pk13

I'm not a packaging completist but I am as far as getting one of each figure. I would agree with you that it's been relatively easy so far for people that have a decent TRU in their vicinity to keep up with all of the figures. Obviously not counting the Pathfinder promos and the upcoming TMNT chases. But the challenge of keeping up is absolutely the worst part. I don't find any fun in something being more rare or hard to come by. It really just subtracts from the experience more than adds to it for me. But, the point is to collect Minimates and getting the figures and being able to display them or build universes with them is cool. So if you have to jump through hoops to do so then that's just the cost of collecting.

I received a box today from one "B. Elephant". It's going to kill me to wait a couple of weeks to open it but I'm going to do my best.

It's a tough call. The articulation definitely seems like it should be the deciding factor. But other than the peashooter's head, I don't feel like the rest of the plants are instantly recognizable as Minimates. Or, their Minimatiness Quotient is very low.

Happy Birthday, fellas! Hope you're both having a great one!

I say go for it. The sticker sheets are really cool and add a ton of value to a set that was already great. There's nothing wrong with as many people as possible having access to minimates coolness.

It won't be a problem at all if they're anything like the AFX keychain promos from a few years back. Just pop off the head and slip the attachment off from the neck peg.

I was at TRU for the PvZ minimates and picked up a Legends Storm if anyone still needs one. Be happy to trade for minimates or work out a sale if need be. Just let me know.

Nope. Got it. It's Amalgam.

I would buy every Amalgam figure DST could produce.

C2E2 2015?!

Yes!

Sorry to hear you've had a bad run lately, Lobby. I hope things turn around quickly for you!

It was just a couple of MvC figures that I wanted for alternate looks. $15 for 4 so I'm not too put out by it. I washed them all of really well and let them soak in in warm soapy water for a bit. Not that drowning will do anything to super ants, but it's nice to fool myself into a false sense of security. And I think that I'm going to just let sleeping ants lie as far as giving the seller any grief. It was either a horrible accident or it was intentional. I'm not going to mess with someone that's crazy enough to put upwards of 150 ants into Minimates packages. But I'm not leaving positive either. Just hoping that it was a weird thing that becomes more funny in time instead of what I fear might be a directed mutant ant assault.

That cartoon is absolutely cracking me up.

yb, I honestly didn't even think to take out my phone and take pics in the middle of it. It wasn't until I had de-anted that the whole thing shifted slightly from horror to comedy. But I did take some of the aftermath on the porch. Mind you, this is a few hours later and after several go overs with a broom. There are *still* pieces of ant on the poison stained steps. I think the Raid kind of clear coated some of the remnants onto the porch. I would take pics of the tape-mummified bag that all of the box and paper towels went into before being thrown away but adding dumpster diving to the list of indignities that I've suffered this day is too much. I just know that the ones that got away are out there multiplying and plotting.

Tale of insanity/looking for an answer here....

So I go get the mail this afternoon and find a couple of packages from eBay auctions I've won. Who doesn't like eBay packages in the mail? I'm walking back into the house, smile on my face, packages under my arm, and life is good. I get inside and turn on the tv and put both of the packages on the coffee table and fix a sandwich.

I'm eating my sandwich and opening up boxes and the first one is good. What's in the box is exactly what I bought. Mental note to leave that seller positive feedback. I pick up the second box and notice that the seller did a good job of taping up the edges, (I notice that sort of thing, and it's important), and proceed to slice through the top layer of tape and address label to get at the Minimates. I open it, take a bite of sandwich, and feel something on my arm. I instinctively slap at my elbow and see that there's an ant crawling towards my hand from my elbow. I send slap number two at it and kill it. Then take a drink and think about how odd it is to see an ant in my home and just how much I dislike them.

That thought hasn't left my ant-hating brain for two seconds before I feel another one on my arm. So sandwich time is officially over at this point and I look into the box that I had opened but not yet inspected. What I find is a horror show. It was like Hitchcock's Birds, except with ants. Probably more ants than birds, but I don't know. And I'm not talking about tiny little ant farm ants. Because that would be too easy. These things are abominations of nature. Giant freaking bastards, I think I couple had wings, one of em might have had a knife. Again, I'm not 100% sure.

It's at this point that I make the decision to move this fiasco out to the front porch before trying to do anything else. I grab the box by a top flap and make for the front door. I swing it open and try to do the same with the storm door until I realize that I had locked it on my way in. I like to think I take steps to keep the house safe and one of those steps is locking the storm door. It seems like a responsible thing to do until you're frantically Juggernaut rushing through the doors of your house in an attempt to fling a box that once held so much hope but now only holds so many ants, (that are hemorrhaging out at an alarming rate). I get that door unlocked and throw the 6x6 Cenobite ant puzzle cube onto the porch and watch them just absolutely go insane in some kind of sick twisted stage show out of the box and all the f over everything. It's at this point that I abandoned any and all hope of saving the figures because the Minimate to ant ratio was so bad that it seemed pointless. I go back into the house and grab some insect spray and get back out on the front porch and get to work.

You would like to think that when you buy insect killing spray that, in your time of need, it would actually kill stuff. Maybe I'm an unreasonable consumer, but that's just how I think about the things I buy. I expect them to work. This is one of the times that reality did not meet expectations. After a good 15 second carpet bombing, the ants actually seemed happy. Instead of twisting up in their death throes, they were leisurely hopping through the lake of poison that I just dropped on them. I thought that the poison cloud would lift and I would see dead ants everywhere. Instead they were on their backs making poison angels in what must have tasted like delicious gravy to them. I was a little scared at this point. These things had survived in a sealed box for several days of over the weekend shipping without food or water and then had been neck deep in Raid's finest nerve toxin and were just as happy as they could be. Not cool.

