A lot of times, it seems like an actor’s just taking a superhero part for the gig and when he promotes the movie, he has to fake his excitement. Not so with Robert Downey, Jr. - - the dude looks like he’s been having a blast with Iron Man and its entire press junket. He’s made regular appearances at SDCC to promote the movies and, just this past weekend, he popped up at the American International Toy Fair to hype Hasbro’s new IRON MAN toy line, which hits the shelves next month.
These pictures come courtesy of Latino Review.
You’ll notice that the action figure Downey’s holding features Tony Stark wearing the shades he’s had on in the various movie promo pics. I can’t help wondering if that'll get mentioned on the packaging. You know, you have a Spider-Man figure with 17 points of articulation or a Batman figure with cape-swinging action. Maybe this Iron Man comes with stylin’ shades action, or rad cornea-protecting action.
There’s also the Iron Man toy helmet, which you see Downey enjoying in a laid back way. My mind goes to the question of how protective that helmet is. Would it guard my head against a baseball bat to the hat? Or a chair shot? Sounds like a Jackass skit in the making; or a Mythbusters episode, to be more current. Didn’t they already do one on the scientific possibility of curving bullets in Wanted?
Oh oh oh oh… here’s one! While I highly doubt there will ever be a Super-adaptoid costume set, do you figure if you put this helmet on, strapped some Spider-Man webshooters to your wrists, twisted some Hulk hands over your paws, slid into an X-Man uniform and then spray painted it all green. Do you think that’d be close enough? What other toy accessories could go on there?
-- Tom Pinchuk is the writer of UNIMAGINABLE for Arcana Comics and HYBRID BASTARDS! for Archaia Comics. Watch out for the HYBRID BASTARDS! hardcover collection this March - - available for pre-order now on Amazon.com.
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