Jatta Pake
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Believe it or not, but I think Wolverine has been most neglected. Specifically, Wolverine villains:
10. Donald Pierce
9. Ogun
8. Cyber
7. Romulus
6. Bloodscream
5. Professor Thorton
4. Wendigo
3. Gorgon
2. Silver Samurai
1. Dr. Rot
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These all look great, I'm definitely ... 59 waves in, and we still don't have ... Toad
I was on board with the various campaigns for Kang, Falcon, Winter Soldier, Rocket Racoon, Batroc, etc. And I note all now have Minimates or upcoming Minimates (although RR and Batroc are movie versions).
But the lack of Toad is killing me.
Debuted in comics in 1964. Debuted on TV in 1981. Debuted on film and in video games in 2000. His Minimates design even debuted on the original Marvel Minimates poster in 2003.
Toad will even be in this year's X-men movie. We...are...so...close...
Back on topic: This X-men wave looks really cool.
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We all did but approved/finalized work in a certain format is required to move forward and he has dropped the ball on all of it...
Ahhh. Got it. I guess he's busy with other projects.
IMDb says the movie was released on August 8th, 2013. And it's only 16 minutes long. Weird. I thought this was going to be a series of ad funded free web episodes.
Am I remembering correctly that a character in the movie was going to be a Minimates collector?
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The DST question is answered in this thread a few times. They are waiting on artwork from Digger.
Ok, thanks. I didn't see that. I thought the artwork was done way back in 2012. I could have sworn I saw pictures of artwork long ago.
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Given that I've been out of the loop on Minimates for while, anyone care to catch me up on these? I've kinda figured they aren't out yet.
- Was the movie made? If so, where can I watch it? The link to the movie on the website doesn't work. I get a 404 error.
- Why is the http://www.agent88films.com/ website filled with broken image links?
- The links on this site for a company featured on agent88films doesn't work either. What's going on? http://studiofunhouse.com/
- For those that saw the movie, was it any good? Assuming it was made in the first place.
- Anyone have a red Agent88 promo they can part with? I don't think I ever got my hands on one.
- Has DST had any comment?
- Didn't someone pay like a thousand dollars for a one-of-a-kind hand-made by Digger custom? Any pictures of that one?
Sorry if these have been answered in this thread, I dug through all 42 pages and didn't find any answers.
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Thanks for all the good wishes last year, gents. I've been away from the hobby for awhile but I have boxes and boxes of unopened goodness from Luke.
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Who are the characters? (I haven't read too much of the comic). I recognize the Governor, Lori, and Michone.
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I bought the Grey Hulk/Rhino 2-pack at Tower Records in late 2004. I hadn't read a comic book in over ten years. After opening the pack and fiddling with them, I was instantly hooked. I had a powerful wave of nostalgia for my junior high and high school days of collecting comic books.
I credit Minimates for giving me a new hobby, meeting cool people on the forums, learning how to use eBay, reading comics again, and endless hours of enjoyment. The DC Minimates led me to start reading DC Comics which I had never really done since I'm a Marvel nut.
I consider myself a "completist" opener. This means I buy series like Halo that I have no knowledge of and no experience with playing the video games. I appreciate the pop culture aspect of these and any kid or man-nerd instantly recognizes them. I think my completism will end as soon as Agent 88 arrives though unless I can get them all in a good deal. The price for getting all of these along with it being an unknown property that I have no connection with limits my desire to spend a lot of money on them. To me they are kinda cool as "Diggers Minimates" and I ordered a bunch of ninjas, but that's it so far. I said the same thing about Goth Girl but I ended up picking her up on eBay so who knows.
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Is anyone using the IKEA Klingsbo glass cabinet for Minimates? I like that it is lockable as I'm thinking about putting it in my office at work. It has some of the best reviews on Amazon.
I can't really figure out what the bottom shelf is for other than stability. What is the pattern on the bottom shelf? I'm probably going to have to assemble it over a weekend or my co-workers are going to wonder what the hell I'm doing.
