MisterPL Posted March 26, 2018 Share Posted March 26, 2018 No, this isn't about the Nigerian construction company. This is about DST's first foray into super-deformed chibi figures called MiniVinimates D-Formz! Launching with Pacific Rim: Uprising, these will be available in September, hopefully just in time for the release of the home video. Aren't they aDorbzible? These blind-boxed little guys aren't Mez-itzing around! Maybe they can be Palz with your other figures. Pre-order yours today! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buttheadsmate Posted March 26, 2018 Share Posted March 26, 2018 Hmmm . I'll pass on these but I am getting really tempted by the 'Acid Rain' action figures.......check out the BBTS site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSTZach Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 Cool thread. I don't personally think they look anything like Dorbz, Mez-Itz or Palz, and I'm not sure any of those would be classified as chibi or superdeformed. If you'd worked in Egg Attack or Nendoroids or SD Gundam, you would have had a pretty good thing going. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterPL Posted April 10, 2018 Author Share Posted April 10, 2018 If they'd been called anything without a Z in the brand, I might have used those other product names. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSTZach Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 On 4/10/2018 at 12:38 PM, MisterPL said: If they'd been called anything without a Z in the brand, I might have used those other product names. Ha! I didn't even put that together. Well, making a brand name requires taking into account things like trademarks (still hazy on trademark law, but I BELIEVE you can't trademark "forms"), searchability (search for d-forms and you get a lot of paperwork), and competing brands in your category (a lone construction company in another country is probably the best you are going to do when creating a toy brand name that is not just random syllables). We don't have a unique name like Funko, so searchability is important. Without "Funko," (and total market saturation) searching for "Pops" might not get you the results you want. With "D-Formz", at least we're on the first page. "D-forms" would likely have been pushed to page 2 by the SEC and some obscure geometric shapes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterPL Posted April 16, 2018 Author Share Posted April 16, 2018 D-Formz™ is clever enough. It does everything you said and I doubt there'll be any brand confusion with the aforementioned Nigerian construction company. If any of the Minimates aesthetic translated into these stylized figures, I'd have kept pushing for MiniVinimates. As someone who's not fond of blind packaging, I'm hoping these will show up in a collectors set somewhere down the line, maybe with an exclusive variant. That's something that might tempt me. Otherwise I'll probably stick to the Select figures for big figures and continue pining for Minimates of the humans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSTZach Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 How about NearlyMates? Or ReallyMates? Because they're more realistic? I can't imagine the human pilots would not be easy QCs. Can't you just put whoever into a Mass Effect suit and call it a day? Or Mr. Freeze's jumpsuit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterPL Posted April 24, 2018 Author Share Posted April 24, 2018 "Mass Effect." Again, as someone who's not fond of blind packaging, I'm not inclined to use Mass Effect 'mates as stand-ins for proper Jaeger pilots. And as someone who craves authenticity, all I'm asking for are official Jaeger pilot Minimates. The packaging can even look like the Jaeger heads. It's not like DST doesn't already have the license. But honestly, good luck with the D-Formz™. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterPL Posted March 25, 2019 Author Share Posted March 25, 2019 How are those D-Formz performing? I've yet to see them at brick & mortar retail. I did see Bruce Lee is getting an assortment, as well as Select figures (like Pacific Rim: Uprising) and statues (like Pacific Rim: Uprising) and Minimates (unlike Pacific Rim: Uprising). Bruce must still be pretty popular with collectors! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSTZach Posted March 25, 2019 Share Posted March 25, 2019 Only the one Series out so far, too early to say. Lee got some interest this weekend, and I expect NBX to do well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterPL Posted July 4, 2019 Author Share Posted July 4, 2019 I still haven’t seen these at brick & mortar stores. Has anyone else spotted them in the wild? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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