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Well I will be supporting when and if they see the light of day. For what it is worth I really loved the homage done to the original toys. I pretty much never keep things packaged but I loved the nostalgia so much that I bought an extra set of both in order to have a packaged set.

Wait, what? Dazzler? I had to go to minimatedstabase to see if I was missing something. I do consider myself to be on the conservative side of things when it comes to what I expose my kids to but Dazzler? Dazzler? I think my daughter was playing with her at 6 years old. She loved the little skates. Dazzler? The only thing I was iffy on was whether or not the skates would be a choking hazard. Now for Selene, yeah there is no way I would give that one to my daughters at any age but Dazzler?

Thanks for continuing to advocate for this line! It’s definitely the minimate line I am the most excited about unless of course LOTR comes back to minimates. . .

I would be down for a minimate style Turtle Blimp or Van!

Here’s to hoping that wave 3 & 4 pick up enough steam to get us an army builder that does so well that the vehicle talks start happening! 😁

I would be totally down for those!

Super glad to hear that the line may continue on! Hoping Lady Jaye & Flont make it out in series 3 or 4!

I would be down for more ghostbuster minimates!

There is a GI Joe deck building game? That’s neat. If only my wife or kids were into deck building games. I don’t think I have played one since middle school.

Definitely got the reference and I would be all in on Princess Bride minimates! Very curious to see what the new initiative is. Really hoping to see more Joe & Cobra mates so hopefully it pans out. Maybe Pulse will eventually get on board and support a vehicle or two or ten. . . I will hold onto hope even if it is a fool’s hope.

Same here. At around $17 per figure unless you find them on sale it feels expensive for what you get and like others have said it is a step back in articulation from the original figures. They are trying to mimic the cartoon so there is some nostalgia to me but it just isn’t my thing. I do like their Ultimate figures but they are very expensive compared to minimates.

I would much rather have more Joe minimates than the page puncher things.

Indiana Jones would be epic for me at least. Although with the constraints Disney seems to have put on Hasbro I don’t know how far that line could go. Hard to last too long when you are so limited in making villains. I would love for LOTR minimates to come back.

Could it be the license for the Lego movie? I always thought they would make great minimates.

I looked. Sadly I did not have it. Sorry.

What does his shield look like? I can’t remember if I still have him or his shield but I can take a look.

Maybe I am more of an oddity than I realized because to me GI Joe seemed like it would be a perfect fit for minimates. There are no real scale issues since pretty much everyone is an adult human. You have plenty of unique looking characters (lots of them can double for army or civilian characters in other collections) and plenty of army builders. Vehicles would work great and there are tons of easy exclusives (Tiger Force, Python Patrol, Night Force, etc.). Obviously it looks like the market does not agree with me. It does make me wonder if maybe the line would have had more success if it came out back when TRU was still around and had that exposure. I mean when you look at all the different properties that have been made into minimates it’s hard to believe that GI Joe cannot get past wave 2. There were 3 waves of Muppets!!! I might just be a curse for minimates. My favorite has always been Lord of the Rings (2 waves with promos shown for a wave 3, I still search EvilBay in hopes of finding them some day).

I will join you in the begging and pleading.

If I had the means (I don’t) and had a retail store (I don’t) I would totally be down for funding an army build wave of Cobra troopers and a wave of my favorite Joes to go with them. Shoot I would probably fund a special Joe cartoon movie similar to the Transformer one (Nemesis Enforcer, Falcon, St Slaughter and Golobulus or Serpentor). That is if Diamond would be willing to work with me and if I could convince my wife to let me do it. I am not sure which of those is the hardest thing, the money, convincing Diamond or convincing my wife.

My set arrived from Luke. I love it although I am also reliving childhood trauma with the dead Optimus.

My set arrived from Luke. I really like the look of it. I haven’t had a chance to take the minimates out so I cannot say much about them other than they look great. I have never been a packaging guy but between the VHS style, retro carded Joes and this I am starting to change. The overall presentation is top notch in my opinion. I ended up with two sets of the carded Joes and duplicates of some of the VHS sets to have displayed. I am very tempted to do the same with this.

That would be a neat convention exclusive though if it’s ever allowed. Out of all the lines right now this is the one I would have thought would be taking off. There is so much potential for so many different things whether it’s army building, alternate decos for exclusive sets like TF, NF, etc and vehicles. . . I guess it could just be that I am biased because I really want this line to succeed.

Same here!

Hmmmmm. I am not sure what arcs were in the 2010s. When did the modern Spiderverse stuff start? That seems like the most likely.

That’s exciting news. Does the Spidey-themed set have a theme as well or is it just a bunch of characters from Spidey’s corner of Marvel?