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Captain Janeway's chest block could easily be used for a male character since her breasts aren't defined with line art. Seven of Nine, not so much. Obviously this wouldn't work for TOS-era Minimates but those uniforms weren't as unisex as TNG-era suits.

Yup. With the right combination of characters and parts, a TNG 4-pack could encourage multiple purchases (three or four) if collectors want to use the mix & match play pattern to create the entire bridge crew from different seasons.

I felt the same way about the prequel trilogy of Star Wars but it still yielded cool toys. And with action figures, you can create adventures that don't suck! ? ? The biggest challenge with Star Trek (or any other content exclusive to a streaming service) is that, when it's behind a paywall, there's little chance of consumers stumbling upon it while channel-surfing. Hopefully when Discovery airs on broadcast TV more folks will find it and enjoy it. (And the only real Trek is TNG and "The Cage". TOS is NBC Trek.)

Okay, DST. Star Trek: Discovery is finally coming to broadcast television. Let's dust off that Trek license and get some fresh Star Trek Minimates prototypes in front of buyers at Target, Walmart, Walgreens, Best Buy, BAM!, and Specialty.

This year I might blame COVID-19 but as YB pointed out, this has been going on long before the outbreak. #FirstWorldProblems If they're no showing up on eBay then they're either not getting from the distribution centers to the store or we're talking about an assortment that's much smaller than usual. I was hoping quantities would grow with the acquisition of Rite Aid.

That's the justification I used when my wife found out how much I spent on a Jorg Sacul figure. Her divorce attorney sided with me.

If it wasn't for the kindness of collectors, I probably wouldn't have half the Walgreens Minimates. I know they want inventory to drive traffic to brick & mortar locations but I wish they'd offer them online with a free ship-to-store option.

I'm still waiting for Peggy Carter to hit my Walgreens.

Is everyone complimenting his LEGO guy? ?

YIKES! Gotta add that to The Collection.

Certainly better than Hobo Kirk might, though we'll never know unless DST tries.?

There wasn't much shown at Toy Fair and it's not like there was a glut or upcoming Minimates properties outside of Marvel at SDCC. I don't expect to see anything new at NYCC beyond the X-Men Animated assortment. The sad thing is DST has licenses for other properties in this category. They're just not pushing the brand after what happened with Bruce Lee and John Wick.

From what I've read, we could have the DC Direct/DST dynamic all over again, just in reverse and this time with an actual license.

Yeah, that was a trip. I just remember Stargirl being announced in July 2018, taking almost two years to get to DCU. That tells me that they may not have known how much longer Arrow would last or how well received the Crisis crossover would be. (The first season wrapped filming months before.) Given that a live-action Batman has appeared on Titans, I have no reason to believe that the rights to Green Arrow and Speedy would be an issue.

I doubt rights was the issue. They probably just didn't want to cause any confusion so close to the series finale of Arrow. I'm a little surprised they stuck to the original lineup. Now if Batman and Superman show up in a JSA photo... ?

The Prez poster caught my eye, too. I meant to go back and check the others. ? I'm not a huge fan of the show but, come on, the Seven Soldiers of Victory? That was awesome. "Robin Hood." Gotta love that multiverse!

Watching Stargirl (RIP DCU) I noticed a clock with a giant "S" on its face on the wall of Pat's garage. It reminded me of The Iron Giant's borrowed "Superman" crest. But I'm sure Pat's "S" is for STRIPE. ? It's all one big, happy WB family, right?

DST has never held the DC license for Minimates. As a division of TimeWarner, DC Direct never needed a license to make any of its DC collectibles. They tried making it happen but the 2-packs were too expensive ($2 more than Marvel's MSRP) and the release schedule was very tight due to the factory scheduling. (The first three assortments were released a month apart.) DC Direct wasn't the problem. DC's licensing has been handled by Warner Bros. Consumer Products for over a decade, maybe more, as I recall. It's up to someone there to recognize the value of a toy line that could last as long as Marvel's line of Minimates has, especially without the same restrictions. Imagine a DC Minimates line that allows for vehicles and playsets that incorporate the same mix & match play pattern as the figures. Picture MAX but with a Batwing and Blue Beetle's Bug and Superman's Kryptonian ship and Luthor's battle suit. Get Todd and Mezco out of the way and give retailers something to get excited about. Hasbro's bringing back MicroMachines. Maybe wee is back.

Such a gut punch, especially after personally experiencing something similar last year. My thoughts go out to the folks who are suddenly out of work in a year that's already challenging in so many ways.

My wife is part of the same cottage industry. Stay healthy, folks.

Then again, after how Gotham was handled, I have little faith we'd ever see most of the characters we'd like to. (Still bitter about a lack of Riddler, Penguin, Firefly, Fish, Joker, Grundy, Zsasz, Ivy, Mad Hatter, Scarecrow, Bane, Ra's, BATMAN...)

Star Trek: Prodigy has a director/co-executive producer/creative lead. After seeing his work on Codehunters (which predates Borderlands, by the way), I'm really looking forward to the look of this new series.

If they're anything like the other animated offerings, this assortment will essentially be a "Best of/Greatest Hits" wave for X-Men in terms of style. No metallic colors. (IE - yellow, not gold)

I'll admit to getting repeated use out of the amount of lube that came out of Quill's helmet and leave it at that. DST may need to change its marketing strategy. I know a search for "minimates" in the Walgreens.com search engine once lead to personal massagers.