical prowess and fighting skills equal to Captain America, but he's also a genius on the level of Tony Stark (something I really hope that they explore in the movies).

The Black Panther is powerful and noble and carries the heavy weight of the crown of his people. He's simply an amazing character.

I'm sure his role in Civil War will be a smaller one, but I hope it gets people really excited about the character. He deserves it.

This new Hot Toys figure of T'Challa certainly has me pretty damn excited! He looks absolutely amazing, and I think they seem to have handled his suit really well. I'm a bit disappointing that he lacks an unmasked head, but I can live with that as I'm sure the version based on his own film will include it.
















His release date and price should be announced in the next day or so and I'll post them here when they are.

TOY NEWS FOR 4/9/2016 - HOT TOYS - CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR - ANT-MAN

I wonder how many Hot Toys figures will come out of Captain America Civil War... I imagine that it will probably be even more than were produced from Avengers Age of Ultron since it will have almost every existing character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in it except for Thor and Hulk.

I'm really looking forward to seeing Ant-Man interact with the rest of the MCU characters, and I know the moment when he becomes Giant-Man in the film is going to be pretty awesome one.

While I don't see Hot Toys making a three foot tall Giant-Man figure, they will be making the usual 1/6 scale version and an accompanying 1" figure-- although he's not posable.















Paul Rudd or Ben Affleck...? Hmmmm.......





Ant-Man will be released some time between Sept and Nov for $239.99

TOY NEWS FOR 4/9/2016 - HOT TOYS - ALIENS - ALIEN WARRIOR

To celebrate the upcoming Alien Day (April 26th) Hot Toys will be releasing a brand new version of the Alien Warrior. The original version was release way back in the very early days of Hot Toys, and the US version was imported as a "1/6 scale model kit" which had to be snapped together.

Needless to say, this new version is leaps and bounds above their original release.
















Look for this Alien figure to be released some time between July and September for $249.99