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…
Evidently, Disney/Marvel is allowing companies to make zombie versions of Marvel villains now, but not heroes–so don’t expect to see any new Marvel Zombies Spider-Man or Zombie Hulk merch anytime soon.
Diamond Select Toys is planning on having these new Zombie Marvel Minimates figures on shelves in time for Halloween ComicFest 2013, which takes place October 26-27, 2013. If “Halloween ComicFest” sounds like a foreign term to you, that’s because this will only be the second time the event has ever taken place–the inaugural Halloween ComicFest took place just last year. Halloween ComicFest is sort of like a second Free Comic Book Day–except during Halloween Comic Fest, participating stores give out spooky/scary comic books instead of regular ones.
Art Asylum/DST posted a photo of the opened Marvel Minimates Zombies Villain set, and I was really surprised to see such a big assortment of accessories. Energy effects for Zombie Galactus’ hands, a Zombie Norman Osborn head, a Goblin Glider for Zombie Green Goblin, a rock base, guns and alternate arms for Zombie Red Skull, hair for Zombie Magneto… There are a lot of accessories included here for one Minimates box set!
There’s even removable guts–yes, you read that right–removable guts. Disney won’t allow Marvel Zombies Heroes figures, but they’ll allow removable guts. Astounding.
The Marvel Zombies Villains Minimates box set is currently available for pre-order and is scheduled to be released later this month (hopefully before Halloween). The old Marvel Zombies Minimates figures are some of the more expensive and sought-after Marvel Minimates ever released, so I’d expect that the Minimates Marvel Villain Zombies Collection should be a pretty hot seller once it hits stores later this month.