Mirymate

Munkky not Trukk!

FIBRIR

(Trukk!! da Munky goes in the tape deck!)

(looks around the room...) Come on, I can't be the only actively collecting Transfan here. I just got here. I'm still adjusting my bean bag chair after dragging it here from the lurker's corner. >sigh<

The only reason I'm not buying them now is, well, I don't have any left to buy I want. (eBay hunting to fill old gaps not withstanding) My son's Animated collection is complete, not counting the what has yet to come out. Got all the classics I could get my hands on. And thx to the movie, I get to take a nearly year long break. (Poweglide, Hard Head and maaaaaybe Skyjack not withstanding)

On Robot Heroes... we saw package shots of those show up on some of the TF news sites. If it made it that far, they will make it to maket somewhere. Otherwise Hasbro has to lose money. And if we know nothing else about Hasbro, we know they hate to lose money. Which in this case, I appreciate as Laserbeak and Prowl would have been exceent addition to the RH army. Was disappointed that Predaking was coming out as a regular sized mate. There were rumors that Hasbro was thinking about introducing larger Robot Heroes, simlar to the Giant Man or Sentinels they made for SHS. They hinted they were thinking about making Omega and some of the combiners in the larger size. So even though Predaking looks good for a RH, he's a disappointment. (not so much so that I won't pick him up mind you) Ironically they are making a larger sized combiner RH- Movie Devastator. >SIGH<

What needs to happen is to get TRU on-board to want to start carrying DC Minimates. They've carried some DC Direct products in the past so it wouldn't be a stretch.

Considering the gobs of Infitiy Heroes that are clogging the shelves, including that horribly overpriced Lex-Men giftset, I don't think TRU wants to hear about small DC figures anytime soon.

Just like everybody called... Spider-Man front and centre with the highest amount of votes.

Um... okay. just don't tell Storm.

YOU MOCK MY PAIN!!!

Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who tells you different is selling something.

And on that note: Animated is only mostly dead. And, as you may know, mostly dead, is slightly alive!

Last two waves of deluxes and voyagers will make it to market somehow. The Hasbro panel annouced the following:

• Deluxe Electrostaic Soundwave w/ Ratbat - Wanted to be extra cheesy in the design heavy 80s rock.
• Deluxe Arcee - First time Eric got a chance to do something close to G1.
• Deluxe Rodimus Minor - He has a bow weapon.
• Deluxe Cybertronian Ratchet - Younger days based design.
• Deluxe Cybertronian Ironhide - Ratchet redeco but with Ironhide head mold.
• Deluxe Fugitive Waspinator - No new head because of budget issues. Re-deco of Deluxe Bumblebee - Figure reflects when Wasp turns BB into him.
• Voyager Golfire Grimlock.
• Voyager Hydrodive Bumblebee - Scuba Pack is removable.
• Voyager Blackout - Helicopter, earth mode in a future appearance.
• Voyager Wingblade Optimus Prime - Comes with Magnus hammer. With armor attachments.
• Voyager Thundercracker

:biggrin:

My answer:

Anything that gives me Black Manta.

Okay...

Wave 9:

Black Manta and Battle Damaged Aquaman

Changling/Beast Boy and Wonder Girl (Donna TroY)

Big Barda and Mister Miracle

Alfred Pennyworth and Poison Ivy

Wave 10:

Black Canary and Atom

Darksied and Orion

Kid Flash and Blackfire

Green Lantern (Scott) and Solomon Grundy

The Flash boxed set:

the Flash (Barry Allen)

Mirror Master

Captain Cold

Captain Boomerang

the Trickster

Series 10: WTF Were We Thinking?

Lion-Head Superman & Head-In-A-Box Lois Lane

Zebra Batman & Half Green Lantern

Batman-Superman of Earth X & Educated Feet Lois Lane

Jungle Jimmy & The Bride of Jungle Jimmy

And they were so suprised when, with such powerhouse storytelling, they started to lose ground to Marvel.

My dream Marvel 4-pack?

Werewolf by Night

Dracula (Tomb of)

Zombie (Tales of the)

Frankenstein's Monster

C'mon Matt & Chuck. make this happen!

Didn't I already buy this onc... oh, right, right, wrong line.

I would guess that I am representative of a "newer" convert to minimates. I, and my oldest son, always thought minimates were neat, and fun, but generally not worth the exta effort it took to get a hold of considering there were easier to come by toys on the shelves that I/We wanted more. Well for me at least, those lines are drying up. And given a choice between completely starting over in a new scale or just increasing a collection I already had a good start on, well I chose minimates over the new 3/34" comics lines. I would wager I am not the only one for whom Marvel minimates has become their post-Legends home. (They certainly take up less space.)

It seems that my LCS got the Wovlerine Mates but forgot to order these.

I believe the phrase you'e looking for here is "DOH!"

