DSTZach

I wouldn't worry about pre-orders not justifying Expendables -- they'll be at TRU, as well. I just saw it for the first time a couple of weeks ago, after letting it get built up in my head for a year or so, and it actually surpassed my expectations. So amazing.

I would, however, NOT get too too excited about Tomb Raider. The reason there's only one Minimate made is that there are still a LOT of questions about the license. Of everything we showed, that is the most uncertain.

No Munster Minimates - just the Mego style dolls for now.

The Munster car I think is supposed to be part of the new-delayed 3rd wave of vehicles for TRU.

No Mego-Style Munsters -- they are fully sculpted 7-inch scale figures. The Munsters vehicle is slated for Wave 4. Wave 3 is just KITT and the Albion ship.

During the chat earlier today, we learned that there was another set of figures from a video game on display that couldn't be photographed or talked about publicly, because things are still in negotiation. So... defunct line supposed to be getting new product... video game 'mates that can't be shown... anyone care to speculate? :biggrin:

Hrm. I didn't think we weren't allowed to talk about it. Let me check.

the one that comes with Ultimate Cap is Extremis Ironman which we've gotten before but this one has new sculpted chest, hands and legs/feet.

The pairings shown are the final ones. Ultimate Spidey comes with Ultimate Cap. Rhino comes with Iron Man. Different from what I said before, I know, but the lineup changed, and we had to tweak the pairings.

You get me the press passes, I'll be there next year

I can't get you a press pass. MMHQ can get you a press pass, though, I bet.

DST/Minimates officially have some serious catching up to do this yeah it looks like, with MU versions of Longshot, Kang, Blastarr, Bag Head, Puck, Nighthawk, Death's Head, Karnak, Medusa, & 70's Falcon.

ML is giving us Hope, Constrictor, Commander Rogers, Thunderball, Madame Masque, USAgent & Viper.

I hate to say it, but Hasbro (the company we all hated for taking over Marvel Legends) is REALLY stepping up to the plate with character selection. The MU line is starting to give Minimates a real run for their money.

I will refrain from listing Minimate characters that have been made that ML and MU have not done. (Cough Stiltman Cough) And we'll catch you on a few of those this year, as well as leaving both lines in the dust with some other releases.

Oh, and this thread is evil.

I am thinking the assortment will be:

Spidey/Peter - shared

BD Spidey/Lizard -shared

Aunt May/Swat - LCS

Uncle Ben/Swat - LCS variant (unless he doesn't die, then May will be the variant)

Captain Stacey/"first night spidey" - TRU

Gwen/Curt Connors - TRU

Not bad! Aunt May is the chase figure, though.

Apologies if this has been answered already, but i couldn't see it anywhere in this thread:

Do we have dates for when the pictures of Lizard, Gwen, Capt. Stacy, Connors & Vigilante Peter are expected to be released?

We've already seen the MU Lizard, as well as the Halloween MAsk/Gloves sets at ToyFair. Did the minimate get shown as well?

Everything should be out in June or thereabouts. Lizard Minimate is on the shelf and ready to be shot tomorrow.

Hm... I could see them doing 'mates of these, with standard bodies and oversize sculpted heads like the RGB line. Minimates might be a little blocky for the round, pudgy style of the animation, but it could work.

I wonder if that could open the door to Minimates of other Rankin Bass properties? I certainly wouldn't argue with Minimate Frosty, Kris Kringle, Jack Frost, Snow and Heat Misers...

No plans at this time, but never say never.

SORRY NO POSTS TODAY, GUYS. wouldn't be fair to tthe press I have coming tomorrow. In the name of peace, no DC matges, no SW mates. Walkin Dead we have an entire assortment finished, plus Expendables, MAX, Pirates UM and more Tomorrow I have 18 press appts, so.. why are none of you here, as deputized writers for MMHQ?

It's not that these aren't good Zach, quality wise I have no complaints. But other than TRU Wave 13 we have so little that's completely new coming up, Waves 44, 45 and 46 are all either redos or movie versions, or both.

Kinda like Waves 38, 39 and 40? This is what movie waves are. Characters we know, maybe a few we don't already have. (Sadly, a wave of completely new characters is highly unlikely, for reasons discussed ad infinitum in other threads.) It's cool, everyone has their own opinion, and I know that a large portion of this bile is directed at the new film itself, which is too bad, because it looks like it might be pretty good -- better than certain other films about dancing emo types.

On the bright side, you can get Spidey with a mask, or with no mask, depending on your preference! You're welcome!

Hey Zach,do you know if the tru wave is going to be also here in tru Canada?

No idea. I'll try to ask when TRU comes through the booth.

Sorry - shouldn't have posted before reading the entire thread!

You are by no means the only offender.

Agreed Valo487, I can't believe we are only getting uncle ben and captain stacy as new figures in wave 46 and TRU 13...

Two civilians who appeared briefly and died? Yeah, it's a mystery. :biggrin: I hope you're that excited about Jean DeWolff.

Also, the TRU assortment is not TRU 13. Kingpin/Punisher is TRU 13. This is Amazing Spider-Man. The movie waves aren't numbered at TRU, for some reason.

We've acttually designed a deprssed and despondent Rick. I'm serious. And all the zombies are from the comic. MAX Zombes are gonna wait for a (b)rainy day.

