J-rodst

Another wave I'll never see in store.

4 hours ago, MisterPL said:

Would anyone be interested in 2" DC Vinimates?

No, Not me.

4 minutes ago, DSTZach said:

The whole "this animated-style Minimate does not fit in with my comic Mates due to a slight degree of simplification and is therefore invalid" thing is incomprehensible to me. It's a very detailed Minimate. 

Hopefully people appreciate what this line provides, as well as what the comic line provides, which will be a lot this year. There are a thousand Marvel costumes that need to be made or updated, so appearing in this line is not necessarily the reason a costume does not appear in the comic line.

I had my doubts in the beginning but I've grown to love this line. I think you and DS have done a great job of making the line work for the comic look. 

14 hours ago, Onyx_6 said:

Chuck said at C2E2 that DC is particular with their license and that the 'action figures' category is locked up, and pointed out concerns with the LEGO Batman movie.

The DC Vinimates are more like DC Statimates and will have NO articulation, because of action figure concerns/constraints.

He said he would still say never say never and that they ask every year at Toy Fair. 

DC should be begging for as many ways to get their material out there as possible. DC movies are flat for the most part since the second Nolan batman film. They have TV but that's a big step down from the big screen. I have no interest in the action figure lines they have except for hot toys.

9 hours ago, Gmonkey2k said:

For this being the actual 15th anniversary of Minimates, this show was pretty dissapointing....

You can say that again.

I've been craving new news on marvel comic mates. Hopefully the wolverine wave hits soon.

On April 3, 2017 at 3:00 PM, MisterMiracle said:

Ask DST #352: Minimates

Jason R.
Hello! With the announcement of DC Vinimates, I’ve got to ask: What do we have to do to get DC Mnimates? Spam DC Collectibles? Buy the hell out of the DC Vinis? Tell us, and we’re gonna do it. I mean, this is our chance to get them back, right? You’ve got the comics, film, game and TV show licenses. All we need now is minis of them. Don’t get me wrong, the Vinis look cool and all, but the Minimates are where it’s at. Thanks for taking the time to read my question and answer it!

DSTChuck: There are no plans for DC Minimates now or in the future. Sorry, I think that time has passed. 

 

3 minutes ago, J-rodst said:

I think the panel is tomorrow.

Never mind it should have been today.

37 minutes ago, Gmonkey2k said:

Anything happen at the panel?

I think the panel is tomorrow.

Amazing trailer. I feel like with what we see in the trailer we will need 2 waves for this movie.

I do not care for vinimates but would have supported them if it was a path dc minimate. Since that's not the case I will focus on supporting Marvel mates. Thank you whoever for my heavier wallet.

2 hours ago, stack32 said:

I still have a hard time believing people actually want a Toad minimate that bad. Yes, I understand he's significant, but what an awful costume and character in general. He's just lucky he was created in the '60s instead of the '90s or he'd get no respect at all.

I was looking up toad earlier today and I have the same feelings about his costume. I want him but I hope when he's made that there's a classic look with parts for a modern look. While I'm thinking about it has anybody ever brought up frog man minimate? 

1 hour ago, bilbofett said:

I could be wrong, but I think your nebula is happier than mine.

She found her way to me?

I got a second pack and her mouth is a little higher up on the face.

FYI-  TRU is back in-stock.

Happy B-day!!!

Sorry. here it is.

1 hour ago, BuffaloDelorean said:

I don't think so, but I was just repeating DST's statement.

I understand. Just looking for hope?

56 minutes ago, DSTZach said:

We've never put out a blind bag with NO pictures of the contents on them. If not the actual figures, then we had artwork of the figures I think once. Not unheard of.

But blind bags at specialty are not why the Nick line ended. It was 2-packs at TRU. So clearly they didn't steal THAT much business from comic shops.