Some of these actually have a descent chance of seeing light of day... Obviously Iron Man 2 is coming out next year and they've already done a "Through the Ages" set for him. IMO an Armor Wars set is one of the likely canidates. Likewise, a Dr. Strange movie is "in development". I have no idea if that means they have a script and are director shopping, or some Marvel exec said "we could see a Dr. Strange movie someday." But assuming they're serious, a Dr.Strange themed set is always a likely tie in.

And hey, they just out of the blue made the Champions... the frelling Champions of LA into a set. Is an AoA or Jim Lee X-men set really that unlikely in that light?

Unfortunately the random Howard the Duck set is probably doomed, since AA can't seem to resolve the standard head vs sculpted beak debate that keeps bringing all the planning meets to an uncomfortable close.

I wonder if Marvel even has the rights to Conan anymore. A Marvel Legends-type Conan was released a couple of years ago in the "Indie" Legends line that Toy Biz started after they lost the Marvel license to Hasbro.

Long since lost. Although minimates based on Buscema Conan comics would absolutely ROCK!

I am betting Shamrock wishes he'd waited a few more days before posting that Earth X Venom.

(still fighting the itch to start customizing again with these)

Klaw

Whirlwind

the Melter

Radioactive Man (classic costume)

Hey, you said dream. I have an odd facination with this particular Masters of Evil. I have no idea why. And the only way this grouping would get made as a boxed set is if I won the lottery and bought the whole company. Only Klaw even has an outside chance of see the light of day. Assuming of course there isn't a really broad reaching Thor centric wave in a couple of years that picks up a classic Radioactive Man. (not sure I'd root for that either, as it would mean someone like the Wrecker or the Executioner would get bumped) But perenial punching bag Whirlwind? The not only 20 years dead, but lame enough that no one else has picked up the ID Melter? Not happeneing.

Yeah, I have a BBTS pre-order for wave 25, but I missed the first "wave" of releases, and fear that I may have missed the boat entirely.

Right there with you. Hoping this is not like the "pre-order" stauts on some of the DC Minimates they still have up.

Only have one:

Battle of the Planets toys- 3 3/4", well articulated. All vehicles in scale with the figures, including a deluxe Phoenix the individual vehicles could link into. I have longed for these for some 30 years. There have been BoP toys on and off over the last ten years, but nothing like what could have been. Back in the day, I just wanted them to be Star Wars compatible, cause that was the toy of the day. Now... I'd like them to be like the best of the modern Star Wars lines, and the Phoenix to be frellin' comparable than that last Falcon. There's supposed to a CGI movie coming out someday, and it may even get a toyline, but I seriously doubt it will be anything like I see in my mind.

Bob's right on the breakdown. It's not unlike the late 90's Marvel when the comics company thought they were going to go under, and they segmented their universe in anticipation of selling of sections. (Which Marvel was on the verge of doing before X-Men, Spider-Man, and Blade saved their bacon with a big box office payday)

Starting with Iron Man and Incredible Hulk, Marvel became it's own studio and retains control of any new (anything not a sequel to an existing franchise) projects going forward. It's complicated, but before Iron Man, Marvel would sell their characters to big studios for a certain number of films. While they had some advisory input, the final product was ultimately up to the studio execs. And once they sold the rights for Spidey to Sony, they lost the right for them to use him anywhere else. If they wanted to put even a swinging Spidey into a background shot of say, Iron Man 2, they would have to get Sony's permission, and pay Sony to do so. In the case of the Hulk, Universal sold the rights back to Marvel after the Ang Lee film did disappointingly. I am not sure if the same thing has happened with Daredevil. (though after all these years since the first movie, I would not be shocked) Sony's Spider-Man deal is up with Spider-Man 6. I would be stunned if Marvel doesn't take Spidey in house after that. (if only for cameos in other people's films) I am also not certain if, after to luke warm FF movies, if those rights haven't come back to Marvel as well. Fox and the X-men... Marvel was so desparate for cash in those days I'm not certain what Faustian bargin they struck for the rights to the X-verse, but it seems pretty open ended.

Which again points to WB's general incompetence with their DC properties. They own the DCU lock, stock, and barrel. They have no one to argue with oer rights, they can put any combination of characters in any film they like. They own them. And what have they done with it? Very, very little.

As a post-script I reckon these current waves 25 & 26 are/will be murder to get hold of.

Reckon? 25 in particular is pre-soldout almost everywhere s a set, and indivdual packs are getting tricky to pre-grab too. Too soon to tell if it's all army building. (if eBay floods with loose Iron Men in the coming days, we'll know)

No matter what they do, I would totally advocate the return of Michael Clarke Duncan as the Kingpin. Yes, he's black. Get over it. He's the only man with power enough to fill that roll.

Oh I totally agree with that statement. Or I'll amend to say only well known acter who could pull off the roll. Unfortunately, I believe that MCD said he didn't want to do Fisk again because he just felt too unhealthy putting on that much weight again.

Things I would also like to see:

*Whoever plays Black Widow in IM2 to show up

*reference to that "masked menace" (possibly by JK Simmons in a taxi)

This would do 3 things. Tie DD1 and 2 together, tie the Fox Avengers in with Spiderman, and go on to be a good movie from there.

