{"id":1611,"date":"2010-12-18T21:12:38","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T04:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/?p=1611"},"modified":"2011-02-01T20:31:01","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T03:31:01","slug":"minimate-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/minimate-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimate Spotlight #31 Ghostbusters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #b18d58\">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. <\/span><span style=\"color: #b18d58\">Every so often, a unique style of figure comes along that breaks the mold, so to speak. Each Saturday, <a href=\"http:\/\/donny-b.deviantart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Donny B<\/a> will be showcasing various offerings from Art Asylum&#8217;s take on the &#8216;block figure&#8217;, with a weekly spotlight on <em><strong>Minimates<\/strong><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Having Minimate renditions of the\u00a0ghosts from the Ghostbusters\u00a0films is a no brainer, but the line would be severely lacking if there were no heroes to face down the apparitions. Art Asylum\u00a0left\u00a0very little to be desired when they planned out how to produce the main\u00a0characters from this property, having released\u00a0at least 3\u00a0movie-accurate\u00a0designs of each of the four Ghostbusters.\u00a0This week&#8217;s image displays the most iconic look these guys ever sported &#8211; their fully suited business attire, complete with all their tools of the trade:<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2014\" src=\"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Minimates_2010_12-18.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Minimates_2010_12-18.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Minimates_2010_12-18-300x155.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #404040\"><strong>Behind the Image:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This one was kind of fun to photograph. I wanted to take a break from the photoshop approach that I&#8217;ve been taking lately (and will be returning to soon enough), so I arranged the four &#8216;mates and set a sheet behind them with some fun lighting to give this image a unique look.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">On Ebay<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/stores.ebay.com\/CyberspaceComics__W0QQ_sacatZCyberspaceComicsQQ_sidZ13296653?_nkw=%22ghostbusters%22&amp;submit=Search&amp;LH_TitleDesc=1\" target=\"_blank\">Ghostbusters<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">On AtomicAvenue<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atomicavenue.com\/atomic\/SellerIssues.aspx?XT=1&amp;T=ghostbusters&amp;S=cyberspacecomics\" target=\"_blank\">Ghostbusters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minimate-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1611"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2016,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions\/2016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}