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Sorry, I am a bit late to the party, but I would absolutely be interested in a piece of Minimate history like this! I'd be interested in unreleased figures from any comics related properties, especially DC. But my single most number one want would be the comic book Spirit, which was announced and never released! Losing that set broke my heart.

I would be into them! I like the idea. I actually think a collaboration with the Database would be neat; it would be fun to have "stats" on the back like the number of Wolverine Minimates made.

Thanks for all that detail! That clipart description is exactly how I used to make decals. 😬

Barry, apologies if someone asked this and I missed it, but... DC Minimates. Did we ever come close to a revival? I know you showed off a couple of DC movie 'mate designs, but what about the comics?

My memory is that Heroes was announced at a panel at a convention. I feel like we might have even seen designs (I seem to remember seeing the cheerleader) but it was so long ago and Googling "heroes minimates" isn't very helpful!

Oh wow! After I suggested him I started to think "wait, does he use a sword? Am I confusing him with Corsair?"

Jeez those Kingdom Hearts designs are so nice. I don't remember that Buffy was ever talked about, but Heroes was announced once upon a time and then scrapped because of the writers strike, right? Which always seemed a little weird to me but I know there's a lot of timing things behind the scenes that we aren't really privy to. Anyway, it's probably a bit of a blessing in disguise, since that show fell off a cliff creatively and I imagine we might still be seeing clearanced sets out there for it. I do think Minimates had a nice little niche there of making figures for genre TV shows in the early 2000s with things like BSG and 24. I would have liked to have seen more of that; Lost would have been amazing (though I did have fun making customs when we rewatched the show a few years ago).

Raza from the Starjammers?

Yeah that one was a real shame. I had plans for extra ones too. My "one that got away" will always be the comics Spirit set. I think I cried the day they were cancelled.

Would have been perfect for my Justified customs....😢

My idea for a book is more similar to the type of sketchbooks that artists do; for example, Steve Rude does a self published sketchbook every year, and I don't think copyrights are ever a problem. Heck, Zach just did one for his photos (which everyone should buy)! I think the bigger issue would be ownership of the designs themselves, since they were not created independently. Anyway, I think there's probably enough toy and design fans to raise enough funds for a print run though Kickstarter. Maybe talk to Blake Wright, who produced the Toys That Time Forgot books? Could be a special edition focusing on just Minimates?

I don't know if this is even possible, but I would absolutely love to see an "art of Minimates" book with these designs at some point. Would make for a great Kickstarter project (I know, everyone on here has a Pavlovian reaction whenever they think "Minimates Kickstarter").

Just wanted to thank you for sharing all this detail. Amazing peek behind the scenes at your thought process.

This one is perfect: http://minimatedatabase.com/figure.php?i=1390&n=Captain+America

So what I had heard was that, at a con one year, the Sesame Street people saw the Muppets Minimates and were like "hey, we should talk about our Muppets". But it must not have gone any farther than that.