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Oh those look nice.

I like it! Great work!

The stands while certainly not necessary in a general sense (so many figures struggle to stand but MMs do stand on their own nicely) was such a great little under appreciated element to the Mates. Especially as you start building out larger displays and such. Kudos.

Thanks for the detailed answer (or repost as well, I thought I had read something before) but it’s interesting.

Don't know if you have the answer to this, and I feel like I heard an answer to this years ago, but maybe you can give some insight... Why weren't MMs given two face prints for heads? With most characters having hair that covered the back of the heads, and this being a somewhat common practice for Lego, why wasn't this utilized in MMs more? Sometimes we were given multiple heads for a character but still only one print per head. Obviously not every character needed multiple faces but would have been cool for many characters.

Thread necro here… but what happened to Wave 2? I know some made it out but did half the shipment sink into the ocean or something? These figures sold out super quick and you haven’t been able to find them on since they first released. Just weird how few of Wave 2 seem to have been produced.

Sounds good. If it can mostly just be used as a prop, I use the Trivial Pursuit Galileo. Don’t have pics at the moment but I recall it scaled alright.

These designs are great. Battle Beasts was such a bizarre fumble from DST but these designs show there was definitely something there. It’s kinda wild that there have been so many variations of reimagined BBs through the years but no one has really gotten it right.

I’ll need to get this.

What was the pic?

It again brings the question up… why buy Diamond if you were going to burn it to the ground? They already had a lot of bad reputation but to just scorch something you paid money for is just uh, not good business? There has to be some backdoor investment going on where they somehow profit by intentionally demolishing Diamond. We’ll probably never learn the truth.

This. Mego was dormant for 30 years or something and there have been more Mego figures in the last decade than during the heyday of the brand. Same for Super Powers. Minimates are infinitely more customizable than those. Luke has shown us the way. His upcoming DC stuff is better than most the stuff DST was doing. My favorite MM figure in recent years was a simple Rocketeer custom I made with a little help from 3D printing. Because DST was too dumb to make a Rocketeer Minimate. Hopefully the brand comes back and this is only a momentary setback, but the best way to keep the brand alive is to show there’s still a vibrant community out there doing things with it.

I seem to recall some talk about vehicles at some point early on when the MM TMNT were doing really well. I don't know if it ever got out of the discussion phase, but any insight into that might be interesting!

Will DST have a booth? I'm kidding, sort of... Will there be any representation from any of the conglomerate that now owns DST? Might be a good place for someone to ask a general "Hey what's going on?"

Gonna go against the consensus here, but the sculpted heads look a billion times better. It's strange that the choice was made not to sculpt the turtles heads when a bunch of the other characters had sculpted heads. I like the TMNT minimates as are, but the sculpted would have been better and probably attracted some people outside of Minimates collectors. The heads were the #1 thing people complained about.