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That's just how he looks.... not sure if there's an explanation for why he has little red indents running all over his body in the comics. Don't think i saw anything about it in the main series.

He looks like a dark grey volcano that's about to erupt.

Either that or he's got really bad psoriasis.

(And he's seeing Storm's hairstylist.)

I don't care much for Kluh, but that mohawk is perfect for the new Cable.

I see a Big Bang Theory/Comic Book Men crossover in my Minimates future.

Are you saying no one has thought to have Silent Bob "Chasing Amy" Farah Fowler around the TBBT couch yet?

Wolverine: Through the Ages

Weapon X

Team X

Fang Uniform (hands, head, and hair for Imperial Guard Fang)

Fear Itself Wolverine

Thor

Destroyer Armor Thor

Fallen Thor

Thor 2099

King Thor and Throg accessory figure

Phoenix Through the Ages

Dark Phoenix (Update)

Rachel Summers (red and yellow 80's Uncanny X-Men)

P5 Magik

Future Quentin

Many Armors of Iron Man

Heroes Reborn Armor

Hydro Armor

Iron Man 2020 Armor

Superior Iron Man

Many Faces of Captain America

Capwolf

Punisher Cap

Falcap

Major Victory (Vance Astro)

Not sure how to classify which ones came first as I got a large selection all the same day. I suppose chronologically it would be X-Men Darktide Box and Marvel Zombies box. Hastings had the Darktide DVD on clearance So I got that for the movie and then decided to go ahead and pick up their clearance Zombies box as well. Then when I stopped at Target the same day they were liquidating the minimates they had at $1 a box so I went ahead and picked up Ultimate Wolverine/Cyclops, Iron Man/Dr. Doom, Unmasked Spider-Man/Dr Octopus, Punisher/Blade, Torch/Mr. Fantastic, Ghost Rider/Daredevil, Spider-Woman/Riot Attack Spider-Man, and Beast/Kitty Pryde.The next day I went back and picked up everything Target had left.

After that I stopped collecting until Wave 34's '90s Cyclops and Jean Grey, when the local Hastings started getting them in again, and haven't stopped since.

Nice wave and it's comprised of a lot of recycled parts, with the exception of QS's hair, both Ultron heads and the lower half of Hawkeye's jacket. Correct me if I'm wrong.

The Hawkeye's jacket bottom/belt is from Mass Effect Liara.

MYTE wins the internet for today. Possibly tomorrow, as well.

Well I can't disappoint my public. Flip that sucker 180 degrees for some nasty hemorrhoid action. Yikes!

DDSS

Bring on the Dreamcatcher customs.

There are two versions of Po. There is regular and his imaginary Dragon Warrior version. Also in the series Mantas has at least once grown to giant size so a giant Mantis isn't out of the question.

As for Crane Standard minimate body and hips, Battle Beast Scorpus legs, Mr. Fantastic stretch neck new sculpted head and either new wings/arms or a Falcon's arm wings. Leaving only Viper as an accessory; though to get more characters I'd be willing to get Mantis, Viper and Shifu as accessories.

I could easily see a wave of:

Po/Villain with mini Shifu

Tigris/Crane with mini Mantis

Monkey/Croc Warrior with Viper

Great Dragon Warrior/ Croc Warrior

Hmm, do Gargoyles count and animals or people? Same question applies to Smurfs.

As mentioned I'd love Shirt Tales as that was the animal toon that I watched as a kid.

Other possibilities:

Pokemon: Many of the monsters have an anthropomorphic form that would work and that would be a possible in in to getting other Nintendo properties.

Arthur: Maybe not everyone's first idea for a toy line but it has a huge base of watchers and is currently fairly limited in what is available as toys.

Thundercats: The redesigned series.

Star Wars: Ewoks Animated series.

Looney Tunes/Tiny Toons/The Warner Bros./Loonatics Unleashed: No matter how you slice that one there is an ageless built in fanbase.

Kung Fu Panda

Gummie Bears

Care Bears

Wuzzles

Rescue Rangers/Duck Tales/Goof Troop/Darkwing Duck/Mighty Ducks

Getalong Gang

Muppets/Muppet Babies

Bucky O'Hare

SWAT Cats

Never gonna happen:

Kimba: The White Lion

Animals of Farthing Wood

The license from Hasbro/Takara to produce likenesses of the original Battle Beasts with rub signs.

I'd almost guess it to be Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but we all know that will never happen.

At this point I suppose it doesn't really matter. I'm just excited about getting more animal characters Anthro or otherwise.