Lastly, I'm a bit concerned that the Minimates will look tiny on the shelves without some type of platforms or something. Any ideas?
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Personally, I'd prefer comic accurate versions of the Warriors Three. Here's how to make it happen: Thor 2 blows away the box office. Stores sell out of understocked Thor toys. Thor 3 goes into works. DST makes comic set to compliment Thor 3 release.
Simple.
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A full assortment was never in the cards, even before SDCC. That said, if the set had performed better, maybe we would have reconsidered. Chuck has stated that the license was primarily acquired to make robot stuff.
I'm not in the loop on all things Minimates but when did Lost in Space hit stores? I thought it was only SDCC exclusive. Does this mean that sales at the Con could have performed better? Or was the color set solicited in Previews without enough pre-orders from retailers? I think these looked cool. Would more retailers have pre-ordered if they were grouped in a "sci fi classics" assortment? Throw in a Flash Gordon 2-pack, Twilight Zone 2-pack, and a Metaluna Mutuant 2-pack.
Edit: By the way, my responses to any lack of Minimates sales is always - make more Minimates! I would be terrible at this business and bankrupt the company in a heartbeat.
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My money is on the big, new line being Aliens.
I think that's already been debunked.
Really?!?! Now I am excited. I can't help but think of the following in this order:
1. Masters of the Universe - Eons ago when AA still owned Minimates, I was at a Con talking to Adam Unger. He said he was talking to a rep from Mattel who advised him that Art Asylum should go all in with making only Minimates. This was a long time ago but I remember thinking how cool it was that a big toy company knew of and respected the Minimates brand. I believe TBT was with me so he can back me up or shoot me down. After seeing Icon Heroes Castle Grayskull, I have hopes that Icon Heroes can pull off MOTU Minimates.
2. Walking Dead TV Show - The comic versions have been a smash hit. I think it's a given we will see a series based on the show at some point.
3. Star Wars - This would be a seismic event. An honest-to-God earthquake would strike SDCC.
I theorize it won't be the following:
1. Return of DC Minimates - This will be a *new* line so I don't think DC qualifies. Plus, DC movies have been weak. Weak interest with high license costs = no.
2. GI Joe - The Kreons seem to preclude GI Joe. Plus, GI Joe movies have been weak. Weak interest with high license costs = no.
3. Planet of the Apes - I'm on the fence with this one. If DST got the license for a good deal, then maybe. But I don't see TRU quickly selling out of these. It's a big gamble in an area packed with eclectic merchandise from old movies, horror, and video games.
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Anyone have better pics? Close-ups?
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My money is on the big, new line being Aliens.
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I always think the difference is that smalelr companies like DST have to actually manage their business to survive. They have to know what the market is, what it wants and how to get it to them best. I swear if Mattel or Hasbro came out with a line of toys called Poo Fighters that were sculpted to look like piles of crap with weapons that most retail stores would carry it because of who was selling it and the clout that they have.
They have. I give you, Poo-tato.
These aren't Hasbro or Mattel but they are Moose Entertainment, makers of all the Angry Birds stuff you see everywhere. You can pick up your Poo-tato at any TRU.
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I also love any mates that give us celebrity heads. They make up my MAX police force.
I'm using as SHEILD agents. Yes, Ahnold, Chuck Norris, Stallone, Terry Crews, Stone Cold, Bruce Willis, Statham, Dolph Lundgrem, Jet Lee, Jean Claude, Rourke, Eastwood, Hugh Jackman, and Rick Moranis all report to Agent Coulson. Moranis has difficulty keeping up but he's indispensable when it comes to filing the travel reimbursement forms.
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It'd be kinda cool if we could get a summary of all the new Minimates shown pinned as a new thread. It's kinda hard to tell what everything is from the photos alone. I see little cards with names of waves and anticipated release dates but I can't tell what they are.
I'm assuming Munsters have gone the way of Universal Monsters?
What's going on with that Hulk? Is it from a comic?
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Well I won't spoil the currently shipping comic, but there are definitely ramifications to his choices is X-Force regarding Apoc.
