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.
Plain clothed characters are possibly the worst ideas for toys from a sales standpoint. In general, buyers are looking for colorful, flashy characters that catch your attention. Taking that into account, Art Asylum packaged one normal human with one ghost in each of their TRU 2-packs. It seems to have worked pretty well, considering they successfully sold through 4 waves and several boxed sets.
For this week’s Minimate Spotlight, I decided to feature three of the ghosts that played minor roles in the two films – the Titanic Captain, the Central Park Jogger, and the Zombie Taxicab Driver:
Behind the Image:
I’ve gone with overly photoshopped projects for several of my recent Ghostbusters articles, so for this one, I wanted to do traditional photography. As is my usual approach, I found corresponding images to use as backdrops and took a photo of each Minimate standing in front of their respective images.
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