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He's gone to ground. We tried to meat at Toy Fair, but steered wrong, I guess.

I searched for "Jovie" and couldn't find one. They were mentioned in the Toy Fair 2016 thread, but clearly I failed this set.

Cheerfully corrected!

Elf has definitely become a Christmas Classic, at least in the US, and they are starting to crank out more seasonal merchandise, and not just Buddy. I saw a sweater that showed the narwhal saying "Good luck finding your dad, Buddy." I did a double take. But to be fair, it is the only Santa Minimate. And the only James Caan.

Wow, thank you guys. I had forgotten how many shots I used to take when I did socials. I wish I'd included all of them. hopefully, there is enough interesting content in the current book to make it worthwhile, even if the Minimates are (mostly) more recent. (I do have some LOTR in there!) Now I will definitely do a second volume!

I am not sure which ones you mean. Some of these were definitely shot to promote releases, but I guess a lot of them were solo shots that didn't have a whole lot going on. I guess I could have put them in the Quick Shots section. Also, when they let me go, they shut down my access to my computer prior to me sending it back. So I lost a lot of pics. Even older ones, like I remember taking cool shots for Tomb Raider. Those would be nice to have. But we changed websites at least once, and I changed computers at least twice, so a lot were inaccessible already. I'll have to do a web search on some of the longer running news sites, maybe I can dig them up. EDIT: Thank you for reminding me of these older shots. I found my Tomb Raider shots and am sad they are not in the book.

I know i still owe some people signed stickers from the LAST book, so I will put together stickers for both books and check my messages here to see who I owe what. Thanks so much for the support, guys, this is really my love letter to Minimates, and you all are a big part of that.

Sorry I've been gone so long, I've been working a new job that takes up a lot of my time, and I've also been working on a project! Because a few people demanded it, and because I really, really wanted to do it, I made a Minimates photo book. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GPQX6QQV Hopefully people dig it, it's not exactly a survey of all the Minimates over the years, but it has a wide chronological range of pictures in it. Many are from March of Minimates, and I look forward to participating again this year. They don't seem to have a sneak preview up, but I'll see if I can remedy that.

I felt like certain accessories and effects pieces were done after us. Small pets. Energy blasts. I still can't believe they haven't done action/flight bases like we did for so many characters.

Barry, can you think of any other elements we did before Lego? I once said I thought Lego actually learned a lot from us and I was scoffed at.

Love that Loomis!

Amazing!

Great stuff, Barry!

Holy cow! The sculpted lines look amazing!

These are amazing!