Iron Man Costume

The craftsmanship on that armor is freaking amazing. If you need someone to wear it around town with you while you dance I will be happy to. :)

Great article Danny!! I think that you touched on some great points about one's responsibility of what they post online and its consequences. I can vouch for this myself. ^^ Annyyway. Im happy that you were able to mend your relationship with TMP. Plus, the armor suit looks sick! Especially with the damage effect they created on one of the masks of Iron Man. It would be awesome to see a dancing Iron Man, dancing through Japan w/ some great music. XD Thanks again!

Start playing the song, because HE IS IRON MAN!

With great power comes great responsibility (am I doing it right?).

I want that Mark II armor..

Anyone can dance in it? ^^;

that looks really cool

The details on that armor is AMAZING.

I love these tips.
And Danny, do you mean Tokyo Dance Iron Man in 2010? Its already 2009.

"I am Iron Man" Love that line.

The helm looks big, but I guess that can't be helped cause someones head is supposed to go in there xD I would like to see some mods on the suit to make it light up in the chest.

Looks way cool, but I imagine the limited mobility would make dancing nearly impossible.

Very cool costume! I prefer to have a real working Iron Man suit that I can fly with, though... Well I suppose I can jump off a plane with it and pretend I'm flying, but it's just not the same.

Anyhow... regarding ranting... I usually don't rant too much. Perhaps the only rant that I did was my Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya novel. I didn't mind the translations, but the poor choice in the paperback cover was not only unsightly, but would reduce the potential in attracting new customers.

Sometimes, ranting is a nice way to let off some steam. Then again... too much and you'll just burn everything in your path. Nailing shut the kettle and preventing it from venting is a bad idea. Its just going to explode in a nasty manner. If you're displeased with the quality of something, I believe you are entitled to voice your opinion. Heck, it might be be considered a responsibility to inform the general public of your experiences whether it is good or bad. This is how I see it anyway. Its nice to see John and you make up though. Better to have friends than enemies.

Oh wow, that's neat armor! I wonder if I can find a Decade armor when I go to Japan XDDDD

I usually try to keep my online conduct to be as neutral as possible, I always hold "Don't to do it others and if you don't want it done onto you" as my motto.

Some people actually make a career and a life out of ranting: professional pundits and opinionists. The difference being, of course, that they actually know what they are talking about and have all the facts and research to back up their assertions.

I agree though that simply trolling for teh lulz, or being a blind idiot proponent of the Greater Internet F***wad Theory, is just plain asking for trouble - the sort of trouble that WILL inflict its karma eventually.

Question about the Iron Man helmet: can you get it customized to fit, say, a particular shape of skull/face, or to fit in glasses beneath? (I was thinking that Danny might have problems wearing the helmet if it can't accommodate specs.)

Wow i really love Iron man's armor, and this is really very impressive! The quality of this costume is really high ^^

Never saw the post in question but was wondering what your opinion is then on the difference between 'ranting' and 'negative reviews', the latter with which will provide reasonable and constructive criticism? There's usually a fine line across different individuals with how they view what a 'rant' could possibly constitute.

As for the armour - awesome! Will it be for sale soon?

Wow that armor looks amazing! Can't wait to see some Iron Man dance videos :D

Good to see you have made up with your old friend. Time is too short to be leaving grudges and matters unresolved. You never know when your time may be up.

On trolls and ranting, sometimes, when they make intelligent arguments, their feedback can help me improve myself. Sometimes its good to hear those opposing views. Of course, there's also those times where they are just saying stuff to try to get under your skin. Best to ignore them in that case.

And the moral of Danny's story is: Mom always said, "If you have nothing nice to say, don't say it at all."

On anther note, I think it would interesting to see a Tokyo Iron Man, but... I really like the Trooper.

Iron Man would be neato to see tho.

wait WAT - My heart skipped a beat when you said "take a look at something he sent me"
I can imagine it now... "Tokyo Ironman"

Wow - The handiwork is incredible!

Wow! The details are amazingly awesome! One of the best accurate armor I ever seen on the market.

I foresee it'll be much harder to dance in a Iron Man armor as I'd wore it before ^^; But still it'll be pretty cool to see Danny wearing it walking on the street of Tokyo ^o^

Good to know that Danny & John matters had been resolved in a good way ^_^

Warmachie coming next? But I can see dancing ironman as the next big thing already lol

Tokyo Dance Iron Man.

That is a very nice armor indeed!

About rants... I dunno how that post went, but I'm not really against them.
I'm more against trolling... but ranting and trolling are different things.

Let me be clearer: A rant not always has to be "destructive", though it sometimes can be very tough because you are expressing your anger/frustration/feelings about something you didn't like.

