Somehow during the weekend I missed putting this up. Jean Grey in her 90’s costume is the final figure in Marvel Minimates Series 34.
And since you KNOW we couldn’t make Cyclops and not her, today’s Marvel Minimates Series 34 reveal is 90’s Jean Grey!
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Here’s the entire wave, which also features Cyclops, Beast, and Rogue, also in their Jim Lee 90’s duds, and Black Queens Jean Grey and variant Selene with the Hellfire Club Guard army builder.
Alright, DST fooled me by saying “Jean Grey is not the variant” – did anyone guess Selene? This still leaves two spots in the lineup for Marvel Minimates Series 34. I’m still hoping for more Hellfire Club, but I think anything X-Men goes now.
Art Asylum The true variant of Series 34 – Selene!
More Marvel Minimates news – a Spider-Man four-pack that includes a battle-damaged Spidey and three fan favorites – a new Black Cat, Doc Ock, and Vulture. Entertainment earth has this listed for an April 2010 delivery.
Are you a friend or a foe?
Spider-Man has met so many interesting characters in his many adventures. He has also had to battle many a nefarious villain along the way. Picking the all time favorites is a herculean task to say the least! To help you along the way and help expand your Minimates collection we are bringing you the Friends and Foes 4 pack. Featuring a battle-ravaged Spider-Man, and new version of Black Cat, the evil Doc Ock, and Vulture! Build your Marvel Minimates Universe to even greater heights!
Although Art Asylum is no longer taking guesses for the remaining figures in Marvel Minimates Series 34, at least for a chance to win some zombies, there’s still three figures remaining, after the reveal of the Black Queen Jean Grey today.
The Black Queen isn’t the variant, for the series, and since the variant is usually packed with the army builder, we may have three Hellfire Club characters to go, with one of them being a variant.
I had to check the Marvel Minimates visual guide, and the White Queen has already been made in her Hellfire Club outfit. Could we possibly get a Sebastian Shaw and a MasterMind? Or maybe I’m overthinking this, and one of the remaining slots is for a Wolverine in a new brown and tan deco (edit: dur dur, of course he was in the tiger stripe costume vs. the Hellfire Club!) and battle-damaged variant. Too obvious?
Art Asylum You’ve been patient, so here’s the next Marvel Minimates Series 34 star – Black Queen Jean Grey!
The design for the new Iron Man movie for next year’s sure thing blockbuster is so secretive that Diamond Select Toys can’t show you anything but Tony Stark’s pretty face. The Marvel Select figure will feature a flip up faceplate. No more details on the Minimates yet, but I’d expect at least one full series (like they did for the first Iron Man movie) and a San Diego Comic-Con exclusive set.
DST & Iron Man 2 Blast Off!
The biggest Super Hero movie of 2010 is fast approaching and will thrill fans with high-tech armor, covert government operations, one supremely angry Russian and, we are excited to announce, Diamond Select Toys! Maryland based Diamond Select Toys & Collectibles, LLC has secured a license from Marvel Entertainment to produce collectible action figures and Minimates based on the summer’s surefire blockbuster hit, Marvel’s Iron Man 2!
Diamond Select Toys will bring the Iron Man 2 property to their most successful toy lines, recruiting top industry talent including Gentle Giant for the seven-inch collector-driven Marvel Select action figure line and design-house Art Asylum for the unstoppable Marvel Minimates series of two-inch articulated block figures. Both lines will see releases beginning in March of 2010 and continuing through the summer convention season, including exclusive partnerships with national toy retailer Toys “R” Us and online powerhouse Action Figure Xpress.com.
“After Marvel’s Iron Man 2008 feature film increased the global awareness of this powerful brand and our continued success with both the Marvel Select and Marvel Minimates lines, securing the rights to Iron Man 2 toys was a very easy decision for us,” commented Diamond Select Toys Director, Chuck Terceira. “We’re all huge fans of the first Iron Man film and we’re very much looking forward to highlighting both the comic and movie characters from the Iron Man universe over the next year.”
Hot on the heels of the $585-million-generating Iron Man film, the action-packed sequel will hit theaters on May 7th of 2010 and catches up with Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark six months after the events of his big-screen debut. Iron Man 2 also stars Mickey Rourke as the devilish Whiplash, Scarlett Johansson as the seductive and deadly Black Widow, Don Cheadle’s War Machine debut and Samuel L Jackson, reprising his role as the world’s number one spy, Nick Fury.
