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That's all photoshop. I would have made a decal for it, but I've found it's far easier/faster to just photoshop a photo if I'm not planning to do anything with it aside from using it in a single image...

nice photo skills donny.

Haven't seen packaged shots yet, I don't think, but will post designs soon.

niiiiice

I'm just glad we are getting more shield agents!

But on another note, has anyone mentioned ant man's ants?

...April fools!....?

Always bet on black.

Once you go black, you... never mind.

We'll reveal the TRU figures this week.

YESSSS!!!!

YYYYEEEEESSSSS!!!! x2

Mindless Ones for sure.

Don't expect to see even 1/10th of them.

The multiple armors represent a small portion of the overall film, so expect them to represent a similar portion of the line. We didn't significantly increase the size of our regular offering for this film, and we paid the normal amount of attention to supporting characters like Aldrich Killian and the Extremis Soldier and Maya Hansen. We may very well be the only company making product that represents these characters.

Hmm so 3 then. Time to get customizing....

Also, the movie lines bring a lot more attention to Minimates than a comic series. Our Extremis Soldier got us coverage on sites that wouldn't have cared otherwise. That helps the brand overall.

And we only get the one chance to do a movie line. We can make comic characters whenever.

makes sense. and more publicity=more sales=more series!!!

I like how now we are talking Winter Soldier on the Wolverine thread, and meanwhile on the Winter Soldier thread they are talking Wolverine (kind of).

If they do a Cap themed wave though, a Winter Soldier/Falcon 2 pack would do nicely, and perhaps it would be a good opportunity to reboot classic Nick Fury. (Variant could be WWII Nick Fury).

What about giving them a tongue in the front and a groove in the back, so that you could connect multiple rows for greater stability? Just an idea.

sounds like this would require injection molding (see luke's earlier post above)

Don't scare me like this Zach. I don't mind movie 'mates for Captain America 2, but I want a comic Winter Soldier. I'm prepared to beg.

Who knows, there might be a comic wave to go along with the movie wave.

Control art too!

Who knows... They did give us all of those Hammer drones...

Yeah, I think an army builder single pack wave would be fantastic, but they said they won't do 'em anymore.

Joking. Well, Half-joking.

Has there ever been a comicbook wave released along side a movie wave? Everytime a new marvel movie is brought up and we find out minimates are being made , a bunch of people immediately start talking about a comic book wave. I've only been collecting minimates seriously for a year, so forgive me if this is common knowledge.

Wave 44 (Comic Avengers) and Wave 45 (Avengers Movie)

That hall of armor is amazing. Great job on the qc Peter too.

That is really amazing. Cannot wait for more!

Now, how many unique characters are there? For a definition of unique, lets go with: if someone traveled back in time and removed that person at birth/conception, then any costume/persona/clone, etc would not count. So, Iron Patriot = Noman Osborn = Green Goblin, Ultimate Jean Grey = Jean Grey = Phoenix, etc.

Okay, maybe clones count (X-23, Ultimate SpiderWoman, etc)

Easy way to start off, divide 795 in half. That eliminates all the spideys, wolvies, and iron men.

The sales of movie-based Minimates keep the comic line vital. There are still plenty of comic-based Mates coming out this year -- 48, 50, 51, TRU 15, TRU 16, various box sets -- and we will likely get another assortment in before the end of the year.

But separately numbering the lines is a mere technicality -- we'd still put out the same number of assortments per year. We don't want to put out more Marvel Minimates than the market can bear.

And a cinematic "Best of" would involve a dozen licenses from a couple of studios, but maybe in the future something like that might be possible.

The Avengers movies are pretty much "Best of" in themselves

And I love the movie-mates, I am missing a few from Iron Man 2 but I have the rest. I hope we get Bearded Logan in Wave 52!

You mean Yukon Wolverine? YES.

YES. Now knowing the rest is irrelevant to me. Nothing will be better than that beard.

Now that you mention the mark I - VI in a boxset instead of the new armors the idea sounds really appealing to me. At the same time though, it kinda makes all the ones I have (which is all) obsolete.

I'm thinking only the armors Tony actually wears get 'mated. In theory because those would be more prominent on screen compared to the iron legion

thanks man

oh and Josh, not sure if you saw today's armors, but they're pretty awesome.

Were you referring to yesterday's armor's or today's? And that's one hot pepper! (Give this to me. I rushed to this website for this pun.) Igor makes quite an exciting thought for minimateage...but he also brings up the defining line between what this boxset will be(New mates or re-release). The other suits could kind of be made through repeated parts or even repeated mates...but he's a whole different animal than a regular iron man mate. For those with more suit knowledge than I, is that some sort of cannon on the "red snapper"? I want the "gemini" so...so bad...

Kudos, hot pepper is a better pun.

It also makes me stranger then usual if that's the case!

In that case, I made us a present!

Thank you Dino. Pepper's spiciest look by far.

I do want a battle damaged mark 42 though...

Yea, well maybe for TRU.

oh and Josh, not sure if you saw today's armors, but they're pretty awesome.

I'm definitely digging the Mark 38. Love the blue color.