“It’s not risk, it’s hope. And anyone who’s seen a zombie movie knows that that’s the key to survival”
Following on from the 2021 release of Zombie Captain America, Hasbro added two more What If? Marvel Zombies to their Marvel Legends line as part of the 2022 Khonshu BAF wave. The first of these was Zombie Iron Man who would be packed in the window-less boxes in use at the time with illustrations on the front, side and reverse of the figure to confirm the contents.
Zombie Captain America from the prior year had set the standard for these Zombie figures, having been almost entirely sculpted from scratch. Zombie Iron Man did not need to follow suit to quite the same extent as on-screen Tony’s suit was shown pretty much intact. Therefore in essence all that Hasbro needed to do was the existing Iron Man MCU suit from Infinity War and pop on a Zombie Tony Stark head. The suit therefore uses the same gloss deep red from the movie version with gold and silver painted panels and a white arc reactor. There is a similar application to Tony as we saw on Cap with the midsection of the figure updated so that part of the right-hand armour is missing and in the gap you can see what we assume is the pale blue zombie flesh and some white pieces which might be bone - but anatomically are two low down to be ribs. The armour is washed with a brown to distress it and dirty it up, but it lacks any of the gore and blood we saw with Cap.
The Zombie Tony Stark's head is new and like Cap, it features an extended open jaw, framed with the remnants of Tony’s beard. The eyes on Stark are yellow and almost glowing, while the hair framing the face is wild and unkempt.
The figure comes with alternative hands and a pair of thruster effects, both carried over from the MCU base figure and these can be used with Zombie Iron Man for firing positions or flight (with an appropriate stand). Articulation comes in at 18 points, with pins at both knee and elbow joints due to the age of the donor body. This original Iron Man was never fully poseable, and the same issues carry forward into the Zombified version and while Cap could shuffle and crawl, the joints on Zombie Tony just don’t allow that sort of positioning leaving him looking a little stiff and awkward.
After the heights of Zombie Captain America, the Zombiefied Tony Stark Iron Man figure from Marvel’s What If? is perhaps a bit of a letdown. There is nothing as such wrong with the principle behind the figure, its just lacks the detail and gore of the first Zombie release and doesn’t have the articulation to back up what we’d want from a posed Zombiefied Iron Man on display.
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