Battle Beasts Minimates Series 1
#26
Posted 07 October 2012 - 07:06 PM
#27
Posted 08 October 2012 - 04:14 AM
#28
Posted 19 November 2012 - 11:08 PM
Thank god 99% of Battle Beasts collectors who have a hankering for something new are turning to Beast Saga instead of this crap. Now all I can say is hahahahaha! You tried to capitalize on their nostalgia, but now they won't care because they have Beast Saga instead; which, while far from perfect, is at least somewhat respectful of the history of the toy. You're not. You're just the Mitt Romney of the toy world trying for a quick buck capitalizing on the Battle Beasts name while bastardizing and uglifying the Battle Beasts name and image. Shame on you, Minimates. You're a effing joke.
Edited by ComradeCuttlefish, 19 November 2012 - 11:11 PM.
#29
Posted 20 November 2012 - 01:46 AM
Holy effing shit. You're the Bain Capital of the toy world. Minimates is the Mitt effing Romney of toys. You go in, you inject a little capital into a dead or dying brand like Battle Beasts. You revive it to make a quick buck while nostalgia for 80s toys is high. Then after you've made your money, you'll leave the brand name dead again. But in the mean time, you've created an absolute effing travesty in these ugly-ass-Lego-minifigure-looking things. Shame on you.
Thank god 99% of Battle Beasts collectors who have a hankering for something new are turning to Beast Saga instead of this crap. Now all I can say is hahahahaha! You tried to capitalize on their nostalgia, but now they won't care because they have Beast Saga instead; which, while far from perfect, is at least somewhat respectful of the history of the toy. You're not. You're just the Mitt Romney of the toy world trying for a quick buck capitalizing on the Battle Beasts name while bastardizing and uglifying the Battle Beasts name and image. Shame on you, Minimates. You're a effing joke.
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Edited by BaltanII, 20 November 2012 - 09:44 PM.
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#30
Posted 20 November 2012 - 04:37 AM
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#31
Posted 20 November 2012 - 07:40 PM
Holy effing shit. You're the Bain Capital of the toy world. Minimates is the Mitt effing Romney of toys. You go in, you inject a little capital into a dead or dying brand like Battle Beasts. You revive it to make a quick buck while nostalgia for 80s toys is high. Then after you've made your money, you'll leave the brand name dead again. But in the mean time, you've created an absolute effing travesty in these ugly-ass-Lego-minifigure-looking things. Shame on you.
Thank god 99% of Battle Beasts collectors who have a hankering for something new are turning to Beast Saga instead of this crap. Now all I can say is hahahahaha! You tried to capitalize on their nostalgia, but now they won't care because they have Beast Saga instead; which, while far from perfect, is at least somewhat respectful of the history of the toy. You're not. You're just the Mitt Romney of the toy world trying for a quick buck capitalizing on the Battle Beasts name while bastardizing and uglifying the Battle Beasts name and image. Shame on you, Minimates. You're a effing joke.
If by "inject a little capital," you mean "give away free toys for a couple of years, pay people to design an array of characters, and think long and hard about the world that those characters live in," then yeah, we did. We've been developing the brand for four years and trying out different approaches with an eye on the long term. Not sure a 2013 payday for four years worth of foundation-laying is a "quick buck," but one series of Minimates wouldn't come close to covering what we've invested anyway. Multiple series of Minimates, tie-in media and ancillary product lines were always the goal. We'll see if we can get this thing off the ground in December, with the TPB and toys hitting stores.
Obviously, some people here don't like Minimates, but there are a lot of people excited for the line. I'm glad fans of the original line have other options they can turn to that may be more like what they remember, and hopefully our toys being at Toys R Us will inspire more kids to find out about the original line.
And there are a lot of people who have read the comic and seen how good it is. I know there are others who can't seem to wrap their mind around a story that takes place on Earth, and I am sad that would keep someone from enjoying it. Hopefully strong TPB sales lead to more comics, and maybe other media than comics. I can't wait to see the Beast Saga cartoon, personally.
