They’ve also had a couple of contests for figures during the 12 Days of Sideshow event, if you guys want to enter, here you go!

It gives a solid look at the Black Widow movie PF, the awesome looking Dutch PF, Admiral Tarkin, and the highly anticipated Baroness!

You’ll notice the base is very similar to Daredevil, possibly the same. I don’t have the two handy to compare them. It unfortunately shares a similar flaw to the Daredevil base, which is that it’s easily chipped. The “rocky” material is very easy to flake off so don’t get too crazy dusting it or you’ll be be swearing up a storm soon enough.

The first thing I noticed about this statue was that it appears designed in a different style compared to most Bowen statues. I’m not sure if this one was based on a kit or if the earlier female statues sometimes had a different style. It’s primarily the face, it looks animated/cartoony. Not a bad style by any means, it’s cute for a female character, just a heads up.

The statue is well sculpted. Black Widow has a very feminine body, with great work on the little details of her outfit like the material folds around her curves. She does admittedly have one of the most simple outfits of any Marvel female. It’s a black suit with a zipper, belt, and little arm dart cannons or whatever other superspy thing she puts in there.

I’m not sold on the pose. It’s slightly awkward, both her arms back like that. Kind of like she was puffing out her chest. Showing the goods off to Daredevil I suppose!

The paint is rather nicely done, colours are bright, vibrant and the materials come off as they should. The paint on the hair could’ve used some lighter shading and of course there’s the base issue, but it’s overall a well done piece.

3.5/5. Not a bad piece, just not an exceptional one. It sells for very affordabe amounts. I suspect it’ll be a piece revisted by Bowen Designs, and I’d expect a Sideshow piece as well.

Buying Options : Long sold out at retail, check forums and Ebay.

We are all eagerly awaiting to hear of your releases for the 30th Anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back, and I have really been liking your armored forms. I am wondering if there is any likelihood that you will be producing a General Veers or AT-AT Driver for your 12-inch line?

General Veers is part of our planning – in fact, our development on the Snowtrooper is in some part with Veers in mind – but Veers is likely still a couple of years off at this point. When we discuss the various pilots and vehicle operators, we tend to think that they’d be best offered along with some context – meaning a Biker Scout without a speederbike is incomplete. (Maybe we want to come up with a better example, considering we sold a Bike Scout PF without a speederbike… It’s kind of a slap in the face to those who purchased that product.) It’s certainly more complex to provide an AT-AT in 1:6 scale along with a driver, but we remain committed to some sort of contextual presentation of those types of characters.

Some Premium Format ideas that would be great: Thrawn, Rebel Snowtrooper, Han Solo in Carbonite, Taun Taun Luke and Han – Please give some consideration!

Duly noted on all of your suggestions, and at least two of these are actively under consideration (or better).

Any news on the Clone Trooper Premium Format? Which Clone will it be? Attack of the Clones version, I hope! And will we see any work-in-progress pics?

We’re very close to finishing our prototype of the Clone PF, and we’re likely to debut it at SDCC or very shortly thereafter. It’s looking GREAT and is step one into a killer clone PF program, including some of the clone commanders.

With an appearance in the Iron Man 2 movie, and a likely appearance in The Avengers movie, what are the chances of Sideshow producing a Black Widow Premium Format, Maquette or Comiquette in the near future?

We’d say chances are pretty good…

When is the Optimus Prime Maquette going to be ready for pre-ordering? -AND- When can I expect Optimus Prime to be on my shelf? Can you please give me the release date?

Optimus Prime is one of the most ambitious projects that we’ve ever undertaken. The development has been a bit slower than expected to get it all worked out, but he’s looking phenomenal. We do not currently have a release date set in stone for this piece (either pre-ordering or shipping), but we are tentatively planning to display it at Comic-Con at the end of July, so stay tuned! If you haven’t watched the Optimus ‘Inside Look’ video yet, we suggest giving it a peek:

Hot Toys is proud to present the 1/6th scale Black Widow Limited Edition Collectible Figurine from the Iron Man 2 movie. The movie-accurate Black Widow collectible is specially crafted based on the image of Scarlett Johansson in the movie, highlighting the newly sculpted head, hair implantation, highly detailed costume and accessories.

The 1/6th scale Black Widow Limited Edition Collectible Figurine specially features:
- Authentic and detailed fully realized likeness of Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow in the movie Iron Man 2
- Newly sculpted head with movie-accurate facial expression and make-up
- Real fabric hair implantation in brownish red long curly hair
- Newly developed TrueType body highlighting her body shape
- Approximately 28 cm tall
- Over 28 points of articulations
- Two (2) pairs of interchangeable gloved palms (one (1) pair of relaxed palms; one (1) pair for holding pistols)
- One (1) extra right gloved palm for posing on waist
- Each piece of head sculpt is specially hand-painted

Costume :
- One-piece tight dark blue colored jumpsuit with one (1) belt included
- One (1) extra greyish black colored belt with pouches and pistol holster
- One (1) pair of leather-like greyish blue colored platform boots with buckles

Weapons:
- Two (2) pistols

Accessories:
- One (1) pair of bracelets with multiple-bullet design
- Figure base with Black Widow nameplate and the movie logo

Release date: end Q3 – early Q4 2010

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