by Michael SatterfieldFrom the company that brought us the Batman Motorcycle Suit, Universal Designs has released their Wolverine suit and is working Tron and Iron Man suits. It would make a great costume and does look pretty cool...but then again.... you are riding around dressed like a comic-book hero...
Check out the press release below.
UD Replicas Unveils X2 Wolverine Motorcycle Suit and Begins Development of Handcrafted Iron Man 2 Suit
UD to Begin Taking Orders Wolverine Motorcycle Suit, Produced Under License from Marvel, in Late April
TORONTO, Ontario, Canada (April 5, 2010) – Super Heroes are coming to the real world in spectacular new ways thanks to two new creations in development by UD Replicas under license from Marvel Entertainment, LLC.
UD Replicas unveiled a stunning Wolverine Motorcycle Suit – including leather jacket, pants and gloves as seen in X2: X-MEN UNITED – during Wizard World Toronto Comic-Con, and orders will be accepted online at www.udreplicas.com in late April.
"Wolverine has one of the sleekest, most amazing suits you can imagine, and what we're creating is as close to the real thing as you could possibly get," said David Pea, owner of UD Replicas, the officially licensed division of Universal Designs Ltd. "This is a project we've been working on for a long time, and it has taken literally hundreds of hours to get it right – but the end result is truly stunning and we hope fans will love it."
To ensure precise detail, Marvel provided UD Replicas with access to the Wolverine suit worn on
screen in X2: X-MEN UNITED. To create the jacket, gloves, and pants, UD Replicas is utilizing four different types of leather, which are hand-worked into an intricately faithful replica of the on-screen suit. Each X2 Wolverine Motorcycle Suit also incorporates removable CE-approved body armor; gloves with built-in, anti-skid Kevlar in the palm's leather lining; and an interior, form-molded muscle suit sandwiched into the jacket's torso section.
Pea continued, "No matter who you are, when you put it on and zip it up, you look like a Super Hero."
Under its multi-title license with Marvel, UD Replicas also announced today that it is in development on an extraordinary leather replica of Tony Stark's Mark V Suitcase Suit that will be seen in Marvel's eagerly anticipated IRON MAN 2, which will be released in the U.S. on May 7.
"We're putting our creative senses to work like we've never done before," Pea said. "We're going to mold and shape the leather to replicate the beautiful bevels and hard angles of the Mark V suit. We're making the leather look like metal, and doing things we never thought would be possible."
UD Replicas is working furiously on its motorcycle-suit version of the IRON MAN 2 Mark V Suitcase Suit, which it plans to unveil in time for the film's debut.
Full information on ordering the X2 Wolverine Motorcycle Suit, as well as photos and video of UD Replicas' remarkable creations, can be found online at www.udreplicas.com.
X2: X-Men United the movie: © 2003 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. Iron Man 2 the movie: © 2010 MVL Film Finance LLC. X-MEN, WOLVERINE, IRON MAN and all related characters TM and © 2010 Marvel Entertainment, LLC and its subsidiaries. Licensed by Marvel Characters B.V. www.marvel.com. All rights reserved. Super Hero(es) is a co-owned registered trademark.
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