With great power comes great responsibility… to market the bejesus out of your superhero movie. On Monday, you can catch the new trailer for Spider-Man 3 (out May 4) on NBC during Heroes. But until then, whet your appetite with our exclusive look at Diamond Select‘s Spidey 3 toys. The Minimates to your left go on sale in late March. And the detailed Sandman and Venom sculpture-bust-thingies pictured after the jump are all yours come late April. (There are also sculpture-bust thingie versions of red-suited Spidey, black-suited Spidey, and the new Goblin, but we think you get the gist.)
How come toys are cool now that I’ve given up on action figure collecting and am living with a woman? two years ago my transformers collection would have surged with the new series, and my Marvel Comics shelf would have needed it’s own zip code. Now, all the good stuff’s coming out and I can’t buy it!
Ep Sato-
I too feel your pain, but you have love and other stuff, that are so much better than toys….Sometimes.
If a woman who doesnt apreciate a action figure collector.They are not a true woman!
I might just have to go out and find some Spidey Minimates!
no comments, freakme out the sandman and venom bust, awesome
Are they going to come out with real action figures or are they sticking with those Lego rejects with upside-down-wastebasket heads?
Lego rejects? Minimates far surpass Lego figures in every way. They’re far more articulate and far more detailed than Lego could ever hope to be.
I realize that Minimates aren’t for everyone, but show a little more respect for those of us who do know how to appreciate a good toy.
RE: those of us who do know how to appreciate a good toy.
I apologize. You’re completely right. I guess I haven’t kept up with the latest in toy technology since the first time I got laid.
See, now is that called for? If your life is far too full of better things to do, they why are you here trying to stir up crap on a topic about toys?
Sorry dude, I was just playing around. I know my s**t stinks too.
And I commend you too for being pretty classy even though I flamed you.
To Ep Sato re: no toys since lady came into the life. Just knock her up. It blows my mind how quickly the action figures become the go-to toys. Mind you, the kids beat the hell out of your collection if it isn’t out of reach.
By the way, does this mean that Venom is actually in this sequel? Or is it just the origin story of how Eddie Brock (still blowin’ my mind that it is Topher Grace) came to gain the alien costume?
I keep thinking about that too. Many of the gems of my collection were given to my kid sister (she’s 8 now), and while the action figures were a hit with her during the tomboy stage, they all got THROWN AWAY (I still cringe at that thought) when she got back to being girly. It broke my heart and I’m sure my own spawn will end up destroying what’s left of my most prized collectibles.
Maybe this means my Millenium falcon and special edition Optimus Prime will have to be hidden away somewhere in storage…
Okay, this needs to be said: You people are lame, drooling all over this stuff. What is this, the 4th grade? This is exactly why your lunch money was stolen when you were kids. Drop a set and get laid.
And secondly, those Minimates are clearly just some cheap old Lego’s painted to look like a comic book character. Give me a brush, some paint and some old Lego’s and I’ll create my own “new” set of useless crap…er, I mean Minimates. If they are actually making money off this junk, then I should go collect some twigs from my yard and paint them various bright colors and pass them off as “new” Star Wars lightsaber toys. And then the same 30+ year old virgins, who cream their pants every time a comics/Sci-Fi convention comes to town, will surely buy all my twigs, er, I mean “NEW” Star Wars lightsaber toys….and I would give a discount to all the “special” people (who are probably just living in their parents basements) that bought the Minimate Lego rip-off toys.