With Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings in theaters this weekend, new figurines of the protagonist and his father are now available for pre-order.
Sideshow released a series of photos for their Shang-Chi and Wenwu Hot Toys collectibles, both standing at 11.8 inches and 11 inches respectably. The Shang-Chi model is posed with a bo-staff as his weapon, while Wenwu is wielding the Ten Rings as either energy cannons from his hands or disks tossed across his arm. Both figures also come with interchangeable pairs of hands to make various fighting poses, with Sideshow’s promotional images depicting the two action figures battling each other with their fists and weapons. Both products will be shipped out sometime between January to March 2023 and are both available for $250.
Both figures are also carefully modeled after their respective actors, with Simu Liu playing the titular Shang-Chi and Tony Leung portraying his father, Wenwu, also known as the Mandarin. They also each come with a themed figure stand and nameplate.
A number of Shang-Chi toys were leaked online in April through social media, including a plastic disk-firing Ten Rings of Power and figures of the supporting cast and secondary antagonists. Most recently, Hot Toys debuted figures for other Marvel characters like What If…?‘s Spider-Man and Black Widow, as well as Disney-owned Star Wars characters like The Mandalorian‘s Luke Skywalker and Boba Fett.
Trailers for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings teased a hostility and estrangement between Wenwu and Shang-Chi, who left his father due to his status as leader of the villainous Ten Rings organization. While the latter is technically the Marvel villain known as the Mandarin, director Destin Daniel Cretton revealed that he and Leung used aspects of the Mandarin in Wenwu but primarily developed him like a grieving father trying to reconnect with his son.
The trailers also alluded to the Ten Rings’ name connection to previous Marvel films, having been used by the terrorist group who kidnapped Tony Stark in 2008’s Iron Man and by Aldrich Killian’s fake Mandarin, played by Sir Ben Kingsley, in 2013’s Iron Man 3. Based on box office predictions, the film is expected to make $45-50 million over the Labor Day weekend, a total that, if made, will surpass the record set by Rob Zombie’s 2007 remake of Halloween.
While these Hot Toys figures are currently available for pre-order, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings arrives in theaters a bit sooner on Sept. 3
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