Topic: Iron Man 2 Proving Ground Set Reviewed

[zedhatch]

K-Mart Exclusive Proving Ground is looked at this time, enjoy.

http://www.zedsjoesite.com/review/imp/imp.html

[Phatty]

Nice review!  I really should pick more of these up.  I like Iron Man, though he's never really been my favorite, so once I have one, I feel I have enough.  Still, they would make for some pretty sweet customs here and there.

[spudafett]

something to add here is that in an extra stroke of genious hasbro cast the holographic iron man in black light reactive plastic.  So put a black light on your display and your left with a truly sweet looking holographic effect.

[DocOutlands]

Spud, that was by accident, I'm sure!!    

Zed, great review of the set!  Some of the Iron Man figures are a lot of fun - my son and I each got a carded Hulkbuster - for this die-hard unhero'd overaged kid.  I happen to love the first War Machine mold (without the ball-joint mounts) , some of the bizarre variants (Deep-Sea and such), and some of the bad guys. 

In this set, we agreed the HB2/IronMonger needs to be repainted into a cargo-handler droid... 

[zedhatch]

Cargo handler is not a bad idea, although I have to admit he has slowly grown on me since this review, still don't think he is great, but not terrible either (then again I tend to like goofy figures anyway)

Thanks everyone for the kind words.

[spudafett]

.... or buy a snake armor and use the body of the monger-buster to make a "super cobra snake armor" that actually works...

I also wished they hadn't put this figure in this set.  The WM and holo-IM was what compelled me to buy it.  since the pack is entitled "proving grounds" I think it would have made more sense to put in the Mark I or II armor, or come up with another "conceptual prototype" armor.