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Imaginext® would probably be the most compatible. The prices are currently all over the place but generally pretty reasonable.

I think these will be good for the Minimates brand. I'm a far cry from a MMPR fan but I'll be picking these up, if only because I really like this fan film.

Oh...

How are we getting Zords? ?

So.

How about that NYCC 2021 reveal? ??

Power Rangers was cheap, groan-inducing television at best for me. The way the show was so blatantly recycled using existing footage from a series shot at a different time with a contrasting aesthetic and lower production values killed any interest I might have had in the property. It'd have been like making the 1989 Batman film with Michael Keaton as Bruce Wayne but using footage from 1966 of Adam West as the Caped Crusader. It spoke to how little producers cared about making quality television for young audiences. There was no way I would support something that lowered the bar that much.

Naturally, I'll be buying all the Power Rangers Minimates I can get my hands on.

Welcome back! What took you so long? Have you been adventuring? Let's see some pictures!

I was hoping for a set or two from the first film.

8 hours ago, DSTZach said:

These are, I believe, based on the Hasbro toys, a mix of original and 25th anniversary looks. NOT the comics.  

Thanks. The packaging certainly suggests the looks were informed by the comics but, as I said, I'm no expert. (And too lazy to do the research. ? )

Stupid question from a non-Joe enthusiast: These designs are based on the Marvel comic, right? Obviously they're not inspired by the films. I just thought it might be DST's own take on the original Hasbro toys, kinda like how NECA offers Alien figures inspired by the Kenner line.

This is one of my prized Minimates. Best of luck, players, and thanks again for making this available to the lucky winners, Zach! ??

It's a grape day to be Minimike! Congrats! ??

Eternals feels like a weak apology for screwing up The Inhumans. I still haven't made it through that... whatever the hell it was.

I noticed some Shang-Chi toys on clearance at Target. Not everything.

Maybe if Shang-Chi had a lead named "Chris" the retailer would have been more supportive.

I'm having trouble recalling how many Guardians of the Galaxy fans I knew of before that flick hit. Not that I found the first trailer for Eternals impressive by any stretch. It may be a property worth revisiting.

If the differences between what's being offered through specialty and at Walgreens is strictly packaging, we're running into the same old cannibalizing of sales that occurred with TRU.

Given that my Walgreens is offering Minimates at $8 a 2-pack, I might take my chances with their haphazard distribution than pay almost twice as much for the same product.

On 3/20/2021 at 9:53 AM, DSTZach said:

2-packs, but they will not be exactly the same as the specialty releases. 

20 hours ago, MiniFiend UK said:

I Do like them and I will be buying them. I just would have preferred Bumblebee in a basic yellow, just a little niggle but otherwise a great set of figures.

I'm guessing Walgreens might have that basic yellow Bumblebee.

On 10/3/2020 at 11:59 PM, ApexPredator said:

 

What's wrong with Juggernaut?

This packaging works for me. The colors pop. It shows off the product. This should be in the mass market but I'd still want specialty to get it first. 

1 hour ago, nandoninny said:

2 of the walgreens on my usual hunting grounds have remodeled recently.

both of their toy sections have been cut in half

Just in time for the holidays. ?

I wonder if the low preorders on Bruce Lee Minimates had any impact on DST's decision to pass on Marvel's first movie with an Asian lead. I sure hope not.

I agree about the sculpted faces on the Yautja. That'd incur more cost but I think it'd be worth it.

There's SO much more material to mine from Alien. I see how deep NECA is going with xenomorphs alone and weep for my little plastic block figures. ?

There's also the line of Kenner figures that NECA has been inspired by.

Atom Smasher, Colossal Boy, the Anti-Monitor, and maybe Mongul would also have been Minimates-friendly DC Vinimates.

Macy's and TRU; Two desperate brands that taste desperate together. It's like a shitty peanut butter cup.

I'm still waiting for Kay-Bee to return to malls. They were supposed to try a few hundred pop-ups years ago and nothing happened.

Yes, 400 pop-up stores with underwhelming inventory.

"Monket" (a typo of "monkey") was the "yay shot" of GalacticHunter.com a long time ago.... And those were good times.