jaysus999

this set is awfull, i made a custom bishop from the new cyclops and a black panther head that looks bettter than that, and the jubilee is awfull, i love the character but c'mon... ever hear of detailing? the glasses BETTER come off, the magneto is cool, but theres so many other characters that could have filled that spot. wow another battle damaged wolverine....

I bought the first 7 or 8 waves of Marvel Mates religiously, by the case in fact, when they first came out. It wasn't as easy to get them then, I couldn't pre-order complete sets with variants like today. Keep in mind that back then, AA only released maybe 2 sets a year, with a few exclusives.

None of the local comic shops carried them, so I had to order the case online and pay shipping, then figure out what I was going to do with all of the extras. I think the Series 8 wave was the last I bought at a case price, I paid around $100 shipped for it. I think that may have been what led to me getting out of them all together.

A few years went by where I admired the pix of them I saw online, but I actually thought of selling off my collection. I started looking into if they were still so hard to get and that's when I found that AFX was selling complete sets with the variant for about 25% of what I was paying for a case, I started back up with the Havok/Polaris wave and went back and slowly pieced together all the waves I missed.

I've since moved on to another online retailer that takes better care of me, but that's my Minimate collecting story.

Never doing THAT again!

you got any more of them mates from those early cases?

a custom forge figure i made is great, but the more recent cable figure is lookin mighty fine in my collection; and that comic deadpool? mmhmm