{"id":2456,"date":"2011-04-23T20:50:32","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T03:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/?p=2456"},"modified":"2011-04-30T13:05:42","modified_gmt":"2011-04-30T20:05:42","slug":"minimate-spotlight-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/minimate-spotlight-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimate Spotlight #49 Thor Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

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>Every so often, a unique style of figure comes along that breaks the mold, so to speak. Each Saturday, Donny B<\/a> will be showcasing various offerings from Art Asylum’s take on the ‘block figure’, with a weekly spotlight on Minimates<\/strong><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

With the Thor<\/strong> movie coming up, Art Asylum has released a large number of Thor Moviemates to cover just about every main character featured in the film.
\nFollowing the formula that DST has seemingly ‘perfected’ for marketing their movie tie-ins, we have been given one full wave of all the main characters, along with a few TRU exclusives, and one “army dump” of single-packs. The army dumps usually have 3 or 4 different “hench men” and maybe an important character or two. The Iron Man 2<\/strong> army dump included the different assault drones<\/em>, plus a “short packed” Justin Hammer<\/em>.
\nThe Thor army dump gave us some Asgardian Royal Guards<\/em>, 2 different versions of Frost Giants<\/em>, and the short packed Laufey<\/em> (King of the Frost Giants) and Selvig.<\/em><\/p>\n

For this week’s Minimate Spotlight, we’re looking at the fan favored Frost Giants <\/em>(with Laufey<\/em> leading the pack):<\/p>\n

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Behind the Image:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I wanted to take this image back to the formula I used for the A.I.M. soldiers (Minimate Spotlight #4<\/a>), and it was a whole lot of “fun” … okay, no, it wasn’t. It took me 2 hours to get them all into position, because, just like with the A.I.M. soldiers, one wrong movement would cause a domino effect and I’d have to start from scratch. And I literally only took one photo because the second after I hit the shutter, all 26 Minimates fell over. I was too frustrated to begin again – but fortunately, the one photo I took was good enough \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

On Ebay<\/span>: Thor<\/a>
\nOn AtomicAvenue<\/span>: Thor<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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