You could have DD in a Fantastic Four movie, or meet Wolverine, but I think even refrenceing Spider-Man or the Avengers would require legal and monetary headaches to get the rival studios to play nice. I mean, I read an article after SM3 were a Sony exec thanked Marvel for their "contributuions" to their hit movie franchise. And it was this attitude on the part of the big studios they had sold the film right too, and the fact they could keep more of the profits, that was the emphasis for Marvel forming it's own film studio and to look for the big studios to distribute the films.

I thought AA said in the last marvel minimate Q&A that they don't have the righs to any Marvel cartoon specific looks.

I like 90% of the designs out of Evolution, and thought it was a pretty good show. Don't remember Jubilee appearing in anything other than an old fashion blue and yellow X uniform though. IIRC she was one of the "new students" brought in in the last season and a half of the show.

You might be thinking of the older Saban X-Men from the 90's, which featured Jubilee super-prominently. And after 27, she'll be the only member of the main cast not produced. Not that I'm adovcating Jubilee over, say, Banshee, Sunfire, Forge, and the unmade rest of the Brotherhood, but she is a name on the list yet to be checked.

Okay, my youngest has this guy (okay he has all these Imaginext Superfriends). The head inside the dome does not appear to be a full head, looks like from the nose up. The body is bigger than a minimate. Now the dome, shoulder rig and head are attached as one piece, but looking at it, I think you could get the half head out without ruining the armor. might need to be a 2.5 inch mates to look right though. They are relatively hard to come buy, mostly cause most stores were stuck with a ton of blue/grey Batmen and didn't order a lot of the Mr. Freeze wave.

It might work, might spectacularly fail. Proceed with optimistic caution.

But the freeze chamber / ice trap is really fun to play with. Just sayin'

But only a little more desired than minimates...

And while we're at it, can I point out how much I HATE cinematic reboots? they don't work. The general audience doesn't understand them.

Sooo the whole Batman Begins / Dark Knight thing didn't work for you? One more film for Clooney and Silverstone would have been okay? Maybe

My problems with the first Hulk movie were many. The two things that stand out the most are the whole "madder-he-gets-bigger-he-gets" and the fact that really the movie was more about David Banner and his story than anyone else. YMMV

Do they have to reboot Daredevil... not really. After 5 years though, and as few people actually saw Daredevil, I can see where they might want to start over fresh.

And while I could see what the director was trying to do with that music... yeah it needed a better score.

I haven't watched DD, since I thought it was crap. Never gave it a try and don't feel so in near future. Same goes for the not-Edward-Norton-Hulk movie.

The Ed-Hulk movie is pretty good. they basically fused what worked in the old TV show, and merged it with the bronze age comic. Most of what they were trying to pull of worked. And the acting was passable. Okay, it was probably better than passable, but I preffered the Rosses casting from the Ang Lee film. (Just about the ONLY thing I liked about the Ang Lee film) The CGI was MUCH better, and the ending less ridiculous. If I had one real complaint, it was that they went with more of a Ultimate Abomination design than the 616.

Daredevil... if you decide to give it a try, see the extended addition. The additional scenes help to flesh out Matt and Foggy as characters and that helps some with the pacing. Not saying it makes it a great movie, but it goes toward helping with the movie's pacing problem. I'm not sure what kind of channel selection you get in your part of Germany, but stateside the FX channel seems to run the DD movie every couple of months, especially if there's another superhero movie coming out.

It would be pretty lame to have a Secret Wars set without the Beyonder. He was what we call "crucial" to that storyline. Way more so than every other canidate.

Unless you count Beyonder-possessing-Klaw, the only actual physical appearance the Beyonder had in Secret Wars was as a Glowing Kirby Ball that took his power back from Doom. Of course, I wouldn't complain if there were a Glowing Kirby Ball accessory included in the set.

And of course, it's another plank in my "Klaw should have been a choice!" platform.

Though I know they won't do it, I would love for the box to be a Minimat-ized version of Mike Zeck's Secret Wars #1 cover.

Seconded.

And could they also do the villains' cover as a set too?

While we're dreaming...

I'm probably one of the few people that didn't think Daredevil was that bad. Yes, there were two glaringly bad scenes in the film. The first was that whole "throw my secret id out the window to impress the ladies" fight in the playground. Lord have mercy there had to have been another way to break the ice there. And then there's DD letting a man die. The Matt I'd ben reading about to that point would have been nearly suicidal if he thought he'd caused someone's death. But silly chic-flick scene and way too badass scene not withstanding, the movie was just trying to do to much in the time alotted. The meet Daredevil and his world movie should have been a separate flick from the death of Elektra movie and the fal of the Kingpin. But you could tell they thought they were only getting one shot at Daredevil so they tried to cram as many of their favorite DD momments as they could into 2 hours. What they got was an overcrowded film, too rushed for you to give a tinker's cuss about any of the characters. I'd say that a reboot is almost the only way to move forward.

Katie should rock as Typhiod Mary.