Hot Toys Mark II - photos in natural lighting

Just some quick snapshots of the new Mark II armor unleashed - not much postprocessing here (brightened it up a  bit).

Update:

Some new photos under a lightspot:

Hot Toys Classic Predator - unboxing and video review

So I finally got my christmas 2011 present...2 monts of delay. I don't know the details, but what I know is that I preordered the figure in August 2011 at a HK eBay seller. Then months went by...sideshow got it first...all had their Christmas Predator...but not me. Was quite a bummer to see all the other people receiving theirs, but what can you do.

Check my vid for a unboxing and presentation of this awesome figure. His name says it....an instant Classic (Predator). :-)

Enjoy and have a good time 1/6 collectors and Predator fans.

Quick review in text. 

The good:

• Paint application is super realistic, spot on and very realistic
• lots of cool accessories, like the holographic panel
• the custom base is more than a throw in, very detailed, nicely painted
• metal wristblades - oh yeah :-)
• 4 different face expressions: masked normal, damaged battledamaged, closed and open mandibles
• high quality materials for clothing

The ugly:

• not much here to say, may be the paint application of the forehead where the pain suddenly gets into a white / beige 

Hot Toys Mark II Armor unleashed video review

Hi guys, hope you're having a good time. Something completely fresh today. Check out my video review of the Hot Toys Mark II armor unleashed figure - sorry didn't go for the exclusive.

A must-have for any iron man collector!

Some sort of short review:

The positive:

• A definite chrome-look as paint application, not greyish and also not silverish. Check out the video for seeing all the reföections on the body. Of course its no where as shiny as the movie counterpart, but it will stand out in your Iron Man collection for sure
• Huge lot of parts and accessories, there's so much stuff to discover on this figure
• Light up feature works like a charm and is real bright
• Cool box - like it a lot more than the Iron man 2 Line, classy look
• In my opinion still a very good Don Cheadle face sculpt, slightly different from the war machine one (at least on mine, see the video)

The negative:

• definately the cardboard table - it's only a throw-in, nothing durable, but in the end Hot Toys did what they could in time, money and especially regarding to the limited box space

And for closing a more in depth look in moving frames:

Neca 22" Alien review and collection update

Well guys...good and bad news. I got quite a good deal on the 22" Alien figure by Neca - read lots of good aspects in terms of movie accuracy and the sculpt. So I thought why not give it a shot. But see for yourself how this odyssey turned out for me:

So the whole joint / ankle quality problem was quite a let down, especially regarding the superb sculpt and size of the figure. Non the less a must have!

Hot Toys Classics - Terminator 2 T-800

My first Hot Toys figure and still an awesome piece of 1/6 art. The Terminator 2 T-800. I was checking out Terminator 2 on Blu-ray out a that time and stumbled upon some Hot Toys prototype pictures on google image search - it was unbelievable. And it shortly after got soaked into collecting Hot Toys.

Still to this day this is the best 1/6 scale incarnation of the Terminator 2 Arnie. Discussions arised in the past weeks because of Enterbays 1/4 T2 scale figure - but if you ask me the Hot Toys one still is a very good match.