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A wonderful moment for that boy, and some seriously great work done by Albert Manero, Limbitless Solutions and everyone involved in making this encounter happen.

How blown must that kid's mind have been walking into a room with Tony Stark, and some Starks Industries crates, who presented him with a new arm tricked out in Iron Man colors?

I love how so many of the Marvel movie actors use their character personas to brighten the days of sick and injured children.

Ok, that's pretty awesome, both for the kid and on the part of RDJ.

I agree with the comment about Marvel actors, IIRC Chris Pratt "borrowed" Starlord's jacket so he could visit children at the local hospitals!

This is incredibly sweet and thank you for sharing it, I had absolutely no fething idea that he did this and that arm is amazing!

I love how he just treated the kid at the beginning like a business client. Just like stark would. Imy glad he only broke character once.

Saw this on the news this morning.

Restored my faith in humanity

What a fantastic use of fame, and the kid played along wonderfully! Thanks for sharing it

 Ahtman wrote:

Pretty awesome indeed.

"There's some good in this world, Mr Frodo, and it's worth fighting for."

Yeah that was Heart warming. Good post!

You know, part of me almost wonders if Marvel puts them up to it because it's almost literally all of them.


Still, heartwarming to say the least.

RDJ always seem like a good chap.

Very frank about his junkie days... still says he's an addict and all that.

Marvel is going to throw $$$ at him to keep the IM appearance going. Marvel movies don't do as well w/o IM. (yet, GotG is probably going to take over that)

Someone explain how the kid is controlling it?

I love how RDJ holds out his left hand without a second thought when shaking hands with the kid and his response to the kid's answer when they ask him who he's with.

"Robert." (Not Tony)

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Someone explain how the kid is controlling it?

I'm not sure how exactly, but prosthetic these days have sensors where they connect to the arm that reads electrical signals sent by the brain to where the arm should be, allowing them to be moved.

 Slarg232 wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Someone explain how the kid is controlling it?

I'm not sure how exactly, but prosthetic these days have sensors where they connect to the arm that reads electrical signals sent by the brain to where the arm should be, allowing them to be moved.

Awesome.
I was thinkg, it didnt say he had no arm, but a tiny deformed on he could move. so maybe the arm was responding to that.


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Atleast it ended better than the last time this happened
http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/14/little-kid-wants-to-meet-iron-man-gets-robert-downey-jr-instead-photo/

Wow, I nneded that. Thanks for posting, up until watching I was ready to burn the world down. (Colossally bad day)

I chuckled when he was talking about his light being broken and all that. So cool.

Friggin' awesome.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Someone explain how the kid is controlling it?

Didn't get a good look at the kids arm, but its possible he has a couple fingers or a hand which he can move and the arm is made to respond to those movements.

 Grey Templar wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Someone explain how the kid is controlling it?

Didn't get a good look at the kids arm, but its possible he has a couple fingers or a hand which he can move and the arm is made to respond to those movements.

I'm pretty sure it's sensor based. Entire right arm appeared nearly vestigal in nature, it only barely poked out of his short-sleeved shirt at one point, and i saw no digits on it (as is the case with people with the affliction that the digits themselves are vestigal on the arm).

But that's from a quick view, twice, so who knows.

Another possibility is that even if he doesn't have fingers or a hand he might still have a forearm, just extremely small and so sensors could still pick up voluntary movement.

Of course eventually we'll have bionics that can directly interface with the nervous system which will allow for normal range of motion and just just a simple open/close hand.

So when can I replace my arm with one of these and how much will I need to cut off?
Seriously though, this was some up lifting stuff