Wadalf Posted May 22, 2007 Share Posted May 22, 2007 Wadalf here asking all you minimate collectors... What was your very first minimate (or pack of mates). The very first little colorful, articulated, hunk of plastic that you held in your hands. When you opened them did you think they were a different type of lego... Well any ways my first minis were Ultimate Wolverine and Ultumate Cyclops Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBT! Posted May 22, 2007 Share Posted May 22, 2007 I thought we had thread for this.... IronMan/Ghost Rider..... I was looking for C3 stuff and saw these only planning on picking up the a few... IM sat on my desk for a few days and several hundred unique mates later.... well you know the story T. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vash Posted May 22, 2007 Share Posted May 22, 2007 my first ever taste of plastic crack was the coveted black spidey/venom two pack.. it only got worse from there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amazing.JL Posted May 22, 2007 Share Posted May 22, 2007 Wow TBT, I would have thought you were into minis way before that. Boy for me this was long long time ago. I think seeing that Black Symbiote got me the itch, but my friend bought him off the self. Then later on I had to see the Bruce Banner/Hulk 2-pack and I fell in love. It stands as being one of my favorite 2-packs ever. What I like about it is that you get essentially the same character but the alter-ego of each other. Would have liked to have seen more of this. Superman/Clark Kent, Tony Stark/Ironman, Princess Diana/Wondero Woman, Peter Parker/Spider-man, Eddie Brock/Venom, etc. where ever it could work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wadalf Posted May 22, 2007 Author Share Posted May 22, 2007 U talkin bout this http://www.minimatemultiverse.com/index.ph...imates&st=0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBT! Posted May 22, 2007 Share Posted May 22, 2007 Wow TBT, I would have thought you were into minis way before that. Yep series 6 was my start... it somehow seem way further back than that... esp with stuff like the 'bombmate' (lets face it that will be what I'm remembered for.. I need to find another 'goal' perhaps...) and filling the gaps in the collection back in 2005... maybe I just feel a lot older now T. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murderofcrows Posted May 22, 2007 Share Posted May 22, 2007 I bought a daredevil / kingpin pack at a sam goody type store. I was really against the 2 inch mates. But after like 5 minutes after i opened them, I went back to the store and bought everyone they had. I have been hooked ever since! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bilbofett Posted May 22, 2007 Share Posted May 22, 2007 TRU Ultimate X-men 5-pack. I was getting into the comic, and was at TRU....and now they're everywhere!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombieboyfiend Posted May 22, 2007 Share Posted May 22, 2007 remember seeing them at my LCS as Spiderman and Silver Surfer singles but didn't get hooked until I bought TRU 10 pack. Went eBay crazy to get most of what I own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glomit Posted May 22, 2007 Share Posted May 22, 2007 It was some LOTR one, but the first MARVEL pack I ever got was Sue Richards and Thing Glomit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samwise Gamgee Posted May 22, 2007 Share Posted May 22, 2007 My first were Ultimate Wolverine and Sabertooth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buttheadsmate Posted May 22, 2007 Share Posted May 22, 2007 Christmas Spider-man,last Christmas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightViper Posted May 22, 2007 Share Posted May 22, 2007 Gorn. Which made me want to pass on most of the Marvel ones, as I didn't know they'd be two-inches instead of three. As soon as I actually saw the Spidey and X-Men two packs in stores though, I bought all that I could find. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke314pi Posted May 22, 2007 Share Posted May 22, 2007 My first was the Spider-Man / Carnage pack. I was only buying it for Spider-Man, and I told myself that this was the only pack I was going to buy... A week later I had all of series 1 and 2... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drgnrbrn316 Posted May 22, 2007 Share Posted May 22, 2007 I forget what I was looking for on that fateful day, perhaps Spider-Man Legos, but I ended up finding Spider-Man from way back in Wave 2 on eBay. So I got him because I thought he'd look cool on my desk. But of course, he needed someone to beat on, so Carnage, Venom, Green Goblin, Doc Ock, and Rhino followed. I was going to leave it at that until I discovered Danny's Minimates Central. I blame him for the hundreds of dollars I've spent ever since. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattallica Posted May 22, 2007 Share Posted May 22, 2007 i found my first minimates when we moved to a different part of the state, and checked out the LCS, they had two two packs of these cool little Marvel figures and being a Marvel/Toy nut i had to get them. they were the series 1 DD/Elektra and DD/Elektra variant packs and were $5 each(yup the good old days before the variants cost more than the standard figs) it wasnt until later that i found more minimates in the form of the Toysrus 5 packs and really started building my collection. -M Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterPL Posted May 22, 2007 Share Posted May 22, 2007 Mine were the 3-inch Trek Minimates. They were a Christmas gift from Mom. I was pushing 40 and she's still buying me toys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neolego Posted May 22, 2007 Share Posted May 22, 2007 Well, I was browsing through Target in 2002 and came across a few small figures known as "Minimates". While, I had never heard of the figure before and wasn't even a big Star Trek fan I picked up Kirk and Spock on clearance for $2 and some change. When I got home I fell completely in love and started doing some digging online. Around that time was when they had announed the Marvel Wave. While I never went back and picked up any of the other Star Trek Figures or Rock Figures (mainly because of the 3 inch size) I did vow to collect all things new. Months later I walked out of my Comic store holding Daredevil/Kingpin, Daredevil/Elektra (both), and Hulk/Banner and the rest, as they say, is History ! neo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TM2 Dinobot Posted May 22, 2007 Share Posted May 22, 2007 A mislabeled Spiderman 4 pack from TRU said it had Spidey, Carnage, Thing and Dr. Doom. I got it and it ended up having Venom instead of Thing. I was most pleased, and got the rest of the other sets. Unfortunately I missed a lot, because I was kinda a tight wad and didn't want to spend full price. (Still am) But I was hooked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shanester Posted May 22, 2007 Share Posted May 22, 2007 My first minimate was meant to be my ONLY minimate. I saw Hulk and had to have him. Thats when the fever took me and now I have hundreds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterPL Posted May 22, 2007 Share Posted May 22, 2007 My first minimate was meant to be my ONLY minimate. How do they DO that? Insidious bastards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samwise Gamgee Posted May 22, 2007 Share Posted May 22, 2007 Well, I was browsing through Target in 2002 and came across a few small figures known as "Minimates". While, I had never heard of the figure before and wasn't even a big Star Trek fan I picked up Kirk and Spock on clearance for $2 and some change. When I got home I fell completely in love and started doing some digging online. I had forgotten about the Target clearance Trek mates. So I guess Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Gorn were my first ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan Posted May 22, 2007 Share Posted May 22, 2007 My first pack was the Ultimate Cyclops/Ultimate Wolverine. I took Wolvie out of the package first, so I consider him my first mini. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psychopanda Posted May 22, 2007 Share Posted May 22, 2007 Pretty sure it was an Absorbing Man/Captain America pack. I know it was at a Toys r Us for sure, because I never go in there. I might've been looking for Heroclix? I saw them and dismissed them as being "too cute". I guess I changed my mind at some point and went back. I think what hooked me is that they had made alot of Marvel characters (like Absorbing Man) that I never saw made into toys when I was a kid. At any rate, the fever took hold and soon I was tracking down Classic X-Men boxed sets and bubble two-packs. Yay for plasti-crack! Edit: I started inbetween waves 4 and 5. So I was able to get Captain America/Absorbng Man, but also get some of the wave 4 minis later like Doc Ock/Spidey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punisher Posted May 22, 2007 Share Posted May 22, 2007 i was at a comic shop (the comic shop where i STILL buy my minimates) and saw a yellow dd and electra 2-pack, i got it, thinking it was really cool, i asked the guy if he had anymore, but he said he wouldnt get any more shipments of theses for about a month, well the VERY next day, he called (we gave him our number to call when he got them in) and said the had all of series two and three, i got em but sadly i was just a little kid and all the parts got lost, well over the years my collection started to grow, and i had just enough to display, so i did and none of my minimates dissapeaed, just more started showing up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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