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LOL yeah I hadn't thought of it that way. I think it's an Amazon exclusive? I want the set but will probably wait to see if it goes on sale or something.

We are going to need another tag team for them to wrestle though...

They make for good custom fodder. The Green Lantern chestblock is very useful for non-muscularly figures (G'Nort, Ch'p, someone else with an apostrophe), and the Penny hairpiece is one of my favorites.

It's funny, it's one of those things that illustrates how collecting has changed. It used to be that having a long-running series was a sign of stability, but now it's seen more as an impediment. Anyway, in this case I think 80 for 80 would be a good hook, and a great way for Marvel Minimates to say "hey, we're still out here!" to the wider collecting community.

Way ahead of you!

Wow that's a stumper! Any idea when the next preorder will be open? I am going to be on vacation over next weekend with basically not internet connection and I don't want to miss them!

Those are KUBRICKS?! Wow. I don't think I ever saw those. When the Peanuts movie came out a few years ago someone did Lego style sets; they were okay, but the figures were pretty nice. Frankly, I was hoping Lego would do sets, because they would have nice sculpted heads that can be easily used on a Minimate body.

It certainly is! All the Peanuts stuff is available on Super7's website now; I bought the First Appearance Charlie Brown figure, but I haven't opened it because the package is so nice. If I ever see the regular figures in the wild I'll probably pick them up. Also, Super7 just announced a baseball line: https://super7.com/collections/sports I love the packaging, but I wouldn't buy anything BUT they made a Phillie Phanatic! That's a must buy for me, though it's indicative of Phillies' history that our representative among baseball legends is the mascot.

Just got my Jerry Lawler today; I almost passed on him, because I've never been a big fan of the King, but man did he turn out great. Glad I got him! I hope this means you'll be branching out beyond just the WWE, as my number one most wanted wrestler from this era is Sting. In fact, here's my top five most wanted 80s wrestlers 1. Sting 2. Bobby Heenan 3. Ricky Steamboat 4. Curt Hennig 5. Vader One guy I'd really like, but I imagine I'm the only one, is Brian Pillman. You can probably tell by that list that I really prefer the small athletic flippy guys to the big lumbering lugs. Anyway, Flyin' Brian was one of my favorites, and I might just make him for myself.

That's such a good idea! Four two-packs covering 80 years of Marvel history with the Watcher as a BAF. I love it!

See? Those are all good ideas! Better than mine! And we're not even professionals! It wouldn't be that hard!

It definitely wouldn't be popular around here, but I think an "80 for the 80th" wave that featured new versions of some of the big guns would be a cool idea. Maybe try to do a two-pack each for the Golden, Silver, Bronze, and Modern Ages. You could do something like: Sub-Mariner/Human Torch Steve Ditko Spider-Man/First Appearance Doc Ock Daredevil/Bullseye Iron Man/Black Panther (or some of the several new characters that have been introduced in the last decade) That's off the top of my head, and I'm sure there are better ideas. But it would be a cool way to get a little attention.

If I remember, DST didn't participate in the 10th anniversary thing because they would need to reopen the licenses to all those past movies; I don't know if that would have been worth the hassle. But for the 80th, yeah, they'd just have to brand a wave. And with them being so close to the 80th Minimate wave it seems like a perfect idea. Even if they do it now when they solicit the 80th wave they've already missed Comic Con, where they'd have the biggest possible audience of both fans and media.

Yeah, this would have been a really good idea to give some juice to the line.

Today is Dave Stevens' birthday, which put me in the mood to watch the movie. You could so very easily make a great box set from it: Cliff; Jenny in her silky white dress, Neville Sinclair, preferably in his cool Errol Flynn-esque outfit; and Lothar. I suppose you could sub Peavy for Lothar if you really wanted, but the former would make for the more interesting figure. I don't think this set would set a sales record or anything, but I bet it would do pretty well. I know I'm just torturing myself at this point.

We went to see this today and I've gotta agree, I wasn't impressed. It felt even more like "Iron Man presents Spider-Man" than the last one did; even Mysterio was basically a Tony Stark villain who just happened to be up against Spider-Man because of circumstances. He was the best part though. The teen romance stuff really dragged after awhile too. It just hit too many of the beats of the last one without bringing enough new to the table. And I agree that MJ should have a different name. I like the character, and the actress, a lot; why saddle her with that name? Frankly, same goes for Ned and Flash. Just make them original characters.

I have the Rocketeer. I never really cared much for the Kubrick body design, but man are those some lovely headsculpts.

DST's new solicitations are out (no, they don't include any Minimates); what interests me is that apparently the Black Hole and Rocketeer will be released at the same time, as part of an ongoing Disney Selects line: https://news.toyark.com/2019/07/26/dst-solicitations-black-hole-avatar-the-last-airbender-marvel-dc-bruce-lee-and-more-358456 Now, I don't think I'm the only one here who immediately thinks this would be a great way to do Minimates as well. DST might not be able to get buyers to support a Black Hole or Rocketeer box set, but as part of a wider Disney live-action Minimate line? That would work perfectly.

Sooooo...do we know if these are still coming out? Considering their absence from Comic-Con it doesn't look good. Pre-apologies if they were there, or it was talked about in the panel and I just missed it.

Come on Zach just give me the Rocketeer! You know that's all I want and I'll shut up.

I hope this is true, and that we're just being pessimistic. But it would be unusual for a new license to be announced without Minimates as part of the first wave of products, only for them to show up later. Did Muppets do this, maybe? I can't think of any other recent examples, but no doubt someone will jump in.

To me it just shows a complete lack of understanding about what collectors want and how they think. People that collect a toy line based on a 20 year old cartoon are by definition nostalgic. And considering that THAT show is by design highly nostalgic, assuming that those collectors would want figures in this style of new comics characters is poor reasoning. Moreover, fans of those characters probably don't want them in this style! It's just a bad idea all around.

Can't say I have. Their website says they have an eBay store, but when I clicked on the link it appeared to be busted. Oh, but I also see they only ship to the US.

Nope, don't like this at all: https://toynewsi.com/10-33982