Marvel Legends Iron Man (Mark 43) review

Iron Man's the kind of hero that never has a definitive suit in the MCU. Sure, he's always had a red and gold look, but the armors keep adding more gold in some spots, the arc reactors keep changing, and there are always different ways to suit up in every subsequent movie; I prefer when he had the suit up from the robotic arms or the suit-case become the suit than crap like Nanotech. It was fine enough for when he went from Mark I to III, but the rest of the MCU just made the changes feel negligible at best. Nowhere near as impacting as the TASM series giving Spidey a new, better-looking suit or Batman getting the kevlar upgrade in The Dark Knight. How does the Marvel Legends side of things fare for Iron Man? Let's see with this Age of Ultron variant of the armor.

Here we have the figure in the front, side, and rear views. It does the job well enough on being a run-of-the-mill Iron Man suit, with the metallic gold paint and metallic red plastic. The shoulders do stand out a bit for being gray, though they are supposed to look like that. Part of the hips should be gray, though not entirely gray like the shoulder joints are. The armor itself looks pretty skinny, which was something that made me wonder how it'd fit over his body without restricting blood flow or even crushing his bones. Then again, without a physical suit to reference when viewing the proportions, neither do the people that design these suits.

The helmet looks fine, but the eyes don't quite line up with the outline put for them. Also, they look pretty faint in the gold paint, and they should be a little bit more vibrant. Also, the paint isn't quite well-done.

Articulation is pretty good for an armored character. The neck is double-jointed, with the head looking left and right on the ball joint, and a hinge for looking up and down. The shoulders can move front and back and in and out. There is a bicep swivel, a double-jointed elbow, and both hands can swivel on their peg as well as hinge in and out. The torso has a diaphragm joint, which can function the same as the waist swivel and ab crunch. The hips can move front and back as well as in and out. There are thigh swivels, double-jointed knees, and the feet hinge front and back as well as pivot side to side.

This figure had some accessories that are missing with me. No alternate hands, so he's stuck with the open right hand and closed left hand; instead, he came with an alternate head with the mask lifted up, as it was a way for Tony Stark's face to be revealed. As for the likeness...bleh. The other accessory is a leg for the Thanos Build-A-Figure. Alternatively, you could be living in the UK and was lucky to see a re-release of the same toy for a wave of Avengers figures that came with parts for the Hulkbuster. Considering how we've gotten better Iron Man figures AND a Thanos that's repainted as well as fully-assembled for Walmart last year/a Hulkbuster that came in a two-pack with a Hulk figure for fans to have bought at Target, this toy is rendered useless unless you have to have it for an addition to the Hall of Armor display.

Here is the original use of the mold, the Mark 42 suit from Iron Man 3. It's noticeably got more gold on him than he normally does, and he still didn't come with alternate hands. His BAF piece belonged to Iron Monger, which is the comic build this time instead of the 2008 Movie design. This is also not worth getting unless you're a completionist.

Overall, this is an okay figure. It's nicely done for the most part and can be neat for a display, but if you want a better done Iron Man, get one of the more recent versions.

Final ranking: ⭐⭐ and a half out of ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