My first comic was Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos that my uncle had left in a box of odds and ends he'd left behind during one of his moves between A.F. bases. I can't say that it hooked me on comics but I do remember reading it.

Then for a while I'd get a G.I. Joe of Transformers comic if I liked the cover but what really hooked me was getting a used copy of The Dark Phoenix Saga. After that I couldn't get enough. In fact it really did become an addiction to the point that at one point I had over 6,000 comics. Then around about the end of Heroes Reborn I quit collecting and gave away nearly everything in order to make a clean break.

Now I'm back to reading comics again; however I'm severely restricting myself to less than ten series. If I get to seven then I start considering which titles I have to cut. Fortunately I don't count trades so I can pick up important story events every once in a while.

Perhaps a Dreamworks Animation license giving a mixed line of Shrek, Madagascar, and Kung Fu Panda characters.

Maybe it's the Marvel Animation license from Disney XD

Hulk and the Agents of Smash

Ultimate Spider-Man Web-Warriors

Avengers Assemble

Guardians of the Galaxy

Tangentially related Box Set 80's TMNT

Though I'm all for Venture Bros. or Gargoyles

Maybe the never hinted at series will be Firefly/Serenity (oops sanity slipped there for an instant). It'll probably be Planet of the Apes.

Damn, at this point I'm worried that this wave is going to be another wave 18 nightmare where it gets released at the same time as the yearly store reset.

My speculation for series 2

4 Turtles

LARP Knight Leo

LARP Wizard Donny

TurFlytle Mikey

Flight Pack Raph

3 Mutants

Splinter

Dogpound (K-Mart)/Chris Bardford (LCS)

Kirby Bat

Casey Jones (K-Mart)/Blue Robot Kraang (LCS)

Single/Chase Transparent (wishful thinking)

Transparent Green Mutagen Donny (LCS) To complete the set

Transparent Sonic Tracking TurFlytle (K-Mart)

Transparent Blue Magical LARP Leo (TRU)To start a new group for series 3

Um, if it's the Mind Gem isn't it entirely possible that whomever got their hands on it simply made everyone forget that it was in play?

Prototype of what? If you mean the Robot the closest I have is a custom that uses mostly Garrus parts and a movie Iron Patriot helmet with AoU Ultron hands.

I figured the first year the calendar would likely be a TRU exclusive sort type deal with the blind bags being for other retailers to get their feet wet to see how seasonal mates would work. I mean I just picked up a Lego Chima Polar Bear set at Target for about the same as a blind bag minimate would be. Of course I then felt guilty so I went and got 2 more Mass Effect mates even though I'd already picked up a full case. So I'm sure if there had been a minimate option I'd have skipped the Legos and got three minimates right there.

As for buying back the unsold sets at half cost doesn't really make sense considering the sets would likely end up on the 50% off MSRP after Christmas sales isle and still be a better deal for the store in the long run.

As for a new head for the robot I was trying to keep new tooling to a minimum though doing a new calendar each year with the same basic characters with new or different bonus parts and simple recolors in the blind bags would make sense.

Of course I'm just in it to get more battle beasts and a complete team of Reindeer. Bonus points if they could sneak in a new head sculpt with glasses of Thrasher from Disney's Prep and Landing.

After reading Valo's proposal for a Marvel Advent Calendar I got to thinking about how much fun a seasonal MAX line would be. While an Advent Calendar might be expensive a blind bag 12 strip could be a good avenue to consider.

Still I've been thinking about seasonal mates since the Pirate Santa was shown so, with nothing better to do, I spent a bit of time working up an Advent Calendar line up.

Day 1: Reindeer (Giraffe Battle Beast with cheetah's fur cape/shoulders and new head sculpt)

Day 2: 2 Horn Axe Weapons (Cheetah Battle Beast)

Day 3: Red Harness (Sarah Connor) and Trans Blue Ice Shield (Giraffe Battle Beast)

Day 4: Dash Base (quicksilver) transparent with gold flecks or metallic gold

Day 5: Alternate Reindeer head molded in transparent red and then painted so that when held up to the light the nose glows red

Day 6 Max Arctic Trooper

Day 7: Arctic Trooper heavy jacket and gloves

Day 8: Arctic Trooper skies and boots

Day 9: Arctic Trooper helmet and rifle

Day 10: Elf Hat (Elf Spock hair and hat)

Day 11: Snow Man (Stay Puffed with a new snow man head sculpt and Gruntos hands)

Day 12: Transparent blue ice sword (Pathfinder Konkrud) & snowball launcher (Plants vs. Zombies football gun)

