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My wife and I, and the grandkids went and saw it last night. I have to say that I loved it. I have not had this much fun watching a movie in a long time. There are going to be a few funny parts that you may not get if you were not a fan of the 80's cartoon, but overall everyone should really enjoy it. I don't want to get into any spoilers, but make sure you stick around for all three of the scenes during the credits. Overall I would give it an 8.5 out of 10.

Can you recall who would have been in future waves of the DC Minimates if they continued? I always thought some of the choices made in the first few waves made zero sense. Ma Hunkle, S.T.R.I.P.E., Ambush Bug, etc). There were more popular characters that should have been released way before them in my opinion. What was the thought process when choosing what characters were in each wave? I would have loved an updated Catwowman, and Mr. Freeze is another that I feel that should have been in one of the early DC waves.

Barry, are there any Minimates (any license) that you wanted to make an updated version of, but never got the chance to? It could be one that you originally designed, or one someone else did.

I can not figure out how to attach the pic. I have done it in the past, but do not see a way to do it now. Can anyone help me?

I gave it a try to just mess around. It made an awesome Spawn Minimate, but the Savage Dragon one was not that great.

Liney, you should look into a FDM printer instead of a resin one. Resin ones seem to be more complicated (more steps when printing) compared to FDM printers. Plus you have to deal with the toxicity of using resin printers. I bought my Bambu A1 printer a few months ago and love it. I have made some pretty awesome things for my Minimates over the past few months. The detail of prints has gotten so much better with FDM printers over the past few years also. Watch lots of videos and make your choice.

Are those Doc Ock arms attached to regular Minimate arms?

Ok, I spent way too much time last night messing around on hyper3d. I managed something that looks pretty good to me, but will need some adjusting in Blender. How do I save the design that I like? I didn't want to hit the wrong button and loose it last night. Also, then how do I turn it into an stl?

I remembered your Superman post after I asked what program you used. I just tried Canva, but was not impressed with the results at all. I even gave it a good pic and it was still way off. I will give hyper 3d a shot. Thanks for the help.

I love that. He will fit in good with the Universal Monsters Minimates. Are you using a free a.i. program to make these (if there is such a thing as a free a.i. program)?

I don't know how I missed your post showing your Sentinels and Giant Man. Do you know what brand and color filament you used for the arms and legs of the original looking/colored Sentinels? I could not find something that matched up quite right. Also, yes, every little accomplishment I made when creating my own Minimate was huge to me. I have a ton to learn yet though. Thankfully YouTube has tons of Blender videos to help me learn more. I am looking forward to seeing what else I can accomplish when creating my own Minimate parts.

The largest one was printed at 500% in the Bambu Studio app . It is a tad over 13 inches. The others are 400%, about 11 inches. The boots on them give them a little extra height I believe. Everything was designed to fit a regular Minimate and then just blown up bigger and adjusted accordingly. I paid for the HISS files. I have free Cobra Fang stls though if you want it. It needs to be printed at about 110%-115%. I just printed part of it at 108% and I think that is a bit small even though a Minimate fits in it. I can also send you the files for the Sentinel chest armor, helmet, hands and feet tomorrow. Just send me your email and I will get them to you. Have you posted pics of your Giant Man? I can't recall seeing him. I will look back through this thread and take a look.

They pose just like a regular Minimate. It took me a lot of r&d to get the tolerances just right so that the joints were not too loose. If I would make the ball socket too big, the joints were too loose. If I made the ball socket too small, then I couldn't get arms, legs, etc to pop into them. Then there was always the chance of the knee and elbow joints cracking when putting them together. They still are not perfect, but they can hold their poses just fine. I have quite a lot of extra pieces that I think I might use to make a few dioramas of destroyed Sentinels and then sell them so that people can pose their X-Men with them. Maybe a couple Sentinel heads laying in some rubble, something like that for the little dioramas.

Odd, I thought I had included the picture last night. Today I need to add the decals to the large one and hopefully get the blast fx and coils printed out for them.

I finally was able to figure out how to create my own minimate. Why make a regular size one though when I can make some big ones? I wanted to go big and with the help of David Radant we were able to make a few different looking Sentinels. There are some more parts for them that I still need to print (plus I need to print decals for the biggest Sentinel yet. David did and awesome job designing the chest armors, helmet, og looking Sentinel boots, and an open hand that we can plug blast fx or a long coil into. I have ideas for some other large Minimates, but unfortunately free time is going to be very limited for me soon. My company gets busy in a week and stays busy through the summer. I am hoping to be able to design a new, large one once a month if things go smoothly. I have also been printing small things like weapons and such. I have also printed 2 different Cobra Hiss tanks, and have a few more G.I. Joe vehicles that I would like to print (not my designs).