{"id":1719,"date":"2011-01-15T15:16:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T22:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/?p=1719"},"modified":"2011-02-01T20:47:54","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T03:47:54","slug":"minimate-spotlight-35-ghostbusters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/minimate-spotlight-35-ghostbusters\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimate Spotlight #35 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>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\u00a0sold through 4\u00a0waves and several boxed sets.<\/p>\n<p>For this week&#8217;s Minimate Spotlight,\u00a0I decided to feature\u00a0three of the ghosts that played minor roles in the two films &#8211;\u00a0the<strong> Titanic Captain<\/strong>, the <strong>Central Park Jogger<\/strong>, and the<strong> Zombie Taxicab Driver<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2025\" src=\"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Minimates_2011_01-15.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Minimates_2011_01-15.jpg 450w, https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Minimates_2011_01-15-208x300.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #404040\"><strong>Behind the Image:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve\u00a0gone with overly photoshopped projects for several of\u00a0my recent\u00a0Ghostbusters articles, so for this one, I wanted to do traditional photography.\u00a0As is\u00a0my usual approach, I found corresponding images to use as backdrops and took a photo of each Minimate standing in front of their respective images.<\/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-1719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minimate-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719","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=1719"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2026,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions\/2026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}