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I realise that I'm a tiny minority & I'm glad that these are gaining lots of love but I look at these 'mates & I 'see' Peter Pan 'mates which weren't my favourites . Sorry!

Why the long face ? Ninnimates

Many thanks Zach

Medicom (kubrick Planet of the Apes) achieved a suitable compromise by designing a saddle that allowed the (kubricks') legs to fit into .....20 years ago ,simple enough? Why not follow the same path ,then any Minimate can sit on any horse Beta Ray Bill an horse God (see what I did there?) was the closest we'd previously got .

This is a step trot in the right direction . So many ideas & bad puns come to mind ........but I'll spare you . Finally I can complete my Godfather customs .

I use a 'friendly' US address & my NYCC order shipped yesterday ,allegedly.

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What I'm feeling is that we may not have a horse that a Minimate can sit astride .

"Don't look a gift horse in the mouth" they say . Nothing wrong with the horse but it would seem that it's rider has been up the pub & is legless .

You'll be hoarse if you keep yelling . A minimate horse ?

All seems to be OK now .

I'm struggling to order both sets....."mixed items types??"

If I were a Native American, people would know me as `Broken Record' .....I know that & I care not. That tiresome term 'exclusive' has been a 'turn-off' rather than DST 's perception that it promotes the product. The latest example ,I'm a (sceptical) new AEW Minimate / Vinimate fan so ,like everybody else I'm scratching my head about the first Vinimates AEW SDCC exclusive which is being followed up with a promo Minimate . In all fairness to DST the vinimate set was directly available from them if you knew but just try getting a reasonably priced set now !! So here we are with a new licence that is already becoming another 'excluder' rather than exclusive. Completing a Vinimate collection BTW is almost traumatic, anybody here actually go to the Puerto Rican Comic Con & pick up their Red Son exclusive ? Never forget that that beautiful yet commercially disastrous Battle Beast Minimate line ended up having just 16 retail characters ( + a Comic Heroes set of 2) . There were however 3 exclusives characters & 10 promos , 8 of those promos were released years before we actually saw one at retail !! It might just be me but the 'promotion' backfired . GI Joe ought not go the same way .

On reflection I should have perhaps emphasised... 'Mirror mirror' Spock episode ` TOS .

I know ....I know...I'm always playing the 'kubrick comparison card' but I need to say that Medicom made less than 40 odd Marvel characters . That's a tiny amount of characters & I'd have to say that very few were outstanding minifigures unless you mention that 2 of them were Spider-Ham & Venom-Ham whilst another was Venom-Punisher !!!!! Who wouldn't want those characters ....apart from DST High Command. Spock's beard. Khartoum's head . Khartoum's head ? A bit like John Wick's dog , a character from a Minimate licence that should have been made but wasn't . -deadhorsesheadmate

Plankton .

No TMNT kubricks . None of the Crow unfortunately . I'd love one but out of my league ($1500-2000??). I do however have a 2 feet tall Andy Warhol 1000% which ....you guessed it....is totally bizarre ...but far & away the best (unknowingly) 'investment' I ever made .

Rhodey War Machine , Alleygator Loki (who knew??) ,Warpath , Deathwalk & U.S. Agent (John Walker) . Please note my new address : TRN012 Dan Bi Crescent.

Street level ? Immediately I thought of Trails of Suspense characters but that was a dead end .

I have no answer to that . They have not completely ceased production, the latest offering was a single-packed figure sponsored by the US 'Supreme' brand featuring 'The Crow' . In fact there were 2 offerings ,one standard '100%' kubrick & a massive '1000%' version with a massive price-tag . I know little of the 'Supreme' brand but I know that they themed,several years ago, one other kubrick, a Supreme t-shirted 'Kermit' . That regularly sells on ebay for over $250 which ,to me, is quite bizarre . Bizarre is a word often used when I discuss kubricks .

As a completist (= nutjob needing help) I have accumulated several 'alternatively' packaged production minimates . The first that come to mind are those ' Ultimate Avengers 2 DVD pack-ins ' , totally worthless to everybody except nutters like me . I do however love the fact that the actual minimates 'packed-in' are subtly different to their mainstream counterparts . Ivan's Database categorises many other oddities , I spent years chasing the French language Canadian Multilingual packages ...I have them all & if you ask me to find them & show you them ...it would take weeks but I have them . Lord of the Rings (French) ? Yep. I could go on . Packaging mess-ups ? They're mess-ups & should have been consigned to the bin ........I'm an ex-packaging printer BTW.

I run the risk of being wrong or being perceived as snarky .....that's a Lego sabertooth (sabretooth) tiger which has lost its hideous lego 'spots' . It works well with a great custom .

Kermit = epic fail . I've said it somewhere before but who on earth would produce a toy ,representing one of the most iconic 'hand puppets' of all time with just a painted mouth ??? DST would .

Kubrick collectors enjoyed 3 series of Kelloggs' characters* & it took me several years to finally attain the final pair of 'secrets' . One is a Puffa Puffa Rice kubrick ,which was in fact a bearbrick . I had often seen that bearbrick on ebay yet never twigged it was a 'kubrick' ....if you see what I mean ? The other secret that I had big trouble finding is the secret 'K' which must be amongst the weirdest 'mini-figures' in any line, anywhere , a big red 'K' which is, believe it or not ,articulated? Despite their faults, kubricks always used sculpted heads where necessary & to great effect. Looking at those proto Kelloggs Minimates I can only give my humble opinion that they fail miserably, especially when compared with the kubrick production items . *lots of tigers as well

As a collector of Minimates I have often 'ridden' the light inoffensive abuse that my other collectables get from Minimate collectors. Palz & kubricks are generally disliked by many , I accept that but it is odd when both lines have massive similarities (with minimates) & definitely inspired their creation. Personally I (generally) detest Lego mini-figures but even I have one or two that I covet notably an SDCC Batman promo 2 set. So I have always understood the ambivalence /dislike. I've never bought a Minimate in a TRU, Target , Walmart or any other 'physical' store so ,for me, I just love being a collector of a such a niche product . What is hard to take is that for many many years the 'powers that be' seemed to relish the fact that Minimate collectors had to hunt for them rather than just buy them . That ,for sure, killed Minimate passion for many people here .....or that were here