If there’s one thing that you can always find space for in your home (assuming you want to), it’s more Marvel Minimates! And after last year’s successful set of Minimates Marvel Zombies Villains (gotta love Zombie Galactus), Diamond Select Toys is ready to let the zombified villains of Earth-2149 run wild once again! Coming in time for Halloween 2014–the Marvel Minimates Villain Zombies Box Set #2 is now up for order!
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If there’s one thing that we’ve learned to count on for each and every Marvel movie that gets released, it’s a corresponding series of Diamond Select Toys’ Marvel Minimates figures! Oftentimes the Minimates series may miss the premiere of the movie it’s tied into, but we’ve grown accustomed to getting movie Minimates without fail (eventually). Toys R Us used to almost always have their own remixed exclusive wave of movie Minimates, but they’ve cut way back in recent years. However, Toys R Us did invest in their own exclusive Amazing Spider-Man 2 Minimates series, and it has now arrived in stores!
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At last week’s C2E2 2014, Diamond Select Toys did a surprise reveal of their Marvel Select X-Men Days of Future Past Mystique figure to much fanfare. But while Mystique grabbed all of the headlines and glory, she wasn’t the only new item that DST debuted at C2E2. No, at the show Diamond Select unveiled yet another in a huge string of recents Marvel Minimates announcements–but this one’s a good one! Coming in September 2014–the Deadly Foes of Spider-Man Minimates set! But if you want the first Minimates Carnage in over a decade, there’ll only be one store to get it from…
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The announcement floodgates have opened and new Marvel Minimates series are being unveiled one after the next! Following up on the three new Minimates series revealed last week, the next Marvel movie to be released is getting in on the act as well. Though these have been shown previously to press, Diamond Select Toys is now giving collectors everywhere their first official look at the Amazing Spider-Man 2 Minimates Series 56 figures!
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I’ve had a tough time getting excited about the last couple series of Marvel Minimates figures revealed by Diamond Select Toys. It’s not because they’re not awesome–they are. But seeing most of the upcoming movie-based Marvel Minimates figures first-hand at New York Toy Fair 2014 in February spoiled me, and it’s hard to muster up enthusiasm when something you’ve already seen is unveiled.
Thankfully, today I got my chance to be genuinely exuberant about new Minimates for the first time in a couple months, as the previously-unnannounced Marvel Minimates Series 59 All-New X-Men wave is now up for pre-order!
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As crazy as it sounds, we’re just one month away from the X-Men Days of Future Past movie–and up until today, not a single toy has been shown for the movie by any manufacturer. But wait! As usual, swooping in to save the day, it’s Diamond Select Toys! While Hasbro has shown a great big nada as far as X-Men Days of Future Past figures go, Diamond Select Toys has a whole lineup of X-Men Days of Future Past Minimates figures heading our way–including past and future versions of Xavier and Magneto!
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While Diamond Select Toys gave press and buyers at the 2014 New York Toy Fair the first look at this summer’s Marvel Minimates Guardians of the Galaxy figures, photography of the Guardians of the Galaxy Minimates (like most GOTG merch) was not allowed at the event. Collectors have had to be content with word-of-mouth textual descriptions of the wave–until now! Diamond Select has now pulled back the curtain, and the complete Guardians of the Galaxy Minimates series is now available for order!
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Of all the many, many Marvel licensees out there that make Marvel action figures, I don’t think there’s a single company more prolific than Diamond Select Toys is with their Marvel Minimates line. DST literally releases dozens upon dozens of new Marvel figures each year, spread across Marvel Minimates box sets, specialty store waves and Toys R Us exclusive series. And just in time to end the first month of 2014, the first wave of the year has arrived–TRU Marvel Minimates Series 18!
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I can’t remember the last time that a Marvel movie came and went in theaters without a corresponding set of Marvel Minimates movie figures released, so it wasn’t unexpected when pre-orders opened today confirming the themed Amazing Spider-Man 2 Marvel Minimates Wave 56 set!
Diamond Select Toys is giving us a larger selection of characters for ASM2 than any other company, although the characters may not be the most exciting ones ever…
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I saw reported sightings of the new set of exclusive Toys R Us Marvel Minimates Wave 17 for the first time this morning, and decided to make it my new quest to see the Minimates wave in person. But, well… It wasn’t much of a quest. I drove to one Toys R Us, walked down the action figure aisle, and all four two-packs of the TRU Marvel Minimates Series 17 figures were just sitting right out front on the pegs…
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Yesterday, news leaked out regarding the previously-unknown lineup of Marvel Minimates Wave 55, the Captain America: The Winter Soldier Minimates movie series.
It’s rather appropriate that that news came out on Veteran’s Day, but some collectors were upset with the revealed lineup and a glaring omission from it. Those fans may be in luck, however, as it turns out that the rumored Marvel Minimates Winter Soldier lineup circulating is apparently incorrect…
UPDATE 11/13/2013: Diamond Select Toys has now confirmed the configuration of the Marvel Minimates Captain America: The Winter Soldier Wave 55 series to be as follows…
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Sometimes we have to wait months upon months for Marvel Minimates to come out once they’ve been revealed… and sometimes we don’t! Though Diamond Select Toys only unveiled their upcoming set of Marvel Zombies Villains Minimates back in July 2013, they’re already produced and on their way over to America to be sold.
In fact, DST is hoping to have the Marvel Minimates Villains Zombies Collection box set on shelves before Halloween…
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It’s pretty hard to believe that it’s October now, which means we’re only a month away from the Thor 2 movie hitting in theaters, as “Thor: The Dark World” will be released on November 8, 2013. Unfortunately, Thor’s been getting snubbed a bit when it comes to Thor: The Dark World figures and collectibles. The good news is that Diamond Select Toys isn’t totally ignoring Thor 2 and is releasing eight Thor The Dark World Minimates figures to specialty stores. The bad news is that the best four figures planned for Thor: The Dark World Minimates aren’t going to be released at all…
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In 2012, Diamond Select Toys gave fans the opportunity to vote for the lineup of Marvel Minimates wave 50. A year later, the figures selected by over 30,000 fans have finally hit stores! I had a bout of hubris today, as I thought I’d just stroll into my local comic book store the day after Marvel Minimates Wave 50 was released and snatch up a complete set of the Minimates Fan’s Choice Series. As you may have guessed by the way I framed that sentence, things didn’t go exactly as planned…
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Many toy manufacturers would cower in terror before turning tail and running away from the prospect of producing action figures for a superhero movie in which only one character has super powers, the main cast is full of civilians and women, and no one wears a costume. Diamond Select Toys is not one of those companies, and is in fact the only toy company to make a near-comprehensive figure line based on this summer’s “The Wolverine” movie–The Wolverine Marvel Minimates Wave 52 figures have now been released in stores!
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