Diamond Select Dungeons and Dragons Minimates Set 2 Villains
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00:00many or not evil can't be contained here's a look at the diamond select
00:05dungeons and dragons the animated series minimates set to villains
00:30diamond select toys returns to the animated world of the D&D cartoon in the
00:341980s with an all-new deluxe box set of two-inch mini mates this new set
00:38includes an array of villains Venger, Warduke, Dekion, the skeleton warrior, a
00:43shadow demon and nightmare Avengers horse that he can really ride plus get a
00:48figurine of the dungeon master with removable ice crystal prison each mini
00:52mate features multiple points of articulation and character specific
00:55accessories and all parts are fully interchangeable they come packaged in a
00:58full color box style window box with panel cover designed and illustrated by
01:03Barry Bradfield luckily for us we don't have to search through dungeons to find
01:08this set for ourselves in fact the Dungeons & Dragons minimate set to
01:12villains is currently available either in comic specialty stores or online we
01:16had just recently looked at the set one that consisted of all the heroes and
01:19this set is actually going for the same price around $50 for all the figures
01:23that you're getting you're essentially only really getting if you look at them
01:26from a mini mate standpoint only really four characters then you're getting the
01:30horse then you're also as well getting the dungeon master where's the dungeon
01:33master you'll see the dungeon master in a second each one of these figures though
01:36are on average about two inches in height characters like for example
01:39Venger are gonna be a lot taller simply just because there's a lot more going on
01:43for him if I was to measure just him alone then you're looking at this mini
01:47mate specifically being about two and a half inches rather than the two or about
01:50six and a half centimeters tall speaking of dungeon adventures hey if you've been
01:55following the adventures of this reviewer well we've already looked at
01:57set one of the Dungeons & Dragons minimates let's bring in those right now
02:01of course we've got ourselves here Hank we've got ourselves presto Bobby my
02:05personal favorite Eric off to the side also as well Sheila and front and center
02:10also here's what they look like with Diana can't help it of course not leave
02:14out uni the unicorn both these first sets were all focused on the heroes now
02:18we're gonna be looking at set to the villains set two of the Dungeons &
02:21Dragons mini mates are really full of oddities one that would expect a regular
02:25traditional mini mate body might only really find three figures that have that
02:29Venger Deccion and Warduke are really the ones that have a traditional mini
02:32mate head top torso lower legs and arms attached to that characters though like
02:37shadow demon are missing lower legs in favor of a replacement stand and then a
02:41case like nightmare the horse actually not only has one pair of mini mate legs
02:45but actually has a front and a back set also contained in this set I don't know
02:50if you would really consider it to be a mini mate but dungeon master also goes
02:53for the ride maybe perhaps against his will he is though one of the included
02:57accessories and I really would put him in a category of an accessory and not
03:00necessarily as a mini mate because if you look at him first of all he's
03:03contained inside of a frozen prison when he got him out of the packaging in fact
03:07actually he was on the top like he was looking like he was on the top of a
03:10mountain but actually it's supposed to go over top of his body like that it's
03:14still done in translucent blue plastic and it's still done in a way that you'd
03:17be able to see straight through it underneath though is a little mini mate
03:20version I'll look at the size of this guy a little mini mate version of
03:23dungeon master he has unfortunately no pose ability possessed in his head he
03:27certainly has nothing in his arms he's more just a staction figure than
03:30anything else but I mean really it would be a hard thing I suppose they probably
03:34if anything could have given him a ball joint for the head and maybe not maybe
03:37nothing else but he serves more as just a company display piece and he certainly
03:42would work really well especially if you have yourself the hero versions of them
03:45you can have the display dungeon master along with them and if to look at them
03:48you can see like dungeon master only really goes to about the waist of a
03:51regular traditional mini mate so he comes in they come in clue with those
03:55the figures also of course come in clue with clear acrylic display stands
03:58because really shadow demons already attached on to his and really
