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I guess the fact that people are still asking form them is a good thing.

I loved the original Joe file cards and I loved Minimates take on them too. I have an open sent and then one set still one card and I never keep anything on card. Those two Minimates sets are the only thing on card in my entire collection across all scales and lines. I would love to see more of them. It still hurts that Flint and Jaye were never made. They would have been my minimate grails.

Does this mean in theory some company could step in and buy just Minimates? I am not sure what their exact license agreements say but imagine if Hasbro stepped in and bought it and put out Marvel and Star Wars along with their own IP of GI Joe & Transformers. Or if more along the lines of what I originally thought would go down, NECA gets it and starts putting out Minimates for all their different licenses, Terminator, Predator, Jaws, Universal Monsters, ALF, TMNT, . . . I could also see a smaller company like Nacelle take a crack at it. If it can be bought by itself maybe there is still hope of Minimates being made again.

I am in! Although I feel like Shanna needs to be added to the Savage Land set even though there is a minimate of her.

Not really Minimates related but Barry related. I just saw Barry’s post on Instagram of designs he made for fun for the old Zelda cartoon. I used to love that cartoon! I actually tracked down a DVD of it and watched it with my kids. Definitely would buy those if they are ever made. Those designs are fantastic.

Playing catchup. Those toy inspired TMNT looks fantastic. It stings that those weren’t made.

I actually like the idea. As long as I liked the final look I would get them. In my head I am picturing something like Barry’s mockups. I would 100% get cards of those.

I would back it in a heartbeat but I don’t know if it would have enough pull outside of the Minimates fanbase at least on Kickstarter. I would think if you made a book of all of Barry’s designs and brought it to the different conventions to sell that it would do well. If it was ever made it would be right out on my family’s coffee table.

Wow those are great! My wife likes to put up decorations for the different seasons so I would snuck the Christmas ones out for winter and the beach ones out for summer.

Nooo! I would have loved to have gotten Agent 13!

Oh man those designs look fantastic!

Would have been a great wave. Great designs again Barry! Thanks for sharing.

Good points. I think in my hypothetical it would have to be a company that saw enough value in Minimates to try to bring them to places like Target, Walmart, etc. They would probably have to sell them on a Funko-like strategy. I could see them fitting in the Target and Walmart small collectible areas and their Haulathon type events. Of course added to that means you would have to have the funds to get enough IPs along with the R&D costs and so on. Honestly when I first heard of the sale I thought NECA might try to go that route with how many IPs they have (granted their licenses may prevent Minimates and some of their IPs have been done by Diamond before). I thought it could be one more thing added to their section in those stores. None of that may have helped overseas sales though.

This one cuts too deep to use the bag.

I don’t think you don’t spend the money they spent to buy Diamond without having a plan. There are always unforeseens that can change or shift the plan but you definitely have a plan. With that being said it sadly looks like the plan is to burn Diamond to the ground. It could still be to build it back “better” than it was or it could be to make money off of its demise (sadly I am guessing it’s the latter now). I do wonder if it’s the latter could someone or some company buy the rights/copyright of Minimates? Out of all of their offerings to me (and I admit I may be biased) Minimates has the most potential to take off on its own. One could first acquire Minimates and then go after IPs and almost follow a Funko type model. I am not a fan of Funkos but there are countless IPs I could see myself buying Minimates of. Personally I would love to see a company buy Minimates and hire Zach and Barry on to market and design them.