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You should definitely bring Star Wars MiniMates! To, you know ... get people on board. Just make up some prototypes and put 'em in a display cabinet. Go-wan ... do it!

Looks like NYCC added them officially to their site. Along with official (small and fuzzy) pics ... Finally getting to go to the con. Partially for business, but lots of pleasure to be had too. (BioShock Infinite! Kirkman, Claremont, Reis and mo!) Who's going to the show? CLICK HERE for listing at NYCC's site

Thanks ... it's good to be around. We're super-busy with the store. Moving into a new phase. All is well and we're so grateful for all the support. As busy as we are, I always keep you all in the back of my mind. I heart MMMV!

Hey-oh! Digging through listings on Diamond's site ... once again, came across a couple of interesting listings I thought you guys might like to see: SPIDER-MAN & FIREFIGHTER NYCC 2011 MINIMATE 2-PK and ZOMBIE BIKER & ZOMBIE SURGEON MINIMATE 2-PK As usual, no other info inside the listing. ALSO: Official pics for some of the stuff we saw at SDCC. I'll let you guys know if I find anything else. Hugs! Xy

Uhm ... lemme clarify. If anyone could pick me up one for much, much less than jerkwads are selling them for on eBay ... that would be great.

I can't believe the scalper prices on eBay right now ... $38 for the Alice mate?!?!? PLUS shipping. grrrrr ... SO: Is anyone at SDCC that can pick me up the Alice mate?

I did a google search for "DISNEY MINIMATES" ... the link was on the first page, likr the 3rd or 4th listing.

My guess is the movie box set is going to be Cap / Red Skull & Thor / Loki. Probably battle damaged versions, eh?

Here are the non-Marvel listings I found at the Diamond reatailer's site: (DST) GHOSTBUSTERS REAL GHOSTBUSTERS MINIMATES BOX SET (DST) UNIVERSAL MONSTERS MUMMY MINIMATES BOX SET (DST) HALO MINIMATES VIOLET BOX SET (DST) HALO MINIMATES ORANGE BOX SET (DST) HALO MINIMATES BROWN BOX SET Now the TRU stuff ... SONY MINIMATES WAVE 1 ASST (TRU) REAL GHOSTBUSTERS MINIMATES WAVE 1 (TRU) REAL GHOSTBUSTERS MINIMATES WAVE 2 (TRU) REAL GHOSTBUSTERS MINIMATES WAVE 3 (TRU) HALO MINIMATES WAVE 2 (TRU) HALO MINIMATES WAVE 3 (TRU) HALO MINIMATES WAVE 4 (TRU) MINIMATES MAX GUARDIAN WARRIOR WAVE 1 (TRU) MINIMATES MAX ELITE HEROES WAVE 2 (TRU) MINIMATES MAX BATTLE BEASTS WAVE 1 (TRU) Veddy interesting. And if you didn't see, here's the Marvel stuff: http://www.minimatemultiverse.com/index.ph...mp;#entry174070

Oiy! I was looking through the Diamond retailer site and found some listings you guys might like to see. I'm just going to list the Marvel ones here, I'll edit in a link to the other ones after I post them. (many more listings, some of which you'll find very interesting ...) Just titles, no info so far ... it looks like these are going to be all TRU items. MARVEL MINIMATES MOVIE THEMED BOX SET (TRU) MARVEL MINIMATES X-MEN FIRST CLASS ASSORTMENT (TRU) MARVEL MINIMATES CAPTAIN AMERICA MOVIE ASSORTMENT (TRU) MARVEL MINIMATES THOR MOVIE ASST (TRU) So ... First Class 'mates! EDIT: Here's the "others" thread. http://www.minimatemultiverse.com/index.php?showtopic=9182

Did anyone get these yet? I just found the listing on DisneyStore.com and it's already sold out. http://www.disneystore.com/marvel-univ-min.../1279425/11762/

I've looked over these very carefully and used the pages at minimatedatabase.com to compare ... all 4 of these 'mates are new versions. They use old parts but have new paint schemes. The Spidey looks like the original release but has abs and more details. Iron Man looks almost exactly like Classic Iron Man, but his eyes on the helmet are black. Plus who knows what's under there ... Cap looks very similar to older releases, but his face is different. And Thor uses a mixture of old parts asd has a new face. So there are no 100% re-uses, all are justified in my book. This might actually be my favorite Spidey ... 1st appearance might beat it out though.

