We saw several figures from Diamond Select Toys and Art Asylum's fourth wave of The Walking Dead comic series Minimates back in April, but in a new post at DailyDead, fans can finally see a whole lot more zombies (and a few humans) that are set to arrive at retail this month.
Between Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, The Wolverine and its regular 17th and 18th Marvel Minimates waves, it's going to be a busy several months at Art Asylum and Diamond Select Toys. At Comic-Con this week DST is displaying dozens of its upcoming 2" figures from the cinematic and comic book corners of the Marvel U. You can take a look at all of the displayed 'mates from the SDCC floor, after the cut.
The final chunk of 2013 should be a boon to Thunderbolts fans and, um, Undeadheads? who dig Minimates. Diamond Select Toys and Art Asylum will release a special Marvel Minimates Zombie Villains Box Set in October, followed by a Marvel Now! Thunderbolts Box Set in January of 2014.
Minimates collectors may want to secure some clear shelf space before San Diego Comic-Con on July 17-21, especially if they're keen on Iron Man and Deadpool. Action Figure Xpress has announced an exclusive new "Deadpool Assemble" box set packing Cable-Pool, Captain Ameri-Pool, Thor-Pool and Phonics-Killer Iron Deadpool, plus a massive Iron Man 3"Hall of Armors" 10-pack that stocks eight of Shellhead's most iconic movie suits, along with 'mates of Tony Stark and Pepper Potts.
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Spinning out of AvX and into Marvel NOW are the latest two sets of Marvel Minimates from Diamond Select Toys and Art Asylum. Joining the previously announced specialty store-centric Marvel Minimates series 51 this June is a 16th Toys "R" Us exclusive that
While the first three ThunderCats Minimates box sets focused on the original 1985-1989 animated series' best-known heroes and villains, it looks like the newest round of characters will be decidedly more... eclectic. This September Icon Heroes will roll out a Previews-exclusive "ThunderCats, Ho!" box set packing Pumyra, Lynx-O, Bengali and Ratar-O, along with a non-posable Ro-Bear Bert figure.
As if things weren't grim enough for the characters in Art Asylum and Diamond Select Toys' The Walking Dead comic series Minimates line, the fourth wave will introduce all kinds of intensity from Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard's zombie drama. After all,
Animation: The next animated feature from DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation will be Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox, an adaptation of the 2011 Flashpoint DC Comics event. It's slated for a July 30 release
Movies: Robert Redford has confirmed that he'll be playing the head of SHIELD in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, although his character's name is yet to be revealed.
Gaming: Activisio