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Went with stegron, jackal and carrion. I agree many of the best have been made but still loads of great unmade ones too. I had trouble picking 3. Count Nefaria would be high on my list but I see him more as an avengers foe really. Had it been easy to do the idea of a separate poll for redos would have been a good one as I would like a sculpted nosed lizard quite a lot, but not above several new characters first.

Quite a few I'd like to see. Seems a long time since we had a really good spidey wave packed with new villains (maybe wave 24). Morbius was number one of my list so very glad he's coming. The next new ones I'd like to see are stegron (obviously!), jackal, carrion, rocket racer, tombstone, hammerhead and a spiderslayer. The only redo I really want is a sculpted lizard.

Hey, I at least figured that the "please" meant request and not announcement.

Bendis gets a very short leash from me, particularly anything Avengers related. I'm of the opinion that he's a horrible fit for the book, no matter how well it sells or how long he stays on it. Also, his track record on "big" stories... not great. So I probably won't enjoy it much. Prove me wrong, Bendis!

As for the Marvel Now costumes, I'd probably want them more as Minimates if I had any faith that those outfits would be around for more then a year or two. It's just the way Marvel operates these days: reboot every few years, with new costume designs to boot. By the time we get toys, often they've already moved on to the next costume. So frustrating!

Yeah, I agree with that last point in particular, which is why if given a choice of more marvel now or more classic costumed marvel characters being minimated I'd go for classic every time! In some ways I find things like marvel now a but frustrating as it (understandably) nudges DST towards more versions of characters we already have plenty of rather than new ones. (Although I do know we have some cool new characters in wave 51.)

Having said all of that if AoU, which I've not started reading yet, gets us a new ultron, or even better a jocasta, then I'm all for it!!

Thanks for the info blockguy. Looks like I need to do a bit chasing too!

Wow! That enchantress design only makes me want to see her made more! I was going to vote for her anyway but it's encouraging to see she must at least be on the DST radar somewhere.

I concur with almost everything said there re shipping to the uk, I ordered some that morning and they arrived yesterday too - but missing the firelord set - and with no acknowledgement I'd even ordered it!! Interesting to see how that pans out!

Loads of great teams mentioned here - it just shows how far DST can still dip into the marvel well if they want to! Of the ones mentioned I would love to see inhumans, west coast avengers, classic guardians of the galaxy and warriors 3 in paricular. Looking at more modern ones I would really like young avengers and avengers academy.

Looking into the dim distant past other ones that would be cool could be the enforcers (I could almost see that happening with fancy dan, montana and ox packed with spidey!), the lethal legion (whirlwind, living laser, etc) and the legion of the unliving, especially the original team from avengers issue 132(ish!)

Congrats to the winners and thanks for organising it Luke!

Living Laser, like Spot, will appear in a future poll to be determined. Kind of a "Best Supporting" category...

I do like a good poll, thanks for organising this! I think a poll for most important unmade civilian/alter ego (eg Don Blake) would be interesting too.

She's definitely due. Personally, she's in the "honorable mentions" part of my top ten list, just waiting for Jack of Hearts or the Falcon to come off. But among the West Coast Avengers babes, she's a distant number two to Mockingbird.

I have to say, it's rather annoying that "the year of the Avengers" has passed without us actually getting much in the way of new Avengers characters. I count Ant-Man II, Grim Reaper, and Kang, and that's it (apologies if I've forgotten anyone). Meanwhile, among the X-Men alone we've seen (or will see) Dazzler, Longshot, Mirage, Magma, Rictor, and (shudder) Boom-Boom make their Minimate debuts. Just feels like a missed opportunity.

We also got the Kree Sentry and Protector? I'm surprised Protector won the AvX poll over Emma and Piotr, but I'm even more surprised that Falcon and Black Knight lost to Songbird and Commander Steve Rogers in the Series 50 poll. (Perhaps they split the Classic Avengers vote?)

I'm also not sure how we felt about making another Avengers line when there was already so much Avengers product out there, some of it ours. Series 42/TRU 12 didn't do great in the wake of Cap and Thor movies, due to post-movie fatigue, and I think that 44 and the Disney Sets were our limited/focused attempt at getting more figures of the main movie characters out there. Ditto 43/14 with ASM. Series 47 was really counterprogramming, for those looking for something different from Avengers. Ditto 48.

Aside from the Iron Man 3 series, I wouldn't expect this to be the Year of Iron Man, either. He's in TRU 16, but don't look for a box set. (We're still figuring out The Wolverine.)

Interesting to hear the company's perspecitive on all this, thanks for that Zach. I suspect the classic avengers vote was split in the poll. Also there were characters included who I think people (including me!) thought had pretty much their one shot in series 50, such as songbird, so i voted for her. I also voted for black knight but that meant no space for falcon. I had similar issues in the villain poll.

