Kostisfire Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 I'd love the classic Inhumans plus Ahura and Luna. Apart from that, thanks but no thanks. Fire dude and fish lady aren't the most interesting characters or designs and I could do without them. The Royal Family has a lot of alternate looks so I'd prefer to get them multiple times than "new character that will probably be forgotten or shoe-horned into a new young book once his/her book is cancelled". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bzorio Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Ask DST #256: Minimates! http://www.artasylum.com/2014/10/ask-dst-256-minimates-materialize/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youbastards Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Sounds like DST is eyeing the Marvel Netflix shows closely... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterPL Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Marvel's definitely pushing those Netflix characters, as well as The Inhumans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arnim zola Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Wait a minutes, when did dst say they cant use designs from earths mightiest heroes? That show was the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Padrino Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 TheTomb Raider line performed below expectations because a full half of the fgures never made it to market. I looked for months and gave up. I do not work to feed scalpers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterPL Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 I only found Tomb Raider 'mates at TRU once and it was two months ago. Maybe if TRU had actually sent a case or two to ALL their stores or made them plentiful online, they'd have performed better. But no, let's blame the property. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youbastards Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Well, to be somewhat fair to Chuck's comment, by the time the TRU wave actually showed up, the LCS wave was already being discounted to specialty shops, and the overlapping characters didn't move from TRU shelves when specialty shops were selling the full wave for $20. Maybe if specialty had seen higher sales of this property without having to discount, we would be looking at a second wave? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buttheadsmate Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 I'm not a Tomb Raider fan but I could see that this line might have been a success. The LCS selection which was readily available had IMHO the'runts' whilst TRU got the 'cream' ....but hasn't that been true with Minimates for years ? That's the way the cookie [esp. Chuck's] has always crumbled but unless I'm very wrong .....I'm convinced that I'm not ....TRU never saw anything near the numbers of Tomb Raider exclusives that we have seen with other Minimate lines. "the line performed below retailer expectations " doesn't really do it for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattallica Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 I can only speak to what i witnessed at the two TRU i frequent, each received one case with all but two packs, (at one store) selling out rather quickly, id say within 3 weeks. FYI i bought one complete set and one extra storm guard and stalker pack to make a silver samurai custom. so i'd say the sold well here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stack32 Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Tell me again why it's a surprise that a license that's never supported more than a single action figure at a time should obviously have been able to support multiple waves of minimates? It's more surprising DST was able to produce what they did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSTZach Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 (edited) Nobody's blaming the property, all he said was it didn't sell well. If you think our mix for specialty and TRU's distribution are to blame, that's fine, but it doesn't change the fact that specialty sales were low and TRU did not want more. We even tried to sell two more sets as exclusives, as Chuck pointed out. But yeah, I think we've made more Tomb Raider figures than any line ever. Edited October 8, 2014 by DSTZach Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trekker 42 Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Maaaan I want DBZ so badly... Battle of the Gods hit DVD today and I think it's one of my favorite movies this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellpop Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Distribution was poor, yes, but Tomb Raider was also probably hurt by hitting at the same time as the Great TRU Minimate Clearance took place. For awhile there, TR sets were the only full priced 'mates in the toy aisle, and that surely hurt their sell through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buttheadsmate Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 It just always seems odd that; TRU mates appeared in Canadian TRU stores 4 months prior to their arrival in US TRU stores ..... arriving 5 months after the release of the Specialty versions & just one sample case ( as far as I know ) was the only thing available from TRU.com . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterPL Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Did ANY of the Tomb Raider 'mates hit retail at the same time as the game release? That's usually a big deal with retailers, especially TRU. And the one time I found the TR 'mates, they were nowhere near the electronics department where the game would have been sold. Between TRU's crappy distribution and random merchandising, it's no wonder they sold poorly. So where are all these leftovers? Because I'm still missing a set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellpop Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 I've seen them fairly recently at TRU. Which set are you missing? Next time I'm in there I'll look for ya. My personal experience is that I found them fairly quickly, in the same aisle with the other Minimates BUT not mixed in with them. As I said, this was around the time that 'mates were being clearanced, and I was so caught up in those that I probably walked by the TR sets three times before I noticed them. I'm sure that several people either missed them or passed on them because the price point was so much higher. For awhile there, TR sets were the only Minimates you'd see, and that probably didn't help much either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterPL Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Still looking for the Scavenger set. PM me if you find one. Thanks! Neither of my local stores were "eligible" to receive them. (Same with Battle Beasts.) Still unclear what determines eligibility because both of these stores get a pretty decent amount of traffic and one was recently remodeled. These aren't ghettos with tumbleweed in the parking lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Padrino Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 There are three TRUs in my area. None received the Tomb Raider minimates. I greatly appreciate DST making unique figures that other companies won't touch. It's one of the reasons that I have been collecting 'mates since they came out. The distribution by TRU was a mess in this case. I am usually pretty lucky at buying figures online at TRU but these were barely a blip on the radar. Showed up once and never again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Both of my local TRU's got TR, and the full waves lingered at both for some time. Less than two weeks ago I was able to pick up a Lara/Two-Face set, so months later the STAR is still sitting on the shelves. Of course, at one TRU these were on the super hero aisle but not with other minimates. I would have expected them to be on the video game/specialty toy aisle with other game figures. But at the other TRU they were with all of the other minimates. So, I don't know, it's easy to blame TRU for poor distribution or whatever, but maybe there's a reason this has been the only toy line dedicated to TR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pappymojo Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 I feel proud to see a question answered but feel confused by a response of "good idea." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donny B Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 I don't want to start speculating, per se... But I get the impression from that response that it's something they are also wanting to do. Usually if the answer is no, we'll hear a "never say never", or "not at this time", or Chuck will conveniently just skip over it. But to simply say that it's a good idea...? Makes me think there's something in the works, or at least they've got an idea for it somewhere down the line... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karamazov80 Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 He was probably just listening to Sugar while he was answering these. http://youtu.be/CqW8P7dEqIo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gmonkey2k Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 (edited) Chuck said this to my question a while back First off Love the Minimates. But I was wondering, back in 2013 when you did the Deadpool’s Assemble! Box set, you did four popular heroes. For an upcoming exclusive or just a regular set, would you be willing to do a villian version of the set say…-Deadpool M.O.D.O.K.-Deadpool Galactus-Deadpool Doc Ock-Deapool Doctor Doom? Just a suggestion :]DSTChuck: I can tell you they are tossing around a bunch of DP ideas right now, so I would not count anything out. Edited March 3, 2015 by Gmonkey2k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stack32 Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 (edited) There was a new minimate Ask DST yesterday, but not much news. One answer did catch my eye though, in response to a question about more classic comic Avengers: I don’t think we’ve made the decision to stay away from the Avengers comic stuff, but I do think some thought has occurred that the movies are covering it pretty well. That does not mean we will not do some comic stuff again soon. Maybe it works like that for the casual fan, but do any collectors actually think that way? I find it interesting because I have the opposite feeling, a movie makes me want comic versions more and while the movie 'mates are often very cool they don't scratch that itch at all. Edited March 10, 2015 by stack32 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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