Its not entirely dust proof if you live in dusty areas or near the highway.

So far for me the dust only builds up a little after a period of 6-8 months. maybe because my home is far away from the main roads.

If you really want 100% dust proof you can choose to install a rubber lining in the middle section of the glass. that way, when friends come over to view your treasure you just remove it. Problem solved
Glad i could help . cheers mate


Bro delayed shipping from HT is really a normal thing, normally the ETA will be about 3-6 months delayed depending on their work load back at their factory.
Its a good thing too for collectors for delayed shipping, since if everyone order most of their products one shot, if all comes in together on time, sure will be broke.

Yeah bro, i saw another friend of mine who paired the medicom ghost rider with that ultimate ghost rider bike, best of all he custom spray the parts on the bike to make it more menacing. the results are really eye popping.



This post has been edited by quiksilve: Aug 20 2009, 10:27 AM

Actually not really, the difference i notice dust normally dont get caught on a 12-inch as much because its body length is vertical when place standing position. the dust normally end up around the floor of the glass display only.

You can just take a normal soft brush to dust off your figures if it gets too dusty.

But the thing you wouldn't want is dust building up on your figure until it turns into the sticky type if your room is warm or hot in the afternoon.

Thing is most of us cant be cleaning so many figures at once. So it is advisable to get a display cabinet to store all your 12-inch figures.

This post has been edited by quiksilve: Aug 20 2009, 10:33 AM

Sure thing dude.

I have a sneaky feeling original suit will be re-issue with some new gadgets like the TDK DX

This post has been edited by quiksilve: Aug 20 2009, 06:22 PM

Just share my haul for today.....something grey.

My personal opinion on the stealth iron man, the paint if you look closer first hand, its actually matt grey pearl, which i don't know how hottoys manage to pull that off for a start.
The paint actually makes the figure a little heavier than the normal mark III, and also feels smooth and a little cold when you touch the paint finishing.

At first i wonder why the heck HT called this the stealth iron man, but then when i got it, you can understand that when you off the lights on your display cabinet, the matt grey colour makes the whole figure like its in stealth darker shade of black . Hard to explain this cause cheap ass camera can't take good photo in low light conditions without flash.

Paint wise thank god i didn't send my extra mark III to try and replicate the paint on the stealth iron man.
It might be a little hard to get the paint colour code correct, and also difficult to paint the abdomen part on the armour.
Since its a combination of pvc mesh with plastic parts on the body.

All in all since i am biased for iron man, i would say any collector who wanna complete or just have one of the best iron man, this would be it.
So i give a 10 out of 10 but then again i'm broke like a biatch now, damn!!




This post has been edited by quiksilve: Aug 22 2009, 02:35 AM

Yeah man seriously broke already. Credit limit almost exploded some more.

Hahaha, ok bro promise will snap and post some picture later, quite tired leh just got back to display and admire the stealth until 4am just now.

All i can say at the moment, when you hold John Conner in your hand, you are really holding christian bale, its so scary accurate the paintwork on the sculpt.
Really gotta tip your hats off to Kojun and J.C. Hong for pulling off such a feet.

Snake eyes i'm sure everyone knows how iconic he is in the classic G.I. Joe series.
And i'm sure some of you seen the figure being modded with muscle body to even bring out the figure to another level in other forums.
When movie came out, price for it goes even higher, due to the fact non collectors also want this fellar.

This post has been edited by quiksilve: Aug 22 2009, 10:02 AM

Yup bro, really can't imagine i was so lucky to get the stealth.Seriously last thing on my mind.

When you hold the stealth in your hands, you will even understand better why i said keep your stealth man.
Weight and finishing worth every penny.

Think of the extra you are paying is for special customizing service by the HT team.

Packaging box also feels more solid and different opening style from the usual mark III box.
The HT team could have just recycle the same old Mark III box and just place the stealth in there, with different colour printing, but glad they did something different.
Try to ask your friend to wrap the box with bubble wrap if possible, cause the box is so nice you don't wanna risk it being damage.

This post has been edited by quiksilve: Aug 22 2009, 10:37 AM

mywii, the T-600 concept one word.......POISON!!!!!

Hey friend, what did they give in the package? poster, keychain and a sticker?

This post has been edited by quiksilve: Aug 22 2009, 09:24 PM

So you got this from the Spore anicom.

Looks amazing man.

Give review compared to the normal T-600 can?

