User blog comment:Marvelfan2099/Costume Change/@comment-4651179-20120804051811

Iron Man to stay with one armor for at least 5 years, it can't be that Iron Man's contemporary armor last less and less time.

Classic (MK V): 9 years

Modular: 1 year and a half

Modern/Extremis: 7 years

Bleeding Edge: 2 years.

And now they came up with a new black and gold armor, which thankfully it's like a black-instead-of-red version of the movie armor (even the gold patterns are similar) and pretty easy to draw. Hope this armor lasts 5 years (which, how marketing, innovation and revamp techniques works nowadays, seems pretty hard).