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Medicom didn't allow themselves to be hamstrung by the rather too simple Kubrick design . Head (1) torso(2)left arm (3) right arm (4) left hand (5)right hand(6)left leg (7)right leg(8)crotch piece (9) .......9 pieces I am told that '9' is pronounced 'Koo' in Japanese , it would seem to me then that the 'Koo' isn't a coincidence .....Koo bricks ? Anyway you can see from the rather plain 'hedgehog' promo above that kubricks wouldn't have lasted long like that & TBQH there are some shockingly shite kubricks out there! However Medicom didn't allow themselves to be hamstrung & the Star Wars line in many many instances 'perhaps' look like kubricks but only just The Kelloggs line BTW had a secret chase, a Kubrick sized 'Kelloggs' capital 'K' in the Kelloggs typeface , no legs, head or arms ...just a big 'K' . It was however articulated , it swivels in the centre , Medicom took the trouble to make it articulate for no other reason, it would seem, than they wanted to.

Japaharinet hedgehog promo.......I confess that although I have it I ,again, didn't have a clue what it was. ........Japaharinet are a Japanese band (apparently ?) Favourites ? Jin Roh Panzer ....2 types ....Jin Roh &,I kid you not, KEN Roh. Gorgeous ! Toy Story 'Buzz' . The Star Wars line is my pride & joy ,sadly I am not a SW fan but they are sublime .

Sorted.

Beaker is beautiful but is one of the rarest IMHO. I will confess that until I read your post I had no idea that the Batman S1 Secret/Chase was called 'Spoiler' ...I've seen checklists with the name 'spoiler' & always assumed that 'spoiler' was a placeholder name ....did I make sense there? I don't think it was as rare as Beaker . Quidditch Potter can still be bought from an online store ( Google it ) or USeBay. I've enjoyed my Kubrick hunting but it is a very lonely job . It's even lonelier trying to convince people of their beauty.

Also "Kang" or the lack of Kang became a long-running in-joke here , he eventually appeared in a fairly obscure box set . There is a second Walgreen version which is widely available & IMHO a very worthy cheap alternative . Juggernaut ? I guess the Excalibur version is rare & the best. The Excalibur box set is rare & a bit of an enigma , it contains one of the cutest Minimates ever made ,Meggan & undoubtedly one of the worst, Capt.Britain , a shockingly bad minimate that should never have seen the light of day . The Excalibur Nightcrawler is also the best version we have had.

Your post made my day week ! PALz were the reason I originally became a mini-figure fan so you're the man I blame for being broke Amazing (to me) that you also share (my) your opinion on blind - boxing Thank you Ken for posting , I'm sure there are many PALz fans but sometimes it feels very lonely being one . Not for my ego , purely for context , you can count on one hand how many kubricks (that I am aware of) that I don't own , every Minimate that is shown on the MMDB & every PALz figure ........X -Files PALz are perhaps my favourite . On another note 'Oppenheimer' & 'Barbie' are flavours of the day . Millions of people must have a Barbie doll but I'm betting few people are as proud as I am to own a "Smart bomb" ? I haven't seen mine for several years ( my collection is a mess of cartons ) but I still remember loving it .

I once read on this forum that an absolutely foolproof way of separating stuck minimate parts is to place the Minimates in a fridge & then boil them in a saucepan. What a ridiculous suggestion , who the helI owns a saucepan big enough to fit a fridge in ?

I have four Barbie items , three characters , so sorry for the confusion......13th Doctor , Mulder, Scully & the supposedly 'recalled' Scully . Apparently the long haired version was unshelved & recalled by the manufacturer . I own them ,quite why I can't answer IMHO all Barbie dolls should be unshelved,recalled & burnt I haven't seen either & despite my comment above I have heard good things about Barbie & Oppenheimer. We've just binge-watched the 1980 BBC TV production mini-series "Oppenheimer' . Although I knew of 'Oppenheimer' I knew little of the witch-hunt against him in the period after the war . An excellent show .

