No Need for a Yellow Spandex to be The Wolverine

I'm a huge fan of the Wolverine but I prefer the comics/animation design with him wearing his iconic yellow-black (orange-black in comics) costume, something that wasn't used in the movies. That costume design was even referred to as a joke by Cyclops when he said "Well, what would you prefer? Yellow spandex?" on the first X-men movie. I'm not saying that I don't like the movie costumes, it's just that I'm not diggin it that much, so I'm not into collecting Wolverine figures based on the movie.

All of that was changed by this really nice looking Hot Toys announcement, the 1/6th Scale Wolverine Movie Masterpiece form the movie The Wolverine. I haven't seen the movie yet and I don't care if I would like the movie or not. This Hugh Jackman headsculpt alone is too impressive not to leave you in awe. Before this, I wasn't really looking forward to any The Wolverine collectibles. Heck I don't even watched the movie on big screen, just waiting for it to be released on Blu-ray.

Not knowing anything about the movie doesn't really affect my judgement to this great collectible (unlike others who would decide on getting a Hot Toys release depending on the success of movie or how much screentime the character has). I'm really loving this amazing looking figure. So far this is the best headsculpt of Hot Toys made for Hugh Jackman. I just noticed that the body type used doesn't really reflect the muscular built of Hugh Jackman in the movie, especially when wearing the black suit. Not a very big deal to me though.

Aside form the great headscuplt, other things to dig on this figure are the two sets of clothing. The first set is the black clothing complete with coat, tie, blazer and black shoes. The second is the one with the white tank top matched with a pair of gray jeans, and brown boots, the same outfit that is usually seen on the posters and promotional photos of the movie. It also comes with a katana with sheath, and of course he isn't Wolverine without the adamantium claws. It also comes with bone claws which I know nothing about, so I can't wait to see the film now.

Who needs a Wolverine with a yellow spandex now? Well actually, I'm still hoping to see a yellow-black or orange-black Wolverine costume design sometime later in the movies (they did Captain America without looking funny you know), but for now this Wolverine has become my favorite and Hot Toys is the biggest reason why.

The 1/6th scale Wolverine Collectible Figure's special features:

• Authentic and detailed fully realized likeness of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine in The Wolverine
• Head sculpt with real-like hair sculpture, facial expression, detailed wrinkles, beard, gesture and skin textures 
• Approximately 30 cm tall 
• Muscular body with over 30 points of articulations 
• Five (5) pairs of interchangeable palms including: 
• One (1) pair of fists with metal claws
• One (1) pair of fists with bone claws
• One (1) pair of fists
• One (1) pair of relax palms
• One (1) pair of palms for holding sword
• Each piece of head sculpt is specially hand-painted 

Costumes:

Style 1

• One (1) black blazer
• One (1) black coat
• One (1) black shirt
• One (1) black tie
• One (1) pair of black pants with black belt
• One (1) pair of black socks
• One (1) pair of black shoes

Style 2

• One (1) white vest
• One (1) pair of gray jeans with belt
• One (1) pair of brown boots

Weapon:

• One (1) engraved metal Japanese sword with sheath

Accessory:

• Figure stand with Wolverine nameplate and the movie logo

Hot Toys The Wolverine - 1/6th Scale Wolverine MMS is tentatively scheduled to be released on Q2-Q3 of 2014. Knowing Hot Toys with their release schedules, this is probably destined to be delayed. No pricing yet but I'm assuming that this is going to be around the price range of the Storm Shadow MMS.

Below are the official photos (by Hot Toys)