Re: Officially Licensed: Marvel - Wolverine X-Men II 'Movie Replica' Motorcycle Suit
Official Press Release....
April 06, 2010 08:55 AM Eastern Daylight Time 
UD Replicas Unveils X2 Wolverine Motorcycle Suit and Begins Development of Handcrafted Iron Man 2 Suit
UD to Begin Taking Orders for Wolverine Motorcycle Suit, Produced Under License from Marvel, in Late April
TORONTO--(
BUSINESS WIRE)--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.
“No matter who you are, when you put it on and zip it up, you look like a Super Hero.”
UD Replicas unveiled a stunning new 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. “It has taken us 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 Suitalso incorporates removable CE-approved body armor; gloves with built-in, anti-skid Kevlar in the leather lining of the palms; 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 plans to unveil the
IRON MAN 2 Mark V Suitcase Suit in time for the film’s debut.
Full information, 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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