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Iron Man: Is This War Machine?
Posted by Robert Fure (robert@filmschoolrejects.com) on March 24, 2008
Images of a Wal-Mart Exclusive toy called “Iron Man - Stealth Operations” have recently started to appear on a few online outlets. To any fan of the comic, the resemblance to the War Machine armor is very clear. And with the casting of Terrence Howard as Jim Rhodes, perhaps we’ll get a glimpse of the real deal War Machine. In the comic books, Rhodes stepped in as War Machine, an Iron Man replacement, when Stark had to abandon the job for awhile.
War Machine later went on to have several of his own comic appearances and without a doubt looked bad-ass, often equipped to the teeth with more visible weapons than the traditional Iron Man costume.
So while these pics are no guarantee that we will get a War Machine in the new upcoming Iron Man flick, the packaging and the costume design seem to indicate that this release is definitely tied into the new upcoming flick and that the War Machine armor may appear at some time or another.
And for the curious, a picture of War Machine from Avengers: The Initiative #1 (November 2007):
Sound Off: What do you think, is this War Machine?
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16 Comments
March 24th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
Sure looks like war machine, shoulder mounted rockets and all. Would love to see Rhodes make like a cavalry save.
March 25th, 2008 at 12:11 am
do they make a Kevin Carr version? It would take a lot of iron.
March 25th, 2008 at 8:53 am
And with his shoulder blaster, War Machine should also be sporting a Ghetto Blaster screeching “YOU KNOW IT’S HARD OUT HERE FOR A PIMP!”
And Cody, a Kevin Carr model would take something stronger than iron to case all that girthiness. Can someone make an artist rendering?
March 25th, 2008 at 9:39 am
Obtaining enough iron to make Kevin an iron suit would definitely help the GDP in these weakening economic times
March 25th, 2008 at 9:48 am
Yeah, but not if they sell it at Wal-Mart for $14.96.
March 28th, 2008 at 7:29 am
Definitely looks like it.
April 14th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Don’t know if we’ll see him in the suit but on the back of the pack it states that Jim Rhodes wears this armor on missions that are too dangerous for Tony Stark.
April 17th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
It looks like War machine with the rockets, machine gun, and coloring. I would love to see both of those caracters in the movie (Iron Man and War Machine). This is the only movie that I’m really exited about watching.
April 25th, 2008 at 7:36 am
it looks like the prototype of the iron man in the movie. but the array of weapons make it look like war machine
May 1st, 2008 at 1:26 am
i have already sean the movie in mexico and Jim rhodes looks at the mark II and says “next time, baby” but but war machine does not appear and its supposed to appers in the next sequels
May 3rd, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Very cool!!
May 4th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
yes this is war machine its his armor iron man made it though james rhodes wears it when tony cant it has more weapons as you can see for more dangerous missions it can go in stealth mode and its more heavy duty so it can take more hits
May 5th, 2008 at 1:34 am
I agree that the toy is no sure fire way to say that War Machine will be in the second Iron Man movie (I have seen #1 four times already in a row since it opened)…but rest assured…he will be in it. There are two obvious reasons why. Well…one obvious and then one obvious to fans of the Iron Man series.
1-Upon seeing the Mk II hanging up in Tony’s garage, Rhody says: “Next time, baby.” That’d piss too many fans off NOT having War Machine in after saying something like that.
2-Look at the blueprints that are being assembled and disassembled during the credits. You see plenty of what just looks like Iron Man…but keep watching. You see a nice little addition being tossed onto one of the shoulders…a Chaingun.
Blueprints for War Machine (figured this out myself…yay me!)
So if this subliminal toy isn’t enough evidence…then those two additional bits of info should be.
Also…awesome toy. I want.
May 7th, 2008 at 12:03 am
http://photobucket.com/image/ironmanwarmachine3/DeAnte_021/ironmanwarmachine3.jpg?o=1
Its a well designed 3d picture of war machine. Looks like its in the movie. I have no idea where it came from, but it looks awsome.
May 15th, 2008 at 1:20 am
i would realy love to see war machine on the next movie
i mean iron mans one of my favorite superheroes and war machine is too!
May 15th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
War Machine is such a bad ass looking suit… hopefully we will see it in the next film, god I love the chain gun :D