Day 322

Day 322 November 18^th

Storm

            The Ultimate version of Storm really didn’t seem as strong of a character as her regular universe counterpart is.  I know you could say it was the difference in age/experience but it just didn’t seem like a fit to me.  I did like her progression as the series continued and think this minimate does justice to her look!

Day 321

Day 321 November 17^th

Visor less Cyclops

            As the variant in this wave the visor less Cyclops minimate is a great looking minimate.  I did swap the head with the regular Cyclops as I felt that this face looked better on the visor less version.  I have been feeling the need to re-read the Ultimate X-Men stuff lately so I may have to dig out the issues or see if I can score a good deal on the trade paperbacks and move the issues on.

Day 320

Day 320 November 16^th

Cyclops

            I have never really been a big fan of Cyclops as a character, I am not sure why but for whatever reason he held no apply to me.  This minimate is based on his look in the Ultimate universe and for some reason I found he was much more of an enjoyable character in that universe.  On this minimate I swapped the head with the other Cyclops in this wave because I felt his expression was better suited for this look.

Day 319

Day 319 November 15^th

Jean Grey

            On a whole I really enjoyed the revamping of characters in the Ultimate universe, especially in the X-Men universe so the spin on Jean Grey was as refreshing as the rest.  While the minimate is very well done I do find the eyes are just not quite right, maybe the lack of a pupil is what throws it off for me.

Day 318

Day 318 November 14^th

Wolverine

            Wolverine has long been one of my all time favourite Marvel comics characters.  Despite the fact that many people dislike him and/or how much exposure he gets I still find that I enjoy the majority of the stories written about or with him in them.  I did find it odd that in the third wave of Marvel minimates the X-Men used for it were based off of their Ultimate looks as opposed to their regular universe looks.  Looking back I can see that the Ultimate comic universe was riding a huge high at the time and it made perfect sense to try and tap into that with these minimates.  As for the minimate, it hits that look pretty much dead on, even if Wolverine didn’t wear this particular uniform until a bit later.  I would have liked the black and orange uniform that he first wore though.

Day 317

Day 317 November 13^th

Sundays with my Son

            This is one of my most favourite minimates from the Ghostbusters minimates.  I was so surprised when dad put it for his blog on my birthday and then gave me my own Statue of Liberty minimate!  Thanks dad!

Day 316

Day 316 November 12^th

Logan

            The first minimate of the third wave of Marvel minimates has to be one of my favourites, both in minimates and as a character all around, Logan.  In this more civilian look for Wolverine they have really done a great job nailing the characters look, as this was his standard non costume look for a long time.  While the hands and claws can’t really compare to how some of the newer designs look I still really dig this minimate!

Day 315

Day 315 November 11^th

Friday with my best friend!

Robot

            This post is dedicated to my best friend, my wife!  She started me on this collection, helped me to see that it was ok not to have all the minimates being made and being able to share my little ideas and projects with her has really taken this to a much higher level.  One of the things I love the most is how she will really like a minimate and claim it for herself.  This first happened with this minimate, whom she has named Robot, and I am all too happy to get spares of any one that she enjoys to add to her collection!

Day 314

Day 314 November 10^th

Carnage

            This is one of the most uniquely designed minimates made, even after almost 10 years it still ahs a great visual appeal to it.  Part of Carnages look in the comics is the living, moving symbiote all over his body; it literally just flows over and all around him.  The all body tampos of this minimate really go all out to show this as he has tampos on all parts of the body, even the top of the head!  This great amount of detail really makes this minimate stand out in the huge collection of Marvel minimates we have now.  While people have requested and mentioned DST doing an updated release of Carnage I am a bit hesitant to join that request line.  I am not sure that a newer one would be able to match the awesomeness that they captured with this one!

Day 313

Day 313 November 9^th

Venom with tongue

            This is my other favorite Venom minimate!  It is an interesting bit of history with this minimate and why I class it as a completely separate minimate for this wave.  With the release of this wave in the specialty stores wave and in the single packs he did not have the tongue.  Yet when they released these waves in Canadian Wal-mart stores it included both the tongue and non tongue versions.  Art Asylum allowed you to request the tongued head from them, for those US-based collectors.  Any of the re-releases since then had both heads.  I always treated them as separate minimates and it wasn’t until I got the variant black costumed Spider-man/Venom 2-pack that I displayed Venom without a tongue.  It is too bad that they didn’t do something like this for the Gene Simmons KISS minimate!

Day 312

Day 312 November 8^th

Venom

            This is another great, yet simple in design, minimate.  Venom has become such an iconic Spider-man character that it was pretty obvious that he had to be in this wave.  One of the changes in the design made for this minimate was the tiny little clawed hands instead of the regular minimate style hand.  It’s a great nod to the overall design of the character in the comics right there!  His huge tooth-filled mouth is very bold and eye catching as well.  Out of all the Venom minimates we have gotten since this one I still think this is one of my favourites, well this one and one other…

Day 311

Day 311 November 7^th

Classic Green Goblin

            Seeing how wave two was a Spider-man theme there was no way that DST could not make one of Spideys main foes, the diabolical Green Goblin.  Despite the more simple designs of the early minimates some of my favourite minimates came form the earlier waves, and this Green Goblin is one of them!  The elf boots are the clincher for me, a great little nod to the history of the character right there!