hyejinx1984

All I know is I agree with you. I'm a Marvel fan, and DC mates are MUCH cooler.

I agree but the new waves look insanely promising. Smart Hulk? Archangel? Task Master with like a thousand weapons? I'd say marvel mates are REALLY catching up to DC, and will probably surpass them,

I LOVED MORPH!!!!!

Hmm, watching that intro again reminds me... even though the C3 playsets failed, I think it would be cool if they had some sort of play set equivalent for the Marvel Mates and it was a Blackbird. You could package atg least 4 X-Men mates with it that could be from the animated show.

Ah, pipe dreams of a minimate fan...

Anyone know if there's any chance for an X-Men wave with the 90's versions of the characters? Like a lot of people my age, my first real introduction to X-Men was from the Fox Kids animated show, and those costumes are what I became familiar with. It would be a pretty nice set considering we'd get a lot of mates that we don't have yet:

X-Men Animated Intro

Cyclops - We don't have a classic costume open hair Cyclops yet with the utility pack across his chest, so this would be new

Wolverine - OK, so we have yellow Wolverine, but they could tweak it a little and rerelease

Rogue - We also recently got this costume, but it didn't come with the brown jacket, and for me the costume never really worked without that piece.

Storm - Storm's white outfit to me is the definitive Storm, I'd kill for this mate!

Beast - It's about time we get classic Beast, nuff said.

Gambit - Likewise, we don't have a Gambit yet!

Jubilee - Nor do we have a Jubilee.

Jean Grey - Even though this costume never made any damn sense to me, I always loved it!

Professor X - Since we got that wheel chair way back with that Magneto 2-pack, couldn't they have another prof. x with the classic yellow 'cybernetic' wheel chair?

Aaaaaanyway, you think this could happen or is it too soon considering we've already gotten a lot of X-Men toys recently?

I still maintain that it would have been (and still could be) a good idea just release a 2-pack with the two most interesting mates and that's it. Ghost Rider doesn't need to be a whole wave.

lol, so they're just completely skipping over the GR stuff? Can't say I blame them...

It's DST's fault for making a mostly uninteresting wave. Aside from the Ghost Rider mate, what you have is essentially a wave were 6 figures are just ordinary looking humans. Yes, I wonder why Marvel fans aren't scrambling to buy this...

The smartest thing to have done would be to have released a single 2-pack, Johnny Blaze Ghost Rider and (I would have prefered) Original Carter Slade Ghost Rider. That would have been a sweet movie related two pack that had the two most visually interesting characters in it.

The idea that a movie has to be a whole wave is ridiculous. It worked for X-Men 3, it will work for Spider-Man 3, Fantastic Four 2 will work if they announce one... but it simply doesn't not work for this movie. There weren't enough visually interesting characters in the film to warrant it.

16 being the Ghost Rider wave?

I think an Earth X wave would be EXTREMELY cool:

EX - Captain America (Tattered toga)

EX - Daredevil (Motorcyclist)

EX - Spider-Girl (Venom)

EX - Thor (Female)

EX - Spiders-Man

EX - Iron Maiden

EX - Reed Richards (in Doom's Uniform)

EX - Clea Strange

EX - President Osborn

EX - Black Panther (Anthro Cat)

yea, it looks like they bulked up his chest

Oh that is pretty cool was kind of hoping that Iron Spidey would have the arms though.

I really hope these make it out somehwere, I really thought the Iron Spider-Man looked awesome.

I still haven't seen a pic!

I'll start us off. Is there really any good way to do a Chamber minimate? I don't really know how to handle the whole mouth things without just making it look very strange. Another one Man-Spider and Stardust, both due to their multiple limbs.

They're pointy, just not super pointy. I wonder how the wings on the feet work.. if they're actually part of the mold or little attachments stuck on. And yea, Hulk's face isn't great, but I am happy they've started giving larger characters the chest pieces. Looking much more forward to the 'Smart Hulk'

EDIT: Er, closer inspection of the NAMOR figure shows that the wings are an attachment piece on the feet. Now I know.

Yea, the arm on my sandman broke off, took it back to get it replaced. In general, most of the minimates from the last few waves have been EXTREMELY stuff and easily broken... I'm not sure why this is.

Yea, but it's still very different. The original one had a skirt and was mostly solid pieces. This has no skirt and is made up of what looks like scrap metal, it's going to have to look very different...

I haven't been to a SDCC yet (even though I live in California), and although I do want to go one of these days, I've found that I can have a better Comic-Con experience from home refreshing the Newsarama pages every five minutes

Hey I have a question for those who bought.

Did anyone else have a problem with the sandman figures arms? I went to turn his arm.. and it snapped off with the ball broken off inside. I didn't push it hard or anything, just turned it like you would the arm on any other action figure and the plastic just broke off. If this is just a fluke, I'll take it back... but has anyone else had a problem with this?

Makes me want a classic Black Panther minimate now. As well as a newer Iron Man... it's funny, wer have like 4 or 5 different Iron Man minimates (I can think of), but none of which are the current one. Odd.

How sweet will THIS look in minimate form?

More importantly, how can they pull it off and make it actually look like the movie version? Minimates don't usually have bulky arms and legs, but this design demands it.

Now we really need Tigra and Black Panther ones. I'm building my dream Avengers minimate line up, lol. I almost have everybody...

I love how similar the Ms. Marvel one is to the design I did so many months ago, lol

AND YAY FOR SMART HULK!!!! Here's to hoping he comes iwth a giant gun accessory and pink bunny slippers

So what's the release date for this thing? I feel like it's been in previews for years...

And when does this come out exactly? I feel like this has been announced for an eternity... just comne out already and help get us to the Avengers and Spider-Man 3 mates!

http://www.actionfigurecollectors.com/index.shtml

Has anyone else heard about this? Is there any more information? All I've found is this little blurb and pics... I want more INFO! I think they're making a mistake releasing them the way they are though... instead of releasing all the Red Rangers, then all the Green Rangers, etc... they should release it by show.. like release all the Mighty Morphin's first then all the Zeos, etc... personally, I grew up with Morphin so that's all I'd want.