The only option left was to go hand to hand. I started just stomping the hell out of all of it. Crushing the box, splashing up the puddles of doesn't-kill-ant-sauce, and looking like a psycho to anyone driving or walking by. The action was something resembling a short hop to bring the foot down hard and then a twist to make sure they were ground into the concrete. I feel like I got most of them because there was a lack of movement. But for all I know, these things have cloaking tech and are planning a comeback.

So that's the tale. It was amateur hour exterminator mixed with playing splish splash in a lake of insect poison. And I look like I've been in a slap fight due to the finger shaped bruises I suffered while wildly slapping myself during the assault from the ant vanguard.

Now, I have some questions. First off, that box was sealed. I always look at that sort of thing. Which leads me to think that the ants were in the box before it left its destination. Do I leave bad feedback for this? I mean, I try to be as understanding as possible when it comes to trades and purchases, but having to play amateur f'ing Orkin Man for a half hour doesn't exactly leave me with warm fuzzy positive feedback feelings in the pit of my ant-hating stomach. On the other hand, since I'm pretty sure that these were genetically altered super ants, is it foolish to anger the maker of these monsters with neutral or negative?

And does anyone have any idea of how bad insect killer spray will affect the figures? I ended up gloving up and retrieving them and washing them off before bagging up the Raid soaked box and packaging taping the hell out of the bag before throwing it away. They weren't expensive so that's not an issue.

Groot

That's not the best of news. Will DST even do a second run? If they do, I hope it isn't any different packaging wise than the first. I specifically have not been buying these on eBay based on the promise made here by Paizo's publisher that I would be able to buy them at their site. If no second run is made, then I would imagine the already inflated eBay prices would be worse than they are now.

I have to say that I agree with most of what Mnemosis has to say. Especially the Classic choices.

I do want the current stuff as well. But, and this may be a weird completist quirk, I always value the older costumes/characters more because I feel like they are the longer shots to be considered by DST and/or be made. Marvel NOW figures might be the current and hip thing at the moment but in a couple of years they wouldn't necessarily be out of place. Every year that goes by that we don't don't get a Wrecking Crew or Brotherhood of Evil Mutants makes it feel less likely that we will see essential additions to the Marvel comics library.

I just returned home and found my sets waiting on the porch. I immediately opened one up and can only say... wow. What a great set. This is easily the best box set of the year and probably one of the best ever. The amount of stuff included, even if you don't count Luke's cool bonus items, is pretty great.

Congrats to DST for cranking out some nice figures and thanks to Luke and Heidi for taking a chance on these and making them happen. And kudos for a really well done marketing campaign as well!

I'm still getting the error no matter what browser or device I use.

I'm getting the same error. I tried logging out and back in and tried on two different devices.

I've picked up several of these and think they're pretty great. The likenesses are mostly awful, but I feel like that's a big part of the aesthetic that they're going for. The biggest concern is paint apps, but once again, that kind of fits in with the overall feel of the line. I know it isn't Funko, but one of the retro figures I bought from The Twilight Zone had a little bit of a paint rub on the nose. It made me feel like I was a kid with an Emperor figure from Star Wars. Normally that would have bothered me but with these figures I think it's kind of great.

The biggest appeal to me with all of the retro figures, aside from nostalgia, is that it's so easy to enjoy them for what they are. In a toy collecting world where figures are routinely $20 or more, it's fun to pay $10 or less for carded figures of licensees that would never see the light of day in the 3/4" style. You know going in that there will be Kenner-esque likeness hilarity. You know that there will only be five points of articulation. You know that paint apps will be suspect. I know that turns a lot of people off to the style but it's what makes it fun for me. I'm not going in expecting a crazy amount of articulation, perfectly applied paint, and Hot Toys level of likenesses. But if I was collecting Legends/Legacy style figures, I certainly would expect those things for the price.

Hail Birthday! May you have -511 more.

This line is showing a lot of promise. If they made the GenCon sets look as good as they did with all reused parts then I can't wait to see what happens with new tooling.

The only Minimates I have ever seen at a discount chain, (Ross), was the first TRU Amazing Spiderman wave. It was a full case at $5 each but only at one store. I always assumed it had been a mistake on TRU's part and the store just priced and stocked them instead of trying to send them back.

That is awesome news. Thank you for letting us know and welcome to the Multiverse!

I've wanted a black suit Kingpin ever since the update to the character in TRU13. This would be a good wave to see one in. Maybe the Netflix Daredevil series will up the chances.

Can you use the "it's a birthday AND Christmas present argument!"? That's how I pulled off a non Christmas present Terror Drome when I was a kid.

I kind of had the same problem with that set. Here's how I have them:

-Cable gets the two flat gray pistols. I tried these pistols with Deadpool first because of the color match with the holsters but found that they fit Cable's holsters much better.

-Deadpool gets two of the silver pistols because of the picture on the back of the box and because they fit much better in the holsters than the gray ones did. He also gets both of the black machine pistols because Deadpool and TEC-9s seem like a perfect fit. Plus, those were included in the W28 Wolverine & Deadpool set. The holes were originally in the pistols so they could attach to the back of the W28 harness.

-Domino gets the remaining silver pistol.

-Feral is just happy to get a figure.