redraptor

To add to the weird ratio conversation, it looks like the cases at the Northern Virginia TRUs were 3 carols and one glenn.

After looking at the picture and the website it looks like it is a black and white picture, not necessarily b&w figures.

Zach, if I gave the impression I was mad I'm sorry. I'm not mad. The tone I wanted to express didn't come across properly in the posting. I know why all the retreads of the big guns get made. The Junior Varsity heroes are constantly warming pegs in my area TRU and others I visit. I see the Heralds of Galactus sets jamming pegs from Kentucky to Times Square. Besides, I spoke too soon about "Spider-sense" Spidey, he has web pits he is currently my favorite of the eight I have(seriously). And yes, I would buy a Maximum Clonage set full of spider-men because I do have that luxury. I have been casually collecting the little guys since the Marvel Zombies set(you never know what is going to catch someones eye)then ghostbusters then marvel because some of the sets were on clearance at TRU last year and I got hooked. Look, I buy most of the minimates that come out. I was just expressing my dismay at having acquired so many of the heavy hitters in such a short amount of time. Ten Spidey, 14 Iron men, 10 caps and 12 Thors 4 different Psylockes. No one made me buy them i'm not upset, its just I didn't by the sets containing them for those characters and I found it funny one of the characters from the poll couldn't have been squeezed into one of those sets. You yourself recently said the avengers guys had to take a back seat for a little. Bottom line: You make the guys. I'll buy them. The poll is great, but just because the fans get something doesn't mean we should back off our other demands. Besides you yank our chains all the time, it's hard to tell when you're being straight forward or playful. I find it hard to believe your posts aren't carefully calculated to do just that. I'm just yanking back a little.

I'm getting a similar feeling as Dinobot, but I think the price we'll pay for getting these characters is a Maximum Clonage set (Spidey, Spidey with web pits variant packed with Spidey army builder, Gwen Stacey, MJ, Ben Reilly, and mystery villian we all hope will be Jackel but ends up being Green Goblin.) I love the little guys as my son calls them, but there seems to be an unhealthy fixation on certain characters while others get passed over time and again. The love Spider-man and Wolverine get seems a little excessive, and the big three Avengers are right behind. I have only been at this for a year and am strangely fascinated by the minimates. I think they're great, but I get frustrated when I look at this poll and see all these minimates I would love to have and know it's not likely more than a third will be made while we get yet another variant of a character I already have. I mean really, over twenty Captain Americas, thirty plus Spideys and Iron Men? These are the names that sell, I get that but "Spider sense Spidey" is the last straw. I picked him up yesterday because I didn't have a Punisher yet, but that's it, no more Spider-man minimates will be bought by me until I see more new characters. Sorry for the vent, but Marvel has such too rich a character history to have it's representation dominated by five or six characters. I love the little guys, and Zach you do a great job. The poll is great but too much like Sophies Choice.

1.Classic Thunderbolts. (Each member packaged with their Masters of Evil alter-ego.) 2.Midnight Sons (Morbius, Nightstalkers, Spirits of Vengeance, and Darkhold Redeemers.) 3.Anything not involving minimates in double digits(Spidey, Iron Man, Thor, Cap, Wolverine (They might sell, and I buy them, but I've only been collecting for a year and I have multiples of each.

Sterling, VA TRU has them in stock. Looked like they had a case out on the pegs. I didn't get the New Mutants. I haven't been interested in those guys.