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!

Marvel Minimates Tenth Anniversary Museum Show!

The Humboldt and District Museum and Gallery will be going MINI as they are Celebrating Marvel Minimates 10^th Anniversary!

            Coming to the Humboldt and District Museum and Gallery in November and December of 2013, this showcase will take visitors through a visual tour of the 10 years of Marvel Minimates.  Including over 850 Minimates as well as DVDs, statues, design artwork, posters and even some prototypes this display will be a massive tour through the history of these great toys!  Also included in this display will be a variety of Marvel comic books which have had Minimate style artwork done on their otherwise blank covers to help make this event extra special and unique! Plan to spend some time checking out this awesome display!  Watch the animated Minimates X-Men movie, Darktide, in which Minimates creator Digger voices Wolverine!  See the original design pencilled art and compare it to the final product!  View 10 years of evolution of the longest running Marvel toyline!  Make sure to stop by the front counter and sign the Minimates guest book and receive a FREE Marvel Minimate (while supplies last)!  

Stay tuned right here for more photos, an exclusive video turn of the display and more in the weeks to come!