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The blue in Kaine's design is meant to run throughout his costume... and he's got spikes and stuff up his arms!

I also don't know where Phil's colour scheme is coming from... blue and dark green??

Spider-Man seems on the darker side too. Even when he was Spider-Carnage, he wasn't really black instead of blue.

Well, I don't think I am the only person who has ever felt the need to change a Minimate to be more in-line with what they prefer or what they wanted?

I will apologise for any projection, I have felt incredibly outside and abandoned as a customer - I actually didn't even know DD was OUT (and I can't find any listing on Luke's?), I've been aimlessly searching eBay every week expecting the boxset to show up for sale somewhere. It's release, down to the figures included, seemed to be fluctuating and unsure - I had no idea it had actually been out for months (I think?). I'm someone who doesn't check things daily, at this point weekly or maybe even monthly. There's like 1 Marvel release per year! I knew it was coming out "some time in 2024" and have been keeping an eye out for it on eBay.

I have now found out the reason for my obliviousness and apparently unavailability - a .. certain eBay seller that once had a menagerie... began blocking people from viewing their store on any eBay besides .com when they changed their name away from specifically Minimates. I think all my frustration, disappointment and anger should now be directed at them. And those big stupid idiots even gave the loose Puppet Master the Ultimate Nullifier accessory instead of the loose Reed Richards that one time!!

Buying from Luke's is inevitable now, I guess. I did definitely get X-Factor wave from him (with several Madri) and I think Dark Phoenix too. Always wanted to get some sticker sheets and loose parts just for fodder but it'd always come time and it's like "yeah, I can't justify the postage cost on small buys" which equated to me getting the entire Dark Phoenix wave when all I really wanted was Gladiator and maybe Dark Phoenix.

Just it was nice going through eBay and cherry-picking what I wanted when that was an option because... well, I use eBay to buy most other hobby things that I buy... it was easier to go on eBay and search for things than going to another specific website.

I'm dying for a classic Thanos. The Infinity Gauntlet boxset one is just not enough. Likewise that Drax... we need a bulked up version of that guy.

18 hours ago, DSTZach said:

I think Inhumans is a tough sell right now. Maybe when the show came out there was a small window, but it was REAL small. 

And I think when we ultimately release the '90s X-Men sets, they will be companion sets like some have suggested. An apple that's worth the reach, as it were. 

This gives me some hope... the last Minimates I got were the Dark Phoenix ones (I only wanted Gladiator but wound up having to get the whole wave because there's virtually no longer any eBay market for loose minimates). None of the boxsets have appealed to me personally. The Daredevil one has some things i want (D-Man and Mary) but again I can't even find one for sale and I'm accepting that there's zero chance I will ever see a loose one for sale. Not being in America is another factor and it's been so long since I got a Minimate it has made me lose sight of how fun the line can be.

The boxsets unfortunately lock one of the main appeals of the line away - interchangeable parts. It's been said before but nobody is going to buy a boxset because they see a set of legs or a head that would look good on a custom they envision. That now there's not much loose ones on eBay (who was that one seller that sold them all loose? I bought about 70% of my Minimate collection from there!), it's barely accessible to me. The extra cost of postage makes the idea of getting a boxset I already only want 2 figures from (and feel the need to improve Mary with Jean DeWolff legs)... the boxsets are a model that I would say are problematic because no matter what there will be customers who don't want all 5 figures. Either there will be a remake of a figure they already have and don't feel the need to upgrade or there will be characters they have no interest in. I would say, actually, the first two boxsets while not appealing to me, were at least selected wisely in that they mostly appealed to the same person. If you want one Young Avenger, you probably want all 6. Daredevil is a different case - I have a Kingpin, I have a Bullseye... not everyone does have those obviously, and Elektra-Daredevil isn't something I'm into (never read those comics) but I have wanted a Yellow Costume Daredevil for ages specifically to make a D-Man. I've wanted Typhoid Mary for ages (even if I have to kitbash some parts to make her look more like she did in the 80s). 

I don't know what I'm saying. As a line, I think Minimates need to be more available for people to buy them for their parts. I'd buy something I'm not interested in if it had a pentagram on a bare chest because it is begging to go on a Son of Satan custom I have laying around. If it's looked behind a weird boxset with 4 other figures, no way am I going to get it for that one chest block. My point here is that one of the biggest unique selling points of the line is gone with boxsets.

