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This whole page is awesome! You are really good at this Paco.

However if you just want all the characters, grab a case. You’ll get one of everyone and a chance at a chase. But in store, correct. True blindness. If you want specific individuals you’ll need to eBay them.

So have have modified a few of the previous characters. I updated Winter Wonder, Night Widow, Stellara, Cheeva, L'Zod, Synthion. And here are two new villains. Velvet Claw and Lord Mindkill Velvet Claw is a fusion of Catwoman & Madame Masque. Lord Mindkill is a fusion of Maxwell Lord and the Purple Man.

Worth noting if you're buying them in store, from what I could find online, these are true blind boxes with no codes to work out which you've got.

That’ll also get you a better range of characters than going with the Classic Class. Classic is big, but there’s just not as many of them.

Thanks guys! Looks like I want Galaxy, so I can have them in scale with other Minimates. ^-^

The Ride? Well that does have a few options. The only Bayverse transformer I still own is EVAC the ride vehicle. It was fun to ride that one and then go home with the vehicle you rode in who fits right in beside the other Transformers characters.

Yeah, I would have liked to do more from those as well. I don’t do it as much now, but at the time I would still watch new MCU projects and think about what the release pattern would be. I didn’t, actually! I always forget we did those. Haha, not really actually. I do have a list of all items I have not posted still. I prioritized my own designs first (or ones that I was the primary artist), in hopes that they might help me get a new job, but alas…. By the time I was done those I was a bit burnt out on processing them honestly. The remainder became a secondary project that I hope to continue someday. It doesn’t look like much in the front views I’ve done, but they some time to edit. I do actually want to show everything, and put it out there for people to see. I believe that concept art like this should be public. There’s a lot of people who don’t in the industry. A lot of people somehow think it can diminish the product, and to this day I don’t understand that. Mark Wong was the primary artist on the TF movies ones, so they became part of the secondary project. After I began, I was the editor and compositor on every single Minimate, so I would apply designs by others to the design sheet and make changes for fitting, then colour and tampo (if we got that far). But still some other artists did 100% of the original pencil work on those. Those designs I thought I would archive later when I had more time. I'm not sure when I will get to those as I’ve got some freelance statue design work, I’m trying to sell a LOT of my collection (personal and professional), I’m trying to get commissions up and running (although low interest in prints I made available on my Instagram might end that early), and there’s so many other things going on. Maybe I should buckle down and process 5 designs a day or something. At any rate, the movie ones were actually for TF The Ride, and were proposed to be for sale at the ride itself. So, if a character was not part of The Ride then we couldn’t use them. It was a bit of a workaround to the movie licence. The Ride people didn’t pick them up, so we didn’t go forward. I believe only front views were done of Optimus, Bumblebee, and Megatron. (I’m on mobile right now, and don’t have my files handy). They were done years prior to the actually TF line that came out. Nothing I’m afraid. Robert, the Product Manager before me, was a big TF fan and always tried to do whatever possible. I think if we’d gone further on classic we would have got to Beast Wars next.

Right! Yes, of course…. 👀

i wasn’t really collecting at the time but when i saw the DD/Punisher netflix 2 pack, i had to get it! the yellow suit and she-hulk would’ve been a perfect two pack @Trekker 42 i just browsed barry’s site again really quick and didn’t see anything movie related but the design for scourge is really cool! i’m not super into transformers, so i have no idea who that is lol beast wars was on tv when i was little, were those ever designed? @Barry

No the fuck he didn’t. @Barry are you holding out on us!?

Snapped a few pics for you The small ones are Defenders - which cost me £3 each The larger one is a Galaxy - which was £8 As you can see they've got a pretty good centre of balance Defenders and MM can swap heads, both of which look alright to me MM head will fit on a Galaxy - but with a giraffe neck. You could cut of some of the red neck, and shorten the neck peg, which is like Lego technic pin Head socket too deep on a Galaxy head to fit a MM

all of these would have been awesome! I am a big Marvel TV fan and would have gotten them all

Barry, did you ever show off your Bayverse Transformers designs? I remember seeing them in the very beginning of the line, but I don't remember you sharing them here or on IG.

Defenders are the ones to grab if you’re scaling TF blokees to TF Minimates. However if you want to scale TF blokees to Marvel minimates you’ll want Galaxy Version for the Transformers G1 scale and maybe even classic class for Bayverse scale. Galaxy will bring a Minimate to waist height. Classic I believe to shin height.

I like the Galaxy Blokees, the 4-inch ones, not a huge fan of the chibi-style Defender series, but those vehicle modes are tempting! I know they actually have an entire line of vehicles, I wonder if they're all the same scale. I use Hot Wheels Bumblebee, plus two other Hot Wheels of ur-Beachcomber and ur-Jazz.

I am a huge Hawkeye fan, so I wish that we had done the Hawkeye TV series, with the new Hawkeye suit, Kate Bishop and the Swordsman. Maybe another Kingpin and Yelena. But I also wish we'd released the Shang Chi Minimates, because I remember enjoying that movie and thinking the designs looked great, especially the accessories. And am I a bad person for wanting a She-Hulk Minimate? I like the character and enjoyed most of the show. Also, Yellow DD and Porcupine!

I have five more villains and two more that are in progress. The new villains for today are: Toymaker Toymaker is a fusion of Toyman and Doctor Octopus. Colossia and Dreadshade Colossia is a fusion of Giganta and Titania. Dreadshade is a fusion of Scarecrow and Mister Negative. Graveborn and Chilfear Graveborn is a fusion of Black Hand and the Jackal. Chilfear is a fusion of Captain Cold and Hobgoblin.

I bought a couple to what they were like, and they are pretty cool. Aside from the waist being a bit limited the articulation is great, the legs have full 90 degrees range of motion in all directions, and the ball joints means elbows and knees and go outwards too. I did stress the plastic when I tried to take one apart, so not sure if they are designed for that. The smallest ones are just a touch smaller than MM, mainly as they have short torsos. Interestingly the head fits each others neck pegs though. I'll try and snap some pics later

I wanna get Transformers Blokees that are to scale with Minimates. Anyone know what scale or model type I should look for?

Anyone hear of any updates to the bankruptcy?

transformers blokees have captured my attention. i'm going through toy buying rehab though so i try to avoid them but i did relapse and buy a couple of blind boxes.

I am pleased you like him. I took inspiration from the Nazi themed Red Tornado I previously created a year or so ago.

He's fantastic in his simplicity and looks like a golden age character. Great work!

Synthion is basically Iron Man parts and an Adam Warlock head.