Diamond Select Toys Minimates: Series 64 Secret Wars Iron Man 2099 and Raging Ultron

Diamond Select Toys Minimates: Series 64 Secret Wars Iron Man 2099 and Raging Ultron

Dazzler & Howard The Duck | Iron Man 2099 & Raging Ultron | Wastelands Wolverine & Dystopia Hulk | |Captain Marvel & Jane Foster Thor | MM S64 Secret Wars Group Shots

Diamond Select Toys Minimates: Series 64 Secret Wars Iron Man 2099 and Raging Ultron

Our second Minimates set in Series 64 Secret Wars features Iron Man 2099 and Raging Ultron!  These two future focused Marvel characters look great together in the box…but what happens when you take them out?  …They still look great, the box doesn’t really change that at all.  Silly to think it would.  If anything, they get better.

Iron Man 2099 | Raging Ultron The Rest | Availability Family Photos

Iron Man 2099

  • Gear shoulder pads – check!
  • Mustached face – check!
  • Flight stand – check! check!
  • Removable helmet with replaceable hair looks awesome.  

 

 

Raging Ultron

  • I know what you are going to ask…does his face look ragey enough to be considered a raging Ultron?  Yes, yes, his face definitely looks ragey enough.  Well done DST.
  • The art and detail covering his body brings this metallic menace to life.  
  • Extra molding on head and hands to be 100% Ultrony.

 

 

The Rest

We’ve got Iron Man from the future, and really just a super angry Ultron.  Definitely at the very least, he is raging.  At the very least.  Both characters are given faithful Minimate adaptations.  Included accessories are relevant and well assigned.  This is a solid pair of Minimates that further solidifies Series 64 as a hell of a whole set full of rock stars.  So far, these fine folks, and Howard the Duck and Dazzler.  Stay tuned as we continue on through the series, there is even more to love here!

Availability

Available today from the fine folks at Amazon.  If you love Ultron and this wonderful take on Iron Man 2099, go pick it up!

Family Photos!

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Magic Box: Diamond Select Toys Batman Classic 1966 TV Series Shakespeare Bust and Batphone Banks

Magic Box: Diamond Select Toys Batman Classic 1966 TV Series Shakespeare Bust and Batphone Banks

Magic Box: Diamond Select Toys Batman Classic 1966 TV Series Shakespeare Bust and Batphone Banks

I think we first spotted the Batman Classic Vinyl Shakespeare bust bank at Toy Fair 2016.  Since that time, the wheels for the video you see below have been turning.  When our great friends at Diamond Select Toys sent us out the Shakespeare Bust Bank for free to review for you, we kinda freaked out a little!  The wheels started turning a little more, and we had to go pickup the Batphone…and you’ll see why.  The litlgeeks had a really fun time with this video, and we hope you all enjoy it.  A special thank you to mommygeek for helping with sound and wardrobe!

 

Shakespeare Bust Bank

 

 

Batphone Bank

 

This video and post is for entertainment purposes only. |  litlgeeks received some of the products in this post for free to review for you!

Diamond Select Toys Minimates: Series 64 Secret Wars Dazzler and Howard The Duck

Diamond Select Toys Minimates: Series 64 Secret Wars Dazzler and Howard The Duck

Dazzler & Howard The Duck | Iron Man 2099 & Raging Ultron | Wastelands Wolverine & Dystopia Hulk | |Captain Marvel & Jane Foster Thor | MM S64 Secret Wars Group Shots

Diamond Select Toys Minimates: Series 64 Secret Wars Dazzler and Howard The Duck

Well folks, we here at MUReview have an incredibly exciting run of posts for you over the next many days.  MINIMATES! MINIMATES! MINIMATES!  Diamond Select Toys sent us a whole bunch of fantastic Marvel Minimates to share with you, Series 64 Secret Wars, Series 69 Most Wanted, and Greatest Hits Series 1!  and we thank them for it!  We are going to start off with one of my main reasons for the season, a pack that features one of the most ultimate vintage characters you can find, Disco Dazzler, and one of my all time favorite Marvel characters, thanks in no small part to a feature film he was in with Lea Thompson in 1986…I’m talking Howard The Duck!  Let’s check out the fine job that the folks at Diamond Select Toys did on these two fantastic characters!

