Wow, Black Sheep Toy Store is in the news today! This time, actually offering something up for auction instead of just being a source for pictures. The latest loose offering from Black Sheep is the upcoming Duke with Reactive Armor. Maybe I’m alone in this, but I actually really love this look. Yeah, I like variety as much as the next guy, but as a fan of Sigma 6, I’ve got an affinity for this funky power suit appearence, and this version of Duke looks pretty damn cool. They managed to take an all black body suit and still make it visually appealing. I’m definitely not going to be buying all of the movie stuff, not by a long shot. But I’ll at least get the familiar cast of characters, and I’m looking forward to stocking my display shelves with these movie figures in their familiar on-screen look.
Check out the auction here, and check the mirrored images below.
I like the looks of the power suits. I just don’t get the supposed ability of running at super speeds – okay for super heroes, I guess, but wouldn’t the human body have physical limitations on how hard it could be structurally strained? Yeah, I know… giving too much thought to these things!
These black suits aren’t the super powered ones: Those are the Accelerator suits.
These are just ‘reactive armour’ they’re filled with a liguid/gel that hardens into armour when impacted at high velocities (like when hit by a bullet or shrapnel).