Today sees a new fleet of Minimate vehicles sailing (and driving) into comic and specialty shops everywhere, as well as a new set of Femme Fatales!

Minimates Vehicles Series 3 (comic and specialty assortment)
- Knight Rider KARR with Garthe Knight
- Pirate Raiders Vendetta with Undercover Anne Bonny
- Knight Rider Super Pursuit Mode KITT with Michael Knight

Femme Fatales Set 2
- Alice
- Little Red
- Anne Bonny
- Medusa

And this spring, be on the lookout for the Toys “R” Us assortment of Minimates Vehicles, featuring KITT with Michael Knight and the HMS Albion ship with a British Marine! Coming in May!

Check out a gallery of the ships and cars in action here!

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With Minimates Vehicles Series 3 scheduled to sail into comic shops and specialty stores this week, we thought we’d take the two new Pirate Raiders ships out to take some photos of them in action! Robert Deal’s ship The Vendetta comes festooned in red and black, with plenty of skulls, and she comes with an exclusive figure of Undercover Anne Bonny. The British Navy’s HMS Albion is decked out in blue and gold, and comes with an exclusive red-coated Colonial Marine. The Vendetta will be available at comic shops and specialty stores on Wednesday, while the Albion is a Toys “R” Us exclusive, and should be in stores this spring. Check out our gallery of photos here, and don’t forget about our still-available Ranger ship (only at TRU now) and glow-in-the-dark ghost ship (at specialty)!

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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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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Legend has it that any man who laid his eyes upon Medusa would promptly be turned to stone, but a lesser-known legend says that one man has been in her presence without being subjected to that terrible fate. That man was the pirate Calico Jack (of Pirate Raiders fame, of course), but now you can join him, thanks to Diamond Select Toys! This 9-inch Femme Fatales statue of Medusa is made of PVC vinyl and poses absolutely no threat to your person, so go ahead and stare at her all you want.  We’ve even put a convenient viewing window in the front of her packaging, shown here for the first time. Look for her in a comic shop or specialty store near you in December!

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These dates represent our best estimated in-store dates and may change as production warrants. We’ll be updating these dates through our blog in an effort to bring customers the most up-to-date information possible. See the full list after the jump.
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October has been a big month for Diamond Select Toys, from the Munsters to the Universal Monsters to X-Men: Curse of the Mutants. Well, we’ve got one more specialty-market ship date left in October, and it’s a doozy! Not only will comic book shops and online retailers get the first box set of Femme Fatales Minimates (with Dawn, Darkchylde, Tarot and Lady Death), they’ll also get the long-awaited specialty assortment of Minimate Vehicles Series 2!

The blue MAX Tech Stealth Jet with Pilot, the glow-in-the-dark Pirate Raiders Ship with Cartographer and the Back to the Future II Hover-Mode TIme Machine (phasing version) with Jennifer will all arrive at stores this Wednesday, so hit up you LCS or your favorite online retailer for your set. Check out the pictures below, and check out the glowing ship’s debut in the first episode of “Calico Jack’s Pirate Raiders”!

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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!

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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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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