thereasonsy

Interesting. The more I think about it, the more I like the idea of them trying to go outside of their usual boundaries for con exclusives. Con boxsets are cool, but so many companies go crazy on con exclusives these days.

Even if it isn't doable, I'd be happier knowing they ask about new ideas like this all the time. We did eventually get that goblin glider...

I agree there may be something cool about a marvel select figure at a Minimate size and a Minimate figure at a Marvel select size. Although with my luck they will be either: Spider-Man, Iron Man, Cap, Wolvie or Hulk. None of these things solving my Sentinel or Giant-Man issues.

Still kicking myself for missing out on that training room set of Luke's.

You and me both brother!

Wow - nice set-up thereasonsy!

Are those panels from the Select series x-men figures?

Thanks Nessex. Yeah I bought the Storm and Cyclops figures from Marvel Select just for the Danger Room panels because i finally gave up the ghost of getting a play set from either Diamond or that I would happen upon Luke's training room series. Although the way my customization life has been going I am sure both will be announced shortly.

Didn't jim lee's beast come out a few years ago in wave 34 and gambit in wave 28?

They did, I am just obsessed with Jim Lee's X-Men standard uniforms. Like these:

This is a WIP since I am missing my furry Beast and Gambit's jacket but I am sure I will have to replace as soon as they announce the Jim Lee uniforms.

I just know now that the last two parts on coming from ebay for this they will announce it is the Jim Lee uniforms and my X-Men team will need to be replaced.

Every character has a name, let's put it that way.

Names like oh I don't know, Irma, Phoebe, and Celeste?

I'm thinking you are right. It is the stepfords. They have costumes now thanks to Kill Bill. I was going to buy the boxsets for the school girl uniforms to make the girls but I am going to hold off until this is announced so I don't buy without reason. I never fell in love with these movies like everyone else but I am buying the 88 set because we need villians.

Will we be getting a heads up say by NYCC?

Let me make this clear. If they did the multtiple characters in one set based off of the Jim Lee Strike Force... the following would happen.

After seeing the DOFP comic box set, I want the rest of the mutant renegades in their jumpsuits. Lets have it be another SDCC-NYCC linked set like Alpha Flight !his next one can have Magneto Franklin Richards, Storm and Rachel Summers! Any takers?

I'd be up for a second set but with one male captive and then three members of the brotherhood. Because I am persistant like that.

Every now and then I get bored and my minimates pay the price. A quick kit bash made Graduation Magik and Moonstar.

Not the best but done in 5 mins thanks to and Hail Ivan. Mirage is a Lady Loki Hair, Mirage face, Psylocke chest (we seriously need more females in black chest pieces), Lady Deathstrike Crotch, Julia legs and arms.

Magik is a first class Jean head, Movie Jean chest and arms, spare black legs, and Pepper slipper feet with hair & sword from Magik. Again, we really do need more chest piece in the solid colors. This is a look at the comic version for those not familiar with the look.

And then I just got annoyed with Cloak & Dagger so just a little revamp.

Cloak blends into my furniture so here is a closer look

Just the originals but Dagger has Ms. Marvel hair, Emma Frost arms, and Longshot hands. Cloak is the original with a Mr Negative chest but with Moon Knight's face.

Hopefully this will sell out quickly and another Luke Exclusive set will be made available. Beating a dead horse here but would love a Jim Lee X-Men Uniform set with extra parts to make multiple charcters.

You torture me so...

Due to egregious crimes against humanity, to wit uttering the name of she who shall not be named, I propose that thereasonsy be cast from this minimatopia and that he be stripped of all minimates and that such minimates be divided equally among the survivors of this most heinous crime.

But, yeah, what Stack said. Those characters might have one day been very nearly famous, but they aren't A listers.

Yes... those characters you named are the A-listers! That's the point!!!!! Though I'd sub out Thor for Iron Man.

I think you are way, way overinflating people's memories of those shows. They were popular, sure, but not so all-encompassing that people that watched them growing up that are not comics fans would remember much about Jubilee and Firestar. I've heard similar arguments made with Aquaman thanks to Super Friends, and it just doesn't hold water.

Maybe it's because I am spending most of my days with people that discuss/work in pop culture but I disagree. I think there is enough there to qualify them as A-Listers. As for the Big 9? I wouldn't consider those 9 A-Listers they are more like Icons. Similar to how Kim Kardassian is an A_lister but not Iconic (i.e. Marilyn Monroe). God I want to vomit by saying that. I'm tapping out of this because the fact I had to use Kim K for anything but a joke makes me need booze.

I'm really thinking that Multiple Man is part of this as the army builder. Considering how often we have requested him I would be surprised if he wasn't.

Also A LIst Ladies in the M-U? In my opinion an A-List lady is anyone a casual person ( not a comic fan) would have familiarity with that to me means from a female perspective we have the following:

Invisible Woman, Spider-Woman/Girl, She-Hulk, Ms Marvel/Capt Marvel, Firestar, Phoenix (Jean Grey), Storm, Rogue, Jubilee, Kitty Pryde, Black Widow, Elektra, Wasp, Mystique, and lastly Spider-man's loves Gwen Stacy & Mary Jane.

Just because they have appeared in movies and cartoons doesn't mean they are well known. You know who is Marvel's A list female? Aunt May.

Sadly, you are right about Aunt May. Back to the debate at hand about Jubilee/Firestar, there is a difference in between appearing in something and starring in a long running show which is why someone like Tigra/Crystal/Julia Carpenter didn't fit the bill. X:TAS last for close to 5 years in first run and then had reruns for years. She also was the lead character in several series (X-Men, Generation X, New Warriors, X-Men again). I am working off of the definition of an A-Lister being someone/character that people outside of the specific genre (comics) would have a passing familiarity with and not limiting it to my age group. That does not mean that the character is talented or can support their own series but rather that people are familiar with them.

