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Stumbled on the 2.5 wave in Norwalk CT as I was searching for the Pop exclusives. Just happened to glance down and there they were. Picked up Man Thing & Nighthawk!

and now his watch is ended.

OH. MY. GOD. I would buy the hell out of a Blues Brothers line! And I'm with Zach - the Band before the Good Ole Boys! That said, help me out.... I have the KB Crazy 88s... that's 90% of the basis for the Blues Bros customs. Hats and sunglasses - who's got em, minimate-wise?

Hey Zach - how was the response to the electronic Lost in Space Robot? I haven't seen any really good photos yet, but I saw parts of it in the Minimate photos.

Ridiculously cute! - thanks!

I haven't seen any pics of Set 2 anywhere - were they at SDCC? If so - who?Who?WHO??!!

PLEASE don't take this the wrong way, because I mean it as a legit compliment: these things look awesomely ridiculous! 2" tall articulated Godzilla toys? Fantastic. Zach - those Godzilla changes you mentioned - did they happen after the above Facebook photo, or since Toyfair?

Coincidentally, I just stumbled on this write up on the club; click away for further inFOOMation (see what I did there?): http://www.backtothepast.tv/fabulous-find-23-foom-1/

Lol! You're guess is as good as mine! I don't think I really want to know!

Be my guest, Zach! Put it wherever you want! And thanks for all the kudos, guys! It was a lot of fun to work on, getting the poses as accurate as possible and all. And special thanks to Minifiend UK for posting the original!

When I was a kid, Marvel had some fan clubs, one of which was called F.O.O.M. (Friends Of Ol' Marvel - typical corny Stan Lee!). The membership kit included an issue of FOOM magazine, a membership card, a couple of other things (give my memory a break - it's been almost 40 years!) and best of all, a big poster by Jim Steranko! A while ago, I (re)bought the entire kit from ebay, and realized that all the characters in the poster have appeared in Minimate form. So, one rainy weekend of photography and photoshop later...

Finished the MMDB update. Here's Dr. Smith and B-9. Thanks for the photos Ivan, but Yikes - what happened to the Robot? Is that very soft plastic, or are you really not happy to see me?

well Dang. Clearly there weren't as many LIS fans around SDCC as there were J&SB fans. I'll take a color pair of Will & B9 regardless. Maybe two.

Seconded!

Zach - just thought about The Other Shoe: when do you think we may see what the new Robot figure looks like? You know, the figure to which the minimates are only ancillary? SDCC? Sooner?

Mister PL - speaking of goofy, space-age aesthetics, are you a fan of the Mel Birnkrant's Outer Space Men line rejuvenated by the Four Horsemen? Many of those original designs were based on men in ridiculous rubber suits, and I've always loved 'em (the designs, not the men in them! ) http://melbirnkrant.com/return/index.html

This made my week!! http://www.artasylum.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Lost-In-Space-Robot-B-9-Black-White1.jpg That is some nice detailing!

Game of Thrones is the perfect property for Minimates - plenty of characters for many, MANY waves and many variants if it ever got to that point. (plus, they can dust off the 3" minimate body for Hodor!) It KILLS me that the only "figures" available are Funko's Pop! line - really cute, but not scratching the obsessive itch.

even though it's a prototype - that Robot looks ridiculously awesome - you can really get a sense of the minimate base in there, but he's all-Robot! And yes, I would love to get the whole cast in color - some of those velour jumpsuit color combinations were awesomely ridiculous! And sign me up for a Chariot as well - maybe a TRU exclusive? Sure, why not? A guy can hope!

Wow. Dr. Smith looks perfect, and the Robot appears well on his way to Awesome!

Hmmm.... what does that mean Zach? Don't get me wrong, I'm one of the world's biggest LIS Robot fans, and I'm IN (shut up and take my money) for the electronic Robot, but I'm REALLY excited for the minimates! You thinking of one wave and done? a box set?

Jeff - so very, very good. Best thing I've seen all week.

Don't give up hope boyos, if your local TRU hasn't gotten the 1st wave in yet - my store just got them in today, WEEKS after the other 2 in the county got theirs.

Ran into this problem Friday. They show they had 12 but couldn't be found. No peg space, nothing. I wonder how many of these are going out the door with employees. I got the same reaction from the woman that helped me in Danbury CT. The system showed 17 packs in store, the pegs had 5. She basically said, "well, they could have walked" (and I don't think she was making a pun)

I'm on the east coast too and out of the two TRU's around me, one got in a case last Friday and the other hasn't gotten in any yet And to make matters dicier, I had my TRU check their system - THEY aren't going to be getting them at all, whereas the other 2 "in the area" (45 min in opposite directions) "have them in stock" I'm sure you can imagine how those phone calls went when I called them both last night to confirm (where's the eye-rolling smiley?)