BAMF! - Bob's Astonishing Minimate Finds: 2011

We all know that Santa isn't running the whole Christmas business by himself. And customizer Nervous portrait one of his most, erm, ...

Let's talk about Sauron . No, not the one with the rings, the one with the wings. Karl "Pterodactyl" Lykos - who actually n...

Cable is back! and he's got just 24 hours to wipe the Avengers from the pages of history! That's what the current X-Sanction stor...

We're talking Space Ghost . And he had them all. Pete Fonda. Jack Black. Pavement. Charlton Heston. Steve Nash. Even Lassie. I didn...

We already got an official Dr. Strange and in my opinion he's one of the best Minimates ever made. Unfortunatelly you needed to get ...

Ho-ho-ho and a pint of Brass Monkey and when my reindeers shake their hips, they sure get funky. Santa Claus in the house. OK, enough wi...

Let's talk about Kang. Kang The Conqueror. Kang The Supreme. Kang the Time Traveler. Kang the most desired Minimate for quite a while...

When Whitney Frost's plane crashed (damn you, Iron Man!), her face was horribly scarred and instead of talking to a plastic surgeon, ...

We've already seen his regular Spawn and now customizer Les Koting gives us yet another design: Wings of Redemption Spawn Minimate....

Did somebody say West Coast Avengers? Bobbi Morse, better known as Mockingbird is a long deceased (actually kidnapped) and currently res...

Constrictor , aka Frank Something-Something, was a SHIELD agent who became a criminal after he killed several youths. Or was it, because ...

Personally, I never liked Hank Pym that much as a character, but he makes it easy to be disliked. From the several identities he held I ...

Image Comics published quite a few of those huge, bulked up characters back in the 1990s. Pitt comes to mind, or the Creech and this guy ...

Are you familiar with Marvel's rather obscure Cancerverse? No? Well it's a corrupted, sentient parallel universe to the regular E...

Young Avengers assembled! Customizer Psyguy did the incredible job to complete the whole team and we can now have a look at how officia...

I was five or six when I saw the music video to Michael Jackson's Thriller for the first time. I watched it with my mom and I was sc...

Halloween is just around the corner and look what I found: a zombified Magnum, P.I. Minimate! And it is gorious! Customizer Antacost br...

Meet Mark Scarlotti , brilliant engineer, weapons designer, husband, father and currently deceased C-list supervillain called Blacklash. ...

I already mentioned Isaiah Bradley being Patriot 's grandfather and now we have a Isaiah Bradley - The Black Captain America Minimat...

Steve Rogers had a bunch of different outfits besides his iconic look as Captain America - including one that resembled a Transformer . ...

X-51 - what a nice and euphonious name - was built as an US Army killing machine, but after gaining sentience became the "robot with...

Greer Grant Nelson has been a Westcoast Avenger, a cop, a spy, got shrunk and even lived in Oz for a while and is currently a mom (right?...

Let's talk about Rock Trolls! Ol' Ulik here probably is the greatest, most fearsome and deadliest of all. That makes him a top c...

Earlier this year war veteran Flash Thompson became the Venom symbiote's new host as a government black ops agent. And although it...

KGB spy Emil Blonsky deliberately exposed himself to an even greater quantity of the same gamma radiation that transformed Bruce Banner i...

Since his introduction in 1992, we've seen a lot of different Spawn characters and variations of his black outfit with the chains, s...

Doctor Doom is one of the greatest comic book villains ever created. He's one of those old school bad guys on a mission, but he'...

Mystique is probably one of the greatest female supervillains ever created, bending the world to their desire and getting away with it. ...

Created in the early 1990s, Cyber is part of Wolverine's rouges gallery and once even gouged out one of Wolverine's eyes. Thanks...

Shocker ! He's that guy from Spidey's rouges gallery who has a pair of gauntlets that can project a concentrated blast of air tha...

Elijah Bradley, the Black Cap America 's grand son, is the leader of the Young Avengers and is going by the name Patriot . Original...

When Spawn made his debut in the early 1990s I really enjoyed it. Very dark, very disturbing, very anti-heroic and a very cool origin sto...

" Infamous for its shower scene, but immortal for its contribution to the horror genre ", says Rotten Tomatoes and I don't...

Sleepwalker was the protagonist in his own 33 issue long series back in the early 1990s. He's given the usual superhuman abbilities, bu...

There are few people with a more iconic look than Mr. T, so he makes an amazing toy. Actually, there is an official Mr. T Minimate back fro...

Not much is known about the origins of this yellow skinned former ruler and dictator of a whole world. Mongul the Merciless . Big fellow. Mi...

Tha last day of our little Scott Pilgrim VS Shamrock Week introduces the girl of Scott's dreams: Ramona Flowers . She literally is the g...

Day four of our little Scott Pilgrim VS Shamrock Week brings you non other than Mr. Gideon Graves ! Gideon is the founder of the League of R...

Day three of our little Scott Pilgrim VS Shamrock week introduces Roxanne "Roxie" Richter . Being a half-ninja and a blonde, Roxie...

Day two of our Scott Pilgrim VS. Shamrock Week brings you Ramona's first evil ex boyfriend: Matthew Patel . Although he's the easies...

It was seven years ago today - not really today, but in August 2004 - when Bryan Lee O'Malley came up with the first issue of his Scott ...

Sweet 80s horror movies. What began as a gory shocker later created one of the most iconic horror film characters of all time: Jason Voorhee...

Billy Kaplan is Wiccan , the Young Avengers who's able to use magic. His name was part of a failsafe program that Vision 1.1 (Comicvine ...

In an Edgar-Rice-Burroughs-meets-Jules-Verne-Hollow-Earth-world, former Vietnam veteran Travis Morgan lives and fights as the Warlord : a mo...

Right off the pages of Batman Inc., the DC series in which Batman is basicly franchising his whole crime fighting schtick on a global scale,...

Elements! What would we do without you? I mean, not literally, but in literature. Rex Mason became, after being exposed to a redioactive met...

Mortimer Toynbee , Magneto's toady henchman, became servile to anyone that showed him the slightest bit of affection - i.e. Magneto - af...

The late 70s. John Travolta. Saturday Night Fever. Disco. What should Marvel do back then, right? They - design by committee that is - creat...

The people at AA/DST obviously don't like Luke Cage , the super hero formerly known as Power Man. While the Power Man minimate looked k...

Back in the early 80s the need for strange sci-fi meets horror meets trash movies was pretty big. Think of an alien species that places thei...

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