Ha! I've discussed minimates for awhile on Fwoosh and AFI, but I've just been a lurker here. My annoyance with this poll motivated me to join this forum to find another place to complain. :biggrin:
I just messed around with the math. If you take the numbers from the first poll and pretend that the vote totals were the same for the 2nd poll.....and then switch the order of characters by putting the 4 from the box set in the top 4, and the 2 from the 2-pack at 5 and 6, and then total them up, Storm would still have to finish 9th or 10th to not make the top 6 overall. And if you combine the votes for Beyonder and Captain Marvel with their energy forms and do the same thing, Storm would have to finish 8 out of 8 to not make the top 6.
Obviously I don't know what the order is or how many votes there were, so this proves nothing (other than I just wasted my time), but it does suggest that it is highly unlikely that she finished out of the top 6 overall. They may have merged the votes on the energy forms into the totals for Beyonder and Captain Marvel, but I'm not sure that changes it too much. I doubt that Storm finished last in the 2nd poll.
In my own defense, I wouldn't bitch so much if I didn't love these. Every time I look at my Marvel collection I shake my head thinking how awesome it would be if DC was into wave 30+. If they were hitting the kind of depth of characters that the Marvel ones have, wow.