Obviously, a lot of personal taste and personal geography is colouring my thoughts but someone mentioned those Alpha Flight boxsets and those were great and the Young Avengers was a decent set if you're into that... New Warriors, Thunderbolts - they'd have been killer. Maybe overall the boxsets have to be slam-dunks, all the figures should appeal to the same person? If someone wants x, then they naturally want y as well. Try not to have someone who wants x but is affected by not wanting y. The Daredevil one felt particularly pick and mix and featured 1 new character to the line and a completely disconnected Daredevil design with a selection of modern designs on everyone else. 

Maybe just make a future boxset that is just an empty tray except for one figure and it is the classic 80s Beetle that matches the female Beetle's colours and then I'll shut up?

ALSO, technically, one could argue we have gotten a non-animated Jackal before.

Just realised Deadly Foes of Spider-Man fits some of these clues!

Hero we've not gotten before - Beetle (he has been a hero since 1997)

Anti-hero we've never gotten - Boomerang (he starred in his own series, Superior Foes, and as of recently was Spider-Man's pal and roommate... technically could argue he's an anti-hero by now)

Rhino - villain we've gotten before

Speed Demon - villain we've only gotten animated

Then it falls apart because our fifth villain we've never gotten before... we have had two Hydro-Men (or alternatively a Shocker). Assuming it's not another case where the clue is "oops, I forgot about that one" there are other choices - Leila Davis would fit; she was in both Deadly and Lethal Foes. The Answer was in Lethal Foes (as the bad guy iirc). Stegron (was also in Lethal Foes). Then there's Overdrive from Superior Foes. 

Could be a composite of the 90s miniseries team (Beetle, Rhino, Speed Demon, Boomerang, Hydro-Man) with the modern Boomerang design and Overdrive so that it doubles as completing the Superior Foes line-up for some (we have gotten a very old Shocker and the female Beetle).

Maybe recent comments about not doing a Sinister Six without Spider-Man were all part of a grand misdirect.

I'll jump at any chance to hope for a Beetle... 

Ben Reilly Spider-Man

Kaine

Jackal

Spidercide

Scrier

They would appear to be the 5 most story specific. 

Depending how loose it gets, Phil Urich Green Goblin (could class as an anti-hero or with foresight villain), Lady Doctor Octopus (villain), Stunner (villain), Judas Traveller (villain), Scorpina (villain), The Grim Hunter (villain)... were all introduced in the middle of the Clone Saga. I'm sure if you dive deeper, there's all sorts of major Spidey baddies we've not had Minimates of that cropped up at some point in the Clone Saga but weren't really relevant to the overall arc. I mean, Beetle was in an issue of Spider-Man Unlimited during the Clone Saga so I'm going to be disappointed for the 40th time that I've still not gotten a Beetle.

Could always be a trojan horse and they're going to force in some recent rubbish like Chasm or Hallow's Eve...

There is that old Lockjaw (came with the bad adaptation of early Psylocke). And there's an old Black Bolt (and an animated Black Bolt AND an animated Medusa).

Luna minifigure?

(Actually maybe a Magneto Family themed boxset with Magneto, Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, Polaris, Crystal and a Luna minifgure could be a thing...)

Which Inhuman is getting the shaft there? Lockjaw or Triton?

Although...

Thor vs. Wrecking Crew

Hulk vs. U-Foes

Captain America vs. (some of) Serpent Society

On 4/12/2024 at 8:10 PM, DSTZach said:

Yes, Team X Wolverine, Maverick and Creed would be great. We need to figure out who else would be in that set. 

Omega Red and Silver Fox. Maybe John Wraith or another pass at Mystique. Cyber, oh gosh, I'd like a Cyber. Absolute potential here for a boxset.

Albert with an Elsie-Dee minifigure?

The solution to army builders in boxsets is a boxset of exclusively army builders.

Like a S.H.I.E.L.D. themed boxset: with a SHIELD Agent (M and F chest piece), a HYDRA Soldier, an AIM Soldier, a Watchdogs Soldier and an ULTIMATUM Soldier. Or a space boxset with a Kree soldier (pink and blue heads), a Skrull soldier, a shi'ar soldier (M and F chest piece?), a badoon soldier and so on. There there's a bunch of uniforms that allow for this. 2000s era Guardians, a variety of X-Men, Fantastic Four. Sure, some require specific pieces (Star-Lord for example has a unique chest block) whereas others are actually simple add-ons or removals (a hula skirt on top of a female GOTG body for Mantis). Some off the road ones like Bug, Deathcry and Captain Universe could be squeezed into a GOTG boxset like that through alternate pieces for the base GOTG uniform body.

Eh, i hate this thread i started. They changed the format and so all the great suggestions of Thunderbolts, New Warriors, Inhumans... all these 6 figure sets... basically something that felt extremely likely due to fitting the 6-figure format, something like the New Warriors, is now like we're being explicitly told we are probably never going to get them because we're only getting 5 figures. 

