buttheadsmate

Superb. I always pick up on 'toxin' discussions , probably because I worked in an industry that was dominated by chemicals & ignorance . Just be careful , melted ABS gives off styrene & benzene . Benzene is a killer .

Suddenly ,being able to buy Minimates online from TRU.com levelled the playing field for me. I became the guy emptying the previously, unobtainable inventory that became available. This was my garage-sale.

Prior to the Namor post I found myself hunting an image of the cover of Sub-Mariner #1 ...John Buscema's classic 1968 issue that I bought fresh from the newsstand . I specifically wanted to remind myself of the image before I posted this..... .... I would have put a £1000 bet on the 'fact' that the cover features him carrying his trident with the points facing upwards ! No prize for me .

I noticed that his avatar no longer has the word Members underneath.............. it's now showing Dismembered

Namor . Specifically the Invaders Namor Minimate ....is totally perfect nearly* perfect . * no Trident no prize .

But ....we got 3 of them ? No Namor no Magik !

I typed & deleted several responses to Barry's post ......nothing seemed to represent what I wanted to say , nothing was /is worthy . I may delete this. 'buttheadsmate' has always tried to resemble the real me , I am not particularly brave but I am definitely not a coward . 'buttheadsmate' would never ever 'say' or do anything on the internet that I , **b B*a*i* ,wouldn't say in person to the recipient of my written word. There have been several occasions over the last 20 years & 13K posts that I have almost cringed when re-reading what I've written , on occasions when I have directed my Minimate-orientated frustrations towards Chuck & I am sorry to say ..Zach . I realised of course that Zach was between a rock & a hard place , I ultimately felt we agreed to disagree on many an occasion ? One area however where buttheadsmate 'sat alongside' Zach was when he was promoting Minimates... on a Battle Beast forum . I did my best there to fend off one or two of the, almost ,xenophobic cunts that posted there Thereafter I realised what he was up against & I always kept that in mind ..... when I was criticising Battle Beast Minimates I first met Zach at a convention , he had no idea who I was & he spent a good few minutes answering my mischievous question "What are these things?" ..... then I smiled & said "hi I'm buttheadsmate" . A great moment for me! Reading Barry's post brings home the reality that it is just my 'hobby' that is having a hiatus , it has been much more than that for many other people .

My originally typed post was ....." sooooo young" ....I then re-typed it as " so old " ....I considered it 'funnier ' . Some I win some I win less .

"I'm pushing 60 now ..." Soooooo old . The 'Phantom of the Paradise' Blu-ray is now in my ebay shopping basket waiting to be nudged into a purchase .....maybe ,maybe not ?

Dearest Cylon , I suggest you open a window when creating your masterpieces . Beak-helmeted ,plunger wielding characters used to regularly feature in my life ....often when the pub was shutting . butt.

Thank you Luke , I'm very grateful

It's nobody here's fault but I am slowly but surely being alienated from most threads now . "Content not viewable in your region" Irritating .

Great story I've subscribed to SFX magazine ( UK Sci-Fi monthly) since 1995 . For many years it arrived in a clear envelope & I recall several 'raised-eyebrows' from the delivery lady/man who must have convinced themselves that it was my monthly SEX magazine.

According to AI Google , the Minimate brand name/logo are protected by trademark law not copyright law ... I was going to write more but what I've read so far didn't help so I bailed ....sorry . What I do know, because I trawl ebay every day for 'Minimates' ,is that there are (have been) several ,diverse products that bear the name minimate ....printing blocks & cooler-boxes for example. Over the years (hunting for the 'minimates' that I collect ) I have typed ,in my ebay search, the words Minimate, Mini-mate & Mini mate . These slightly different searches have rewarded me with occasional bounty but not so much these days . Just saying . Also ( unless you're asleep by now ) if you are (or were) ever hunting a TRU Wave 7 Hulkbuster either on ebay or the MMDB you'll maybe struggle because the TRU7 packs bear the name Hulk Buster . So what ? When that pack was hot as hell ,an ebay search for an 'Hulk Buster' pack yielded different results than a 'Hulkbuster' pack . Who was that company who brought out a new line of Battle Beasts?