With DST seemingly focusing more on Vinimates and the much slower releases of new minimate waves, I found myself losing interest in minimates . And I have been around since the days of the 3" minimates, the Kiss ones being my first purchase. This is the first minimate news in a while that is of interest to me and might bring me back into the fold, minimate-wise.
( I also like the recent 1,000,000 BC wave. At least these are new characters rather than the 100th version of Spider-man or Iron Man).
Hopefully DST does something worthwhile with the Bruce Lee license though we probably won't see anything until well into 2019.