Dazzler| Howard The Duck The Rest | Availability Family Photos

Dazzler

  • She’s wearing removable roller skates folks.  This 3 inch figure, which really looks stunning, but I’ll get to that, has removable roller skates.  
  • She’s stunning.  The paint here does tricks I didn’t think paint could do.  She looks like Disco Dazzler right out of the book.
  • While the paint is amazing, and roller skates are removable, the real show stopper here is her hair.  Maybe she was born with it?  Maybe it’s Maybelene? (…that’s not even hair, but it sounded cool, right?).  The work in curling and detail in her hair is astonishing, especially for a figure in this scale.
  • Talking actual face makeup, this may be one of the most feminine looking Minimates I’ve ever seen, certainly to this point, though we have a few more coming in future reviews that really nail the character as well.

 

 

Howard The Duck

  • This is Howard as featured in the pages of his recent runs in Marvel Comics, and while it’s always going to be a little disappointing not to get the 80s screen version, this is a fantastically portrayed Howard The Duck with tricks up his sleeve.
  • His webbed feet are spot on, incredibly well sculpted.
  • His bill looks great.
  • His hat is a perfect fit in scale, and while I do wish it was removable (it is not), it looks just right.
  • Paint is well applied, especially around the bill to be duck accurate.

 

The Rest

DST hits it out of the park with another great set of Minimates featuring characters that have only gotten rare plastic treatment if any at all.  The tricks that they pull with Disco Dazzler are amazing.  The job they did bringing Howard to life, perfection!  Those little webbed feet!  Adorable!  

Availability

Disco Dazzler and Howard The Duck are available now at Amazon! And you can get it for less than $10 shipped?! Sold!

Family Photos!

 

MUReview.net net received this product for free for review purposes.

Magic Box: Marvel SDCC 2017 Exclusive Plush

Magic Box: Marvel SDCC 2017 Exclusive Plush

Magic Box: Marvel SDCC 2017 Exclusive Plush

A few weeks back we had a quick photo pictorial look at only some of the Marvel SDCC 2017 Exclusive Plush toys.  These were available only at the Marvel SDCC booth.  Since then though, Reed Pop and Marvel have made them available online.  So we at litlgeeks and MUReview.net picked up the ones we didn’t get from the show and tossed them in a video for you.  We hope you enjoy!  And if you do, you can pick up one of each today!  Just click here!  At that link, you can grab the plush exclusives Rocket and Groot, Captain America, Black Panther and Spider-Man.  You can also grab all of the other great Marvel exclusives that were available at the Marvel booth!

 

These adorable plush are based on Scottie Young’s designs for the characters.  In years past, Marvel released these designs as collectible pins.  They are still selling pins as exclusives, but have moved on from the Scottie Young designs.  I sincerely hope though, that convention after convention, Marvel continues to bring out new Scottie Young plush! These are so cute and fun to collect!

Spider-Man

 

Captain America

 

Black Panther

 

Rocket and Groot

 

The Whole Crew of Cute!

 

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Diamond Select Toys: Marvel Premiere Collection Thanos Resin Statue

Diamond Select Toys: Marvel Premiere Collection Thanos Resin Statue

Spider-Man | Thanos | Doctor Strange

Diamond Select Toys: Marvel Premiere Collection Thanos Resin Statue

MUReview is spoiled with riches this late week in August of 2017.  Our good friends at Diamond Select Toys sent us many, many large boxes of beautiful things to share with you.  Of all the things in those boxes, my most anticipated is what you will see below.  Something that, since it’s announcement, I was literally foaming at the mouth and chomping at the bit to get my hands on….and well…I did.  The Marvel Premiere Collection Thanos Resin Statue.  The easy contrast to our look at the Spider-Man statue, Spidey is PVC, Thanos is Resin.  It’s a different type of statue entirely, but fantastically, stands beautifully next to the PVC line statues.  I remember way back in the day when I started picking up statues, my goal was always to re-create some semblance of the Infinity Gauntlet roster.  Thanos brings me a keystone step closer to that goal, and he’s an absolutely astonishing figure at a surprising value focused price point!  Buckle up folks, here is where I gush mercilessly about this statue.

