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  1. On 5/15/2023 at 6:23 PM, DSTZach said:

    Only two entries? Not a lot of interest in Trek, I guess...


    🙄

    I'd come around more often if DST offered anything I was interested in collecting. I used to live here but with so many Minimates properties being abandoned (MCU, Alien, Star Trek...) there's nothing in the current catalog that's hooking me. 

    I'm glad stuff like pro wrestling and Joe seem to be working out for the brand. But when I see what should have been done with Trek years ago being applied now (and successfully) to fucking Power Rangers... 😖

    Does DST still have the Trek license? No one seems to be able to answer that simple question.

  2. On 5/6/2023 at 7:25 AM, Trekker 42 said:

    I’d do Yar or O’Brien over Barclay (because I hate him) but yeah that right there… that is the Way. 
    Although it has been long enough since a TNG mate that we all know they’d do Picard/Riker instead of Riker/Wesley

    I don't hate Barclay (much) but O'Brien and definitely the better choice. Yar would need to be included in a first season set. Not sure who an alternate noggin would go to given her more voluptuous tampo. Probably a guest star.

    And of course they'd offer yet another Picard though I'd rather see his head in another set from First Contact. Put him in the spacesuit with an alternate Worf head and a couple Hawk heads (one assimilated).

  3. Iron Man is still my favorite MCU flick, the one that faithfully started it all. The rest are in no particular order:

    • Black Panther
    • Captain America: Winter Soldier
    • Black Widow
    • Spider-Man: No Way Home
    • The Incredible Hulk
    • Thor
    • Avengers: Endgame
    • Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
    • Ant-Man

    My favorite comic book flick ever is Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. It makes me believe that all comic book adaptations could be animated in a more stylized way and be just as entertaining as the abundance of photorealistic animation used in "live-action" films, if not better. It also had a top-notch score and soundtrack. A new bar was set with that movie.

  4. McFarlane's line is often referred to as 7" scale. It isn't. Based on images I've seen of different characters posed together, the figures are just 7" tall. I'm too much of a stickler for scale to fall into Todd's tarpit.

    That said, I'd also be all over a Super Powers Collection-inspired line of DC Minimates, even though I already own most of those 'mates.

  5. On 1/7/2023 at 6:10 AM, buttheadsmate said:

    The original yeloDD 'mate looks bloody awful now but are there that many new Minimate fans going to get excited about this new one ?

    I'm guessing the yellow Daredevil is DST's excuse not to offer an MCU version like the one that appeared in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. Not that DST has shown any interest in recapturing the market introduced to Marvel through feature films and Disney+ shows. (Okay. Zombies were thrown a bone with a What If...? SKU.)

  6. On 12/20/2022 at 5:49 PM, minimateship said:

    this so much this...it's weird they're not taking the plunge with so many places to stab.

    the new VHS style packaging, to me, just begs for TOS/TNG love at the absolute least, though me i'd even love some DS9 love but just incase anyone important is aggregating, i too would buy minimates from any series, even lower decks (shit, even The Orville)

    Today is the 30th anniversary of DS9. It doesn't appear to be getting much attention from the studio beyond social media.

    I wonder how the new Playmates line is performing. Target is treating it as an adult collectible, merchandising the figures amongst NECA, Bandai, and Super7. It'll be odd seeing Prodigy toys there.

  7. There's no doubt in my mind MacFarlane adores Trek. I agree; the tone shifted in the last season, ironically once the show was put behind the dreaded paywall. 😁 I wouldn't mind seeing him develop an actual Trek series though I'd prefer the aesthetic to be more contemporary. Those late-80s/early-90s production values are another part of the cringe.

    And yes, I'm missing out. Amazon Prime is one of the streamers I don't have but I keep hearing The Expanse is consistently satisfying.

  8. 2 hours ago, SCW said:

    It's not supposed to be a parody and never was. Fox tried to market it like that because they assumed that people wanted that from MacFarlane and Fox has never known how to market sci-fi, but instead he did a very serious Trek show that is better than any Trek modern show. The stuff in season 4 is as good of sci-fi, as well, has ever been produced anywhere, Trek or otherwise.

     

    Yeah, Fox has never done any favors to the genre when it comes to promoting such series. However, I have to take exception with Orville being "very serious." He's got a terrific group of creators who are giving him great Trek material but it still seems like MacFarlane then injects his low-brow humor wherever he can. The tone often feels off and out of place, which is what makes me cringe.

    It reminds me of having an engaging, philosophical discussion in college and the kid who was the class clown in middle school throws in a fart joke just so he can say he was part of the conversation. Forced humor makes me cringe, like Jar Jar stepping in poop. The material deserves better.

  9. On 12/12/2022 at 8:16 PM, BuffaloDelorean said:

    You drew for West End Games' Star Wars RPG, then? That's really cool, I love their books.

    That was my first work for Lucasfilm, yes. An interesting bunch of characters worked at WEG. Good times.

  10. I get it. I used to consider myself a fan of Star Wars until I walked away from Return of the Jedi shaking my head. Then the prequels came and made Episode VI look like The Godfather. Despite my profound disappointment in most of those movies, I found the designs therein to be fun and perfectly toyetic.

    The Trek fandom has been fractured since the 70s. I happen to be one of those viewers who can enjoy all of it – good and bad – though I'll admit much of it doesn't inspire repeat viewing. (Sorry, Voyager.) Still, as a kid at heart who likes toys based on Star Trek, I'd buy Minimates from any series, even Lower Decks

    The point being; you can't please everyone but there's enough content available from this franchise to at least TRY something beyond TOS and a handful of TNG characters.

  11. The latest AskDST indicates they have no intention of going "backwards" with MCU Minimates. 🙄

    Zach H.: Will we be seeing more mcu minimates for the movies that just recently came out

    DSTChuck: I am sorry, there are no plans at this time to go backwards with the Minimates for MCU.


    Personally, I'd have been content if they'd have picked up where they left off. So much has been skipped...

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