By now, you surely have the first Femme Fatales Minimates box set, but we know that just four Femme Fatales is nowhere near enough! Luckily we have the perfect solution to that problem: a brand new set of Femme Fatales Minimates, featuring characters from the world of fairy tales and pirate adventure! This set features Alice, Little Red, Anne Bonny and Medusa, who not only look great with your existing Femme Fatales and Pirate Raiders Minimates, but look great displayed with your Femme Fatales PVC statues as well.

For this new blister card, I made use of design elements that I had created for the statue packaging and ads, including each Femme’s individual logo. Shooting the Minimates for the packaging is actually quite a challenge, in that prototypes are usually in a fairly early stage at that point, and require a lot of Photoshop work to look the way they’re supposed to. Even then, things tend to change once the actual production materials are used. Hope you like it! Look for them at your local comics retailer or specialty store in January!

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As revealed yesterday on Kotaku.com, Diamond Select Toys is heading down the rabbit hole! Eleven years after her first adventure, American McGee’s Alice is back in Wonderland, looking for the villain who has corrupted the realm once again, and this time Diamond Select Toys is there to capture the game’s fiendish designs! Based on the game American McGee’s Alice: Madness Returns from EA and Spicy Horse, this assortment of 7-inch-scale figures includes Alice, the Cheshire Cat and a Card Guard, and each figure is fully articulated and comes in oversized collector packaging. All figures are in scale to each other, and Alice comes with her Vorpal blade, Hobby Horse and Pepper Grinder weapons as accessories. The figures will only be available in specialty stores and comic shops, and DST has made a special variant figure of Alice in Hysteria mode for Diamond Comics Distributors’ Previews catalog. Painted to re-create the invincible berzerker state she enters in the game, Hysteria Alice also comes with uniquely painted Vorpal blade, Hobby Horse and Pepper Grinder weapons. Look for them this summer!

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Everyone already knows that Minimates make great stocking stuffers, but what if you have a lot of Minimates, and want a fun new way to show them off to your friends and relations? Well, we’ve got an idea — why not trim the tree with them? Due to the interchangeability of Minimates, it’s actually pretty easy. Here’s how you do it:

1. Remove the Minimate’s head.
2. Clip the loop end of an ornament hook onto the exposed neck peg. (In a pinch, you can also unfold a paper clip into an S shape, and wrap the smaller end around the peg.)
3. Place the head back on, as well as the Minimate’s hat or helmet.
4. Bend the hook/clip upwards, so the hook can be seen over the Minimate’s head.
5. Place on tree.
6. Repeat.

At about $7 for a pack of two, that’s cheaper than most ornaments, and you can show your love of Marvel Comics and movies, Capcom games, Halo, Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, Universal Monsters, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, pirates, fireman, policemen, SCUBA diving and much more! Beat that, Hallmark!

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If you weren’t able to get out to San Diego Comic-Con this year, we have some good news: two of our show exclusives are now available for order in the official DST store! Our Femme Fatales Alice statue sold out completely, but we have limited numbers of the Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Player 2 box set ($17.99) and the Alice: Madness Returns Minimate ($5) up for order. (Please note that the Alice Minimate is from our remaining non-numbered inventory, as the numbered editions were all sold at San Diego.) You can pick up both exclusives under the “Products” tab at http://www.diamondselecttoys.com!

We have a lot of fun taking pictures of our toys, and we know you do, too. We’ve seen the evidence. Which is why we’ve decided to have a photo contest! Take your best shot of a Minimate — or a group of Minimates — post them to our Facebook wall, and you could win a Minimate 2-pack, 4-pack or vehicle from every line we currently produce! Here’s what you have to do.
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Having trouble keeping track of everything you need to see and do at San Diego 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, panels, events… Consider this your Diamond Select field guide!
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Thought everyone would like to get a peek at the accessories that will be going with our Alice: Madness Returns figures, due out in early 2012. Swing by Booth 2607 at SDCC to see the figures themselves.

A larger view:

After eleven years, the characters from the highly popular computer game “American McGee’s Alice” are back, and this time, they’re not just on your computer. A sequel game, “Alice: Madness Returns,” is due out this month and will be available on the PC, PS3 and XBox 360… and also as action figures!
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You’ve seen the figure loose, but here she is in her rabbit hole: the Alice Minimate! The first toy from the long-awaited sequel to “American McGee’s Alice” will debut at the Diamond Select Toys booth (#2607) at San Diego Comic-Con in her single-figure box, and will be the only Minimate made for the game. This 2-inch, highly poseable mini-figure is based on Alice’s look from “Alice: Madness Returns,” has 14 points of articulation and is sculpted by Diamond Select Toys and Art Asylum. Don’t be late for the very important date of July 21-24!