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Marvel superheroes take Jakarta by storm
Iron Man, Thor and other Avengers break down the fourth wall for their fans in Jakarta, as an exhibition at Pondok Indah Mall in South Jakarta showcases costumes, props and other items from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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Suit up!: Iron Man's hall of armor presents a number of his signature weapon. (JP/Tunggul Wirajuda) (JP/Tunggul Wirajuda)
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ron Man, Thor and other Avengers break down the fourth wall for their fans in Jakarta, as an exhibition at Pondok Indah Mall in South Jakarta showcases costumes, props and other items from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The workshop robot arm juddered over parts of an armored suit. The mix of AI intelligence and state-of-the-art exoskeletons is all too familiar to fans of the Marvel Comics superhero Iron Man and his alter ego, industrialist Tony Stark, since the character made its live-action debut in the eponymous 2008 Marvel Studios blockbuster and its sequels Iron Man 2 and Iron Man 3.
“Dum-E is one of the smart machines created by Tony Stark when he was an undergrad at MIT,” reads the caption for the accident-prone contraption, whose name, knack of catching fire and belatedly turning on fire extinguishers make it a source of comic relief.
Dum-E is one of the items featured in the Marvel Studios: A Universe of Heroes exhibition. Billed as “the largest Marvel Studios exhibition in Southeast Asia,” the event at Pondok Indah Mall 3 in South Jakarta features “more than 60 artifacts – costumes, props and concept art…in an area of more than 2,000 square meters,” according to the press release from the Walt Disney Company Southeast Asia.
Organized in zones, the exhibition chronicles the various phases of the Marvel Cinematic Universe from Phase One blockbusters such as Iron Man and The Avengers, to Phase Four releases Black Widow and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. The phases do not end there, as the line continues with the original Disney+Hotstar series, among them Loki, Wandavision and Moon Knight.
Getting up close and personal
Film buffs watching the Marvel Cinematic Universe in IMAX theaters might find the experience immersive. But Marvel Studios: A Universe of Heroes intends to take this one step further by breaking the fourth wall and more.