Regarding potential better timelines, I don't think that it was better. I think it was intended to be the "see you think it's better, but really it's much worse!" Kind of place like in a lot of what if stories.
In regards to does it exist. I don't know. Do you know if the different marvel universes are alternate realities or different different earths?
I assumed they were all alternate realities given the eXiles and Deadpool Corps. One could presumably leave one reality and show up in another as Dark Beast did (coming from AoA reality to 616 continuity).
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In the Pym-less future the entire Earth is embroiled in a war of Magic which left most of Europe decimated, and the last defense against it is killed in a nuclear explosion that destroys New York. That is not better than everyone basically being fine albeit with a few less people keeping their mutant power IMHO.
True, but what if the end result of the war of Magic is that the good guys win, Europe and New York are magically fixed, all the good guys magically restored and a great evil is forever vanquished? This was just a snapshot of the future present but it's not like it couldn't be magically undone. How many times has New York been destroyed and yet remains unaltered? My argument is that mucking with the timestream is inherently bad as evidenced by Wolverine breaking the entire Marvel multiverse. Kind of hilarious, actually, as there seems to be twelve of him running around the Marvel universe anyway.
Here is a mind bender. Does the Pym-less universe still exist? Does it still exist in another timestream even though Wolverine undid what he did? If so, did Wolverine create a new timestream or did it always exist? If it still exists, how do we know Wolverine even returned to 616 after killing Pym? Perhaps he just shunted over to another timestream. How would he even know?
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Nothing wrong with Bendis in this situation, since Age of Ultron occured out of continuity, save for the last 5 pages being real.
As for the set, I wouldn't mind a new Ultron, but otherwise I'd be kind of bleh about the rest, unless we get a new TChalla or something would be nice
I think Age of Ultron is 616 continuity.
Wolverine's mucking up of the time-stream breaks the multiverse. But the "real" 616 continuity results in Ultron ultimately victorious.
I think Bendis is trying to ask a philosophical question: If at the end of the day the bad guy "wins" are good guys justified in doing whatever it takes to stop that. This wasn't fully explored in the comics of course. Just hinted at.
What if 616 is better off with Ultron winning? Say a malevolent evil invades Earth and only Ultron can stop it? But the battle ultimately results in the good guys winning over both the evil and Ultron? Sure, a lot of heroes like Hulk are dead but who's to say that isn't also a good thing? A living Hulk always has the potential to become Maestro, right?
I think Wolverine was also wrong reversing the killing of Pym. He took one look at the future and decided he made a mistake. But his look was only a snapshot. Who's to say that the current reality is ultimately any better than the Pym-less universe? Without Pym>Ultron>Vision, there would be no mutant Decimation.
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I think versions of the characters depicted from the "Pym-less" Universe would be compelling. Here are the ramifications of Pym's death prior to creating Ultron according to Bendis.
1 - Creation of Ultron
A - No Vision
1 - No marriage to Scarlet Witch/Immortus plan to prevent her from breeding possibly derailed
2 - No birth of children (Speed & Wiccan of Young Avengers)
3 - No undoing of their children, which Immortus engineered in part to ensure Scarlet Witch’s mental instability and thus pliability
a – Mephisto and Master Pandemonium affected
4 - No Leonia, NJ-based events (Vision and Scarlet Witch maxi-series)
a - No opportunity for Crystal to meet and have affair with Norman Webster
1 - No divorce from Quicksilver
5 - No defeating Salem’s Seven
a – they conquer the witch town of New Salem, and we have an entire town of evil black mages working against humanity
6 – Does not form West Coast Avengers
7 - No Scarlet Witch insanity
a – No Disassembled deaths of Ant-Man/Lang, Jack of Hearts, Vision destruction
b – No M/M-Day/Decimation
1- Hundreds of X-Men/mutant stories undone
8 - Grim Reaper’s Lethal Legion potentially defeat and slay Avengers (Captain America, Black Panther, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch)
1- Thousands of ripple effects from those deaths
2- Grim Reaper won’t later feel the need to revive his “dead” brother Wonder Man as a zombie, which means Wonder Man presumably remains dormant
9 - Vision not present as one of the Dead Avengers who save the living Avengers during the Chaos War.
