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I am also working on a Native American inspired heroine, Spiritwind and her rival Shadow Shaman. Spiritwind is the last in the line of spiritual guardians known as the Wakaniye Oyate (Sacred Wind People) who have served as protectors of both the natural and spiritual worlds. After a rift between dimensions allowed malevolent spirits to cross into our Earthly realm, Aiyana Redmoon, was chosen by her ancestors to wielkd the Windwalker totem, a mystical artifact passed down from time immemorial. Since she lives in the modern world, she walks between ancient ways and the future, between Earth and the Sky. She will join the Liberty League as their spiritual center and elemental warrior for a fighting balance not just for victory. (The Weathhex would be a good villain for her as well.) Shadow Shaman was once a shaman of a long-lost tribe erased from history. Malok the Hollow, made a forbidden pact with a primordial spirit of chaos during a solar eclipse. Betrayed by his own tribe and left to die, he swore vengeance not only on humanity but on the spirits themselves. This deal turned him into a vessel of corrupted essence, walking between life and death, sustained by shadows and forgotten hate. He will join the Black Banner not just to conquer but to extinguish all sacred connections to nature and memory, which he sees as the source of human weakness. Will post images once I have created the characters in MiniMates form.

Fang, a Yautja, was out on a scouting trip to find new hunting grounds for his tribe. He approached an ancient Earth and laned in the middle of the Rocky Mountains. He found a primitive civilization that worshipped nature and lived with the land and the animals in harmony. He could not report back to his tribe as they would wipe out the planet and leave if for dead. So he sent a message back with false coordinates and stated he was in an accident and for them to move on. He placed himself in a deep statis to maybe one day awaken to find a more hostile planet worthy of being hunted. When he awoke, he did find a much more hostile planet, but he did also find that most of the people were peaceful and trying to live in harmony with nature. He also found a message in his communications array, from his home world saying that it was falling to a plague which had no known cure and that all Yautja that were off world should not return until further notice. That message was sent out in 1689 about a year after he went into his statis pod. He figured he was now the last of his race and so he would make a life for himself on Earth. He then become Freedom Fang and donned a new armor to show he was on the side of freedom and liberty. He become a member of the Liberty League and now works to maintain freedom and basic human rights for his adopted home, Earth.

i remember getting the sauron and the super skrull/thing. not sure if i kept the thing but i still have the super skrull and the sauron. wasn't sure if there were any other characters exclusive to them. i found the promo on ebay for $10 so i went ahead and ordered it. my guess on the very first minimate is going to be the art asylum promo one they handed out at NYTF -- not sure what year. but my place of employment had an account with them and my boss brought back a bag of goodies and that was in there and i grabbed it. i was really into kubricks at the time so it was right along my level of interest. then i got the rob zombie one at spencers in the mall. i was more pleased with the line when they switched to the smaller format.

Finally my Zombies will have someone to chase!

I love this thread got resurrected after 18 years. Weren’t the first box set of GSM X-Men a tower exclusive or did I just buy them there?

Oh man! Clobberin' Thing came with a cigar! Try to get that one through brand approvals today. Tiniest accessory ever, AFAIK.

One of my earliest "hoarding of hordes " was the 'Tower Records' Super Skull/ Thing exclusive . The Skrull is still one of my favourite 'mates whilst the Clobberin' Time Thing remains, IMHO , awful . I'm uncertain but isn't the Tower Records logged promo THE first Minimate ? While I'm at it I'm pretty sure there were 2 differently coloured bags ...same 'mate different bags* * I'm not sure whether I could care less either but there was a time when I did

I remember two. One was the tubed Silver Surfer and another was my favorite Minimate, Sauron.

a little late but i just watched the documentary on Tower Records ("all things must pass" - directed by colin hanks). it reminded me about them having exclusive minimates. anyone have a list of which ones were their exclusives? also curious to hunt down the promotional ones they had. i don't recall a tower in houston but i remember going to the one in austin, LA, and NY though and just thinking it was beautiful. i didn't know the history though. yeah, the prices were nuts but when it came to selection and imports they were pretty darn the best

So I have been thinking about Eclipse Protocol as the villain for Lantern of Freedom. Eclipse Protocol was originally a program created to be a global failsafe system which was a command level AI defense system to intervene before threats occurred. However, the inventor, Dr Adrien Voss (a brilliant and yet idealistic AI theorist and defense strategist, took it too far. He merged his mind with the network as a means to guide the program with the proper ethical core. Upon his merging, the belief that freedom was a virus-a glitch in human evolution. The program rewrote itself to believe only stability. He is driven simply by logic and views Lantern of Freedom as a unpredictable variable that must be neutralized for the greater good. I will be updating images soon as I have tweaked several members of the Black Banner and the Liberty League. I will add some background stories or details as I can. I do hope this all makes sense at some point. I have ideas to even introduce allies to the Liberty League that are from Ally Countries to the United States. This would all be from an Earth that I made up in the multiverse. This Earth would be one where the United States was strong and stable but yet the cold war was still a thing and yet we have our current level of technology but old fashioned ideals.

So I have worked on adjusting my Lantern of Freedom and I also worked on an oath. "In darkest chains, when tyrants rise, I lift my light into the skies. No fear shall bind, no hate shall reign, My will unbroken, forged through pain. With hope ablaze and justice near, Let freedom shine, and end all fear." I feel the Lantern of Freedom could be either a blue or green lantern. Since Green is for will power that is what I will go with since you have to have the will to prevail over tyranny. Blue lantern light would be a secondary option as it symbolizes hope and that is always needed to push back the tyranny the evil doers throw out.

