Mirymate

Detailed thoughts on 75...

Overall... I am always going to be more in favor of new characters over costume variations, with exceptions obviously. The fact that for most of these characters it's at least their second minimates is a bit of a disappointment. The black outfit DD, "Uncle Phil" Cage (can't remember who coined that but I love it), and black suit Danny represented leave me cold as costume designs go, so that isn't helping. The mates are good representations of meh designs for me. And Netflix notwithstanding, I was over the Punisher about 25 years ago.

That said, Moon Knight's newish design is really strong. This is technically Jessica Jones' first 616 minimate (the other one was a Skrull). Purple Man is a welcome surprise. And Ghost Driver is IMO an excellent legacy character who deserved his own minimate.

After literal years of asking for them, we finally get minimate build-a-figures... and folks already don't like it. Quake was on my want list (but let's face it, most of the 616 is on my want list) so I'm happy to have her. And to have her as part of the same wave as Ghost Reyes is a nice AOS touch. Of course, I think we were hoping when BaFs finally came we'd see the return of the 2.5" or 3" minimate for the kinds of oversized figures you get with other scales of toys. But alas and alack Chuck and Co are sticking to their 2" guns.
So does this mean the end of the Army Builders/Chase figures? Will BaFs be every wave going forward, or just as schedule permits?

Highly underrated character that sadly never caught on.

Haven't seen anything in from TRU or LCS waves I won't be getting. And since one son collects Marvel movie mates, and the other gets most of the Animated Walgreens stuff, DST will be getting quite a bit of my money the next few months.

Some one asked about Carrion... There have been many. The first one was a clone of Miles Warren, specially designed to take revenge on the world should the real one die. (which of course happened... maybe... Warren and his clones have been retconed over and over and OVER, so even once known events are murky) It had a wide variety of powers, levitation, limited telepath, density control, life draining decaying touch powers, poison dust weapon. Spider-Man killed it. But Warren's backup plan had a backup plan... He created a virus that could transform someone into a Carrion, including a limited amount of Warren's memory. But these Carrion's were much less powerful, no density powers or telepathy. One of Peter's grad school rivals, Malcom Macbride, became the first known infected Carrion. He was eventually cured, mostly. But there were others. Their last incarnation was as the latest example of clone degeneration, and the Carrion virus degenerated into a pretty standard zombie plague, except Carrions kill and infect by touch, not biting.
Since our upcoming minimate Carrion comes with Scarlet Spider, it actually muddies the waters of which Carrion it is considerably. Ben/Jackal is responsible for the unstable clones that degenerated into Carrions without constant medication. 

On ‎7‎/‎21‎/‎2017 at 8:08 AM, buttheadsmate said:

Just a little heads up ...............http://www.minimatedatabase.com/acc.php?i=65&n=Zombie+Wasp+Head

 

That's not a figure, It's an accessory. 
But if you really want to count it, "old man" (said in my best Captain Sisko voice), it's still 4/5's less minimate than Moon Knight has received.

5 hours ago, stack32 said:

Wouldn't batons and throwing moons be better accessories than a staff?

He uses the staff to an annoying degree of effectiveness in the contest of Champs phone game. Might be a factor.

And for those keeping score at home Moon Knight has two minimates, Janet Van Dye has one.

Just sayin'.

Happy B-day Lobby!

Sooooo... Would K.I.T.T. or the Delorean make a better base car to modify for Ghost Driver?

They look good though. (Full opinion later; on vacation and hate typing long messages on my phone.)

23 hours ago, DSTZach said:

Remember, I think that most complaints of animated vs. comic are utterly ridiculous.

Amen.

1 minute ago, JediJohnson said:

re: Steve Austin:  definitely.  However, I am now torn as to whether I appreciated the button on his back to make his arm lift the car engine...

But it did let him punch Masktron and Bigfoot in slow motion. So that was a bonus at the time.

4 minutes ago, JediJohnson said:

re: GI Joe:  I would hate to see modern figures come with Kung-FU gripes....voice features are expensive,  and there are enough whiny snowflakes around.  Kung-Fu heroes should not have 99 first world problems!

