{"id":5972,"date":"2012-07-09T09:13:19","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T13:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=5972"},"modified":"2012-07-09T09:13:19","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T13:13:19","slug":"equipment-thundercats-and-alpha-flight-join-this-years-exclusive-minimates-at-sdcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=5972","title":{"rendered":"Equipment: Thundercats and Alpha Flight Join this Year&#8217;s Exclusive Minimates at SDCC!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next week&#8217;s Comic-Con International in San Diego just got two more awesome Minimates<a href=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/SDCC_AlphaFlight1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-5979\" title=\"SDCC_AlphaFlight1\" src=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/SDCC_AlphaFlight1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"353\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a> exclusives! Only available at the Action Figure Xpress booth (#3345), two all-new four-packs will make their debut at the show, one from the long-running Marvel Minimates series, and one from the brand-new Thundercats line!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The new Marvel Minimates set is the first to tackle that legendary team from the Great White North, Alpha Flight! The four-pack includes some of Canada&#8217;s greates heroes, including Guardian, Northstar, Marrina and Puck, each standing 2 inches tall with a full range of articulation. Plus, each comes with unique accessories &#8212; Puck with a cartwheel hand, Northstar with an alternate white hairpiece, and Guardian with removable mask and alternate Delphine Courtney head! This set will be $20, with more Alpha Flighters to come in the future!<\/p>\n<p>The next Minimates set comes from new company Icon Heroes, which is bringing <a href=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Lion-O1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5980 alignleft\" title=\"Lion-O1\" src=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Lion-O1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a>collectors plenty of exciting new Thundercats merchandise. The first ever Thundercats Minimates box set &#8212; based on the original 1980s cartoon &#8212; includes Lion-O, Panthro, Jaga and Mumm-Ra, each 2 inches tall with full articulation. For accessories, Panthro comes with his nunchucks, Mumm-Ra with a staff and removable cape, and Lion-O with his gauntlet, the Sword of Omens (large and small) an alternate shouting head and a non-poseable mini-figure of Snarf! Selling for $20, it&#8217;s the start of an exciting new line!<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to pick up your sets at SDCC &#8212; today is your last day to pre-order through actionfigurexpress.com &#8212; and check out our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artasylum.com\/gallery\/thundercats-minimates\/\">gallery of Thundercats photos here<\/a>! Follow along with all the con news and get regular DST updates on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/diamondselecttoys\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/CollectDST\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Jaga1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-5981\" title=\"Jaga1\" src=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Jaga1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"418\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Mumm-Ra5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-5982\" title=\"Mumm-Ra5\" src=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Mumm-Ra5-e1341839466115.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"422\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next week&#8217;s Comic-Con International in San Diego just got two more awesome Minimates exclusives! Only available at the Action Figure Xpress booth (#3345), two all-new four-packs will make their debut at the show, one from the long-running Marvel Minimates series, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=5972\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[208,1954,206,332,319,24,209,1741,1742,977,159],"class_list":["post-5972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equipment","tag-action-figures","tag-alpha-flight","tag-diamond-select-toys","tag-dst","tag-marvel","tag-marvel-comics","tag-minimates","tag-san-diego-comic-con","tag-sdcc","tag-thundercats","tag-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5972"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5986,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5972\/revisions\/5986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}