In 2000, artist/sculptor Cheong-ah Hwang (AKA papernoodle) started working exclusively with paper as her medium of choice when building very exquisite structures. Since then, her paper structures have been featured everywhere from art gallery, museums, and even at L’Atelier restaurant at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas. Born in Seoul, Korea and now residing in Colombus, Ohio, papernoodle is now offering her brilliant paper structures on Etsy! One of the coolest items she is offering is a paper structure piece featuring the Mark III suit from the first Iron Man movie and also a Captain America based on John Romita Sr.’s interpretation of Jack Kirby’s original drawings. Referred as a bas-relief paper structure, papernoodle hand crafts each piece of paper to create a very surreal three dimensional image. Her Iron Man paper structure stands at almost one foot, yet it’s less than an inch thick. If you are interested in one of this bad ass paper structures, you can drop by papernoodle’s Etsy shop, but these won’t come cheap. Iron Man and Captain America is $250.00 each! If you do get one, just make sure you don’t spill any water on it. You’re just going to end up with a $250 flat Iron Man napkin that’s wet…
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During a trip to England, blogger Emily AKA Meimi132 came upon a restaurant that featured a red lobster standing over 5 foot tall, but after careful inspection, Meimi132 noticed that this crustacean statue featured the ridiculously awesome designed theme of the Iron Man Mark III suit from the first movie. Apparently, around Cromer, England, there are over 80 of these lobsters all over town, each uniquely designed and painted. This is probably an attempt to add art and humor to the seaport city. Considering, you probably won’t be seeing Tony Stark in a Iron Lobster suit while fighting Namor, this Iron Lobster definitely is giving the me the cravings to yank out a hammer and warm up some butter. If an Iron Man Lobster isn’t bad ass enough, there is also an Avatar themed statue called Lobatar. ROFL!
Check out Meimi132 Lobster report on her blog, Meimi132 no Itonami!
If you are lucky and find yourself in Hong Kong in the next two weeks, incredible toy designers, Hot Toys, is holding a really cool exhibit at Miramar Shopping Center called “Hot Toys X Iron Man CollARTible Expo”. The expo will feature and celebrate Hot Toy’s bitchin’ Iron Man Movie Masterpiece line. On display will be a huge array of Hot Toy’s Iron Man collectibles and even a 1:1 scale War Machine statue from Iron Man 2. On top of that, Hot Toys invited designer/sculptors/artists from around the world to participate in a showcase of custom Iron Man Mark III Movie Masterpiece action figures. Representing the US will be the creative team from Sideshow Collectibles. Sigh… Don’t mind me… I’m just pissed I’m not in Hong Kong right now. Iron Man and dim sum? What can be better?!
Hit the jump to check out pix from the event and some of the epic entries at the show!
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Following the already popular Iron Man Mark III ArtFX statue from Kotobukiya two years ago, Koto is back at it again with a new upgraded version of their hit statue for the release of Iron Man 2 this year (wow, it feels weird to say this year all of a sudden…). This time around, we get a cool new statue of the Mark IV suit from the sequel. It is true that there isn’t much difference between the Mark III and the Mark IV, but its the small attention to detail that makes all the difference. The Mark IV is definitely more sleeker than its predecessor and less of the internal mechanism is exposed. Also, unlike the original which featured a less than spectacular arm down pose, the new statue features Iron Man with his hand up ready to shoot his repulsor blast. The biggest change is definitely the cool new base. Unlike the original which has a plain grey base with the logo, the new base is a bit more themed in which it was made to look like the arc reactor. Whether collector’s will buy the new Mark IV statue is up in the air, but it is definitely cool to own. Personally, I would love to pass on more of these Iron Man statues, but I will most likely regret it down the line.
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Yeah, I know. This little bad ass Iron Man 2 poster dropped last week, but I can’t help but cover EVERYTHING and anything related to Jon Faverau’s upcoming Iron Man sequel. Mickey Rourke’s Whiplash gets the Iron Man 2 poster treatment this time around. It is hard to say whether I like the Whiplash character cause I am basing my opinion based on the small tidbits that I saw in the trailer. Whiplash gets his hands on the mini-arc reactor technology that Tony Stark utilizes to power his Iron Man suit and creates….. electric whips. Right… Either way, I trust Jon Faverau’s ability to tell stories and develop characters so I am pretty sure Whiplash will turn out to be a hard ass. Enjoy!
The sculptors at Hong Kong collectibles designer/producers, Hot Toys must have stood at a cross road and made a deal with the devil cause their uncanny ability to design and sculpt faces to be as realistic as the celebrity is insane! With the upcoming Iron Man 2 movie, Hot Toys is following up their hugely popular Iron Man Movie Masterpiece collection with a Tony Stark flight mechanics test version 12 inch action figure. This is the first Iron Man figure from Hot Toys that isn’t just a suit and actually features a human face.
This cool figure includes a ton of bell and whistles such as:
- Newly sculpted head (sculpted by Kojun) with authentic and detailed fully realized likeness of Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark in the movie IRON MAN.
- ABS material TrueType body with newly designed chest, forearms and forelegs
- 34 points of articulations.
- Two pairs of interchangeable hand palms.
- LED-lighted heart device, hand gauntlet and boots (battery operated, batteries included).
- Real-like mechanically wired hand gauntlet and boots
Detailed Accessories:
- Articulated mechanical robot with 360° rotated base and fire extinguisher as accident detector.
- Belt with one large and one small bag.
- A pair of knee pads.
- A pair of real-like leather shoes.
Value-added Equipment:
- 6” X 6” black-color square-shape figure stage.
- Cardboard backdrop imitating Tony Stark workshop setting where he practiced flight in the film.
This snazzy Tony Stark figure is going to drop around March 2010 and most likely will be available exclusively through Sideshow Collectibles. I’m planning to set this figure up w/ Tony smashing into the wall like it the movie. LMAO!
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What the heck!? Halloween is still over two weeks away and Christmas seasonal knick-knacks are already hitting the web! Apparently, Marvel and Kurt S. Adler (KSA is a company that specializes in licensed seasonal ornaments and goods) will be releasing an Iron Man nutcracker. Yes I said nutcracker. Modeled after the Iron Man Mark III suit from the live action movie, the Iron Man nutcracker is made of wood (just like every other nutcracker), stands about 11 inches, and stands on a themed base. Unfortunately, the only action feature that this Iron Man will have is the ability to crack a walnut with it’s mouth (I don’t remember Iron Man having a mouth, but whatever. Its Christmas!) I just wish that the nutcracker came with a working arc-reactor so I can toast the nuts as well. It think Iron Man nutcracker (as silly as it is) will be making my holiday wish list.
Source: @Agent_M
Where to Buy: Order Iron Man 11-Inch Nutcracker from Entertainment Earth!
