Toys
The first Iron Man action figure was produced in 1975 by the Mego Corporation. This eight inch (203 mm) tall figure featured a cloth costume and plastic accessories. The version of the armor represented features the infamous "nose" helmet, making it unique among all Iron Man toys.
Toy Biz has produced Iron Man figures based on the 1994 Iron Man cartoon, all with vac-metallized, detachable armor parts. A fifth assortment, which never became openly available, appears on the collectibles market.
Since 2002, Toy Biz has produced Iron Man figures in the company's Marvel Legends line. Iron Man Legends figures include his Classic Armor (Gold variant) and Stealth Armor in Series One, the Silver Centurion Armor in Series Seven, the Modern Armor in Series Eight, War Machine (with James Rhodes) in Series Nine, the Hulkbuster Armor in Series 11, the Origin Armor in Series 14 (Gold variant), and the Thorbuster Armor in Series 15. Modular Armor (with War-Machine variant) also appeared.
When Hasbro took over the Marvel Legends line in 2007, the company released the Ultimate Iron Man armor as part of the Annihilus Build-A-Figure series. His armor also comes with different color. Some of the action figures' armor could be removed.
On March 22, 2008 (the official street date for release), Hasbro started an Iron Man movie toy line, with figures based on those appearing in the film and somewhat comic-faithful repaints. The first wave included seven figures: Iron Man Mark 01, Mark 02, Mark 03, Prototype, Steath Operations Suit (Wal-mart exclusive), Repulsor Red Prototype (Target exclusive), and Iron Monger (with red and blue highlighted variants).
The Marvel Minimates action-figure line features four Iron Man armors. This, however, does not take into account the figures created in conjunction with the film.
Iron Man is featured as one of the available characters to choose from in the Marvel Heroes version of the 1980s board game Guess Who?
Burger King includes action figures of the characters from the movie in their children's menus. The figures include the Mark II armor, two version of the Mark III armor and the Iron Monger armor. In the movie, the first thing Stark does when he returns to the United States after getting captured by the Ten Rings is buy a Double Whopper, and he eats it during his press conference.
Iron Man is the twelfth figurine in the Classic Marvel Figurine Collection.
He is also a key part of the up-coming Lego marvel sets and is one of three build-able action figures.
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