#32
Posted 20 November 2012 - 09:33 PM
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#33
Posted 21 November 2012 - 12:50 PM
#34
Posted 14 January 2013 - 10:24 PM
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#35
Posted 15 January 2013 - 11:12 AM
#36
Posted 20 January 2013 - 04:46 PM
#37
Posted 21 January 2013 - 10:14 AM
http://lukestoystore...asts-minimates/
#38
Posted 22 January 2013 - 08:03 AM
http://www.tomopop.c...2-0-28418.phtml
#39
Posted 23 January 2013 - 05:21 AM
An interview with me about the line, if you're at all curious.
http://www.tomopop.com/tomopop-original-battle-beasts-2-0-28418.phtml
Where's the "jump" we're supposed to hit? It won't let us read the full story.
#40
Posted 23 January 2013 - 11:57 AM
Where's the "jump" we're supposed to hit? It won't let us read the full story.
The 'jump' thing is a leftover relic from newspapers when the author would request you to flip to another page to finish the rest of the content, but I've noticed that bloggers like to use it as a generic segway then immediately continue their story below a banner or image without any sort of visible 'jump' to speak of. In this case, 'hit the jump' means scroll down 3 lines below the Battle Beasts logo. Personally, I find this practice unnecessary and really irritating.
#41
Posted 23 January 2013 - 05:31 PM
#42
Posted 23 January 2013 - 05:47 PM
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#43
Posted 23 January 2013 - 05:58 PM
heck add a rub sign and you are done, you won.
Edited by Ericnilla, 23 January 2013 - 05:59 PM.
#44
Posted 23 January 2013 - 06:13 PM
I'd probably stop.
Probably.
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#45
Posted 23 January 2013 - 06:35 PM
Its necessary if you start reading the story on the homepage. That's where you would have to leave the homepage to read the full article. But I gave you the direct link, so in this case, yeah, just scroll down.
Call me stupid, but the only thing at the bottom of the page for me says "hit the jump." Of which no jump can be found.
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#46
Posted 24 January 2013 - 07:30 PM
Sorry it's not working for you, Draznar. Just clicked it again to make sure it worked, and it did.
#47
Posted 24 January 2013 - 07:34 PM
White Gator
Blue Ram
and the Koppenschevelle painted Ram.
Custom paint on these make them 10x more awesome than they already are.
Don't know if anything can help poor Zik though.
#48
Posted 24 January 2013 - 07:59 PM
Still, good luck DST!
Edited by Undrave, 24 January 2013 - 07:59 PM.
#49
Posted 24 January 2013 - 11:50 PM
I got a bundle of awesomeness from b00sted today.
White Gator
Blue Ram
and the Koppenschevelle painted Ram.
Custom paint on these make them 10x more awesome than they already are.
Don't know if anything can help poor Zik though.
Johnny, you were the one who got those? That's awesome. I really love the look of the white gator. I was wanting to try and pick him up, but just wasn't able to. I hope you like the Vorin I painted. Tried to emulate the one that I did for the multiverse contest, and I feel I actually got better details on yours. Let me know you think about him in hand. Oh, and I named him Regeant. I wanted him to be a different character. He comes from the same clan as Vorin, acting as a noble, loyal vanguard to the ram clan. When Vorin left to begin pursuing a peaceful life, Regeant saw him as someone turning his back on their clan, and made it his duty to track down and apprehend Vorin. But as he has trailed him for the past couple years, he has come across an array of evidence that shows the true betrayal comes from within the clan itself. Now, he has found himself adrift, stuck between two sides of an open conflict, clinging to his own sense of honor.
On that note, there are a ton of details on these guys that does go a bit hidden. I ordered my series 1 set from Luke's Toy Store, and hopefully should get it in tomorrow or saturday. Once I do, I can start looking at the detail and armor layout, and start planning on what I might do to repaint some. The sculpts are really nice on everything that I have seen so far.
Edited by koppenschevelle, 24 January 2013 - 11:56 PM.
#50
Posted 25 January 2013 - 08:58 PM
I guess these look nice enough, there's some impressive sculpting work... but the whole thing feels WAY too serious for my taste. Battle Beast was a goofy children's toyline with miscolored animal in fantastical cyber armor weilding bizarre weapons and these don't really evoke the same feeling. The whole darker and edgier reboot feel doesn't do it for me. Beast Saga all the way for me!
Still, good luck DST!
Wow. If I'd called the original BB goofy, I'd have been crucified. Yeah, we tried to create a serious, dangerous world for these creatures. Read the comic. I love it.