Hot Toys Marcus Wright

When Hot Toys announced the release of Terminator Salvation I was excited to see what they will come up with. I've to admit the film wasn't the best but the concept and character designs were what I like in a post apocalyptic film

Hot Toys had released several characters from this film, with John Connor, T-600, T-700 and the T-700 diorama, but my favorite is Marcus Wright. When I saw the preview release I thought Hot Toys had produced one of the best coat in the 1/6 world. The fitting and material for the great coat is just amazing, there is a thin wire in the bottom of the coat for you to adjust the shape. The weathering on the jacket makes it more realistic but the overall weathering of this figure is top class.

The Marcus Wright box set comes with an extra damaged head, extra hands shotgun, knife and extra leather jacket which is again very good quality. The True Type body that came with this figure seems to be an old True Type, with big chest, but the arms are cast in rubber, the right arm being damaged with the exoskeleton showing. I feel HT have put a lot of effort into this, trying to make it as authentic and movie accurate as it can be







The paint work Hot Toys have improved vastly, they added extra texture and layers so the head looks more realistic. It doesn't beat Enterbay's yet but it is getting there. With the extra head and jacket, I got myself another True Type body with narrow shoulders so I can get two Marcus Wright one undamaged one damaged. For the damaged Marcus I purchased an extra set of leather gaiters, a pair of Toys City CIA molded boots, which were the same as Hot Toys and I used the leather pants and tee from an old Saturday Toys Biker set to complete the figure. Looks quite cool, though not movie accurate.

The leather jacket is just amazing and HT have done well in sourcing soft leather to make it look and fit like the real thing. The jacket in the film was designed by Belstaff and was original worn by Blair Williams. If you seen I AM LEGEND, you'll noticed Will Smith wore a similar jacket, which Belstaff was involved in.

(Tee that came from Saturday Toys biker set, no pun intended!)

Rescuing Hot Toys True Type knee joint

Some small problems with Hot Toys True Type body are some joints are easily breakable. Most common are the wrist joints and knee joints. The problem is caused where the screw is tightly fixed to the joints, since it is tightly screwed whenever you move the joint it causes tension on the plastic and tear.

When my HT muscular body's knee joint broke I was devastated, since HT muscular body are hard to come by and expensive! I tried to see if Hot Toys was able to replace just the knee joint, as it is a small piece, but they weren't able to do it without proper receipt. Since the muscular body was purchased individually off eBay, Hot Toys weren't obliged to replace anything for me.

I did temporarily solve this by using glue, but after a few movements the joint broke again.

Trying to figure how to fix this problem I remember Barrack Sergeant bodies were similar to Hot Toys ones. I originally purchased a few BS bodies since I thought they were very similar to Hot Toys. As you can see from the picture below, the one on the left is Barrack Sergeant and the one on right is Hot Toys.




First thing to do was to remove the Hot Toys knee joint. The best method I found s to use two small screwdrivers and simultaneously push out the joint plug. Make sure to clamp onto the leg first. See the picture below to see where to push the joint plug.



Having done that is time to remove the Barrack Sergeant knee joint, this is more tricky and must take care in doing so. The only way to remove it is to saw on the thigh where the plastic is sealed together and then pry it out. It's quite easy to do but you need to take time and care. This applies to the calf area for the lower knee joint plug.

Now that you have the Barrack Sergeant and Hot Toys joints all you have to do is use the BS joint and replace it with the HT joint plugs. Be aware that the top and bottom plugs are different size but with fit on the BS joint accordly.

You may find it difficult to remove the screw on the HT joint plug, since the screw is fasten onto the plastic. What I did was cut the plastic out as shown in the picture below on the left and push the screw out.




The end result is very good, having fixed two True Type bodies and it seems the Barrack Sergeant joints are more robust than the HT ones. Though it's a shame I had to waste two good BS bodies. Hopefully Hot Toys can rectify this small problem.

(Barrack Sergeant knee joint on the left and HT on the right)

(Combo of HT and BS)

(End result)

Hot Toys - Dutch from Predator

I recently received my Dutch figure from the Predator film. I'm a big fan of Arnold Schwarzenegger and used to watch most of his early eighties film when I was a kid. The first time I noticed Arnie was in Predator, he just reminded me of comic superheroes. So I was very pleased to hear that Hot Toys was doing the Predator line, though HT did do a Predator before but it was the Predator in Alien vs Predator.
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The headsculpt was crafted by Yulli a talented Korean sculptor and looks exactly like the man. The boxset comes with the following items:

- M16 with M203 grenade launcher
- Pistol
- Drop leg holster
- Combat knife with sheath
- Machete with sheath
- Tactical gloves
- Boots
- Grenades
- Cigar

The gear here is great, though some people have said that some items didn't exactly match the film such as one of the knifes and the pistol should have been a desert eagle.


With Arnold's muscular presence HT decided to use their rubber bodies for this figure, but with this they've added, just a little, articulation to the arms. Both arms are removeable from the body with its ball-joint socket. I think it's a good idea HT have done this, as you're able to move the arms without stressing the rubber, because the previous muscular bodies were one piece torso which caused tear due to posing the figure in different positions. Still the rubber will be stressed around the elbow area when the arm is posed in a 45 degress position. Wonder if HT will figure a way round that! One thing I dread with these rubber bodies are they may deteriorate in the future, since preivous rubber bodies have deteriorated, but now HT seems to have better material, so touch wood these last longer than me, haha.

Hot Toys - Marcus Wright

Should really be keeping up with my blog, what a slacker!

Well the next Hot Toys release will be Terminator Salvation's Marcus Wright. The figure will include:

· Dressed in his movie accurate trench coat, t-shirt, pants, leather-like leggings and boots, and also interchangeable leather-like jacket.

· Accessories include harness, knife, shotgun and 3 sets of interchangeable hands.

· Interchangeable Marcus head featuring skeletal face

· Articulated and battle damaged left arm

· Authentic Sam Worthington likeness.

· Figure stand with Terminator Salvation logo and Marcus Wright nameplate

Artist info: -Head Sculpt by GOX (Eom Jae Sung) -Head Art Directed by JC. Hong -Head Paint by JC.Hong

The figure looks amazing and looks screen accurate, though shame they couldn't get the face accurate to Sam Worthington. The trench coat is a killer and makes this is one of the coolest figure around. The figure doesn't have much accessories, but Hot Toys have included a lot with this set with the extra head and outfit, all you need is to purchase an extra True type body.

I hope the movie lives up to expectation after seeing the crap that is T3!