But SOMETIMES, that is the only way to make your message reach the manufacturer, and to make them reflect about the weak points of their products.
A good rant is usually not without motive, and it will point out problems, which can be picked to improve it later on.

Trolling is far worse, because it's just mindless bashing and hatred. It's unfortunately something lots of people waste time on, usually to vent anger that was created from some other source, and has nothing "constructive" about it, not constituting of solid criticism on a product, but rather putting it down without consideration.

Finally, one thing I both like and hate about the Internet is just that: How sincere we can be, how people really say what they are thinking of this or that thing.
This can also be pretty bad depending on those who are the object of criticism, but if we can select the good ones from the bad ones, we end up with directions to improve our products or services.

It's nice to consider some examples from game developers and anime directors... Blizzard and Valve both have received tons of trolling, bashing, ranting, criticism and complaints. It's interesting how they deal with them (look for the Diablo 3 rainbow case, and the Team Fortress 2 case).

I'd like to see an Iron Man dance indeed. :P

Now Danny has three sets of armor, Storm Trooper set, Vader set and Iron Man set! He probably needs macro to switch between them lol ^^;

AMAZING IRON MAN ARMOR! O:

Mmm... Maybe some time later... ^_^

WOW! That armor is friggin' EPIC! 1 million Schway points to the creator.

Oh my flipping pancakes. That's awesome! I'd totally want one of those and just parade around the block in it. xD

Wow! The details are amazingly awesome! One of the best accurate armor I ever seen on the market.

I foresee it'll be much harder to dance in a Iron Man armor as I'd wore it before ^^; But still it'll be pretty cool to see Danny wearing it walking on the street of Tokyo ^o^

Good to know that Danny & John matters had been resolved in a good way ^_^

type this into the URL on any website with images to see them fly around like Ironman!!!
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The armour is just awesome. What I wouldn't give to try it out for even 10 minutes.

Also agree about being responsible on what you say online. Not surprising that a lot of people don't know that employers these days will check your profile online.

Now -that- is just plain awesome. o_o

I praise him for making such an awesome costume! :D

I'm sure that that the hardest part about this wasn't realizing what you'd done but actually doing something about it. It's usually so very tempting to just leave things be, so props for owning up and contacting John. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have bothered unless...well, unless I was pretty guilt-ridden. Don't know if that's the case for you, but you did contact him in the end, and that's the most important thing.

And I think it's a pretty big thing too, for him to send you pictures of this. It's a sign of mutual trust, so I'm glad to know things are patched up.

Nobody's perfect. The important thing is to realize that we've done wrong, and then seek forgiveness.

Anyway, that MKII armor is awesome! Incidentally, somebody leaked out the Iron Man II trailer shown at Comic-Con 2009: http://bit.ly/16Rjfa

I want to share this article with many people. Everyone needs to spread the niceness; bringing people up, not down.

I bet the armor costs an arm and a leg, but it does look really cool.

Looks badass!

Im not a big fan of american comic characters, but i do love the design of his suit. Great sculpting and little details. When you consider how much a life-size model of it would be, its great that its actually wearable.

That is seriously cool, really want it but it'd never fit, boo!

I know what you mean about ranting, when we're hiring at work I always have a good look at the candidates presence online and things like that can set off alarm bells. I would say you're always entitled to your opinion though, fair and balanced reviews are good and helpful!

WANT.

Does John sell secondhand Repulsor Mk.3s and a Pentabeam to go with that suit? :p

Wow cool , Iron Armor is shiny and really bulky than your StormTrooper Armor .

It will be super cool if Danny bought a Boba Fett Armor and go dancing around in Tokyo , then it will be The TokyoBountyHunter .

To me I like Boba Fetts armor better than the Darth Vader Armor because the armor is like a fusion between The vader Armor and the Storm Trooper armor

I want mark I quite big and Nice or iron monger ^_^

Oh god thats awesome.... so freakin' awesome... GAH Iron Man is awesome!! And Tony Stark=Hot, therefore, Iron Man=HOT. lol

If you can mod the face place so it can be opened, it will be even more cooler :)

how heavy is it though? mobility is a must if ya wanna do the dancing iron man thingy ^^
reminds me of the leaked ironman trailer 2 over at gizmodo the other day...

Well, I thought the Vader costume was alright, but this is really good looking. I hope it's wearable with minimum mods though, because that's something I'd totally save up for.

Haha cant wait to see Tokyo dance iron man sometime.

Bill O'Reilly got paid for bashing and ranting though~

No website came up under a google search for imeless Movie Props but this article did at number 6.

I fail to see what is wrong with posting a review of a product when you weren't happy with the quality. That is half the point of a review, to give people well rounded information about a product/service. If you only mentioned the good, and omitted the bad, I really wouldn't take your opinion very seriously (because then you would be a shill).

