Sheng Yuan 1235: Various Chrome Armored Iron Man Variant Minifigs Preview

First previewed here.

Got them as boxed minifigs.

They all came with these circular plate things, I'm not a fan because they don't stick to brick plates. For the most part they're standalone which sucks because they don't take advantage of the brick system.

The set also came with stands for the armors. None of them came with their own separate helmets except for MK 1.

No face underneath, no complaints. I've got too many Tony Stark heads by now, lol.

I'll just be showing the minifigs beside their armors.

Note: Sheng Yuan's box art shows a different helmet mold than this one. Kopf did something similar with their Iron Stan preview, but the end product [like this one] came with this helmet mold. I think the real mold is much better than the ones on picture so I'm not complaining.



These stands are a welcome addition. I might use them for other displays or maybe even for future reviews!








The armor pieces are coated with chrome paint on the surface. I had no issues with it, all angles were chromed well enough. The inside part isn't chrome and is black which just proves that these armors are just coated and not made of chrome material, if that's even possible lol.

SY 1235 Grading:

Plastic Quality: 5/5
It's just good. No issues here.

Print Quality: 5/5
Again, no issues.

Build Quality: 4/5
-1 just because of the plates. I had no issues with building these guys, but I think I'm being biased now and can't really give these guys good grades anymore.

Design Choice: 0/5
Weird armors + old variants? This is a 0

Sheng Yuan minifig quality is great, plastic-wise and print-wise and it's soooooo unfortunate to see that they love making the same old minifigs. Nevermind the lack of new molds for new characters, even for a character like Iron Man that has so many [print] variants can't get proper variants!

I don't think the Iron Man marks inside these armors are making people want to buy these. These variants are old variants that we've already seen lots of times from lots of different brands. In addition to that, the armor pieces included are inconsistently chrome which is odd; I mean that why are the torsos the only chrome parts and why are the color combinations so weird.

Another thing that kinda made me hesitant to buy this was that Sheng Yuan might rerelease these with better accessories/mini builds. Sheng Yuan did something like this when they previewed 8 Iron Man minifigs with jetpacks and blast pieces only to preview the same figs with a new armor piece (like the one here) and Hall of Armor builds a few days/weeks later.

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Comments

  1. I've been wanting to get the Mark 1 with that helmet. This would be nice. The rest of the suit in this set... meh. :P

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  2. The stands are a welcome addition. I'm sure there's plenty that you could display on them.

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