I know, right? It's looking really good ... and all of your votes have helped us. I can't thank you enough. If you think you know someone who might like our music and want to give us a vote to play at a ridiculously cool venue, please feel free to pass the info along. Votes = guud. THANKS GUYS!!! t (xy)

Thanks so much for the votes! I can already tell you guys have been helping. You rocket!!! t(xy)

Hi guys! I wanted to call in a favor to some of my longtime friends at MMMV ... My band is in the running to play at a legendary club in our town. It's a vote based system ... and I'm pretty sure some of the other bands are cheating with fake users (Lisa Turtle, AC Slater, screech Powers, etc.) We would like to get in with real votes from real people ... SO, if you have a second, can you please place a vote for us? You can place a vote by using your accounts for Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, MSN, AOL, Google and several other sites. When you're signed in, you can vote with a 1, a 2 or a 3. Would you kindly vote for us with a 3? It's super-easy and we could really use your help. Thanks in advance! Trevor (Xybot) ******* CLICK HERE TO VOTE *******

Hey guys ... Trevor from stuckakid.com here. Just wanted to chime in since quite a few of you are long-time customers of ours. We received the "mistake" cases of 31 with yesterday's shipment (along with series 32). Yes, it has screwed up our numbers royally, but we managed to get all of our orders out. We have modified the listing for the non-variant set. Until we hear from DST, the blue angel (marked variant) will be sold in the normal sets. All pre-orders for the non-variant sets will receive the classic Silver-age Angel since it was listed that way. Unfortunately, the problem with the numbers makes it so our "variant" sets are sold out. I know, it's all a bit confusing. But as I said, all pre-orders for 31 (and 32) are in the mail to you. I have put in a call to Diamond and Diamond Select. Representatives from Diamond are trying to figure out what's next ... I'll let you know as I find out. Thanks again to everyone who pre-ordered with us! If you have any questions at all, please contact me directly at: ctk (at) stuckakid (dot) com Take care! Trevor www.stuckakid.com

I picked up the 2 variant sets ... and I just noticed that the Tully is not fixed! It still has the wrong label. And I know that it came straight out of the case, it was not a leftover. Any of you others ... is your Tully fixed? Was it just the nametag that was supposed to be different or was there something else?

Are you talking about Chuck or the people in this thread? I'm with Timbo on this one ... take these Q&As for what they are. People tend to get very hot and demanding ... just because Chuck can't fully answer someone's question, doesn't mean DST is not working on it. He could come out and make a bunch of wild promises, but then people would be on his back when he can't follow through with it. He tries to give us as much info as he can ... I can understand why he would want to be conservative with some of the info. Besides, go easy on him: he gave a shout out to stuckakid.com as a good place to shop for 'mates! BIG !!!!!!!

Over at stuckakid.com, we got some of our cases of 29 & 30 in a day late ... enough to cover all of our pre-orders (thanks guys, you should have your shipping notices by now) ... and we'll have a few of the regular sets and individual 2-packs up later today. This was one crazy week! T2, Ghostbusters, 29 & 30 ... by far one of the biggest shipments we've had in a long time.

An update from Barry Lyga: October 1st, 2009

No, there was one case and 12 packs there total. Probably just an error when they packed that box up? Not an error. They definitely short-packed Angel / Warpath. I got to a case as they were opening. What has been listed here is the actual case assortment. This makes no sense to me. They should have shorted IM / Hulk OR not shorted any, just had it 2 or 3 of each set in the case.

That was the first pack that I opened and I thought exactly the same thing. I thought it was weird, but intentional. "Maybe she took her shoes off in the cell one episode and i just don't remember." I agree with your point about Tori too ... it is the most glaringly out-of-place omission. Ugh ... I hate when very specific stuff like this gets buried in a larger thread. That revival thread was about the announcement that the BSG 'mates were coming back. Since then we've seen 1 wave released. And then another. People get sick of checking in on a thread because they think there isn't new info. I did think about putting it there, but wanted to make sure that people got to see this (since it is new info).

Here's a nasty little iPhone pic ... but you can see 'em all togetha.

Hello! Just got back from my local TRU with the wave 2 BSG wave in my mitts. Gleefully ripped open the packaging to find that ALL of the female characters except for Athena are barefoot! I looked at the product photos and they are all supposed to have black sandals / slippers ... yet here is what we got: (sorry for the super-blurry pic. It's from my iPhone.) EDIT: added a (hopefully) better pic.

American Dream would be a perfect pairing with SG. That's the one I'm hoping for. That or old-man Peter Parker. I could see them doing a revamped Hobgoblin though ...