For another example, Will Bruin is a football player that shows a ton of promise that people in soccer talk about that is not well known to the masses. Landon Donnovan is known to a majority of people with a familiarty with the genre. David Beckham is a superstar. If you apply that level of thinking to comics there are going to be some people that grew up in the 80s with a strong memory of who Spider-woman and Firestar are. There are also going to be people that grew up in the 90s that have a strong affinity for the X:TAS cast since again the show ran for 5 years during the collector craze of the 90's at the same point that Firestar was starring in one of Marvel's hottest teen properties. The 90's also had the great trading card era in which all of the ladies mentioned were included. I didn't even want to go into the 70's where 7-11 did the collectable slurpee cups and that featured certain characters like Crystal that fell off of the list.

If you asked me if Marvel had a superstar/iconic female character I would say no. But then again the most Iconic characters are Superman, Batman, WonderWoman, Spider-man, Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Hulk and Wolverine. Those are the 9 characters that I think you can ask regardless of age and at least 5 of them would be named.

I'm really thinking that Multiple Man is part of this as the army builder. Considering how often we have requested him I would be surprised if he wasn't.

Also A LIst Ladies in the M-U? In my opinion an A-List lady is anyone a casual person ( not a comic fan) would have familiarity with that to me means from a female perspective we have the following:

Invisible Woman, Spider-Woman/Girl, She-Hulk, Ms Marvel/Capt Marvel, Firestar, Phoenix (Jean Grey), Storm, Rogue, Jubilee, Kitty Pryde, Black Widow, Elektra, Wasp, Mystique, and lastly Spider-man's loves Gwen Stacy & Mary Jane.

If you consider Ronan a villain, which I absolutely do, then there are three villains in this assortment -- four if you count a character who has been far more good than bad. Sorry I did not see the question. Lots of questions and speculation here.

And not to be splitting hairs, but did I use the word "complement"? I see "ties in to," but I think "complement" was someone else's word. If you're going to question who teamed up with who when and who fought who when, then it might not match up.

I'm just trying to keep Ultimate characters out of 616 packs at this point. We almost had a riot last time.

Ok so this could be Banshee, SUnfire or Rogue since they all had a little shade in their past.

Firestar is not an A-lister. I know she was in Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends, but even her Avengers run did nothing for her. That said, I don't know why Marvel has never made HER their poster girl, given her TV background. Maybe the setting yourself on fire thing? The same reason they dropped Torch from the FF cartoon? I thought that was in the past, but...

And I forget why I dropped any info on 60/19 in the first place, but I usually only post info in response to questions and speculation from others. Really, I do it to squelch flights of fancy more than anything, although I guess I like giving you guys hope in comic Minimates once again. Seeing people excited and not doom-and-gloom is certainly nice, but I don't do it to watch you tie yourself up in knots.

...Although it's kind of fun to see somebody guess something completely wrong. To be fair, half of Series 60 is probably unguessable. It's something that's been asked for, I'm sure, but we have not talked about it very much here. And the new thing, which is an aspect of those specific figures, not the packaging, is something that has been suggested, but perhaps not in this context. The other half has been guessed already.

You know I love ya Zach but you are wrong on Firestar. I mean come ON look at all of the speculation on Sony's rumored Female movie. Firestar is quickly listed as one of the top three.

As for the speculation aspect - it is always fun to see you all get it wrong. I mean CLEARLY this is going to be the New Warriors/Inhumans to fill out the rest of the slots.

Zach do you eat popcorn or m&m's while you sit back and watch us spin our wheels As for a redo. Maybe Firestar since she is an A-Lister (X-Men/Avengers)? As for the other slots I smell a Banshee / Sunfire pairing just from the amount of bitching we have done over the years.

Ugh the suspense is killing me. I hope we get some new X-Men mates! Banshee, Sunfire (re-do), Forge, and Brotherhood (Pyro, Avalanche, Toad, Blob, Destiny, Mastermind, green Quicksilver any of the above).... Or X-Force Sunspot, Siryn, Warpath...

There are two GOTG-related characters, but you already know who they are: Ronan and Iron Man. No Ghost Rider. No Moon Knight.

Everyone else in 19 we've gotten comic Mates of before, but three not for a long time, and I believe all three have been asked for. Two are new (or recent) costumes for Marvel mainstays. One is a returning army-builder.

New classic characters are in 60.

Ok so it looks like this:

1 Ronan

2. Ironman

3. Remake 1

4. Remake 2

5. Remake 3

6. New or New Costume

7. New or New Costume

8. Army Builder Redo

Is this correct?

I think that the original intent wasn't neccessarily a box set of the 4 characters that look like their onscreen incarnations but instead a 4 pack of the comic versions. Either way I am all for more mates.

Great Namorita thereasonsy !!

Thanks Carlos!

That reminds me, I found these photos of my completed Richards kids so thought I'd post here for a size comparison.

Using slipper feet gives Franklin a slight edge over Val who has a kid body.

THere is something about the Black WIdow and Invsible Woman minimates that make me constantly change them.

This version is based on Black Widow with a X-Force Psylocke Chest the original BW belt and then Hope's hair. She is duking it out with Black Canary made from a Stargirl's hair, Question jacket (sawed off on both collar and tails, Captive Six bust and face, Captain Jack Boots and Gloves, and Jean DeWolfe's legs.

Obviously Hail Ivan and damn do I miss Pre 52 DCU and their minimates.