04:03realistically venture doesn't even really need a display stand because if
04:06you look at the bottom of his body he doesn't even have anything that would
04:09attach onto a peg stand anyways the thing that he has funny enough though
04:13they come in clue with three acrylic display stands my only real guess is
04:17that one of the stands was actually there suited for the horse because the
04:20horse of course does have two front legs right too many mate front legs too many
04:24mate back legs and of course it still has pegs so I suppose in theory you
04:28would attach it onto the display stand I mean I don't think I would really ever
04:32display it with the horse anyways because the horse does have four legs it
04:35more than is enough to be able to stand on its own it doesn't necessarily need
04:38one of these I've got it right now though attached onto decky on the
04:41skeleton warrior and of course on to war do one of my personal favorites but
04:45let's go run through all the things that we get here in this second set of mini
04:48mates starting things first let's look at venture venture love love venture
04:53not only in the cartoon I love venture here's a mini mate the thing that's
04:56really neat about him is getting out of the packaging he actually has these like
05:00little orbs that go around his hands underneath that though he actually has a
05:04regular like a traditional mini mate hand it's a lot easier though to see it
05:08I'm just gonna plug this one back in make sure it's all the way on there it's
05:12a lot easier to see it on this side I'm just gonna remove one of the orbs right
05:15now you can see just a regular white hand underneath I didn't know so on the
05:19other side that every time I did want to remove the energy orb oh it's doing it
05:24right now I was gonna say it normally takes the hand along with it just so
05:28happens to be I guess because I was hitting record but yeah these just
05:31basically plug over top of his hands I see real no reason why I would want to
05:34ever really remove these if I want to remove them I would just have to find
05:37then a place to store all my mini mate accessories I just so happen to have a
05:40peg just full of mini mates accessories the head sculpt is fantastic on this guy
05:45of course he's got the big giant bat wings on the back of his body the wings
05:49are actually attached to his torso and then the torso is essentially is going
05:52over top of a mini mate square body head sculpt looks good also as well for this
05:56guy but he doesn't have any legs whatsoever and if you wanted to you
05:59could pair him along with his nightmare horse the horse itself if I just pick
06:03this up right now it's really neat on this one because not only again like
06:07breaking the mold of course what a traditional mini mate body would be even
06:11underneath this there's nothing really that would say that this is a traditional
06:14mini mate at all of course you would have a regular mini mate leg only really
06:18from the sense that you know you got the top of the thigh and then you've got the
06:21hinge that would be the knee from below that of course you would just have the
06:24regular hooves and of course you got the head sculpt there on the front does have
06:27some posability it doesn't perhaps as have as much posability as a regular
06:31mini mate that would be attached by a ball joint this only seems to have a
06:34straight swivel you can already see as well this one does have the lower half
06:38of danger so essentially what you can do is if you take danger what you do is you
06:43remove the lower half of his body you don't even have to really worry about
06:46taking the top of his torso I mean really that comes off too I'm just show
06:50you guys what that looks like take that off and there's nothing by the way
06:53printed on the back of his head but you could remove this all together if you
06:56wanted to you can see like the head the shoulders and the wings are all one
06:59piece that just fits over top of his body no really all we really need to do
07:04is remove the lower half of his body so we'll just put that off to the side then
07:07you can take yourself as well the horse and essentially what the horse is doing
07:11is see it's replacing the lower like his lower skirting and as well as replacing
07:16like his waist area see that so it just looks like he's sitting on top perched
07:20on top of this horse so we'll just take danger here just fit him over to the peg
07:24so if you're looking at it let's just remove this again can I remove this
07:27again there we go you can see there's a peg right there and then of course
07:30there's the hole that would have been initially attached to his lower waist so
07:33we just plug that in place now it looks like danger still riding his horse and
07:36it's a believable thing too it's not just the case that they took the top of
07:39his torso can you imagine they just took the top of the torso and you just