This post has been edited by quiksilve: Aug 22 2009, 10:06 PM

Yours should be coming real soon

Ranchu7: Hello there bro, welcome come to the community.

And becareful ya, here got lots of poison pics on this thread.

Lighting exposure on your preadator just perfect man.

I like this pic the best



This post has been edited by quiksilve: Aug 23 2009, 02:57 PM

Ranchu7: Hhahaha,when did i poison you? you mean with this photo?
No wonder your photo looks amazing, i tried on of the sony alpha dlsr last week also at sony, curve.
I'm mighty impress with their quality of snapping low light condition photo without the need for flash.
Wallet wise i also drying already bro.
Final year of collecting then perhaps.....maybe.....retire.....not lol


liquidator13: I try my best to spread the poison the best i can.

This post has been edited by quiksilve: Aug 23 2009, 08:46 PM

CooLeRthings: whoah cool, fitting mark III inside the batmobile.

Bro take good care of your batmobile. Try to search a few pages back, i did posted how to enhance your batmobile colour with the meguaire's tech protect.

This post has been edited by quiksilve: Aug 24 2009, 03:48 PM

Not yet bro, been busy playing with john conner. Probably will try tomolo.
Meanwhile try to inject more poison to those still thinking or not yet purchase john conner.
Found a good way to stand john conner without too extreme pose with one leg on chain gun and the other on the T-600's face.
No photoshop skills but somehow manage to capture flash on left eye of the T-600, seems like he running out of power and dying in the few pics.
Enjoy the poison guys.




Rat-tat-tat, he's dead.


This post has been edited by quiksilve: Aug 24 2009, 05:17 PM

WengWeng: wish i could help, but my first batch iron man mark III with the deepest colour finishing has just been sold.

I just cod this evening with MasterLaoDa.

This post has been edited by quiksilve: Aug 24 2009, 10:49 PM

The difference with first batch iron man mark III, is that the colour of the candy red and gold on the suit has more pearl effect when shine direct under spotlight.
You can see that the colour is deeper red and also deeper gold.
But the thing is first batch was also a prototype painting style for the HT team, so choosing and spotting a mark III that is perfect with less scuffing marks is very difficult.
I would rate in a box of 6 if you are lucky maybe you can get 1 or 2 units that is near flawless.


The LED lights on the first batch mark III is the brightest among all. You can tell the difference in the light on the chest, when placed next to a second batch or third batch.
You can see the difference most obvious in the light reflected on the mark III helmet eyes.

Actually many collectors didn't know about this, even for me, but then when the 2nd batch and 3rd batch came in, i noticed the slight differences from the 1st batch in colour finishing and LED brightness
One easy spot to lookout for is that the 2nd batch and 3rd batch has lighter finishing red on the elbow joints of the hands, its lighter in colour as compare to the 1st batch.

Masterlaoda was lucky enough to bought my last unit 1st batch iron man mark III, quite rare in the market already now.

Cheers bro hope this info is good enough.

This post has been edited by quiksilve: Aug 25 2009, 09:22 AM

Yup i remember bro, no problem i understand, sharing info with collectors on 12-inch figures is cool.

Learning process right, with so many figures to buy and haul hehe

valho nice photography skills on the mark II, loving it man.

Coolerthings: bro i hate you....kidding., i don't even have a single robocop in my collection. hahaha had to forego it that time to focus on my predator series.
Nice nice keep the pictures coming.

I just drooled man

This post has been edited by quiksilve: Aug 25 2009, 03:38 PM

I think you are the lucky few ones, that collected the best looking robocop series from HT.
Your dome on the ED also still looking pristine mint. I read and saw before other collectors dome already start giving problems after a year or so, maybe their weather are different from our malaysia weather

Can see especially in this pic


P/S: so if you planning to let go next time, i'll be first in line ok hehe

This post has been edited by quiksilve: Aug 25 2009, 03:41 PM

Hopefully la, but i don't think hottoys will re-make the robocop series.

But fingers cross hopefully they make a new one with more articulation since they have improved so much, face sculpture not sure whether they have the actual actor license or not.

But if can get surely will be the ultimate robocop already. DX version with extra heads whoahhhah.

This post has been edited by quiksilve: Aug 25 2009, 04:22 PM

never too late for mark 1 judge, here in malaysia still got a lot around.

can ship all the way to auckland dont worry hehe brows.gif

This post has been edited by quiksilve: Aug 26 2009, 03:59 PM