Black Widow 12 inch figure catches my eye

I've mentioned before how Black Widow is one of my favourite Marvel comic characters. Well, I've discovered that Hot Toys are doing a 12 inch figure based on Scarlett Johansson in Iron Man 2 and she has caught my eye.



Here's the "blurb":

Iron Man 2 - Black Widow 12 inch Figure

The movie-accurate Black Widow collectible is specially crafted based on the image of Scarlett Johansson in the movie, highlighting the newly sculpted head, hair implantation, highly detailed costume and accessories.

* Authentic and detailed likeness of Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow in the movie Iron Man 2
* Newly sculpted head with movie-accurate facial expression and make-up
* Real fabric hair implantation
* Newly developed female TrueType body
* Approximately 28 cm tall
* Over 28 points of articulations
* Two pairs of interchangeable gloved palms (one pair of relaxed palms; one pair for holding pistols)
* One extra right gloved palm for posing on waist
* Each piece of head sculpt is specially hand-painted
* One-piece tight dark blue coloured jumpsuit with one belt included
* One extra greyish black coloured belt with pouches and pistol holster
* One pair of leather-like greyish blue coloured platform boots with buckles
* Two pistols
* One pair of bracelets with multiple-bullet design
* Figure base with Black Widow nameplate and the movie logo

Expected 18th December 2010

All well and good. Except for the price; Forbidden Planet are listing it at £149.99!!! Just a wee bit out of my price range.

Scarlett Johansson Black Widow poster for Iron Man 2

To be honest I can't say I'm a big Scarlett Johansson fan. However I am a bit of a Black Widow fan. So when www.empireonline.com flagged up an image (via www.comic-con.org) of a Black Widow character poster from the almost-here Iron Man 2 it certainly caught my eye.

Last year it was rumoured that Emily Blunt was to play Natasha Romanoff, aka Russian super-spy Black Widow in the Iron Man sequel. Cue much joy and speculation on her Russian accent from me. As it turned out she didn't get the part. Cue less joy from me.

However I have to admit Scarlett fills out the costume well. =ahem= I'm willing to giver her the benefit of the doubt until I see the movie.

Here is above mentioned poster image. It's why we are all here after all.