07:42literally attached onto the horse at least they give you a believable lower
07:45half of it so it looks like danger actually is riding the horse rather than
07:49you just not taking the top half the mini mate and you're just sticking it
07:52plunking it down on top of the horse so that looks good I like the look of that
07:55so right away though it's not necessarily I mean it still is really a
07:59six mini mate set but there you know there's some some caveats there's some
08:04exceptions that rule obviously like danger Dungeon Master doesn't
08:08necessarily I don't know if I would consider really a mini mate and then you
08:11know again like with the horse the horse would be something that goes as an
08:13accompanying piece to danger so in actual fact you're kind of only really
08:17getting four mini mates instead of the advertised six next figure that we're
08:21gonna have a look at though is Dekion. Dekion the skeleton warrior I've got
08:25him already attached onto his display stand he is though one of the mini mates
08:28that does require a display stand the stand simply just you take the clear
08:32post there and there's the peg you just fit it into the either one of the holes
08:35Dekion does I suppose come included with a sword there was a couple of swords
08:38actually in the tray but I think the broader one is the one that belongs
08:41though to Warduke so I'm gonna go with a slightly thinner blade and that just
08:45fits into his hands mini mates are fairly easy to attach accessories it's
08:49just a case you're fitting it into like a C clamp hand one thing I really though
08:54like about the skeleton warrior is that I don't know if you guys can hopefully
08:56see this is that his legs and his arms are using a clear plastic and then what
09:02they've done is they've essentially printed a skull or the bones over top of
09:06the clear plastic you probably can see it a lot more from the back how it's
09:09just a clear plastic but on the front man that looks neat I love that they
09:12added these little bone stampings over top of it this face sculpt does look
09:17very much like again a skeleton warrior it doesn't seem to be the case that you
09:20can really I mean you if you try to remove this whole thing like I was
09:23trying to just to get only just the face alone it doesn't seem like it comes off
09:26I'm guessing that the face is probably attached already to the helmet if you
09:30were successful to remove this you'll probably be taking the face along for
09:34the ride nice silver that they've applied to the body here again the clear
09:38is probably one of my favorite aspects of this figure brown gloves again you
09:41got some nice silver accents down below there as well the articulation I won't
09:44cover just yet it probably was a little harder to do with venture just for the
09:49idea in mind as well that it's a little harder to kind of rotate his head I'm
09:52gonna probably spend more of the time talking with the post Billy when we get
09:54down to war Duke which just so happens to be my favorite figure from this I
09:59guess I would say like between war Duke and danger are my two favorites from
10:02this now war Duke we've got a couple of examples from other figure companies
10:07that have done war Duke figures this is probably by far the smallest example of
10:11war Duke and again I've got my attached onto his display stand war Duke though
10:15comes included with trusty shield the shield as you can see there does have
10:19the skull with the horns on the top and there's a handle on the back and again
10:22just fits into his hand just slide it down there I did say earlier though
10:27didn't I yeah it was easy to get these in it sometimes sometimes you have to
10:30struggle a little bit war Dukes one of the things about the the handle of the
10:34shield is it very soft plastic so again you try to put it against his hand it
10:37just ends up kind of compressing the handle then we can go ahead and take his
10:41broad sword sword swords much different though from the skeleton war it's got a
10:45darker blade the guard and hilt as you can see is a darker gold as well and
10:49we'll just get that into his hand just like that there is no storage on the
10:55back so you can't take the shield and you can't take that sword from out of
10:58and you can't you know there's no place to really store it on the back of war
11:01Dukes body not that he necessarily needs it he's always really gonna be right
11:04ready for for battle and combat anyways one of the notable things about war Duke
11:08is that you never really see his face even if I was just to remove his face
11:11it basically underneath you just be getting a black mini mate head and then
11:15just glowing red eyes there's nothing printed on the back here either war Duke
11:19has more like one of the more recognizable helmets in all of what
11:22not only just Dungeons and Dragons but one of the most recognizable helmets