I like the X-Men 97 design for her. I would rather have that as a Minimate. I'm going to be disappointed when it's not that and it's not the comic version and is now like that awful Marvel Legends redesign that they never released.

What sucks is the notion that DAZZLER simply having boobies is now too risque for Minimates which spells out the fact that Emma Frost is now basically un-Minimatable. Even her tame costumes are more than disco Dazzler. 

I said in the other thread - Polaris as Malice matches some clues. I'd much prefer her to a Wolverine with a spikier mask.

Polaris as Malice could fit some of the clue.

Definitely not dying, right??

Can't wait for my 3-figure Inferno boxset due out in 2027 with a newly sculpted mask piece for Wolverine instead of any women.

You're all hopeful but the 5 figure limit basically means it's going to be about 3 or 4 figures you don't want and then maybe 1 and a half that you do.

And when it comes to 80s X-Men, what don't we have? Madelyne Pryor, Legion, Gateway, etc. 

Do you realise how unlikely it is that the sheer amount of recognisable and profitable X-Men characters have to first be decided against to get us room for a Caliban??

Wolverine, Storm, Cyclops, Rogue, Magneto... there's just no chance in my eyes. We will get thrown a bone with a Sebastian Shaw or a High Evolutionary but the rest is going to be another Wolverine variant we've already had and maybe if we're lucky a headmaster Magneto or Savage Land Rogue or whatever.

I'm never going to get Boomerang and Beetle, am I?

6 hours ago, thereasonsy said:

Her costume was different as it didn’t have a Tunic or the shoulder pad things. There’s also the case of her hair getting burnt off. 
 

I agree with you on the deep cuts. It will be really hard to get to my New Mutants Holy Grail: 

 

I did a kit bash Rusty in his Red shirt and khakis and one of Skids but sadly those two characters were victims of the Liefeld of it all. Sadly, these boxsets, even if sold at LCS need anchor figures and Cable *is* the X-Force anchor. So if I *have* to have one then I’d prefer the Mastermind/Professor X trick and have it be Cable as Stryfe. Exodus has come back into relevancy so I think that would also help. Sunspot also is a current star of the X-Avengers Realm. I do love the idea of just adding in the pieces to make both a Liefeld and a Cap Warpath. I was hoping we’d get a larger Minimate for him similar to Strong Guy but at this stage of the game, beggars and what not.

I actually deleted a sentence in my reply about how I sorely want "Rusty Collins specifically in the Liefeld costume that he never wore in a comic". 

I feel we only need the one Warpath (and wishing for more than one is ridiculous with the current snail's pace of releases). The design didn't change ENOUGH between Liefeld and Capullo to justify two. Capullo just gave him cleavage. The Marvel Legends figure is exactly what the Minimate should be based off (likewise, they did a Capullo Sunspot in that same wave of figures). I don't even remember Feral having a Capullo costume. Wasn't it just a pink bathing suit? I'd consider that a waste of a figure and over Warpath, (either version of) Sunspot or a Stryfe is terrible. Reignfire would be cool but again it feels wishful to think this line is going to ever have a character like Reignfire offered. I could spend ages asking what about Adam X the X-Treme? Gideon? I've long wanted a Rusty Collins and X-Terminators Boom-Boom. I don't think any of these are likely. I hold out hope for a Warpath and Sunspot to at least complete a line-up.

Strike while the iron is hot give us the Wave 85 we never thought we'd see.

Don't have the Batgirl head (and the spare Sentry parts I had are the other Sentry Minimate), but Frankie Raye torso works better for Hellcat and possibly matches well with the older Sentry arms you're using:

Might have to track down that Batgirl head. And other Sentry. And Deathstroke parts so that spare Hobgoblin cape can get used for something besides Hellcat's accessory.

Firestar, Sentry, Batgirl... where's the sash from? Corsair?

Oh man, completing the 80s Defenders team is one of my dreams. I wanted to make Devil-Slayer for ages. Even pegged the same Deathstroke and Hobgoblin parts but could never work out the torso. Was going to settle for the old Taskmaster torso which I think I could live with.

http://www.minimatedatabase.com/img/fig/fig0528flg.jpg

We still don't even have a Hellcat. I've no hopes we can ever get around to getting an actual Devil-Slayer or Gargoyle.

Typhoid Mary is the only one I am remotely interested in (and even still I have to kitbash her with Jean DeWolff legs and a different arm to get her close to what she actually looked like).

If she's gone, that's 3 "waves" in a row with ZERO for me.

Real death rattle stuff.