[En Sabah Nerd]

Got the Infinity Saga Iron Man mark 85 and Thanos two pack. As someone who passed on the Thorbowski wave Iron Man and never even came close to building the armored Thanos BAF (for lack of interest) I call this pack a win-win.


Looking at the Mad Titan first, this is obviously mostly re-used parts from the armored BAF but what's actually new adds quite a bit in my book and not just because he's battle-damaged and has ankle-tilt now. I feel like the most substantial new parts at a glance are his arms which are quite bulkier than the BAF and give him an overall better looking silhouette. He has a new upper torso overlay piece which is sculpted to be pretty worn and a new skirt piece that accurately diverges into three ends. It's also pretty nice to get Thanos with his double-bladed sword now made movie accurate instead of just looking like a lawnmower blade. The one new part I don't really care for is the alternate "dusting" head which just looks more like he rolled around in the mud and then let it dry up on his head, it's okay though because he comes with three other heads that are all well done. While I certainly would've liked an alternate right forearm without the gauntlet, everything else this figure comes with makes up for not getting that. Paint apps are overall fine with a good deal of areas now painted in the dark grey that the BAF left gold and there's actually a second richer gold applied to select parts of the armor. The grey weathering effects on his torso could probably have been done better but as is I think they work alright to help convey that Thanos has been having a pretty rough day.


Iron Man is just excellent. The Robert Downey Jr likeness is incredible, he has a lot of good accessories (although I'm not a fan of how the shield piece is equipped to his arm), and the paint apps are all nice. My only nitpick is that I'd maybe have liked for the red of his armor to be a little darker, more like the red on Thanos' gauntlet, but that's it. I feel like I have a lot less to say about this figure than the other half of the pack but that's because it's just a clean-cut case of a really solid figure.