11:26right away you know you can see a helmet like this and you know exactly who the
11:29character is the body as I just almost just dropped the shield actually you
11:33know what let's just remove the sword as well we'll put that off to the side the
11:35body of course in this case you've got yourself like a bear chest but you do
11:39have a shoulder on this shoulder pad on the side nice gold that they've added
11:43here for the necklace you got some gold down below here just above the loin
11:46cloth it isn't even just circular shapes either
11:48hopefully as you can see it's the actually it's the exact same design as
11:53that on his shield so right away if anybody was to steal war Duke shield he'd
11:58know right away it belonged to him I mean you would go like lost and found
12:01how do you know that that's your shield just just look here just look at my
12:04loincloth nice silver that they've added here to the hands you've got some
12:07silver down below here he has a very non-symmetrical design to him so blue in
12:12the legs one shoulder pad and they're all really kind of on the one side of
12:15his body this is the one that I'll show you guys the articulation you're
12:19familiar I'm sure with you know many mate articulation you'll probably already
12:22know the possibility that we're gonna have on these guys the heads gonna be on
12:24a ball joint it's a little harder of course to move it up and down with war
12:27Dukes helmet get in the way of things head rotates back and forth these
12:31individual arms by the way and the whole idea of also with many mates is
12:34that you can mix and match the parts I haven't done it but I've seen people
12:36customize many mates where they just took of course the arm that they wanted
12:40to use it like hey that would be an ideal arm for dot dot dot just
12:44essentially you're just yanking off now I've had this in the past not wanting to
12:49remove the arms where like the arms were really tight and I end up breaking a peg
12:54so you just want to be careful yeah I don't have to worry as much that war
12:57Duke's gonna have tight joints as you can see the arms move perfectly fine if
13:00you do happen to get a mini-me though out of the packaging you go to move it
13:03and there's restrictions right away and you're like I can't seem to budge this I
13:07can't seem to move it stop what you're doing stop what you're doing take a
13:11hairdryer make a few passes and then soften up that you want you just want to
13:18make sure because these pegs are pretty small you don't want them to break the
13:21point though is that the arms do come out 90 degrees you can take the arms
13:24and rotate them yeah all the way around single hinge only in the elbow hands
13:29rotate back and forth and that's the you know again that's most mini mates
13:32you know characters like danger will have that for the most part for the top
13:36half of his body really then the skeleton warrior will also have this as
13:39well swivel in the waist legs do split out there on kind of ball joints hinges
13:44on the knees swivels there in like the lower legs a lot of times and you've
13:48also got swiveled feet yeah war Dukes my favorite well I would say war Duke then
13:52danger go ahead and get him on this displaced hand and then again like one
13:56of the oddities in this set is that we get ourselves the shadow demon now the
14:00shadow demon is a spy the thing that's neat about him is like the lower half of
14:04his body doesn't have a traditional mini mate lower legs what it has instead is
14:07sort of just like the stream behind like I guess the entrail of the spirit
14:11expecting though that this post would only attach as far as probably around
14:16right right around there I thought okay if I took this off I wonder if I could
14:19replace with a mini mate like well you could but it actually the post goes a
14:23lot higher up than I was expecting for all intents and purposes you could
14:27really remove these and then you could use yourself like okay so let's take
14:30war Dukes lower body can can I do this there we go
14:34we take war Dukes body off and you can just attach it just like that so you can
14:38see that that's how you mix and match the parts you can do that with the arms
14:41you can do that with the head you can do it obviously with the lower half of his
14:44body looks a little strange and now of course poor war Duke you want to see
14:47what it looks like yeah we'll just get war Duke honest I don't know if yeah
14:50should work as well there we go or do just get him so now it looks like he's
14:53just floating around he's a he's a spirit let's not do that though let's
14:57remove these put them back where we found them but war do back over there
15:01and then we'll of course we'll take the shadow demon put it back on the body
15:05where he belonged the thing that's neat too is that this guy also has wings
