Action figures have long been a perfect compliment to comic books, since every kid (or kid at heart) has that natural desire to act out adventures with their favorite heroes off the drawn page. Every so often, a unique style of figure comes along that breaks the mold, so to speak. Each Saturday, Donny B will be showcasing various offerings from Art Asylum’s take on the ‘block figure’, with a weekly spotlight on Minimates.
Marvel Comics’ vast library of heroes and villains has provided Art Asylum with enough source material to produce “the longest running collector line in toy history”, with 35 currently released waves (that’s just from their Marvel line). Of course, the market is always favorable of high profile characters, and with the theatrical release of Marvel’s Iron Man 2 this weekend, it just made sense for us to see an Iron Man themed wave. So, to kick off this feature of Cyberspace Comics’ blog, I decided to feature the heavy hitters from AA’s Iron Man 2 movie wave (dubbed by collectors as “Moviemates”, since they are based specifically off of the movies rather than the original comic book material).
Behind the Image:
When taking photos of minimates, I usually try to get as creative as possible with placement and lighting. These two figures, however, needed very little work on my part to show off their incredible sculpting. The massive amount of detail crammed into these 2″ figures isn’t very common for most Minimates, though in this case, it lends itself beautifully to dynamic photo taking – so much so, in fact, that the above photo required no post production work (in Photoshop) aside from the glow effect for the eyes and chest piece.
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