The Good | The BadThe Rest | Availability Pictures

The Good

  • Thanos is a monster at 12 inches.  Just huge.  
  • Thanos is freaking heavy.  Like…3 or 4 watermelons heavy.  I’m not sure that’s an accurate unit of measurement, but it’s what I’m going with.  On the plus side, he’s definitely not as cumbersome to hold as 3 or 4 watermelons.  What I’m getting at here is size and weight, he’s a substantial statue in every sense of the word.  We’re talkin’ watermelons here.
  • Four separate hands are included, two left and two right.  This allows for 3 separate iterations of Thanos in the same outfit.  One set of hands he’s holding the Cosmic Cube (or Tesseract if yer nasty), another he has the Infinity Gauntlet on, and you can combine the unadorned hands for plain old Thanos without an artifact of extreme power.  4 hands, 1 statue, 3 iterations of Thanos…value!
  • When comic fans hear the word Thanos, immediately conjured in their brain, should be him on a cover of Infinity Gauntlet #4, him in his classic blue and gold against a starry black background saying “Come and get me”.  This statue is that Thanos to a T.  The artists at Diamond Select Toys absolutely killed it on character likeness here.  Not just character likeness, but they captured one of the most iconic Marvel villains from his most iconic period.  There is little more you can ask for when considering investing in a statue.  
  • Thanos is brought to life standing on a platform adorned in perfectly designed infinity stones (surrounding the outside bottom edge).  Two torches, while not electronically lit look astonishing with the right backlighting.
  • Paint and coloring here are damned near perfect all around.  Very clean lines, solid application.
  • The way Diamond Select Toys managed to capture the evil grin of The Mad Titan just shows the attention they pay to the finest details.  
  • He’s just such a beast of a statue!!!

The Bad

  • This is so hilariously wishful and it doesn’t even make sense for what this is…BUT.  The inclusion of the multiple hands has me wishing you could rotate his arm position so that he can hold the gauntlet up high and drop down the cube or closed fist on his right hand. Wouldn’t work, doesn’t even make sense, it’s a statue, but I am allowed my wishes, right?  It’s a count in the spoiled column that we even get a gauntlet hand swap in the first place.

The Rest

This is every single thing I wanted in a Thanos statue.  I’ve eyed some of it’s predecessors in different lines, but apart from being outrageously expensive and hard to find, most wouldn’t even fit through my front door.  With this Thanos statue you have a beautiful display piece at a perfect price point.  Something else to note.  Collectors of Marvel statues are familiar with, let’s call them the old guard, Bowen, Kotobukiya.  This Thanos, and yesterday’s review of Spider-Man, both fit beautifully in any collection featuring old guard statues.  Check the gallery for what my shelf looks like today.  I’m quite proud of it…and hoping to add Doc Strange imminently.  This definitely will NOT be my last Diamond Select statue review, PVC, Resin or otherwise.  Diamond Select is taking all of their incredible design know how and applying it to these ultimate formats.  The sky is the limit.  It should be noted, that while Richard Rider Nova will always be my favorite statue, I have others, and I love them all.  Thanos though, ranks right up there with Rich!  Can I have two favorites?  I may just!

Availability

The Mad Titan is available for pre-order at BigBadToyStore with an estimated ship date of August.  He’s also up at Diamond Select Toys own site with a magical “Add To Cart” button lit up.  Here is the important part though.  He’s limited to 3000 pieces.  He’s stunning.  If you want him, get to clicking because he won’t be around for long, especially at $150?!?!  Are you kidding?! I fully imagine these Premiere Collection pieces from Diamond Select Toys experiencing similar value over time increases to the classic Bowen pieces.  If you are a Thanos fan, you shouldn’t hesitate here.  You really don’t have very long with 3000 pieces, and if those pieces manage to hold out for even a little, forget it come 2018 when Thanos hits the big screen for real.  ….2999 pieces..cuz I got one.

Pictures!

MUReview received this statue for free to review from Diamond Select Toys.