15:08they're not as broad of a wings perhaps as venture that we looked at earlier but
15:12the wings themselves one thing I noticed though is that the wings are just it's
15:15essentially just a piece that they put over top of a body it's not as secure
15:19necessarily so you'll notice that the wings kind of wobble a little bit more
15:22the head sculpt looks good for what little we get of it you can see the
15:25little slots for the eyes little eyebrows there as well again the pose
15:28ability this guy is only gonna really have is from like the waist up
15:31technically you could rotate the waist but everything else above that it's just
15:35your regular mini-me body so again you've got ball joints got the hinges
15:39got the hands look much larger much larger hands this time around and again
15:42he's got the ball joint in the head nice looking figures though and again like
15:46just to bring back in here Dungeon Master Dungeon Mammal just kind of you
15:51know what he's been stuck in ice this whole time let the man breathe let the
15:55man well not necessarily escape that's the last thing we really want to have
15:57him do but it's a bit of a different set this time around again because you know
16:02it is sold as really a six mini-mate set in realistic terms though I mean the
16:08horse is still yes a mini-mate and technically it's really a double mini
16:11mate because it has the front legs and it's got the back legs but doesn't
16:13really have arms so I guess it would still if you took the tally of limbs you
16:17still added up for it just doesn't have arms but I suppose it would still be
16:20essentially a still a mini-mate body I guess you would still say you got like
16:25five mini-mates this time around Dungeon Master I still don't know if I would
16:28consider him a mini-mate in the fact that yeah well he does look like a mini
16:32mate he's got the the body of a mini-mate he just doesn't have the pose
16:35ability of that I think all the rest of the figures though more than make up for
16:39the set and end up resulting in I actually like this set just a little bit
16:43more than the heroes we looked at before so the second set of Dungeons &
16:46Dragons mini-mates happens to be going for the same price online as the earlier
16:50looked at heroes the heroes to be fair you got six straight mini-mate bodies
16:54and quite a lot more accessories than you did get for the villains though I
16:58will say though you can see where a lot of the budget had to go into retooling
17:01brand new parts I mean the villains already have when you think about it
17:05Venger first of all has these big giant bat wings on the back of his body that
17:09had to be retooled you got a case like Shadow Demon which really other than
17:13just his torso and perhaps his arms everything else had to be made from
17:17scratch Dekian has now clear plastic for his limbs his arms and his legs and of
17:23course now you've got of course the additional horse that's one thing that
17:26wasn't packed along with the original heroes but the nightmare is ever crucial
17:30if you want to have Venger displayed on top of it it comes up a little bit short
17:34when it comes to the accessories but I think it makes more than enough when it
17:37comes to the sculpting that Diamond had to put into this set rather than the
17:40heroes I know again like when you're looking at the back of the packaging and
17:43even again advertised online it's a six pack set realistically though if you
17:48look at it you're only really getting five mini-mates with Dungeon Master
17:51really being just more an accessory than anything else he wasn't packed though
17:54along with the heroes he gets packed instead with the villains but if you're
17:57a fan though of Dungeons and Dragons you gotta have yourself a Dungeon Master
18:01Dungeon Master may have been able to possess the ball joint maybe in his head
18:05the arms by just the way that they're so close and crossed to his arms or
18:09crossed to his body it'd be a really hard thing for him to be able to pull
18:12off and of course the whole idea in mind is that they want to kind of use the
18:15same moles for mini-mates and then just sort of add things over top of it it
18:19would be a hard thing to really be able to do that with Dungeon Master and I can
18:21understand why he's in it more of an accessory than he is a mini-mate like
18:26with the set before this sets going online or in some specialty stores for
18:29$49.99 or about $50 and again I think that asking price isn't bad at all if
18:34you're a big fan of Dungeons and Dragons and you're a big fan especially of the
18:37heroes like I am a great set well worth picking up big thank you once again to
18:41the folks over at Diamond Select that did provide this sample of the Dungeons
18:44and Dragons mini-mate this was the second set and this was all about the
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