stack32 Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 I honestly don't understand all the complaints about the jacket. Four years ago no one would have bitched about it like this. Look back at all the old female minimates who used the exact same hairpiece. Everyone from Rogue to Silver Sable to Black Cat (plus numerous others) all used the same hair piece. Some people made comments about the reuse of that hairpiece over and over but there was no where near the level of bitching that there is now, especially over something as trivial as Wolverines jacket being a tad long. This set is a definite buy for me. It looks great and I'm glad we have the chance to add it to our collections. I can't wait to see what we get next. Four years ago DST was making the 90s X-Men and Hulkbuster Iron Man, just to name a few. There were plenty of new parts there and most of us would pick some of those as the best minimates ever made That aside, I don't see why the fact that minimates used to be worse means we should be happy with mediocrity now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TENIME_art Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 I went by the name Two Inch Buck while working my way through college Ouch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE_CRIPPLER Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 (edited) I honestly don't understand all the complaints about the jacket. Four years ago no one would have bitched about it like this. Look back at all the old female minimates who used the exact same hairpiece. Everyone from Rogue to Silver Sable to Black Cat (plus numerous others) all used the same hair piece. Some people made comments about the reuse of that hairpiece over and over but there was no where near the level of bitching that there is now, especially over something as trivial as Wolverines jacket being a tad long. This set is a definite buy for me. It looks great and I'm glad we have the chance to add it to our collections. I can't wait to see what we get next. Four years ago DST was making the 90s X-Men and Hulkbuster Iron Man, just to name a few. There were plenty of new parts there and most of us would pick some of those as the best minimates ever made That aside, I don't see why the fact that minimates used to be worse means we should be happy with mediocrity now OK, maybe more like 6 years ago. Point is is that people are nit picking over something as minute as that . I remember people complaining when the bulked up minimates (Hulk, Thing, etc.) showed up saying that they didn't look like minimates anymore. People wanted them to stay with their more simplistic look. Don't even get me started on the DC Minimates that showed up with sculpted heads and other parts. People complained about them too. I saw them as just an evolution of our favorite little figures. I'm sorry, but a coat that is not comic accurate is not a deal breaker for me. I wouldn't say the older minimates were worse either, they just had a more simplistic style, and that is what originally got us all hooked on them. Edited June 17, 2014 by THE_CRIPPLER Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roccothegreat Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 I love bulked up parts & sculpted parts. I donnnn care. Haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karamazov80 Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 (edited) I honestly don't understand all the complaints about the jacket. Four years ago no one would have bitched about it like this. Look back at all the old female minimates who used the exact same hairpiece. Everyone from Rogue to Silver Sable to Black Cat (plus numerous others) all used the same hair piece. Some people made comments about the reuse of that hairpiece over and over but there was no where near the level of bitching that there is now, especially over something as trivial as Wolverines jacket being a tad long. This set is a definite buy for me. It looks great and I'm glad we have the chance to add it to our collections. I can't wait to see what we get next. Well I think DST is a victim of its own success in a way. Of course, nowadays we wouldn't accept something like this: *photo courtesy of Danny/Minimates Central* But DST has spoiled us a bit by making the line "evolve" in various ways. So, at this point I think we all have some threshold by which we'll accept liberties taken for this or that purpose, but on certain figures, with certain changes, any given member may legitimately take issue. For me, the jacket issue kind of sucks because I love the source material, and I'm a big Wolvie fan, and lots of the figures DST does I don't care about get all kinds of nifty new parts. But at the same time, I totally understand where they're coming from doing this, and I'll repaint an Expendables Arnold jacket, so not the end of the world for me personally. Edited June 17, 2014 by karamazov80 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roccothegreat Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 Just take that arnie jacket. Take a normal black shirt part , plus pants , wolvies head and paint a little white strip. Literally the easiest custom! I'll prob do that then sell the rest of the figs in the real pack I really really just want raven. Even though I like the look of the set, I'm trying to keep my mini numbers down to ones I just really need Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buttheadsmate Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 I decided to just change the cover of my Uncanny X-men # 141........it seemed the easiest way to go until I saw the upcoming 'homage' Minimate cover of 'Previews' variant Uncanny X-Men #23 ........... Where do I go ? Who shall I now turn to ? What is now right what is now wrong ? {big smiling emoticon with just a dash of irony} Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tetton517 Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 Just take that arnie jacket. Take a normal black shirt part , plus pants , wolvies head and paint a little white strip. Literally the easiest custom! Anyone have a spare Arnold? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mnemosis Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 Maria Shriver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE_CRIPPLER Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 I stopped collecting for about three years (2011ish to now) after having collected them since series one, and just started collecting them again three weeks ago. I guess I'm not as used to all the great changes and improvements that they have made over the past few years like the rest of you so that is why I'm not letting something like the length of his jacket bother me. If they tried giving us a tampo'd jacket on Wolverine like the original DOFP Wolvie I would be complaining. I stopped collecting around the time the Dark Avengers sets came out, so I was just starting to get spoiled by how awesome minimates were becoming, so I can see other peoples points. I see other jackets that would have looked better on him, so I do question the choice they went with, but like I said before, its not a huge deal in my eyes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roccothegreat Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 They prob had left over jackets from "the wolverine" wave . The only logical answer to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youbastards Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 More likely the decision was made because that tooling was readily available, and the decision was made to us it instead of either making a new tool or locating the tooling used on Miles Dyson/Expendables Arnie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nessex Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 Maria Shriver. Zing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nessex Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 Also - wasn't this the DoFP movie figures thread? Are we merging the Earth-10005 Wave thread with the Earth-818/616 Box-set thread? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karamazov80 Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 Sorry Nessex, but after the events of SDCC, the timeline was altered and the thread has been retconned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mnemosis Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 The good news? All of your Cyclops Minimates are back. The bad news? All of their jackets are too long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nessex Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 Sorry Nessex, but after the events of SDCC, the timeline was altered and the thread has been retconned. Bah ha ha ha. Bravo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterPL Posted June 17, 2014 Author Share Posted June 17, 2014 I was fully prepared to explain that John Byrne simply extrapolated 2013 fashion incorrectly and that men's jackets weren't actually that short in his future, making the longer jacket more accurate. Then I did some research (okay, I Googled "men's 2013 jackets") and got this page from GQ. There it was, the very first image on the damned page; Logan's "future" jacket from last fall: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mnemosis Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 So what you're saying is, John Byrne is a precog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 The future is already the past? I don't know that I've ever been so disappointed to not live in a dystopian present. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mnemosis Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 What do you mean? Do YOU see any mutants walking around free? The Trasks and the Kellys won, man. Game over! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karamazov80 Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 What do you mean? Do YOU see any mutants walking around free? The Trasks and the Kellys won, man. Game over!I dunno man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roccothegreat Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 Tom cruise, Kanye west. For sure too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twisted Two-Face Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 John Kerry and Sarah Jessica Parker are like Northstar and Aurora if they turned into horses, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nessex Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 Already planning to get an extra set to get two sentinels and maybe use the extra green legs to made a future Colossus! It would be great if the pack included a male green torso too to customize other characters like Franklin Richards and future Magneto in the wheelchair!If you don't mind people having the same patch's, you could potentially make up Rachael Grey, Kate Pryde, Storm, Colossus. With a matching boobless torso, you could Make up Magneto & Franklin Richards and have the whole gang (hint hint, Decal-makers!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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