You Want To Be A War Machine? Take Your Shot!

"You want to be a War Machine? Take your shot!" - that's Stark taunting Rhodes during the fight in the Mark II. And the War Machine was born in Iron Man 2 which continues to live-on in the upcoming movie - Iron Man 3. Perhaps most of you already knows that the Iron Patriot in Iron Man 3 is indeed a redesigned War Machine. And this is Kotobukiya's take on the pre-Iron Patriot Armor - the ArtFX Iron Man 3 War Machine.

As a follow up to Kotobukiya's ArtFX Iron Man 3 Mark XLII, War Machine is also scaled 1/6th and with a nice diorama-like styled base. Totally stylish and attractive. Being a non-articulated 1/6th scale figure, it's actually on par with the Hot Toys Power Pose series. I say this color scheme is way a lot better than that of the Iron Patriot. I just don't see why the blaster cannon is over his left shoulder when it's usually on the right. Can War Machine mount it on either side? We may find it out on the movie as I believe War Machine will appear on some earlier parts before it will be redesigned into Iron Patriot. Can't wait to see it next week :)

Kotobukiya's ArtFX Iron Man 3 War Machine is slated to be released on September 2013 (JP)/October 2013 (US). No pricing and preorder schedule announced yet so keep locked on this blogsite or on my Facebook page for future updates.

Update (2013-05-16): Preorders starts today, 16th of May and is now available at Amiami, and Hobby Search.

Below are the official promo images from Kotobukiya's official Facebook page