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The 4th Mate in the Jean Grey Dark Beast Wolverine pack is Apocalypse. There is a pic of him in a wide shot at Marvelousnews.com

I'll bet $$$$ that Blink from AOA winds up a TRU Exclusive with either Sabretooth, Morph or Sunfire! I'm excited, AOA is one of my favorite storylines of all time!

Did Hasbro give a release date for the SHIELD Hellicarrier? I don't remember a date given out at Toy Fair.

Not sure when we will see the helicarrier but when the heck are new figures going to start shipping? The Reptile, Thor, et. al. wave has been clogging up pegs for a couple of months now! I'm dying for Hepzibah!

They haven't even shown up on ebay yet? I'm dying for Betsy!

WOW! So many cool & creative designs and so many great names! My vote is for Moonlight.

whose face did you use for Psylocke?

Hey guys...

Have had some spare time on my hands and thought I would put it to good use, by making my first customs. Just wanted to thank all the board members who have posted their work, which has helped me enormously in my own attempts! Especially Luke for all his tutorials and decals which have been used on these customs. Your site is amazing!

First up is Dazzler, I got ideas from these boards for her design so thanks to everyone. I'm not massively happy with her and will probably change her at some point. I think she is slightly too dark a shade of blue but I had a spare set of Spymaster legs and didn't want to paint legs for my first custom. Her hair and face are from a Battlestar Galactica Six minimate with a milluput headband. The chest decal is from Luke but doesn't show up as well as I would like due to the blue colour.

Next up is Hellcat. She is made form a Dark Phoenix minimate with all paint removed, a modified Menace slipover mask and chest decal from Luke. His custom helped me a lot, as did the one from joeacevedo.com.

Lastly is my British Psylocke. She is one of my favourite X-Men and I hold no hope for ever seeing her made in minimate form in this costume. Her hair is from Jewel, her sleeve tassles are cut from a spare Spidey webline and her chest is a decal from Luke. Her sleeves and boot details are sculpted from milliput.

Thanks for looking!

Tweaked repainted 90's Jean Grey with waterslide decal pockets. Spare Scarlet Witch energy signiture. I was really disappointed when the promo picture didn't match the minimate and am much happier with her now. I think the official mate looks a bit top-heavy.

WOW! Dazzler and Psylocke are perfect! I hope when they get around to Dazzler they giver her longer hair like yours. Betsy is my favorite Marvel heroine and this is just perfect. THe colors, the sculpting, even the hair choice. You nailed it! Do you do commissions?

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! can't wait!!!

I just did a minimate check on Toys R Us.com and I saw that the T2 Hunter Killer and the Back to the Future Delorean are up for preorder for $11.99 each with a 8/25 release date.

With Lockjaw coming to Toys R Us, my $$$'s on the Inhumans.

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You realize you could get lynched for having that X-factor Angel in that bucket like that. Just sayin'.

I hope they don't give her the psi blade or a katana. That was after she went thru the Siege Perilous and wasn't something she could do when she wore this costume. She would be perfect with a translucent pink butterfly to clip on her head but I'm sure that's way too much to hope for. I'm content to have her as shown, the Outback X-Men are my favorite era from the series. I wish Hasbro would do an 8 pack of 3 3/4 inch renditions of them down under.

Betsy Braddock, hands down! I may not own her yet but I will!

I am so psyched for Betsy! I wish they would have used Magdelena's hood and hair piece for this one instead of the pointy Moon Knight hood but, that said I am SOOOOOOOO excited for this one. She is one of my favorite characters EVER!!!! I actually bought an extra Magdelena to do a Betsy custom, now all I have to do is match the cape color to the hood and I'll have a perfect outback Psylocke! yay.

Courtesy of Luke's Toy Store.

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Hopefully we will get more Excalibur mates soon!

It'd be great to finish the team with a new Nightcrawler with a purple translucent BAMF base like Rachel's Phoenix & Meggan. Here's a simple hair swap I did. Classic Ms. Marvel uses the Invisible Woman's hair.

Courtesy of Luke's Toy Store.