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  1. 2 hours ago, thereasonsy said:

    I love the Transformers mates but part of the magic is they transform… our mates do not and have slightly limited movement. They are beautiful but as a kid could I play with them or would I rather buy something that transforms? This is a nostalgic buy for me. Whereas Joes fit the play pattern and in some ways are superior to the other toys offered like Super7. On principle, Super 7 and Minimates share a similar structure of same mold slight variations on the characters (not sure I’m articulating that correctly). Where Minimates wins is the articulation and the interchangeable parts. They have managed to have perceived success because of the amount of skus and the variation in characters imho. 

     

    My OG Star Trek disdain grows by the moment. I am so frustrated we can’t get to TNG which I consider “my” trek because we keep recycling the OG. Even then just give me three boxsets following Mmpr wave 2. One red shirt, one yellow shirt, one blue shirt and an alien with heads for variations and call it a bloody day. Even if you can’t do all the heads in one Boxset then just follow the formula and give us a Klingon, A Borg, a Romulan. 

    I was too old for Transformers. I watched the show anyway but was definitely too old for the toys. Maybe that's why I'm not bothered with the feature. Also I've always found non-transforming toys look more like the cartoon character which I like.

    As for Trek, you're pouring my heart out here. LOL Less concerned about Next Gen since I made my crappy customs. They look not too bad in my display case. Would love a factory molded Klingon head though.

     

  2. 11 hours ago, thereasonsy said:

    I’m used to my role as playing the voice of dissent here. I respectfully don’t think it’s over saturated I just don’t think it connected for a few reasons. 1. Clarity that there would be an exclusive cartoon set that would be followed up with two waves with a higher price point and odd box. 2. The two waves had half the characters from the first box set. The con exclusive was also retreads of 3 figures and a lesser known comic entity. 3. The extended (but justified) rollout. 4. Distribution/access.

     

    Less we forget the original box set sold out same day. 
     

    Having only 16 slots, and 11 of them being the same 4 figures, was a choice. It just makes the play pattern harder and makes it harder to justify the price point. It’s easy for me to arm chair quarter back but the footlockers should have been com exclusives and the vhs boxes should have been the mainstream buy. I am thrown that we got more Transformers done then GiJoe. I love them but the transformers mates aren’t even in the same league as the Joes. It’s odd there are more.

    I have a feeling that if this forum had reactions, you'd be getting a lot of thumbs up on this post. Completely agree with your Joe analysis. Disagree slightly on Transformers. I'm surprised they're not more popular.

    Not that I know anything about the toy biz other than buying. LOL

  3. I don't think I have any grails since the last bhm blowout. Filled my gaps then. How long ago was that? Seems like ages now.

    My grails are pretty much things unmade by DST and myself. Rocky 3 Minimates and an Aliens Drop Ship. If I had more space I'd want a Bat Cave.

  4. On 4/9/2024 at 8:27 PM, TheMinimateKing30 said:

    I... I don't get it. XD

    Usually after a pun filled post by bhm there will be many puns afoot in the thread. I'm not sure why his is the sole post this time. I try to toe the line as I'd like people to join in if the shoe was on the other foot. I hope I'm not stepping on anyone's toes by saying so.

  5. I made this guy back at the beginning of the pandemic. I started working from home which was great for larger 3d prints. Some of the pieces for this guy took 20 hours to print. Started the print before work and it finished at bedtime. I bet the entire figure took close to a week of print hours.

     

     

     

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    Giant Man is 10X scale and about 20" tall.

    The decals are from the decal thread here on the multiverse. His face is somewhat pixelated from being upscaled so much. :)

    The 3 story lego building has an extra row of bricks on each layer to better fit minimates and he towers over it.

    Giant Man is the largest figure i have printed. Theoretically I could still go twice as tall. Stickers start to become a problem at larger sizes. A little bigger than Giant Man and I'd have to start splitting stickers across multiple sheets and try to line them up when applying. That sounds like not fun.

     

  6. 34 minutes ago, Padrino said:

    I did! Did it not come through?

    I meant I should have put a smiley on mine. Let's stop not fighting. It's like those super-polite cartoon chipmunks. LOL

    PS I hope this post does not offend. :)

  7. 29 minutes ago, Padrino said:

    is that a hint?

    That sounds like a call for one of my favorite things on the board, rampant speculation.

    And reading hidden messages in Zach's words (that he never intended). 🤣

  8. Thanks for the kind words everyone.

    For those of you into 3d printing, I cannot stress enough how much more satisfying the hobby is when you start designing your own stuff. It took me a long time to get here but within a month of getting my first printer, I had designed and printed a Minimate compatible head. It's an easy start. For a basic head, you just need to subtract one cylinder from another. This is a pretty easy task to learn in any 3d software. The tool I use mostly is code based and free. You can get it at https://www.openscad.org.

    The idea that I can visualize something and then have a workflow to make it a physical object just blows my mind sometimes. Here's an example of a simple Minimate style head in openscad.  But it's easy enough to learn this technique in any 3d software. Google your tool of choice plus "boolean operation" and you'll find tutorials on how to add and subtract objects from each other.

    Please note, // precedes a comment in the code. The rest of the line is ignored when running.
     

    // $fn=X sets the number of facets for cylinders
    // higher number = more detail but takes longer
    $fn=100;  
    
    // difference means cut the subsequent objects
    // from the first one
    difference() {
    
        // base head shape
        cylinder(r=5.5, h=10, center=true);
        
        // cut out smaller cylinder for peg hole
        translate([0,0,-7])
        cylinder(r=2.55,h=7);
    }

     

    Without all the commenting, it's quite simple
     

    $fn=100;
    
    difference() {
    
        cylinder(r=5.5, h=10, center=true);
        
        translate([0,0,-7])
        cylinder(r=2.55,h=7);
    }

    PS In the sample above 'translate' means move in x,y,z coordinates. So the statement says move the second cylinder down 7mm before cutting it from the first one.

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    The smallest is 1X scale. Approximately the height of a standard Minimate. Then we go up 1.25X, 1.5X, 2X, 3X, 4X.

    For female hairpieces, I've downloaded a few Lego hairpieces and customized a head to fit them. You can kind of see the start of the rounding on a couple where the hairpiece is not fully seated.

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    Wolverine is a factory Minimate.

    Colossus and the Sentinels are my block figure design.

    Sentinels are 3X and 5X scale. 6" and 10" tall. The 3X ones mostly have LED eyes with on/off switch, dimmer, and battery inside the head. I may want to get rid of a couple of these at some point. They have alternate heads with a purely printed face because I don't like how dark the LEDs look when they're turned off.

    Again, my photography skills hurt this one. The purple guys have a nice red glow to their eyes in real life and the blue ones have yellow. It's almost too washed out to see in the photo.

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