Now, obviously you don't want to let it devolve into obscenities and bash the person/company just because you're angry.

I actually remember that article and I seem to remember you had some valid complaints. It's hard to remember though if you went a bit too far, being so long ago.

Iron man armour sure is cool, now only if it came with jet boosters.

Nice........now only if it could shoot beams out of the palm of the hands....hehehe heheheh ehehheh...:P

Word! Nicely said dude. It shows character to admit to ones silly mistakes.
Can't wait to see you dancin' in Tokyo in that thing dude ^^:

So he plans to sell some? Whoa! Will note that! I'm a huge fan of Iron Man and Spider-Man but when it comes to suits... Nothing beats Tony Stark items.

wow, thats a cool costume.

about the rants, writing in a pompous or pretentious way isn't the best way to complain about a product or problem :)

It is natural to want to seek an avenue to vent out one's dissatisfaction with anything or anyone. The advent of blogging brings about another method for one to display his displeasure for the world to see. The drawback of such an avenue would be the risk of being found out by the subject of the rant and this is harder to avoid for blogs with higher traffic such as yours. While in your case it may help other consumers be more aware of what to expect when purchasing similar products, others may view your rant as being unprofessional. I believe it is admirable to publicly retract your complaint and apologise to the subject of your previous rant. It boosts your image of a professional blogger.

I admit that I have also been a culprit of similar rants (or even personal attacks), and what's worse is that I used to bitch about other people back from the time when blogging tools like LiveJournal and Blogger were novelties. I'm glad that those places didn't garner as much traffic back then as you do now, and the subjects of my bitching probably didn't find out. Despite not being caught, I learnt a lesson and decided that it wasn't wise to do such things no matter how few people read my blog.

On the other hand, you could avoid trouble by writing a more politically correct-sounding entry, though that would kinda defeat the purpose of displaying your dissatisfaction. :P

I don't think ranting and trolling are useful things to do on the internet, but If you feel that the product you bought is not the desired quality or was overpriced, etc, etc, I don't see anything wrong with voicing your opinion and letting potential buyer read it. You just have to do it putting facts that are true.

I'm not very much of an Iron man (design of suit) fan...
but that is an incredibly faithful replica.
I'm always more interested in the making-of materials used.

Anyway, its kinda hard to imagine "dancing" Iron Man in tokyo though, Danny.

Cool! Ironman suit, not the rant. But we all got to rant sometime. Its just in how you proceed with it

Awesome suit...although the face does seems to be a bit off...

Don't know why but I can't help picture a guy in the suit saying "I HAS FURY" ... o_O?

cool costume! iron man dance will be cool! lol.

Warmonger costume would be absolutely wicked, though i think its not at all feasible, in terms of budget and for the people actually wearing it. cool, but cant.

in regards to bashing, i do believe its always best not to. at some point, you'd realize what a jerk you are and how childish you were. Its always best to face things head on, that way you don't hurt others, you don't make yourself look like a foolish jerk, and its actually more productive as compared to senseless rants. After all the rage, you'll realize that you got over your head. So the best thing is to be zen-ish. lol

An enlightening article, Danny. An online presence is more and more important these days..

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that Danny did nothing wrong when he ranted about his stormtrooper armour. In fact, "Rant" is probably the wrong word as it was valid criticism of the product. I remember reading the articles and danny showed clearly that the workmanship was rather shoddy. Perhaps it was a one off thing for the company but when the product does not match expectations then the consumer is permitted to give criticism. I don't remember the article being an attack on the individuals or the staff, just the armour (and then the numerous attempts to fix it). If I bought something in that state and needed to work that much just to make it work, then I wouldn't buy from the company again either.
If the company got stick because of the posts, then it should drive them to do things better. The company today may be totally different from back then, but it won't change if their customers stay silent.

Danny, you may feel embarrased by your post but you did nothing wrong. Strange that "don't try to please everyone" is one of your mantras yet that's what this post felt like.

Damn the armor looks awesome. The quality of it looks amazing!

this post actually made me registered just to post a comment lol

have been reading/following your blog but had been lazy to register

regarding the rants i get what you mean...if you googled my nick you'd see some post i made bout an issue i had with a guitar dealer which made me quite pissed due to his dishonesty...but really...in the end...all these rants will only hurt both parties and it sure hell doesnt benefit in anyways.

In the end, you'd think back and say:"Hmm...wouldnt it had ended better if you'd had just settled the dispute in a more matured and peaceful way"?

LOL

The important thing is to recognize your mistake and take steps to fix it, for happiness were all pardoned and made a new friend.