If it is Batroc I hope it's not going to cost an arm and a leg

Batroc first appeared In Tales of Suspense issue 75 . He was initially known as Batroc the Leper due to a printer's error , IMHO an `armless mistake .

Batroc ?

You are of course correct about Doppelgänger ,it was wave 76 which also feels like ancient history . I had it in my head it was a WG 'mate .

Spider-Ham was a secret-chase from the Marvel Kubrick line & until this week I had always assumed that another secret-chase from that line was called 'Venom-Ham' I've been calling 'him' Venom-Ham for years yet now I can find no reference to him at all ! I was going to post that maybe we'd be getting the symbiotic version of Spider-Ham in the future ....good ol' Venom-Ham ...er.....Pork Grind . I prefer Venom Ham . There were just 4 waves of Marvel kubricks (2003-2004) , just 28 figures & 4 secrets . The 4 secrets were Peter Porker ,Venom Ham Black Peter Porker, Venom-Punisher & .....Doppelganger . How on earth haven't we had those characters 'minimated' *? Amazingly Doppelgänger is the only one out of those 4 that has a Minimate equivalent but that was not a *comic-based version ......I wonder ?

My last post was driven by previous posts & as always any new Minimate is welcome & I look forward to this one. I'm not intentionally argumentative & I do concede that I have 'followed' the Minimate line in my own particular way . The first Spider-Man Minimate was sold 20 years ago , it sold in 9 different packaging variants in 5 different retail outlets ...comic stores, Target,Walmart,Shopko & ToysRUs . It sold as a single pack & was also included in a 2 pack , a 4 pack & a 5 pack . Despite that , those packs are now relatively rare on US eBay , I'm not sure why. That new Minimate character was exceptional from the very beginning ,it was 'in' in 5 retail outlets without any exclusivity . I can obviously see why DST might follow the Spider-Man 'path' . I also understand why 'exclusivity' might be the choice of a pushy retailer , obviously I understand that. Unfortunately I have seen that, eventually, 'exclusivity' excluded many collectors but that horse has been flogged by me several times before. Sorry. So perhaps I am just a lonely voice , someone who loves Spider-Man & loves Minimates , someone who actually loved Waves 76 & 77 .....2 of the strongest waves in years with totally worthwhile Spider-Man variations . I guess my problem is that I collected Walgreen Minimates , Walgreen Minimates waves (generally) had at least one Spider-Man variation (sometimes 2 ) in each wave , if there wasn't a Spider-Man then there was a Venom or a Spider-Woman/Girl ! Maybe 'animated versions don't count' ? I can count .

"Blind packs & chase figures " & 'exclusives' have left their legacy & IMHO a stain on the minimate line . I'm mentioning this because of the reference to a 'Ben Reilly' minimate which ,out of sheer coincidence, I've noticed on US eBay (re: Sun Coast Hobgoblin/Scarlet Spider) has become something of an overpriced rarity....bidding has not finished on one item on current US eBay & the bidding started at $80 ! Trust me when I say that that particular set came across the Atlantic to the UK from the US ,15 years ago, by the case load (unsold & cheap). Define rare ?? Ben Reilly may be invloved (sic) but TBQH I am tired of a line driven by someone that cannot fathom that 96 previous Spider-Man figures are almost enough . I look forward to Bacon Reilly , I look forward to the pigtures on Instaham .

A Spider-man wave would be a rational idea but Spider-ham would be a rasher one.

Spider-Ham 25th anniversary 2010

Ken ? Imagine being called Klaus ......Klaus Barbie ....Citizen Ken ? Can I come out of the closet now & admit something ? I have 3 'Barbie's' & a 'Ken' in my collection . Who is one , guess the other 3 & I believe the truth is out there !

The words 'DST' & 'Kickstarter' still leave a nasty taste in many a Minimate collector's mouth.

I'd be in .

One of your very best Luke . Perhaps a pipe-cleaner down the pipeline

Those are superb, the best thing I've seen in many a long day . I have been saying for years that 'Western mates' would be a seller . That was 2010 . Absolutely brilliant .

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