Day 132: May 12th
Classic Heroic Age Thor
This is probably the driving force minimate of the box set, the classic look of Thor! This trumps the previous minimate of his classic look with no contest! There is no bulky chest piece, his face isn’t all squished looking, no clunky boots and the clincher is Mjolnir – this one is sized better and the best part is that it has the face inscription on the side! Big points there for DST and the attention to detail!
Day 131: May 11th
Classic Heroic Age Iron Man
For me this is probably the weakest link of the box set. I enjoy Iron Man well enough but this minimate seems very similar to the one or two pervious versions of this suit, counting the variant of that wave. I know the Cap and Spidey fall into that category too but with them there was an instant connection, with Iron Man I look at it and it doesn’t grab me. It still looks pretty nice and the colours work together very nicely.
Day 130: May 10th
Classic Heroic Age Spider Man
Through all the various Spider Man minimates we have gotten I really find this one to hit pretty close to home as the best version of the classic red and blue Spidey. There is minimal bleed over of the colours and I am very happy with how it looks!
Day 129: May 9th
Classic Heroic Age Captain America
In terms of the classic Steve Rogers Captain America I believe this is one of the best looking minimates we have gotten yet. Everything about it seems to be dead on to near perfect. I would have liked to have gotten the pulled back mask piece with this one but thankfully the colours of the pulled back mask from the frozen Cap match perfectly here so I can swap it around if I want.
Day 128: May 8th
Sundays with my Son
Thor Reborn’s face look’s fat!! He he! Lady Loki! Slacker! Loki where! Oh there.
Day 127: May 7th
Free Comic Book Day
As it is the first Saturday in May it has been deemed to be Free Comic Book Day!! This has been going on for close to 10 years now and I have not missed very many. Marvel has even started planning their first comic book based movie to open as close to this day as possible. This year Thor opens on this weekend so Kye and I will go to it after we hit all the comic shops for our loot! Since it is close to my birthday I always use this as a birthday outing for myself and anyone else that comes along. In 2005 and 2009 DST did Free Comic Book Day minimate giveaways which were huge hits especially among the customizer crowds!
Day 126: May 6th
Spider-Thor
Now this was just some silly fun that Kye and I were having while at church Easter Sunday. I had grabbed his Thor minimate on the way out the door in case he got bored during mass. When I was parking the van I saw his House of M Spidey in the van so I snatched that up too. He played with Thor a bit and then gave him back so I put him in my pocket and later decided to have some fun and stealthily managed to get Thors cape and hammer onto Spidey and surprised him with it. He thought it was hilarious and I thought it looked pretty neat too!
Day 125: May 5th
Civilian Thor
While it does appear that Thor will not have an alter ego, or at least not for this movie, he does spend some time not in the whole Thor costume/armour etc so it makes perfect sense that we get this minimate. It does a good job of capturing that look and the best part is the fact that it comes with the mound of rock that has Thors hammer, Mjollnir stuck in!
Day 124: May 4th
I’ll take a brief second to wish you all a happy Star Wars day, May the fourth be with you all! – I love being a geek and having this day being my birthday too yet! Now back to the regular programming.
Volstagg
Part of the fabled ‘warriors three’ in Thor, the portly Volstagg sports a nifty sculpted beard. While it has some issues with fitting on the head properly I still think it’s a great design. I know there are many customizers or just fans in general that look at that beard and think of Harry Potters Hagrid right away!
Day 123: May 3rd
Lady Sif
Part of the Toys R Us Thor movie wave this is a welcome addition to the minimates based on this movie. I am really digging some of the extra detail and sculpting they are putting into the hands of the new minimates lately. I find it really helps make the look more complete.
Day 122: May 2nd
Loki
I love the helmet on Loki, from the Thor wave. It is just so huge it’s hard not to like it! The detail on the minimate itself is top shelf, another great job. I enjoy how they changed both Loki and Thor in final production, as the original designs had bulky armour chest pieces but they look much better without them.
Day 121: May 1st
Sundays with my Son
I love the Tony’s camera shop in the background! Doctor octopus what are you doing slacker!? Where are you Spider-Man?