From what you said though it sounds like this would be the perfect year for some of those classic avengers that you didn't want to make around movie time, or in fact the WCA sets mentioned in this thread!

I was about to post my opinions and then (not unusually!) Mystery Man did it for me (thanks MM, that saved me some typing lol). I agree with pretty much all of the characters pointed out there, especially the missing classic avengers, closely followed by the thor and inhuman ones. Although I'm not so much an xmen fan I can also see the case for sunfire and banshee. However, if we are choosing just one, then again Falcon seems to be the obvious choice to me.

As for never get made? I've never thought there was much chance of the female captain britain - in fact I'm not sure if that was actually her name, which just shows she's pretty obscure!

Your "meh" feelings about this set are exactly how I feel about all the movie-related stuff. They look nice, but I could give a s---.

THIS is the kind of set that speaks to me. I love it and am getting three of 'em.

This really sums it up for me, as well. Old school.

Make that 3 of us! The more sets we get like this the better imo.

They all just look better and better the more I see them!

Leopard-print Shanna would make a great addition to a Savage Land box set with Ka-Zar, Zabu and Stegron the Dinosaur Man. (hint hint).

I'd be totally in favour of this set - how could I not be with a name like mine?

Just found time to get on here for the first time in 24 hours. Have to say the conversation seems to have taken a pretty random turn lol. I'm sure it'll make sense when I get time to read back over it properly though, but in the meantime must just say the box art and logo look great on this set, as do the minimates themselves!! This is one of the best boxsets for a long time imo and it would be great to see another with tomb of dracula, frankenstein's monster etc and that marvel team up wave sounds a superb idea too!

I've already voted anyway, but if we are counting villains who have appeared in the movie waves but not comic I would suggest destroyer could be added. Although the movie one passes well enough for a comic version as it happens, I would say as thor villains go he's right up there in importance.

Great idea for a thread and so many villains mentioned on here I'd love to see. I'm actually a bit surprised there's not been a bit more spidey attention for characters like the prowler, the beetle or the jackal. However, for the overall marvel universe it's very hard to choose a top one but I think Enchantress fits the bill best for me, for all the reasons that many people have already stated.

As for never get made, I see it as a tie between immortus and rama tut. Let's face it, getting kang was hard enough, so to get him in his lesser known incarnations is definitely unlikely!

yea got my order in. I find the waits not that long from TRU to UK, around 2 weeks at most. Now just hope there is no mix up

To be fair it probably isn't that long a wait, I think last time the Christmas period may have slowed things up a bit for me.

I'm with you on the jocasta for sure. Hoping the age of ultron this year might nudge DST in that direction.

As for monsters I'm all for more of those but nobody seems to ever mention Frankenstein's monster and I'd love to see him and Man-Thing to compliment the Strange Tales boxset.

Man... I was hoping to see the Fear Itself The Worthy Villians completed in a TRU wave. Attuma, Absorbing Man, and Titiana would be a dream.

Maybe another 4 pack with an "Old man Serpent" as the 4th figure in the future...

Now that's a cool idea. Personally I would much rather have seen the worthy completed rather than having some of those and some of the PF5. This way we seem to have lots of partially completed teams, but hey, I guess the other way of looking at it is that at least everyone gets something they want this way...

Thanks for the heads-up & info everyone. Just ordered mine - just the lengthy shipping process to reach the uk now!

Spent ages (well, a few seconds) trying to think of an original way to say happy birthday - I seem to have failed miserably though, so happy birthday!

I've also been watching it from the beginning (at UK pace!) and while it's not my favourite show by any means I'm enjoying it. I'm not a big DC or Green Arrow fan so have no pre-conceptions. I like quite a few of the supporting cast (Felicity steals every scene she's in imo) and the mix of story of the week/overall arc is pretty good.

Hi love everyone's work so far. Here is the story of Omnimate.

Omnimate – The Origin Story

The unearthly howling was getting closer. Lucas worked feverishly, trying to ignore the sounds of destruction which signified that the zombies had broken through the outer perimeter and would soon reach the inner sanctum of his workshop refuge. Concentrate, he had to concentrate. His shaking fingers quickly assembled the final tiny plastic parts, locking them into place according to the tattered, blood-smeared blueprint on the desk in front of him: head and tail of Nightcrawler; wings of the Vulture; legs of a Dreadnought– the list went on.