B - No Crimson Cowl
1 - No Jarvis betrayal
C - No Jocasta
1 - Lots of battles go that bit worse without her (without her neutralizing the internal defenses, Beast doesn’t manage to get inside Red Ronin during his rampage, robot destroys the Long Island expressway during rush hour., she was instrumental in team’s first defeat of Taskmaster, Evolutionary War finale, etc.)
D - No Alkhema
1 - No Bio-Synthezoids, War Toys, Robos
2 - Mockingbird not abducted by Skrulls, or at least not in the same way (her abduction by Alkhema and the team’s battle with Alkie was the cover for the Skrulls’ abduction of Mockingbird)
E - No slaughter in Slorenia
1 - No giant Bloodwraith
F - No sentient Iron Man armor
1 - Blacklash doesn’t die
G - No Victor Mancha
1 - Gertrude Yorkes doesn’t die
H - No role in Annihilation: Conquest
1 - Star-Lord’s Guardians of the Galaxy don’t form
2 - Deathcry doesn’t die
3 - Spaceknights not taken over by Phalanx
4 – No further devastation of Kree Empire
5 - Moondragon doesn’t die
a – Phylla-Vell does not become Martyr
6 - Second major war that causes the Fault doesn’t happen - possibly negating the result of War of Kings and the Cancerverse’s attempted infestation of the universe, further negating Thanos’ resurrection and Nova (Rider) and Star-Lord’s sacrifice
I - No marriage to Jocasta
J - No possession of the Intelligencia’s inert Spaceknight body
K - No revival of Jim Hammond, the original Human Torch, after Mad Thinker’s usage of him against the FF
1 - Spitfire would not have been rejuvenated without a second dose of Human Torch blood
A - Spitfire’s absence may have affected various missions by the New Invaders and MI-13
2 - Marriage to Janet Van Dyne
A - Wasp’s chauffeur Charles Matthews never fired (events leading to same in Marvel Feature wouldn’t have happened without Hank), and Charles possibly never exposed as the Whirlwind/David Cannon (it was Pym who finally figured it out after years of Charles’ double identity going unsuspected by Hank, Jan and all the other Avengers). More than once, Whirlwind (David Cannon) has captured or defeated the Wasp, only to have Hank Pym arrive to save her or team up with her. Without Hank, it’s likely Wasp might not have escaped one of Whirlwind’s attempts.
3 - Bill Foster might have become Black Goliath sooner
A – Become a more confident, A-list hero without being in Hank Pym’s shadow
4 - Equipment being available for Scott Lang to steal to become Ant-Man and rescue surgeon to save his daughter’s life (Even if he still broke into Pym’s old lab and became Ant-Man, he’d have died during his first mission if Pym hadn’t been secretly tagging along and protected him a few times.)
A - Cassie dies
1 - No Stature
B - Surgeon Lang rescued, Erica Sondheim, remains imprisoned by her captor
1 – Not available to later implant bio-tech chip that restored crippled Tony Stark, and later saved his life when it went wrong - without her, Stark either remains crippled or dies
5 - Becoming Yellowjacket
A - Rita de Mara does not become Yellowjacket
1 – Is not present in Evolutionary War finale
2 – Is not present in any Guardians of the Galaxy story
3 – No death during the Crossing
4 – Is not present in Chaos War to help save Avengers, others
6 - Joining Defenders (as YJ)
A- does not rescue captured Defenders Dr. Strange, Valkyrie and Hulk from the Squadron Sinister
7 - Mental breakdown/imprisonment/divorce from Janet Van Dyne
A - No court-martial
B - Jan doesn’t have affair with Tony Stark/Iron Man while Hank was imprisoned
C - Jan doesn’t become the chastened Avengers leader later on (significantly affecting Masters of Evil’s siege of Mansion and Kang Dynasty, amongst others) OR conversely, Hank’s death forces this to happen much earlier
8 - Preventing Egghead’s schemes
A - Egghead would have forced his niece Trish Starr into his robot, destroying her individuality and body.