YUP, wave 46. TRU wave coming soon, with stacys, Connors and Vigilante SM. I believe BD Spidey has a beat-up face under the mask. Sorry you guys hate the figure you can't see so much.

Zach, by any chance, was the Maximum Zombies NYCC promo last year supposed to be based on Kirkman, I've always thought there is a slight resemblance?

Nope.

I choose:

c) bored and lonely

Yup.

Thanks Zach, good suggestion, glad to see you use the MMDB for the same purposes.

It's the most staggeringly incredible resource I could ever imagine. I used to think Yojoe.com was awesome. But MMDB...

Who on here does MMDB? I want to thank them. And who does MMHQ? All my e-mails to them keep bouncing back, I need a new address.

Sorry, off-topic.

...Though I'd prefer the wave 41 one to have proper hip covers as well... Maybe DST will give me a replacement...what is the link to them for asking on figures missing pieces and stuff?

customerservice@diamondselecttoys.com

Yeah, that could work. He doesn't look anything like Ruffalo though. Zach, any chance you guys could throw in just an alternate Banner head/hair with Hulk? That would be an easy way to get an official Avengers movie Banner quick custom without taking up an entire slot.

To just include a head with no body would probably not fly with Marvel, OR with the casual buyer who wonders what they're supposed to do with it. I would use Sunspot's hair and Ray's face on Tony Stark's body and paint his shirt purple. Just my two cents.

Just use the Ruffalo head that came with the "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" box set. Jeez, do we have to do everything for you?

God, I wish I had Eternal Sunshine Minimates. Faceless Patrick!

Zach, i know you cant say much about the mystery villians but will we recognize their name( for example: Skrulls) when the full wave is revealed, or is it more that we are just not allowed to see them yet?

I can not say ANYTHING about the mystery villains. BUT we just found out their names this week. Packaging is being printed.

Thanks for saying it out loud, Mini-Myte. Sorry, TM2.

Pete, I cropped out a bunch of accessories, but we'll have to see what makes it to production.

I think TRU is on board with these, yes.

And I wasn't sure about the zombies, but it's good to know they appear to be based on the book. Need to bust out my TPB.

These are comic only, no TV plans. But if Daryl Dixon wants to be in the comic, Kirkman's gonna do it.

On my way into the city for Toy Fair. Forgot my camera cord. Bollocks.

Sorry for the double post earlier. My S-M-R-T phone does not like the Multivere's reply forms. Typing blind. Fixed now.

No Daryl. Remember, this is comics only.

Well...

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/CBMAssassin/news/?a=29024

Of course, fit The Governor anywhere you want, Zach.

He's a hard sell as a toy, given his... villainy. But he's still a pretty major villain. We're debating it.

I don't know if you can answer this Zach, but pretty much all of the Max Zombies prototypes shown had newly sculpted parts to fit the "theme" of zombie, will some of those parts or "themes" show up in this line?

Is stumps a theme?

This is great news for DST, but I can't shake the feeling that I would have much preferred Maximum Zombies.

Wait till you see the other zombies in the line. I picked the tamest, most standard one. The others get increasingly more horrific, and while I'm not sure how many are based on actual zombies in the book, they all look great. The team is trying to balance humans and zombies in the line, and I think they've found a mix that works. You need the civilians to move the line forward, so it's not just zombies, and I know that a lot of you WANT more civilians. Win-win. Plus, the comic designs have a lot of character to them, and that will come across.

And this has been in the works for a loooong time. Before Maximum Zombies. I think MZ showed Kirkman what we could do with a WD line, and that was when the line finally got traction. Perhaps we'll revisit MZ down the road.

Only one zombie line for now, but we'll see how it goes.

You realise who designed the 'Volkswagen',who ordered its development & what volkswagen means ?

Ferdinand Porsche,Adolf Hitler ,people's car.

I didn't know that first fact! That's fascinating.

If army builders performed spectacularly, I"m sure we'd do more of them. I'll suss it out at Toy Fair.

They will not be hitting here next week. My diamond invoice had bumpkis on it.

I think I saw the 29th. ToyChestNews.com posts an "on the water" list once a month or so that really helps me sometimes. I could log in to the retailer site and see what the date is, but... Wait, can't you do that, too, Luke?

I hope TRU.com will get some more Taskmasters in. He's the only set of the "new" stuff that I want, but I really do want to pick him up.

THey haven;t even gotten their main shipment yet. Sample case, remember.

So, Zach....

Banner?

Bruce? Not happening. Easy custom for you guys, though, right? Pretty sure we made tan slacks.

I would buy two boxes of each A.I.M. and Hydra goons. Even if they were just straight rereleases of the comic ones we already got, because I think those are such perfect representations of what they are. I love them.

AIM guys are adorable. And Hydra goons are hysterical, especially when they're always shouting. But there may be a perfectly good reason for it.

I think it's been asked lots of times, actually, to both Ask DST and at con forums. And I think the answer has been that he just doesn't think they would sell, especially not as rereleases. And I agree with him, personally, but I'm not an army-building kind of guy.

I think it would be neat, and not just for the hardcores. I'll work on him.

Since the topic of army builder dumps came up, what do we fans need to do to get Chuck on board for non-movie Marvel army builder dumps? My wife makes some awesome cookie bars (much superior to a normal cookie), but I just need to know how many to send.

Has it been asked in Ask DST? If it hasn't been done, I'm sure there's a reason. It may be a licensing issue, for all I know.