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I'm insulted that you are insulted . Seriously... IMHO AI will be an immense help as we crave for the return of real-life Minimates , the opportunity is right in front of just about everybody to promote future lines with comparatively small investment . Then all we have to do is steal the licence from Lego I swear I'll stop comparing everything I see to the kubrick Star Wars figures but before I do can somebody set the question /prompts ....."Give me Star Wars Kubricks interpreted into Minimate figures " ?

I thought long and hard about commenting on the AI generation of the SW 'mates that Cylon has posted . Should I criticise what is ,after all, a machine's interpretation of a series of prompts or should I just say "Wow we can finally see what SW 'mates look like ? " So.....they're nice to see but if these were actual protos of what many here have craved as a 'Minimate Grail ' IMVHO I'm not sure that these would be anything other than disappointing . Sorry! I have never embraced the 'Star Wars' licence , I almost feel embarrassed to say it , but there it is . That said I truly love my collections of Star Wars kubricks which ,despite their limitations, are sublime . Kubricks are similar to Minimates , similar enough to draw a comparison . I love this thread & I am as sure that the god 'AI ' won't be offended ,when I criticise him ,as much as I know he won't be warmed when I praise 'him'. (struggling with my punctuation in this post but WGAF?)

Very nice stuff

Will there be any relevance to the new anime movie which is released next month ? TBQH I didn't know about the movie until I started your hangman but once I got going things started to fit into place . I look forward, as always , to seeing your great stuff.

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I've got a feeling that this might drag on ? A

I was going to interfere yesterday when I first saw the Baron Blood figure , I still have my copy of Invaders #7 from 1976 which features Baron Blood & he's emblazoned on the cover . I said nothing ( unusual for me ) because there have actually been other Baron Bloods since, apparently . Navaans Baron Blood is highly sympathetic to the 1976 version IMHO & quite stunning in its own right . There are so few one-version-only Marvel characters these days & almost impossible ,I would imagine, to be completely new/unique . I also look forward, as always to Capaco's stuff .

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Nice stuff Luke . I'm not anywhere near my collection so I can't be 100% sure but I believe BSG Cylons might be ideal base figures for this sticker set ? Cylons also have black heads under their helmets ( not 100% sure but nigh on sure) ....if you can get the very tight helmet off .

Marvellous .

Thank you Navaan , I can now enjoy your work .....it's impressive .

I'm not even sure myself whether I'm being serious or not but in this AI infested world is it safe to display your fingerprints

I keep wanting to say -'Dragon Designs' - as I believe that 'they , whoever they are or were" had something to do with its production ? Unfortunately I can't elaborate & neither can an AI search ..which is almost refreshing

Anything I write will be unhelpful ...."what's new " I hear you say . Is it fake ? I could find mine & compare it to yours but I'm not convinced that that would prove anything ? If mine is the same as yours then we both might have fakes & TBQH the thought of pulling mine apart does not sit easy with me There have been many threads here about Gold Spider-Man minimates & after a while it seemed to me that his numbered plastic packaging was becoming more important than the Minimate * My opinion .... I guess that a loose GSM Minimate with unknown provenance might well be a pre-production official item , that's based on the assumption that a bagged version with known provenance is the real deal . Is it any less genuine out of the bag ? * I can't believe what you have could be considered a 'fake' ,at worst it's a pre-production prototype * As an ex-printer it has always been amusing (especially to me) that the rarest (most valuable) Minimate was packaged in a plastic baggy with a B&W sticky label that could be forged by just about anybody . If you were making fake Gold SM Minimates you would not be worrying about how to fake the labels .

Rebooted for reference .