Day 13: Ice tomb (Iceman)

Day 14: Giant Mallet (DC Harley Quin)

Day 15: 4 Snow Balls (Energy balls in solid white)

Day 16: Toy Robot Soldier (Iron Man Heartbreaker Helmet, Mass Effect Garrus Armor, Hulk Buster hands, Mecha Hulk hip armor and legs)

Day 17: Reaper scythe hand, Marvel Warlock gripper hand, Lost in Space Robot claw hand, and Sentinel glove with long tentacle

Day 18: Cylon Feet and Lost in Space Robot treads feet

Day 19: MAX Pilot armor and 2 Halo Kat pistols

Day 20: Polar Bear (Battle Beasts Bear)

Day 21: Battle Beast Bear Axe/Sword and Universal Monsters Dr Reed spear gun

Day 22: Ice hammer (Hammer of Angrir) and Snowball cannon (PvZ plant grenade launcher)

Day 23: Christmas tree

Day 24: Red Bag with small block packages

Day 25: Santa (Pirate Santa concept)

Perhaps put out a slightly stripped down blind bag series with 3 Reindeer, 3 Snow Men, 2 Arctic Troopers, 2 Toy Robots, 1 Polar Bear, and 1 Transparent Blue Frozen Santa. That would leave Santa as a box set exclusive along with many of the extras. As for marketing have it set up like the Best of where stores can re-order the Advent Calendar every year with the blind bag assortment having color changes to armor and fur with a different exclusive transparent character.

More proof!

Hastings is the only location within 150 miles, with the exception of K Mart and Gamestop blind bags now, where I can get minimates. I only wish that they would send out complete sets or even cases rather than reserving the short pack figures for their "high traffic" locations.

Has anyone figured out a "map" for the case of these yet? If you can get to a fresh case that hasn't been tossed yet, I think it's possible.

As far as my case went from front to back:

2 Wrex

2 Liara

2 Jane

2 Ashley

3 John

3 Garrus

1 Illusive Man

3 Tali

I could see it as being a SHIELD replacement organization. With the fall of the original SHIELD a new group, possibly made up of powered individuals, created by Cap or the Avengers to mop up "wildfires" that the regular Avengers can't deal with. Leading into Cap: Civil War between this new organization and Colson's SHIELD with Cap caught in the middle. Of course it could just be the introduction of an Avengers Academy as well and it would explain how Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch first meet the Avengers.

I doubt it's SWORD. That organization isn't likely won't show up until Guardians 2, if they visit Earth, or more likely Captain Marvel.

I wonder if that agreement included the Spaceballs animated series?

<Grumble, grumble....>

So I know there are members on here that live south of Salt Lake City (Utah County)... any luck that way yet? What about Vegas? Phoenix? Boise? Denver? Butte, Montana? Is this thing on?

One day Turtles.. one day.

Thin Falls, got a strip in but all that were left after Friday morning was 2 Leos, Raph, and Donny. I cleared the rest of them out. Hopefully they'll order in another strip or two. I don't go as far as American Falls, Pocatello, or Burley to the East and I don't even know if they still have any K-Marts left. Nor do I go far enough west to check Mountain Home or Boise.

Like I said, I think a zombie vs. tiger set would be great, and it might remind zombie fans of the zombie fighting the shark in Zombie 2, I just think there are many factors that go into planning a Minimates assortment, and tigers are a bit of a game-changer to the current TWD mathematical formula. But depending on how long Shiva survives, I don't see why we couldn't make him in the future.

Now I'm going to have to go through my movie collection and find the title of the Zombie film that has 2 zombie tigers attacking a group of survivors.

I can see why from all the new parts that would be needed. Still, the mold could then be put to use in the Marvel line for Kymera's black tiger and most of the parts could also be reused for a leopard to go with Black Panther and for Zabu. Ah well, I suppose I'll just have to settle for Tygra and hope for an eventual Tiger Claw in the TMNT line or Manifold Tyger/Flying Tiger/Tigra in the Marvel line for my next minimate tiger fix.

I'd take a Warbird and Kid Gladiator two pack and a Captain Marvel TtA: Ms Marvel 1st, Binary, Warbird, and Captain Marvel.

Since Banshee's look was so close to wave 60 I'd go with something a bit more like this wave

Jubilee with M head/Penance

Chamber (neck blast covering upper torso and lower face) with Synch head/ Mondo

Husk (extra transforming body and arms)/ Cameron Hodge Phalanx

Skin (extra Cock Knocker and Mr Fantastic arms)/Phalanx trooper