33 minutes ago, EricM said:

In regards to 2009 Speedball was Penance at that point maybe an actual Speedball minimate this time?

That would be my hope too.

Well Abomination and Medusa are locks. And the my son will want the Iron Fist and White Tiger.

Wow.

Those look great!

Ages of Thunder was a sort of prequel Thor story, when Thor was still an arrogant trouble making young warrior.

Nine character... Four boxes... well that tells us something right there.

Theme or no theme... let it be Batroc Ze Leaper

Well, that's one way to reuse the Hydra soldier molds...

Verily, tis why thou hast none to give. No not one.

As long as you guys weren't breaking Super Powers, best 80's action figure line period, I won't have to come hurt you. 

And I guess it depends on the Action Feature... my 12" Steve Austin with the bionic eye you could look through was pretty darn cool (the Six Million Dollar Man, for those of you under 40). As was the 8" GI Joe with Kung-FU gripe... Or Super Joe Commander with the 1-2-punch... yeah... I'm old.

And I'm guess the original MotU just drove you nuts, huh?

Best thread necro ever.

45 minutes ago, spidermatt said:

Any news on when the reveals will happen?

21 minutes ago, BuffaloDelorean said:

Just that CBR has the lineup and it should go up sometime this week.

And Marvel.com has the next Walgreens wave... looks like everyone's waiting until tomorrow to post anything.

10 minutes ago, stack32 said:

Even if you ignore the animated styling on Speed Demon (which would be silly) it's still far from a perfect figure. A slip-on mask with a visor like Vindicator, changing the colors to a darker blue and gold instead of yellow, and getting the skin tone right would all be notable improvements. Some extra speed effects would put it over the top.

Given a choice between an improved Speed Demon and the 40 dozen other unmade characters I'd like mates of, which do you think I'm going to choose? Life's short, the lines not going to last forever, unless it's just poorly done I'm done niggling. Or I'm going to try to be done niggling... it's a goal... which I will probably fall short of by the next reveal... but it's a nice sentiment anyway.

The chromium covers, the hologram covers, they were ugly.
They were expensive at the time, there were no special variants, you wanted the issue, you had to pay the premium. And we were supposed to buy multiples, cause they were gonna be worth extra someday. 
And people did.
Until the bottom fell out of the market once speculators realized that all those fancy covered issues were too numerous to EVER be worth much.
As an industry, print comics have never recovered, not really. DC dropped dozens of books, and WB would have shut them down completely if the cartoons and toy sales hadn't been going so well at the time. Marvel was prepping for bankruptcy by the end of the decade. (which is why Fox and Sony got such very specific deals for movie rights, they were planning on selling all the rights, including publishing and merchandising, to the Spidey and X-Books to whoever wanted to take them) And while by 2000, the movies saved the company, it hasn't translated to solid sales growth.

So when I make cracks about embossed chromium covers, it's not nostalgia, it's contempt at foolish decisions both companies made to feed the speculator market that may yet kill the print comics industry.

37 minutes ago, The Scarlet Spider said:

It would be a travesty to have spider slayers in a wave and no Smythe mate, sir. 

A travesty? No. Fandral and Hogun not getting minimates is a travesty. The paint apps on the Spider-Man Friends and Foes boxed set are a travesty. The eyes on the first Civil War Iron Man, that's a travesty. That would just be disappointing.

You've been on the internet how long, and you're just noticing the AMAZING lack of even recent history and no-logic reasoning are the currency of the realm?

Replace Shocker/Speed Demon with Boomerang/Overdrive

Maybe as our army builder Spider-slayers

Or that annoying "just treading water till the next event" feel half the books have once this quarters "This Changes Everything" crossover is over.
But things are cyclical. Marvel and DC have been down this road before. It reminds me a lot of the 90's, minus the chromium hologram embossed covers.

Nice dream... largely commercially impractical, but I love several of the waves and the DC TV mates.

5 minutes ago, BuffaloDelorean said:

Classic Mark II Abe should come first though, IMO.

Absolutely!!

8 minutes ago, Nessex said:

Abe Jenkins and Janice Lincoln would make really nice variants the army builder packs of a wave.

Unless this.  Which totally works too.