Diamond Select Toys
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Diamond Select Toys was founded in 1999 by sister company
Minimates
Minimates were created by New York-based design house
Marvel Select and other Select lines
The 7-inch scale Marvel Select line was originally developed by DST in 2002 with Marvel Comics' toy division, Toy Biz, as a specialty-market counterpart to the larger company's mass-market offerings. Diamond Select handled design, sales and marketing, while Toy Biz handled development and production. At the time, the figures were mostly based on peripheral Ultimate Marvel and Marvel Knights characters.[2] DST eventually took over development and production from Toy Biz and the line expanded to include core Marvel characters.
Early Marvel Select figures focused on sculpting over articulation and typically included detailed, diorama-style bases that required large packaging. These bases were sometimes reduced in size or omitted completely to accommodate figures of larger characters like the Hulk, which could fill the packaging on their own.[3] Over time, the amount of articulation per figure increased, but the large bases became uncommon. Instead, more accessories and interchangeable parts began to be included.
DST has also used the "Select" label for other lines, to indicate that they are in the same 7-inch scale.
Femme Fatales and Gallery PVC statues
The Femme Fatales line of 9-inch PVC statues began by licensing popular female characters from independent comic books, including
Diamond started releasing Femme Fatales statues based on female characters from Batman: The Animated Series in 2015. However, Diamond started branding both female and male PVC statues under the Gallery label. Similarly, Diamond's PVC statues of Marvel characters (both comics- and MCU-based) are branded under the Gallery label.
Resin busts
Diamond makes resin busts for some of their licenses.[4] Recent ones include Spider-Man based on his appearance in Spider-Man: Homecoming and characters from Batman: The Animated Series.
Premier Collection and Milestones resin statues
Diamond also makes mid-range resin statues.[5] These are typically larger than the PVC statues, both in terms of size and overall complexity.
Current Diamond Select Toys licenses
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Past Diamond Select Toys licenses
References
- ^ "Diamond Select Acquires Art Asylum"
- ^ "Cool Toy Review: Marvel Select Photo Archive: Ultimate Spider-Man"
- ^ "Superheroes Base Review: Marvel Select Hulk" Archived 2012-03-31 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "DST Solicitations – Marvel, Bruce Lee, Star Trek, DC and More". 21 November 2018.
- ^ "Bruce Lee's Legacy Lives On With New Products from Diamond Select Toys | Diamond Select Toys". www.diamondselecttoys.com. Archived from the original on 2018-10-11.
- ^ DSTZach. "All Elite Wrestling Gets the Diamond Select Toys Treatment in 2022". DiamondSelectToys. Diamond Select Toys. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
External links
- DiamondSelectToys.com official site
- ArtAsylum.com official AA site
- ArtAsylum.com Blog official DST blog
- Minimates.com official Minimates page
- YouTube Diamond Select's official Channel
- Facebook Diamond Select's official page
- @CollectDST Twitter account
- @Minimates Twitter account