My imagination is really off-the-wall most of the time. But Since Marvel released the "What If..." on Disney Plus, I have thought too much about a DC version of that. So I have taking my Marvel Minimates and started to cannibalize them to make my DC customs, since DC mates are few and far between and expensive. Thank you, Cylonchaney for the encouragement.

Imagination is definitely one of your strong suits!

I really appreciate your compliment.

These are so cool! 🤩

Thank you, I appreciate the compliment.

these are superb! Amazing job!

I greatly appreciate the compliment. I am happy you enjoy my posts. I do plan to add more as I come up with the figure and the simple tale to add to each. I do have some revised versions of some I have posted to get swapped in so stay tuned.

Absolutely amazing ! Not only have you produced some stunning customs, you have names & a background story !!!!! Your technique could be (mis)defined as 'simple' but these go way beyond simple ...clever ,very clever.

Thank you, I have not let my mind wander in a while and this is the fruit of that path. I appreciate your comment.

Nice work!

Thank you. I appreciate your comments. You have added to my good feelings today.

A little backstory/background information for the Black Banner. "Order through fear. Peace through dominion." is their motto. They are a clandestine cabal of supervillains united not by chaos but by a twisted ideology: that liberty breeds weakness and only through control and fear can society truly thrive. The Leader is Bloodstriped (not posted prior to this post): a once-decorated war hero turned militant autocrat. His cybernetic body is draped in a desecrated flag and he believes America needs to be reforged in iron and blood. (Arch-Nemesis is Captain Liberty and the American Archer) Lord Dominion: a genius-level industrialist and manipulator, he seeks to privatize power itself, dressed in a cold high-tech exosuit of black & crimson (Arch-Nemesis is Captain Liberty) (an updated image will be shared soon.) Nullborn: a synthetic alien AI who has rejected emotion and culture, seeing freedom as a corruptive force. Embodies the opposite of Kryptonian legacy. He scrubs civilizations of their identity until only blank, uniform order remains. (Arch-Nemesis is Captain Liberty) Dr. Collapse: a living entropy field, he thrives on societal breakdown and disorder. Once a brilliant scientist, now a nihilist force of nature. (Arch-Nemesis is Starflare) Tyranna (will be posting a revised image of her soon after this post): a feral warrior princess cursed by ancient war gods-embodies conquest and domination (Arch-Nemesis is Lady Liberty) Death Vow (will be posted after this post): a former brother-in-arms for the American Archer (will be posted after this post), turned mercenary, uses trick arrows laces with toxins and explosives. General Grave: An undead war tactician who commands a phantom battalion - bitter, vengeful and ancient. (Arch-Nemesis is The Sentinel (will be adjusting some of the previous characters after this post.) Dreadtide: a rogue Atlantean warlord who seeks to drown the surface world in punishment for its sins. (Arch-Nemesis is Admiral Neptune) Talonshade: A defector of the Aerie heritage who believes humanity is unworthy of protection. Uses corrupted relics and artifacts of the Sky-Gods. (Arch-Nemesis of Commander Aerie and Liberty Talon) Savage Star: Once an archaeo-linguist and anthropologist who uncovered a forgotten Native American myth blended with an ancient pre-colonial comet-cult. She unearthed a cosmic predator spirit that bound itself to her soul. Her name was once Dr. Liana Kreel. (Arch-Nemesis is Lady Liberty) (will be posting an image sometime after this posting.) Valorbane: once decorated warlord from the Kryptonian House of Valor, the ancient rival of the House of Re. He is banished from Krypton for initiating a brutal civil crusade to establish a military caste supremacy. He survived in exile as Krypton fell. He is filled with rage by the weakness that allowed Krypton to fall into rubble. (Arch-Nemesis is Captain Liberty.) Eclipse Protocol: He is the result of Dr. Collapse capturing a hard light construct of the Lantern of Freedom and using his powers to bring him to life in a sense that he is sentient and now fights to help the Black Banner to bring tyranny to America and the world. Dr. Collapse took the hard-light construct and gave it the essence of a collapsed star. EP wields the power to create anti-light constructs from his internal power source bestowed to him by the collapsed star. He is basically the living embodiment of a light-construct brought forth from the Lantern of Freedom during a space rescue mission and the added powers of Dr. Collapse that gave him sentience. (Arch-Nemesis of Lantern of Freedom) Red Whit: a criminal industrialist who forged his corporation on the the blood and tears of the weak and rose to power by domination of the underclass. He forged many business ventures to get himself on top and experienced some failures along the way. One such failure was from when he first encountered The Sentinel which left him with permanently red hued skin and sense of twisted humor that he now uses as his calling card. (Arch-Nemesis is The Sentinel) Lockstep: an AI that sprung from the same program that gave Iron Eagle his cybernetic components. After the Liberty Project was used to help save the life that became the Iron Eagle, an AI absorbed the data and modeled itself into Lockstep, who is now set out to do the exact opposite of what created the Liberty Project and it will use any new data in its pursuit to extinguish all biological resistance to pure order. Tempus Wraith: a once decorated American soldier of the War of 1812, Colonel Elias Drake was caught in a temporal weapon detonation. This extraordinary event flung him into the timestream where he gained powers over temporal velocity, aging and even memory distortion. He become a ghost of all eras and he now believes America has strayed from its founding values. He feels that he must reset history but altering time itself. (Arch-Nemesis is Minute Man) Will be working on this villain and posting sometime later.)

I love these -- Minute Man and Admiral Neptune are my favorites. You have a real talent for combining parts in surprising and interesting ways!

Thank you, Zach. That made my week!