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THIS IS AWESOME!!!

I wish we had more TNG Minimates. This will always be a crime against Toymanity to me.

I will always regret not getting that Library.

I don’t recall seeing this on the thread but Hexbug JUNKBOTS sets look amazing with Minimates: HEXBUG JUNKBOTS Small Factory... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09BBR4V6P?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share also ReKennect’s Weather Some has been really fun! https://rekennect.com/?fbclid=PAAaajN0WXpL8jt5sCmLmIIYx24Sbq8g35o0yyXu02-ihSZZILEr6sGmsrFEM

Hi Zach, You wanted my attention, and you got it. However, you need to understand a very simple concept: how I choose to spend my time and with whom I interact is none of your business. Over the years, I have tried to be patient and kind and offer suggestions, but our communication styles do not gel. I don't find interacting with you in any way positive or helpful for either of us, so I chose to block you across all digital channels. That is my right, as I don't owe you anything. DST used my image without my consent, and I chose to block that too. Again, that is my right. Just because DST makes a product that I like doesn't mean I have to like the company, and it doesn't mean I need to follow or engage with either of you. I'm not your brand ambassador or influencer. It's not my job, and I never claimed it to be. However, I am a significant volume of brand impressions for the toy line. If that makes you feel a certain way, last I heard you have a camera, access to the toys, and the logins to the DST account. You can shoot and make content to promote your brand and have it automated—just like me. Since you are a brand account, simply get your posts approved and scheduled into your favorite third-party scheduler or natively in the app. You can do it in batches or every day. Again, it’s your job. You figure it out. I do not make a dime from my account. Instead, I use it as an expression of my art and my love for a toy line that you happen to work for. You are not the company, and you are not Minimates. If it bothers you that a fan account is driving the volume of impressions, change it. Do something and promote your toy line. Everyone else on here has been doing it, so maybe you should give it a try. Let’s chat March Of Minimates. I don't need to get the company involved because, frankly, you should have been doing this on your own instead of engaging in back-and-forth on a message board all day. If you knew how to actually market and how to do a giveaway, you would realize involving DST would have made it have a different set of rules that would have been a change to an already launched activation. You can't change the rules midstream. You didn't reach out until AFTER the first week. There are laws for influencer marketing, and there are laws for giveaways. Just because you don't know them doesn't mean I don't. I followed them to the letter, and it was a very successful month. Thanks for your interest in it. I'm glad to see that you are finally doing it next year instead of having others do the labor. I don't work for you. I'm not going to give you or DST, a company that makes revenue, a complete promotion that costs over 50K to execute for free so that you can do whatever it is you want to instead of doing your job. If you wanted to hire me as a consultant, no thank you, you wouldn't be able to afford me. I did it for the community of FANS. Fans are not people who get paid to do something the love. That’s why there was no entry limit. The prizes were specifically for a store that has cultivated the community for years, and I did so without Luke's knowledge or participation. I can buy a gift certificate to wherever I see fit and give it away to whomever I see fit. I'm glad to see that you are finally taking the initiative to do something that was started by a fan, that you participated in, and then let go until I resurrected it. Have fun doing it, and I hope you get a lot of entries. Lastly, I don't owe you any explanations as to why I do anything, since you are not my spouse, friend, or employer. The only interaction we have is that you work at a company where I spend a significant amount of money each year. That's it. However, you are a brand representative who has repeatedly spoken poorly about a customer on a public forum. Additionally, you have harassed other people about me even though I have made it clear that I do not wish to have any contact with you. This behavior is not a good look, sir. Seriously, yikes.

Youbastards gets it. And I stand in a glass house when I say this: it’s exhausting that the majority of the brand support comes from FANS and not the Company itself. Hire a bloody marketing consultant and a PR agency because this has passed pathetic into laughable. Happy 20th.

Amen.

Ah yes! These should be made into a book.

Over the years I would say there were a few DST “exclusives” like Westworld where a figure was an “exclusive” but then released to another store just “slightly different”. Hell, I have two “exclusive” Vampire Willows from toyfare in two different packages from two different stores. Not to mention the number of LCS that got burned by the TRU same figure debacles. And yes, there were a few changes to the FCBD figures but they were fairly cosmetic. I have sympathies for the rollout of anyone trying to get something out of China during the pandemic but I’m not surprised these didn’t do well. It was a 3 year debacle with minimal promotion.

I join you in the choir

My biggest DST pet hate: exclusive does not mean exclusive.

Amen. I’d actually look at how the FCBD and Ninja Force sold to see the health of the line since those were more in line with what the collectors were expecting from price point and collection consistency. I liked the footlocker in execution but still hated it from a strategy standpoint. It’s an irregular box, so that adds more to the production costs as does the single carded figures. It also was blamed for delays. Maybe it’s the villains in one set/heroes in another. I’d hope that someone is doing market research. Either way it was a beautiful experiment and we’ve learned the mainstream fan base doesn’t want it. I’m a broken record but the coms and marketing for this, and several lines, really let it down. Perhaps I’m the pettiest but I’m still irked I went into the FCBD box set thinking and being told it was my only way to get these characters to find out a year later that wasn’t the case.

It would be but if you think about it those margins have to be slim. I don’t recall them increasing their prices on two packs greatly over the last twenty years. Even the Walgreens two packs came with some accessories and they were under 10 bucks. The company needs to make money to continue to survive and that means increasing profit margins. So something has to give. I just wish they communicated to the masses better or figured out how to create a rhythm for interested people that aren’t diehards that come here. Finding out we have two sets coming on the same day without much notice is frustrating for fans of the line.

I think this is a wee bit premature. I mean, Let’s get this straight. They didn’t sell through the toys they announced 2 years ago that were a significant price jump AND deviation from format so they are going to put the next two waves of one aspect of the property on hold so that they can make their decision by focusing on two box sets that mainstream audiences don’t know about. What could possibly go wrong?

Given it’s the 60th Anniversary of Avengers AND X-men, it would have been nice to have two boxsets for Blood Ties each more focused on their own heroes but a potential Army Builder in both. Avengers: Crystal, Exodus, Senyka (Parts for other acolytes) Hercules, Vision. X-Men: Jean Grey, Bunny Wolverine, Frenzy (parts for Female acolytes) Bulked out Iceman, Crossing Costume Quicksilver. Sure the Bunny and the Crossing aren’t exactly Bloodties but it’s DST, details don’t always matter. Yes, I’m still salty over Lockjaw and Psylocke.

It’s a sad state of affairs. It’s almost like they announced too soon or it’s taking too long. Really wish we could get into a rhythm for releases across the totality of the line. It always seems to feel like feast or famine.

The entire line is horrible and not really a good fit for our Mates. It was heart breaking.

You skipped the FF?!? Mutant Rights! MUTANT RIGHTS!

So are we getting wave 3 or 4 or is it safe to assume we should start back up the Joe customizing journey?

Yeah, I made mine from a Nova with Balder Boots and Beast hands (he has claws) with a cut Batgirl mask and Jewel belt. Surprised we didn’t get a Patsy at some point.

Mutant and PROUD. They got to have her and her hubby in the same set.

Same. Bullseye is the weakest if we can’t drop Stride of Pride DareDevil. Kingpin would have been great for a Leland Hellfire Club version.

THE DREAM. Who knows now that Dc Direct is gone and it’s been a decade maybe they could get it approved. ———————————— @Minimated on IG.

I usually am… I used smaller slippers from Puck on my Val and Frank if that helps.

Welllllll… if you did buy a second set you could make a Val and Franklin….