buttheadsmate Posted March 1, 2025 Posted March 1, 2025 My copy (unsigned ) arrives Monday I hope . Quote
DSTZach Posted March 3, 2025 Posted March 3, 2025 (edited) Oh, man, I'm honored. Now my second book HAS to be a Minimates photo book! And I'll print out some bookplates that I can sign and send to book buyers. I'm gonna do a signing in April, in New York (state), but I think I will send a plate to anyone who asks. Edited March 3, 2025 by DSTZach Quote
hellpop Posted March 3, 2025 Posted March 3, 2025 I got my copy! Very cool Zach. Will definitely get the Minimate follow up! Quote
buttheadsmate Posted March 4, 2025 Author Posted March 4, 2025 On 2/16/2015 at 3:31 PM, buttheadsmate said: My Birthday Elephant sent me this magnificent bound picture book ....my pictures don't do it justice . I have my suspicions who sent it ....but as yet I'm not absolutely sure . North Carolina hmmmm? Wonderful truly wonderful gift . Thankyou so much! I still treasure this book & any further books on Minimates would be fantastic. Quote
Lurch77 Posted March 4, 2025 Posted March 4, 2025 11 hours ago, buttheadsmate said: I still treasure this book & any further books on Minimates would be fantastic. Wow, is that seriously 10 years ago?? I feel old, but I take comfort in the fact that you are older 😛 I'd also love to see a "Minimate Photography of Zach Oat" follow up! Just to throw this out there, I'd also love to see a "Shots from the Minibar" book in the style of a mini bar/cocktail mix book ... just saying @MINI_MYTE Quote
DSTZach Posted February 24 Posted February 24 Sorry I've been gone so long, I've been working a new job that takes up a lot of my time, and I've also been working on a project! Because a few people demanded it, and because I really, really wanted to do it, I made a Minimates photo book. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GPQX6QQV Hopefully people dig it, it's not exactly a survey of all the Minimates over the years, but it has a wide chronological range of pictures in it. Many are from March of Minimates, and I look forward to participating again this year. They don't seem to have a sneak preview up, but I'll see if I can remedy that. Quote
nandoninny Posted February 24 Posted February 24 ordered! let us know if you do any signed stickers or anything and congrats on the new gig! Quote
Padrino Posted February 24 Posted February 24 7 hours ago, DSTZach said: Sorry I've been gone so long, I've been working a new job that takes up a lot of my time, and I've also been working on a project! Because a few people demanded it, and because I really, really wanted to do it, I made a Minimates photo book. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GPQX6QQV Hopefully people dig it, it's not exactly a survey of all the Minimates over the years, but it has a wide chronological range of pictures in it. Many are from March of Minimates, and I look forward to participating again this year. They don't seem to have a sneak preview up, but I'll see if I can remedy that. ordered! Congratulations on the new job! This new book sounds great! May have to shamelessly copy some of your ideas. Quote
NerdyTrev Posted February 24 Posted February 24 Placed my order I'm excited to pore over this book! Great to hear from you, Zach! Quote
DSTZach Posted February 25 Posted February 25 17 hours ago, nandoninny said: ordered! let us know if you do any signed stickers or anything and congrats on the new gig! I know i still owe some people signed stickers from the LAST book, so I will put together stickers for both books and check my messages here to see who I owe what. Thanks so much for the support, guys, this is really my love letter to Minimates, and you all are a big part of that. Quote
NerdyTrev Posted February 27 Posted February 27 Flipped through this after work this evening. It's delightful; congratulations, Zach. Your little write-ups were a joy to read, as well. I was surprised not to see any of your excellent product shots that often accompanied solicitation announcements. Is there perhaps a legal reason why those couldn't be included? Just personal preference by the author? I would love to support a companion volume with those photos if possible! It made me want to return to my old days of amateur minimate photography. Where are the prompts for March of Minimates '26?? Quote
