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I keep composing posts & then deleting them because it's all been said before . I'm sure that none of us bears DST any ill-will but I think the chickens have come home to roost .

No argument .

Anybody remember the AFX ,Web-Armor Spider-Man exclusive ? November 2007 & you could only get that exclusive minimate by placing $$10s worth of orders with AFX . June 2009 & Web-Armor Spider-Man was available in Marvel TRU Wave 3 .

IMHO it would be a tragedy to regress from where we are now .

That is not necessarily a very good reason to cancel your order

I was hoping for a Private Parts box set along with Quarter-Master Bates ,Seaman Staines & Corporal Suffering ..... Unfortunately GI Joe has been promoted demoted to General-Lee Boering . Seriously I have little idea about these characters but that original Luminos toy above looks stunning ,replicate that guy properly & you have a winner but I am underwhelmed so far.

Many thanks

Does anybody know if the Lego Ecto 10274 is 'mate compatible?

It's newsworthy (perhaps) that the pre-order/re-run of the Black Hole pair have just been despatched from BBTS & it would appear they are sold out. There should therefore be some hope for these 'zords Forgive my shameless quote above which re: 'hands' ......neither MAX or Vinimatecent have Vini-hands. Anybody who wants extremely nice versions of the 2 Hole characters (without love of Vinimates) should buy these ,they are readily available on eBay/elsewhere for about $20 if you're quick.

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Matthew 26 ?

I'll try & scan some pages . BTW the album was reprinted a year later just in B & W , the cover is almost identical but not the same.

I recently asked a fellow-member (US based) ,who had helped me immensely with my collection if there was anything that I could help him with . That's how it started . He asked me to look out for a UK publication printed in 1969 , The Fantastic Four ,A Full Colour Comic Album . Only published in the UK , the 'album' was in fact 3 Fantastic Four Stories reprinting issues 51,53 & 60 , featuring in no particular order the FF (obviously) ,Dr.Doom , Silver Surfer , The Black Panther ,Klaw & a few others. Asleep yet ? Bear with me , I'm relating history here So this was published in 1969 , a period when many Marvel characters were being introduced to the UK via black & white reprints . So a 'full colour comic album' featuring Marvel characters was almost unique . The cover featured the 4 members of the FF in full-colour , Sue & Reed in their Blue suits, orange-hued Thing & a fully-flamed Torch . Anybody looking at that cover in 1969, or now, just wouldn't know what lay within the book . Wake up at the back !!!! Apparently the UK publishers were merely given B & W artwork & had no idea what colours the characters should be & basically came up with their own costume colours etc . I knew little of this but my copy (that is destined for the US soon) arrived today & it is bloody priceless . You'll be pleased to know that the colourists got all the Wakandans right but Thing is purple/grey with green trunks,Doom has a yellow 'skirt-thing' with a yellow cape & his armour is blue. The Silver Surfer is obviously silver .....blue & his board is .....er...green . The Fantastic Four of course are in their famous .... I now have a new batch of Holy Grail characters . & quite why they got the cover right & everything else wrong is a mystery.

Que es ?

Clever stuff I was going to suggest Firestar as a 'yellow donor' , I thought it would be a cheap,plentiful eBay item, not so now it seems

The Batcave is ....nervous...& definitely needs the extra support that was added in the later release.

Thank you Luke. Forgive me for not being precise, it was not my intention to mislead & it's important that the facts are straight Wave 81 = $26 , Wave 83 = $48 . My observation however remains much the same .

Luke's Toy Store.

Another beautifully produced set which I look forward to seeing . I'm still concerned about how much they cost ...wave 81 was/is available for $21 whilst wave 83 is nearly $48 ! I know we have debated this but... ?

I can concur about the Halo Mega stuff ,there is some good stuff available albeit not cheap . I am not an avid block-builder but in the past I have modified several 'cockpits etc.' to fit Minimates ...simply & successfully. Mega Blok figures however make good firelighters . There are 2 Mega Blok Pro tanks that are kinda scale but they are BIG but then again so are tanks

Action Man arrived about the time I became a teenager & I never collected any sort of toy until I was nearly 50 . I'll always be a kid who is into 'stuff' but even I had periods where I had other 'diversions'....love of football ,girls , more football more girls then less football more girls* Action Man came a little late . I can relate to GI Joe way more than 'Dungeons' or 'Power Rangers' which isn't criticism just the way it is. *no ego just the facts

I also voted, yesterday. Whilst I don't entirely 'get' GI Joe , I love 'em.

Sting shipped

Many mini-figures have hands that are designed to hold accessories ,being mini-figures the scale of the hands generally blend & aren't that noticeable but they are IMHO the worst aspect of the Minimate design . I accept that this part of the Minimate design is reasonable . Taking (IMHO) the worst aspect of a Minimate & exaggerating it in an inarticulate 4" version of a Minimate just didn't work ....especially when you consider that these enormous looking hand-orbs are unlikely to carry accessories in the manner a Minimate would . All that said , I like the Zords.