Quick Buying Options : Available at Amazon, and Ebay. Possibly available on back-order via Sideshow Collectibles.

You might wonder why Cody here had a price increase over previous Clone Troopers but once you bust open the package, it’s obvious. Commander Cody comes with a CRAZY amount of accessories. When they say a “generous” amount of hands on the Sideshow description, they aren’t kidding. We’re talking 6 or so sets of alternative hand options. Three complete heads (two helmets, one portrait), Emperor Order 66 hologram, 4 guns, extra “action” set of feet, and some other odd large accessory I couldn’t figure out. It’s ridiculous!

The accessories included look great all around. Fantastic sculpting, no quality issues, even better than the accessory love of most Hot Toys figures. Though you might notice that the feet are a slightly different colour than the rest of the armour, that’s a minor nitpick. The running feet were a surprisingly clever accessory addition that I haven’t seen from any other figures, they allow a little more stability in some badass action poses.

This isn’t Commander Cody in his clean form, this is Commander Cody after he’s been through dozens of battles, his armour is beat to hell, and he’s still ready to tear up some droids. The battle damage is extensive across the paint, there isn’t a single piece that I could see that didn’t have scrapes, cuts, dirt, and paint wear. The weapons came clean, as they often do on battle damaged figures, but you could rough those up easily enough. The paint in general is quite well done and the bright colours definitely make this figure stand out on a shelf.

The portrait has more of a cartoon style to it than the movie style. It definitely looks good, it’s just not intended to be ultra detailed and like you’re looking at a little person (in comparison to something like the Enterbay Jack Bauer for example).

The Sideshow 12″ body is great for a wide variety of poses. Combine that with the stand (the design on it is the exclusive offering) and you can prop Cody up in all sorts of ways. Thumbs up party time? Sure! Running while wielding dual pistols? Why not? He looks great in so many poses that you shouldn’t have a problem finding an interesting look. Though I’m keeping mine in the Order 66 hologram look for the time being.

The shoulders and kneepads are intended to be loose so you can adjust them in a wide variety of ways, which apparently means as soon as I look away to take a photo they slide slightly out of the way, making some of my photos appear awkward. Clever! The body is really well balanced, I had no trouble standing it up in a variety of poses without the stand.

The fabric bodysuit under the armour looks great. You’re going to have to futz with the materials to get Cody to look exactly how you want but it’s really a minor thing. Only slightly more effort than messing around with a Premium Format when you get it.

The box is great. Simple design, everything was super secure, and it clasps shut via magnets. While I prefer the Hot Toys style artboxes, I prefer the magnet method of opening the box instead of the Hot Toys way. Pros/cons! However, I did notice the Hot Toys logo on the bottom of this box. I wasn’t aware that Sideshow and Hot Toys teamed up on this…? I thought Empire Strikes Back Luke was going to be their first joint project, weird.

5/5. It’s rare for me to find a figure with so many options that has so few minor issues. This is definitely one of the best 12″ figures I’ve gotten to check out and I’m hooked on the Star Wars 12″ line now. Thanks again to Sideshow Collectibles for providing the review sample.

Buying Options : Available at Amazon, and Ebay. Possibly available on back-order via Sideshow Collectibles.

I hadnt seen or heard of that figure yet. What that is is from a new company that is legally only supposed to sell in Asia….of course we all know that never happens.

Licensing can be very frustrating.

Anyway, I was given more up to date info on it a little while ago. While it is a cool figure its definitely not going as far as I am.

I am going head to head with Hot Toys as far as sculpt, clothing, articulation, etc.

My SF figures will have moveable eyes, translucent plastic for skin, articulation that will allow a Hadouken, tons of accessories, etc.

Finally, this company is only doing SFIV style, where I am doing Udon style.

Im sure there is a market for both.

So I guess we’ll have to wait and see on pricing details from either company! The ones that Popcultureshock are working on sound expensive…but UDON style is what I consider definitive Street Fighter, tough call.

Here’s the rest of the gallery

The Astro Boy Collectible figure features:

- Approximately 9 inches tall
- Over 22 points of articulation
- 2 sets of interchangeable posing hands
- Open chest with positive “blue” energy inside
- Battery-operated illuminated eyes for X-ray vision mode
- Interchangeable arm cannons
- Interchangeable rocket boots
- Figure display base featured with Astro Boy movie logo

Full product pictures available here

Hot Toys – MMS116 : IRON MAN – 12” Tony Stark collectible figure (Mech Test Version)

~ Movie Masterpiece Series ~

The 1/6th scale IRON MAN Tony Stark specially features:

- Newly sculpted head with authentic and detailed fully realized likeness of Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark in the movie IRON MAN
- Approximately 30 cm tall figure
- 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)**
- Real-like mechanically wired hand gauntlet and boots
- Each piece of head sculpt is specially hand-painted

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

Artists:
- Head Sculpted by Kojun
- Head Art Directed by JC. Hong
- Head Painted by JC. Hong

Note – ** batteries included

© 2008 MVLFFLLC. TM& 2010 MARVEL

Release date: end Q1 2010

Check the pictures, he’s looking sweet as hell. Optional accessories, opening and closing doors, 1/6th scale. Kind of expensive. That said, he looks like the best R2-D2 released to date and he’d go well with all the 1/6th figures released.

It includes :

New packaging
Wooden Certificate
BL 3.5 Body
FS-200 figure stand
Official Fist of Fury mug

Images of the new packaging below the cut.

I won this as a prize from Sideshow. The total cost to me was less than $40, just to cover the shipping. The retail cost of this is around $150, which is a total ripoff, but $40? Sign me up. Popping this out of the shipping box, I was impressed by how snazzy the packaging box looked. Very classy, simple, and collector friendly.

As far as accessories goes, it’s lacking. It comes with the standard trooper blaster rifle and a stand, that’s it. I took a good look at the armour and the gun. The gun looks nice, pretty much just how you’d expect it to. The armour was a little tricky to position to make it look decent, out of the box it’s a little goofy looking so just twist it around until it’s alright.

Once you get the armour and helmet looking good, you can start to appreciate that it’s not a bad quality piece. The paintjob is well done. It’s basic, but that’s how the clone troopers looked in the series. It seems to be fairly accurate from what I remember.

I’ve never moved around the Medicom RAH body before. It was tricky forcing it into a decent position, the way the arms and shoulders moved wasn’t the most user-friendly, but it didn’t feel like I was going to snap it in half or anything.

Overall, pretty happy with it. The Medicom body might be a bit flakey but it works well enough here. Paint and sculpt looks good, looks nice on display, I like it. Would I pay retail for it? Hell no, for $150 I can get something much nicer from Hot Toys. I’ve heard Medicom’s Star Wars stuff goes for under $100 on sale pretty often, in which case, worth it!

3.5/5

Buying Options : Medicom’s Star Wars stuff has been on clearance a decent amount. Check Sideshow.