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Minimates are a block styled miniature action figure created by Art Asylum. more...

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History

The line began in 2002 with a line of 3" Minimates based on several different licenses. These included Dark Angel, Star Trek, Bruce Lee and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon along with a Rock Star line featuring KISS, Rob Zombie, Ozzy Osbourne and Alice Cooper. The 3" Minimate Line also included several blank or promotional Minimates, these usually bore the logo of a specific company and were used as give-aways.

Minimates came of age when several months later, following a partnership with Diamond Select Toys, a range of 2" Minimates based upon the Marvel Comics Universe was launched. The 2" Minimate body type began to be used for the promotional Minimates in place of the 3" body type, and it was announced that the 3" range would be discontinued. This line was soon joined by a range based upon 'The Lord of the Rings.

Soon a new series joined the line in the form of C3 construction sets, which were accompanied by DC Comics Minimates in the 2" scale. In 2006 2" Minimates based upon the Street Fighter 2 and Darkstalkers video games were released, along with Minimates based upon the classic and new Battlestar Galactica TV series as well as the Speed Racer license.

2006 has been also seen a number of new license announcements, at the San Diego Comic-Con Diamond Select Toys revealed plans for a line of Minimates based on the Rocky movies, Kelloggs Cereal Minimates have also been announced with design art for Tony the Tiger, Toucan Sam, Dig 'Em Frog, Snap, Crackle and Pop and Ernie the Keebler Elf posted on the official Art Asylum forums, and in November Popbox Collectables have been discussing the possibility of Minimates based on the I, Robot film.

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Marvel

The Marvel Minimates line was one of the first Minimate lines to be produced, and is now on its 12th and 13th series, or 'waves', of figures. Each series tends to follow a particular theme, i.e. Spider-Man (Series 2 and Series 10), or X-Men (Series 3 (Ultimate X-Men) and Series 11), and are released in pairs. Figures in these sets are bought in determined packs of two. Each series will also feature a 'chase' figure, which is often a variant on one of the figures in the series. Many retailer and convention exclusive figures have been produced based on the Marvel line, and there are over 100 Marvel Minimates in existence.

Due to license restrictions limiting all Marvel Minimtes to the 2" scale, a range of four 8" unarticulated resin statues under the 'Minimates Max' banner were to be produced in 2006 to accompany to the line and represent larger scale characters in the Minimate style. Unfortunately because of the cost and unarticulated nature of the statues, the line was not well received and eventually cancelled, with only two of the four announced statues released, Galactus and the Sentinel.

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