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Yikes! My first thought went to Zach and the gang. I know DST is a smaller part of the overall Diamond business but losing them would be a real detriment to the community and a lot of good product and properties. Hoping DST survives, everyone keeps their jobs and Minimates live on!

I had some of Elliot Johnson's stuff. It was top notch. I went in before the holidays to order some more from Shapeways only to find out what happened to them. Very sad.

It's a gosh darn shame the Joe line didn't work out better, it was such a natural fit for MM. Hopefully the second go around will work out better. I still hold out hope for the AT and SJ MMs too. That said, it's also a pretty big bummer we didn't get a MMPR villain set or two. Rita, Zedd, Goldar and a Putty in a pinch would have worked or you could have expanded that out to add in a few more for a second villain set. Either way a pretty small addition to the series overall to make it feel more complete. It's one of those things where you wouldn't really need 90 other characters to be "complete" even if you could expand it further. But alas, it was not meant to be.

It feels like I've been waiting YEARS to get this Casey Jones Minimate... Oh wait... I HAVE! In all seriousness, I'm excited to get these guys finally and complete the original set.

I don't want to crap on this because the sentiment is nice and obviously getting the word "Minimates" out there is good even if it's going to confuse some people, but clearly she was exited by the idea that she was a Lego. She thinks she was a Lego which is what she thought was cool. It was clear she had seen the genuine Minimate, so she wasn't confused about that part, but it was the Lego bit that made her so excited. But hey if DST sells a bunch of extra Minimates because people think they're Lego Minimates, that's not a terrible problem to have!

Groovy!

Nothing to be sorry about. Like I said, I'm sure it made a lot of sense for a lot of reasons, but the timing, placement, presentation all probably didn't work the way it could have in a more developed line.

You're right, I completely forgot about that ROFL. I have it pre-ordered. The C3 figures are great, well made, poseable figures. I mixed and matched with a lot of MMs when they first came out. Different and uglier aesthetic, but they're well made.

I have the Rocketeer on my desk. I'm still bummed that DST never gave us a Rocketeer pack when they were doing stuff with the license. That would have been great as a VHS style box set with Rocketeer, Jenny, Peevy, Sinclair and Lothar.

I saw somewhere that there was a SDCC in the works? Yes?

The DVD set was a pretty poor idea overall. I get it's an easy exclusive and it would have made sense down the line, but with no villains, the last thing we needed were more PRs, especially ones with less weapons and sculpting than the first sets. The DVD packaging was also confusing to a lot of people because it looked like it actually had a real DVD in it.

Eh, the C3 WWE figures are great. They're very similar to Minimates and they're quite poseable and sturdy. They're a bit ugly certainly, but they're very good figures overall. Hopefully we get a Sting before his contract runs out. He's clearly going to sign a WWE deal as soon as his contract with AEW is up and it'd be nice to get an official Sting minimate.

He looks great too. Though I assume it's mostly a re-release with the red lenses. I still dig a lot of Kubricks.

Joe is very much a nostalgia property. Every time they try something new, it either reverts back to ARAH or if moves away from ARAH it dies. GI Joe 25th is a perfect example of this. It went from two single box sets to absolutely DOMINATING to the toy aisles for a few years, they moved away from ARAH and it quickly died off. Classified started as sort of a "modern take on Joe in 6 inch" with more military and sci-fi mixed in, but not necessarily classic designs. It did okay but stumbled a bit. As soon as they switched to straight up ARAH, it took off. You can pepper in SOME new stuff of course, but ARAH is what keeps it afloat. There are also big AT and even Super Joe fandoms out there as well. But there's nothing "new" with Joe that's connected with people in decades. I think the Joe MMs weren't as successful because a lot of issues with rollout and it was the same ol' stuff we usually see as the launch for Joe. The GI Joe Megos failed because they launched with SS and SE, which IMO is a mistake even though they are arguably the most popular Joe characters, Mego collectors didn't want those figures first. You're not going to get Joe fans to jump into a new format just cause of SS and SE, they have 800 versions of those guys. A new version of them doesn't excite them. From a business perspective it makes sense on the surface, but two seconds of digging under the hood you can see why it's a mistake. MMs issue was not so much character selection, though that was an issue, as it was not playing to the format's strengths. What was the #1 thing everyone here asked for? Army builders. That would have appealed to MM collectors and Joe collectors as opposed to another SS and CC. But that's been beat to death.

Have two sets been released already or only 1?