Monday, December 08, 2008

Hulkbuster Iron Man from Bowen Designs

I wanted to review this statue before Zimm had beat me to it.

Manufacturer: Bowen Designs
Sculpted by: The Kucharek brothers
Dimensions: 14 1/2" tall overall
Edition Size: Unknown
Release Date: Summer 2009
Retail Price: $225.00

Points in favor:
  • Flip top mask revealing smaller Iron Man head beneath. (although they already did this with the mini bust).
  • Detail in the armor
Points against:
  • Pose is lackluster.
  • This should be staged to look more like a companion piece to earlier Hulk pieces, more like the earlier Wolverine or even the Juggernaut.
  • Over abundance of existing Iron Man material at this time.
  • Didn't they just release this as a bust?

I give this one a PASS!

What's up with Bowen doing statues and busts back to back of the same character?

Updated comment: Don't get me wrong, it's a cool idea. I guess I'm more passing on the over abundance of Iron Man statues at the moment and Bowen decides to release another one. Also, he just did the bust of the Hulkbuster Iron Man.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Did you pass on it so much that you wanted to show it twice? Agree - they have some better statues to go with the Hulk.

Robert said...

Fixed! I had two pictures and I must have uploaded the same one twice.

Don't get me wrong, it's a cool idea. I guess I'm more passing on the abundance of Iron Man statues at the moment and Bowen decides to release another one. Also, he just did the bust of the Hulkbuster.