It sounds like the space season was weaker, and the space-based product paid the price, but I believe all Nick merch is down across the board, so I would not necessarily blame line planning or packaging. But you're free to blame what you want, based on data you have accumulated, it just won't change the facts.

And if you think the inclusion of larvae or a misplaced army-builder caused Godzilla or Mass Effect to end, well, I will say you're wrong about that, and leave it at that.

How many toy lines go past ten waves in general? That seems like a tremendous milestone, and I can only think of a handful of action figure lines that have, unless you count lines that are routinely rebooted like G.I. Joe, Transformers, He-Man, etc.. Most of the other mini-figure lines, like Titans, Mystery Minis, etc. are one-and-done. How far did Scribblenauts get? McFarlane's Lego TWD? 

Minimates is definitely still a niche line, and that means that we need to be smart with our tooling, because we aren't selling hundreds of thousands. If we couldn't make civilians and new Turtles, the line probably wouldn't even have made it THIS far.

 I Don't know if I feel good about this line anymore then I did. I know 10 waves in other lines would be long but since we are  guaranteed turtles and civilians in every wave that leaves two spots left for the characters that make it worthwhile for me and others. I will swallow getting turtles and civilians in every wave and love if there something different and great about them but if there's no staying power in that for me if it's 3 or 4 waves.

I hope these over exceed everyone's expectation. I just wanted something that will be around a while. I know that there's aliens and others that are great but tmnt has possibility of  greatness. 

4 hours ago, BuffaloDelorean said:

In an Ask DST, Chuck said that Bandai had the license tied up.

Is Mega Construx under Bandai?  

 Why are these not being made?

New movie-✅ 

Enthusiasm in old and new tv show- ✅

Would make a lot of money(if done right)- ✅

On February 25, 2017 at 3:43 PM, stack32 said:

It doesn't appear the poll itself still exists, but if I remember correctly the Marvel most wanted villains poll winner had a grand total of... 21 votes. I think here used to be around 2500-3000 total users signed up at the MMMV, or not enough to support a boxset for any property by ourselves. So, if we're talking about product with wider distribution like something at TRU, we ARE pretty unimportant. That's just math. We spend money out of proportion to our numbers; it's just not enough to make anything a success without help from other sources.

You make a good point. My problem is that the strongest supporters of these were put it in a difficult position with the blind bags and character line up. For the first two waves I grabbed both blind bags and TRU wave because I was excited for these minimates but with the same characters in both the wave and blind bags and me becoming tired of having 3 to 4(lot of the time more)of the same minimate I had to choose to buy one set of TRU or blind bag box and hope to find the missing one for cheap. If TRU had totally different lines(more mutants) then the blind bags or no blind bags at all maybe we are talking about the new tv wave. I'm glad that we are still getting tmnt minimates and no blind bags and will be getting acouple of sets of the first wave.

I won't post anymore on this topic until the new minimates come out because I'm not trying to keep bring up. I just wanted to tell my point of view and let out some frustration and sadness of losing a great line. The new Tv show done and I'm hoping for a long run with this classic look.

Last thing- I want to thank mattalilica for being a great poster for this board. I don't post a lot but I keep up with most of the pages and Matt is always brings a great point of view. 

Also want to thank zach. It's amazing that we have someone that will give us answers(when he can?)and communicate with us  on all the different minimate topics and bring us his point of view.Thanks for helping with the minimate madness that we all have?.

12 minutes ago, Mattallica said:

Nope, i think  thats exactly right,

And look at the page number amount. WD is the only other topic outside of marvel that has more pages and that start like two/three years before TMNT. I guess I'm sad about The way it went down AND the Stupid blind packs. Oh well onto a newer  brighter day. Just had to let that out.

Am I the only one that thinks that the new tv show mates would be going strong if there was more mutant presence in the last two waves and overall. I love the classic ninja turtles and will be getting them(hopefully a long running series). I just feel like we have acouple different characters out of a vast collection and now we won't get anymore.

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