He jumped at the sound of shattering glass – they’d be upon him soon. The world was on its knees, most of the population were infected and decaying. He knew the fate which awaited him, but in his final moments he had to save his greatest creation. A hollow laugh escaped his throat. He’d worked for years on this masterpiece and no-one would be around to see it. He looked down at the figure on the desk, a wild collection of the most delicate accessories ever assembled on a minimate body. He called the figure ‘Omnimate’, and it was designed to demonstrate the amazing properties of his new creation - the most durable packaging material ever made. When he thought back to all those times he had received minimates through the post from a certain major toy retailer with dents, scrapes and little bits detached, he had to choke back a tear. In his fast-beating heart he knew his creation would have made him the hero of minimate collectors throughout the world. He imagined himself giving talks and shaking the hands of grateful fans at the next San Diego Comicon - an event which would be forever cancelled...Never had a zombie apocalypse been so ill-timed.

He couldn’t let the pinnacle of his life’s work be destroyed now. Taking up the soldering iron, he put the final rivets in place. Omnimate was now encased in a package made from the most durable compound known to man. He had to hide it. A trap-door in the corner of the workshop led down to the storm shelter. Quickly he deposited Omnimate in its underground tomb. For a moment he wondered whether he should hide there too – but he knew that he had to return to the surface to move furniture over the hatch so the shelter wouldn’t be discovered. He had just finished dragging a filing cabinet into place when the door to the workshop was wrenched off its hinges. ‘Goodbye Omnimate’, he whispered and he turned to face his fate...

The years to come saw the zombie plague infect all life on earth. And the world was to learn that if there was one thing more dangerous than zombies, it was zombies who had discovered arsenals of nuclear weapons. With their fingers on the buttons, a whole collection of fingers, that is – not just their own, all life was extinguished in fireball explosions and the grim darkness of the nuclear winter which followed. A couple of months later when a meteor collision wiped every trace of humanity and its settlements off the earth, there was no-one left to note the accuracy of the saying ‘bad things always happen in threes’.

Millennia passed. The dead planet continued to turn, winters and summers came and went. All was silent. It was to this dead environment that alien visitors finally arrived from a galaxy far, far away. They shimmered and levitated their way across the land, searching for clues to show whether there had ever been life on this planet. The best super-minds from their archaeological expedition team scanned the dust and rocks trying to pick up telepathic echoes from the past. Their searches brought no results – no discernible traces of intelligence could be found. But then on a baking hot day in an area of parched wasteland in what was formerly called Minnesota, USA, they received a hit on their sensors. Something was buried beneath the surface. Carefully they bored into the ground and extracted a small transparent rectangular box. Gently, millennia’s dust and grime were removed to reveal a small perfectly preserved figure: Omnimate.

The excitement generated back on their home world was immense. Their finest scientists worked tirelessly to unlock the secrets of Omnimate and to extract it from its packaging tomb. Mind-merging conferences were held and whole communities dedicated themselves to fathoming the back-story of this remarkable little creature. Linguists pored over the symbols which were encased on a piece of card inside the packaging. After decades of study and conjecture it was a proud moment for alien kind when their archaeologists and scientists finally agreed that they had pieced together Omnimate’s history.

They were confident that Omnimate had been the greatest of all leaders of a race called Minimates who lived on a planet called The Multiverse . After all, Omnimate’s subjects had created an indestructible packaging tomb which would keep him – to quote the scriptures in the tomb – “mint in box for all eternity, or at the very least to survive shipping from a certain major toy retailer”. The rest of these noble creatures must have been destroyed by a meteor impact, but their leader’s body had been preserved. And what a body it had! It appeared to be a marvel of evolution, possessing body parts to deal with every kind of eventuality. And yet how delicate it appeared to be. The aliens, despite prizing scientific logic, were driven at their core by mawkish sentimentality. The story of the last of the Minimates moved them greatly. They cried great tears from their orifices designed for displays of mawkish sentimentality. Poor Minimates! And lo, they decided that they would use their great powers to repopulate The Multiverse with life again by creating beings in the image of Omnimate.

Dinosaurs had once ruled the earth and then it was the turn of the humans. But they were all extinct and forgotten. Now it was the turn of the Minimates to rule...

Sorry for those who wanted 'mates from this movie, though personally I'd be very happy to see comic related ones instead, especially if it invloved the brotherhood!

I'm in agreement here, 100%. Very sorry for those who wanted 'em... but all these movie 'mates make me a sad panda.

I want comic stuff. I'm no expert on the why's and why not's, but it's too bad that the market can't support a line devoted just to the Marvel movies so that the regular series can continue to churn out great comic-related 'mates.

Notwithstanding the danger of this becoing a "mystery man/stegron 100% agreement fest" I'm also 100% in agreement here. I like many of the movie 'mates but not so much when they mean less comic 'mates are developed.