Day 564

Day 564 November 26^th

10^th Anniversary of Marvel Minimates

Museum Display Part 3

Minimates!

Of course the main part of this display is the Minimates!  In the cases on the wall and the bottle level of the display case represents all of the waves of Marvel Minimates from 1-52 (minus 16 of course since it is the fabled lost wave that never made it), as well as all convention exclusives, Toys R Us waves and other retailer exclusives.  I had debated on including the multiples of army builders I have collected but opted to leave them out as the display is already a lot to take in.  The Galactus and Sentinel Minimates: MAX statues are also in the big display case, which add I nice touch to it.  I really do enjoy those statues and sometimes wish they had released the others planned, especially since I am a big Wolverine fan!  On the top row of the display case I have the Darktide movie set – the box, DVD case and the 4 Minimates, while the movie plays on the TV beside the display.  This came right around the slim year for Minimates where their continuation was questionable.  Also on that top shelf there is a hand painted prototype, some test shots (or first shots), a few test shot error pieces and an art mock up pieces leant to the display by Don Brosius.  These are some neat peaks behind the curtain and into the makings of these awesome toys!  

 

Day 563

Day 563 November 25^th

10^th Anniversary of Marvel Minimates

Museum Display Part 2

Posters!

I absolutely love seeing Minimates in actual drawn art which is one of the reasons I love these posters so much!  I don’t have a display setup figured out to display them out at home so it is great to have them hanging in the museum and I can enjoy them in their full splendor a bit more.  I can’t say that these are all of the Marvel Minimates posters out there as I know of a very early one from when they were first announced and there was also a very cool Spider Man 3 movie version that hung at the Diamond Select Toys booth during cons the year those Minimates came out but I never have managed to get either of those.  I did stumble across one I didn’t know existed shortly before this show went up and that is the smaller one with the heroes fighting Galactus.  This art was used in an issue of Toyfair, in which they had a visual guide to the Marvel Minimates.  This issue came out shortly after I started collecting these and I really liked that artwork, so imagine my surprise to find this piece, which had been included in a poster magazine released by Toyfair’s parent magazine Wizard!  All in all these are some fun extras to add to the main collection!

Day 562

Day 562 November 24^th

10^th Anniversary of Marvel Minimates

Museum Display Part 1

It is sometimes hard to believe that the Marvel Minimates line has been around for 10 years already.  They have been such a constant in my life that it just seems like they have always been there, similar to my wife and children, it takes a bit of actual thought to remember the time before them lol!  As this year’s big anniversary was just getting started I had an idea, actually several different ideas that finally gelled together into this museum show.  I knew I wanted to do something cool to honour the big number 10 of my all-time favourite toy line and the Humboldt and District Museum and Gallery liked the idea I pitched to them near the start of the year – even if they didn’t quite understand some of the points I was very excitedly mapping out at the time!

So at the beginning of November I moved my core collection of Minimates out of my house, leaving so very noticeable empty spaces in my man-corner as you could imagine!  I was really happy to be able to keep my collection up to date as of the day before I put it in the museum, then of course new Toys R Us waves had to pop up, and only in the United States, but it is still a huge impressive collection that spans the last 10 years and includes some neat extras too!

Part 1’s pictures give you just a quick overview of how the display is laid out.  Please pardon the lighting quality of some of the pictures as the space is a bit tight and lighting has been an issue in getting these shots.  Please stay tuned during the next few days as more detailed views of the various parts of the display will be spotlighted!