luke314pi Posted February 27 Posted February 27 11 hours ago, NerdyTrev said: It made me want to return to my old days of amateur minimate photography. Where are the prompts for March of Minimates '26?? Here you go! 😁 Quote
Shanester Posted February 27 Posted February 27 I am very glad to know you are doing well Zach. You are a good guy and you deserve it. I will get my copy and maybe have you sign it some day. Quote
DSTZach Posted February 28 Posted February 28 (edited) On 2/26/2026 at 9:16 PM, NerdyTrev said: I was surprised not to see any of your excellent product shots that often accompanied solicitation announcements. Is there perhaps a legal reason why those couldn't be included? Just personal preference by the author? I would love to support a companion volume with those photos if possible! I am not sure which ones you mean. Some of these were definitely shot to promote releases, but I guess a lot of them were solo shots that didn't have a whole lot going on. I guess I could have put them in the Quick Shots section. Also, when they let me go, they shut down my access to my computer prior to me sending it back. So I lost a lot of pics. Even older ones, like I remember taking cool shots for Tomb Raider. Those would be nice to have. But we changed websites at least once, and I changed computers at least twice, so a lot were inaccessible already. I'll have to do a web search on some of the longer running news sites, maybe I can dig them up. EDIT: Thank you for reminding me of these older shots. I found my Tomb Raider shots and am sad they are not in the book. Edited February 28 by DSTZach Quote
Padrino Posted February 28 Posted February 28 1 hour ago, DSTZach said: I am not sure which ones you mean. Some of these were definitely shot to promote releases, but I guess a lot of them were solo shots that didn't have a whole lot going on. I guess I could have put them in the Quick Shots section. Also, when they let me go, they shut down my access to my computer prior to me sending it back. So I lost a lot of pics. Even older ones, like I remember taking cool shots for Tomb Raider. Those would be nice to have. But we changed websites at least once, and I changed computers at least twice, so a lot were inaccessible already. I'll have to do a web search on some of the longer running news sites, maybe I can dig them up. EDIT: Thank you for reminding me of these older shots. I found my Tomb Raider shots and am sad they are not in the book. Got my copy today. It is really awesome! Thank you for putting this together! Quote
NerdyTrev Posted February 28 Posted February 28 8 hours ago, DSTZach said: I am not sure which ones you mean. Some of these were definitely shot to promote releases, but I guess a lot of them were solo shots that didn't have a whole lot going on. I guess I could have put them in the Quick Shots section. Also, when they let me go, they shut down my access to my computer prior to me sending it back. So I lost a lot of pics. Even older ones, like I remember taking cool shots for Tomb Raider. Those would be nice to have. But we changed websites at least once, and I changed computers at least twice, so a lot were inaccessible already. I'll have to do a web search on some of the longer running news sites, maybe I can dig them up. I did some digging of my own and found them in the product announcements on toyark.com. Here are some highlights: Strange Tales Box Set Walgreens Series 4 Iron Man 3 MvC3 Series 3 TRU Series 16 These all seem to me to be characteristic of your photography, Zach. Can you confirm? Quote
Barry Posted February 28 Posted February 28 9 hours ago, DSTZach said: Also, when they let me go, they shut down my access to my computer prior to me sending it back. So I lost a lot of pics. I'm sorry to hear that, I couldn't even imagine if I'd lost everything. I still have to pick the book up, so I'm not sure if these are in there, (I'm certain they are indeed yours, because no one else was taking promo photos). This was always my favourite photo: I found more from that wave here: https://www.toymania.com/node/9284 Quote
DSTZach Posted February 28 Posted February 28 Wow, thank you guys. I had forgotten how many shots I used to take when I did socials. I wish I'd included all of them. hopefully, there is enough interesting content in the current book to make it worthwhile, even if the Minimates are (mostly) more recent. (I do have some LOTR in there!) Now I will definitely do a second volume! Quote
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