If you swung by the Diamond Select Toys booth at New York Comic-Con this past weekend, you were treated to a sneak peek at an upcoming Marvel Select figure: DST’s rendering of native New Yorker the Amazing Spider-Man, from the upcoming movie starring Andrew Garfield! Standing 7 inches tall with 16 points of articulation, Spidey comes with an alternate set of hands and a display base made up to look like a New York City building facade. Check out the gallery below, and look for Spidey (and another yet-to-be-revealed figure) to hit stores next summer, shortly before ASM’s premiere!

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Minimates may be little, but they’re big on action. Don’t believe us? Making its debut at the Minimates panel at the New York Comic-Con this past weekend, the newest “Mini-mation” from Diamond Select Toys spotlights their popular pirate-themed Minimates line, Calico Jack’s Pirate Raiders! The fist episode, which runs a little over two minutes long, is animated using actual Minimates toys and an exacting stop-motion process. More episodes of Pirate Raiders are forthcoming, as are new adventures of the MAX team, Diamond Select’s rescue-themed Minimates line.

For those who don’t know about Calico Jack’s Pirate Raiders, here’s a quick history lesson: “The time is the early 18th century, an era of both magic and science, and the golden age of the Pirate Raiders! Pirate Calico Jack and pirate hunter Jonathan Barnet have teamed up to protect the seas from pirates, and to protect Jack from the supernatural evil of Captain Charles Vanes and his undying crew! Standing two inches tall with 14 points of articulation in every figure, this new line of interchangeable Minimates mini-figures and ships is fun for kids of all ages!”

Get more info and see the video at Minimates.com!

Diamond Select Toys loves the ladies. Specifically, they love the strong women who make up their Femme Fatales statue line, and they’ve had so much fun crafting 9-inch PVC versions of some of comicdom’s all-stars (Dawn, Darkchylde, Tarot) that they’ve gone a step further and created their own! Dark beauties Alice, Little Red, Snow White, Anne Bonny and Medusa have all been at least partially inspired by popular and historical renderings, but whenever a character has needed some more extensive conceptual work, DST has called in their in-house artist, Art Asylum inmate Uriel Caton. Uriel already handles much of DST’s Minimate design work, but he’s also been behind a handful of Femme Fatale designs, including DST’s latest, so we sat down with him to see how he found the concept for Little Bo Peep.
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Awwww yeah… it’s Minimate Time with DSTChuck! Get on it after the break!
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You’ve read about our Maximum Zombies giveaway, but there will actually be a super-secret Minimate giveaway at the Diamond Select Toys booth (#338), just for you, the Minimates fans who read this blog and follow us on Twitter. Come to booth 338, find DST Marketing Supervisor Zach Oat (with the sideburns), and say the words “search and rescue,” and you’ll get a bagged Minimates MAX Series 2 figure. We will have very few of these, and they will go fast! Note: Accessories shown may not be the ones that come with the figure.

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Having trouble keeping track of everything you need to see and do at the New York Comic-Con? Of course you are. It would take a computerized brain to remember everything that’s going on, so we thought we’d help you remember the important stuff — namely, everything Diamond Select Toys is doing at the show! Use this as your handy-dandy checklist for all things DST-related! Exclusives, giveaways, events… Consider this your Diamond Select field guide, complete with pictures below!
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Diamond Select Toys has a long tradition of giving out free Minimates at their convention appearances, and this year’s New York Comic-Con will be no different. However, since it’s only a couple of weeks before Halloween, we decided to make this year’s giveaway extra-spooky. The free Minimate will be from our upcoming Maximum Zombies Minimates line, and will be a Zombie Civilian in a sealed bag. Giveaways will happen at our booth (#338) starting at 10:00 AM on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, WHILE SUPPLIES LAST — there will only be a limited number given out each day. (Note: Giveaways will NOT occur at noon, as they have in the past.) It’s first come, first served, so you will want to make our booth your first stop of the day, and pick up the exclusive Maximum Zombies two-pack (seen here backing up the Zombie Civilian) while you’re in the neighborhood! Check out the pictures below, and we’ll see you at the con!

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It has been a HUGE year for super hero movies, and without a doubt the biggest comic-based movies of the summer were Captain America and Thor. Now, all of your favorite characters from the Captain America and Thor comic books have teamed up for the ultimate wave of Marvel Minimates from Diamond Select Toys! Designed by the team at Art Asylum, each figure stands 2 inches tall with 14 points of articulation, and comes with a variety of interchangeable parts and accessories! Check out the all-new packaging below, and look for them in specialty and Toys R Us stores near you this November!

Wave 42/Wave 12 (available everywhere):
- Armored Thor with Beta Ray Bill
- Civil War Captain America with Arnim Zola

Wave 42 (specialty stores and comic shops only):
- Thunderstrike with Stone Man
- Eric Masterson as Thor with Stone Man (rare variant)

Wave 12 (Toys “R” Us only):
- Jack Kirby Thor with Balder
- Secret War Captain America with Crossbones

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Our Femme Fatales Anne Bonny statue is sailing across the seas to comic shops and specialty stores right now, but before she gets there, the beutiful-but-deadly pirate has an undercover mission to go on… at New York Comic-Con! Dying her blonde hair brown and ditching her trademark tan coat for a maroon one, this incognito variant version of the beautiful Pirate Raider will only be available at NYCC in a limited edition of 100 — the same edition size as our sold-out SDCC-exclusive Alice! Check out her NYCC packaging and full turnarounds (with forelock) below, then stop by the Diamond Select Toys booth (#338) on October 13-16 with your 40 pieces of silver, and pick up this rare bit o’ treasure!

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Marvel Select Green Goblin, arriving Summer 2012

Diamond Select Toys recently revealed the figure that will follow Colossus in their 7-inch-scale Marvel Select line, and it’s the Green Goblin, longtime Spidey foe and mainstay of the Marvel Universe. While he won’t be out until summer of 2012, we thought we’d sit down with DST director Chuck Terceira to find out how the figure came into being.
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