I was thinking when I watched Star Trek the latest movie yesterday, that we humans are really emotional creatures, and sometimes we just let our emotions control us and this doesnt let us analyze a situation with logic. I truly admire what you did Danny since it has happened to me and i know how hard it is to admit your wrongdoing and ask somebody forgiveness; I know i have done this in the past and I cant fix it now but truly hope that I can, from now on, be able to act more logical and dont let bad emotions control me.

awesome! to the max!!! perfect ironman custume! xD

Awesome article, Danny. Good to know you're in good terms with John. The armor looks great (although it looks a little bulky in certain parts) and Tokyo Dance Iron Man is not a bad idea.

Good timing for an Ironman article. The Comic Con teaser/trailer for Ironman 2 was just posted 2 days ago. :P

Wow,thats pretty sweet! Constructive reviews is the way to go!

OMG that looks amazing... I want to buy one.

I don't quite recall the review, but I see nothing wrong with negative reviews if the product is unsatisfactory or just plain bogus.

That's an amazing replica!
But it looks a little uncomfortable to wear...

Tokyo Ironman dance! woot! (^_^)

I like it but somehow I think it would be more unique with a custom paintjop apart from the original!!

let's see some iron man dance move now

So Danny, after he forgave you, did he send you the armor? S.A.A (Suddenly Acquired Armor) or S.A.C (Suddenly Acquired Costume) perhaps? I think Mk II is more awesome.

Just wow - the worksmanship that had gone into that just seems outrageous. I think the final product speaks for itself.

Just so much detail in every little aspect of the suit.

Very nice detail on the armor...wonder how long this one is gonna take to get on...

Ranting is an interesting phenomenon. Sometimes its warrented and sometimes it not. I've ranted in the past when I've been treated poorly by a merchant but recently had a different situation occur.

I have a Yamaha Raider Motorcycle and recently purchase a new exhaust. The exhaust arrived in less than acceptable quality so I called the companies CEO. I was not mean but just up front. For the last 2 months they've been trying to get me a replacement even though their production run has ended. Last Friday I received a call from the CEO with an intreging offer. They had a very big motorcycle show coming up and needed a Raider (which I have) for the show to showcase their new parts. Typically they call a local dealer and ask to barrow a bike in exchange for free parts for the dealer. The dealer installs them but is allowed to keep them for the sale of the bike after the show. Knowing I was relatively close the CEO offered this to me...a regular guy. So On thursday about $1500 in free chrome parts will arrive and then I'll have a week to install them and get the bike 4 hrs away to the show. I get to keep all of the parts to do whatever I want with them after the show. I'm very lucky I.

Kinda goes to show that sometime...sometimes its worth holding your rant.

Damn, that armor looks awesome. Very detailed!

WOWOWOW! damn cool want 1 :)

I'll wear this suit in town and get the kick ass look!

A good lesson to not troll/rant even online. If you must, do it mentally and keep it to yourself.

that suit is bad ass! Ive been talking to my mates about cosplaying as Iron man but the suit was gonna be a bitch to build. - still if its cheap i wouldnt mind a suit. BTW Danny - i think Timeless Movie Props have ceased trading on ebay. i cant find their account.

I would love to see you strolling down the street with a Iron Man suit.

That's nuts. Amazing quality.

That's some amazing craftsmanship. A lot of attention to detail in the costumes.

He has done a nice job with the proportions of the suit. Would be nice to see completed suits of both versions. You could some great modifications to that suit. Add lights to the chest and other areas, maybe cooling for the helmet and lighting under the chest... ^^;

Well you know we where all bad about giving John a lot of grief at that time. Really we are all equally guilty, not just you. The other night I let my bad judgment get the best of me and let in on a few people. It was stupid and I feel like an arss for doing it too. Always best to just ignore the trolls and bashers. It is something I always need to remind myself.

Saying negative things about something isn't always bad. If it explains why something is bad, it's a valid statement. Constantly saying something is good even when it isn't is probably even more irresponsible of a person with influence. Issues need to be brought up in order for them to get fixed. That said I don't know whether what Danny wrote was bashing or not since I don't know what he actually said.

War machine ftw

what? how does that make any sense, if the producer is bad at making a product then he's just bad sure u might get over it in time but facts dont change, and it's good that u warn others what happened to u so other ppl will know which companies r bad , i say they deserve it

looks snazzy!

Armor look good! But it think the charming point is the light from chest and eyes

Being too emotional to comment something and put it on top of search engine is not good. But having an objective to comment will be a big help for further customer or help the company itself to imporve

wow,nice job with the ironman armor..i think it will look good if you will add some lights to his chest area & eyes..^^

That's so epic! It looks even better than the Stormtrooper gear (altho I must admit I like stormtrooper gear better... Star Wars all the way! ^^)