9 - Death of Egghead
A - Egghead remains with Intelligencia, possibly eliminating MODOK’s involvement - no Red Hulk/She-Hulk, World War Hulks, Hulked-Out Heroes
10 - Joining West Coast Avengers (which wouldn’t exist without Vision)
A - No participation in Time-Lost Saga - possibly leaving WCA stranded in the past
11 - No creation of MODAM (AIM scientists were unable to advance SODAM’s development without Pym’s help.)
A - The Cosmic Cube disaster during “Taking AIM” might have been worse, with MODOK being reactivated sooner
B - No Number None (the baby MODOK who claims his mother is MODAM)
C - No SILENT, no HATE, and no Nextwave: Agents of HATE
1 - Undoing character development leading to a more independently confident Photon, a more bloodthirsty Elsa Bloodstone and the human-hating/zombie killing Machine Man
12 - No dimension-crossing experiments resulting in fugitive St. Looie’s hitman from being lost in “Otherwhere”
13 - Relationship with Firebird/Espirita
14 - Relationship with Tigra
A – As mentioned below, Tigra’s son would probably never be born, since the Skrull who fathered said son was posing as Pym
15 – Participation in stopping Vibro from destroying LA with earthquakes
16 - Participation in the Crossing
A - Jan not mutated, dies of injuries at hands of Iron Man
17 - Participation in Heroes Reborn
A - Counter-Earth (Franklin) native and Avengers janitor Ernest Sanger would never have become Mant, the size-changing leader of the Remnants
18 - Participation in Destiny War (Possible Immortus picked a different Pym from another era/reality, so things might well have still gone much as seen)
A – Doesn’t double cross both sides as Yellowjacket
B - Rick Jones does not get involved in final battle
C - Time-Keepers survive
1 – No final event prompting Lilandra to sponsor Maximum Security
a – Quasar does not absorb Ego
2 - Reality-616 destroyed by Time-Keepers
19 - Curing of Firestar’s radiation problem
A – Leading to earlier or worse cancer/death
20 - Pym not available to supervise treatment and containment of Jack of Hearts’ unstable physiology
21 - Replacement by Skrull(s)
A - Various Skrulls that replaced him not participate in Initiative/Camp Hammond
B - The Skrulls would have needed another highly placed superhuman genius to replace instead of Hank Pym.
C - No GI-Ant-Man suit for Eric O’Grady to steal
1 - O’Grady dies in Helicarrier crash, never becomes Ant-Man
D – No Skrull relationship with Tigra
1 - William Garson never born
22 - Dark Reign events
A - No Infinite Mansion
B - No Dark Reign-era Mighty Avengers
1 - Amadeus Cho/Vision Jonas/Stature’s membership negated
2 - Chthon victorious
C - Not named Scientist Supreme
23 - Instruction at Avengers Academy
A - Veil, Hazmat, Mettle - not receiving treatment for various conditions -
I finished Age of Ultron on my recent plane ride, so I'll guess AoU. For those who did not read:
Who is featured:
Spider-man for first couple of issues, then fades out
Wolverine is the primary protagonist towards the end
Invisible Woman
Hank Pym
A side timeline opens with some altered characters due to the early death of Hank Pym:
Colonel America - Cap with an eye patch
Thing - Deep impact pockets all over Thing
Cable - Cyclops as a one eye, half head shaved Age of Apoc look, uses guns
Gold Ultron
Luke Cage
Uncle Tony - Tony Stark rules the free world with an army of Stark bots
Starlord
Hulk - with a left side covered in hair or scars -
I can't see it.
C3: WWE Stackdown!
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Spotted the new C3 sets in TRU while hunting for Kre-O GI Joe Wave 3.
I would never have guessed that C3 would return. The motorcycle looks like it would fit most Minimates. Link to Wal-mart.
And I just noticed the thread way down below. Feel free to delete this thread.