NEWS: Behold, Galactus! The Minimate!

Diamond Select Toys has posted this very cool image of their upcoming Galactus Minimate on their Facebook page. Gotta love that Minimate-style mini-Silver Surfer...

Expect to see the Galactus and his Heralds pack in stores later this year.

REVIEW: Marvel Universe Squinkies Thor, Silver Surfer and Doctor Doom

Produced by Blip Toys | Released April 2011

Squinkies are a line of miniature figures produced by Blip Toys. Resembling vending machine/gashapon toys, Squinkies have been available for some time at various stores in a series of ''girl-friendly'' figures (such as ponies, kittens and other small, cute animals) but the line has now branched out to include boy-friendly figures,  including the newly-launched Marvel Universe figures.

REVIEW: Marvel Universe's Galactus

Doomed to hunger eternally for the energy locked within life-bearing planets, GALACTUS wanders the spaceways in his world ship.  His body is filled to bursting with the infinite Power Cosmic - a power that grants him absolute control over the fundamental nature of the universe around him.  The forces that rule the lives of lesser beings are meaningless to GALACTUS.  For him there is only the hunger he feels.

A small fragment of his vast might has been granted to the SILVER SURFER - greatest of his heralds.  Once a man like any other on his home planet of Zenn-La, the SILVER SURFER sacrificed his humanity to save his world.  His mind and body changed forever by the power he now wields, he serves GALACTUS absolutely and without question.  Together, herals and master are a force of nature, undeniable and inevitable.

Inhabited worlds across the universe live in constant fear of the day when the shadow of mighty GALACTUS darkens their skies, for it is on that day their world will end.  So it will be until the end of time, for GALACTUS cannot be deterred, and he cannot be stopped.  He will consume world after world until the universe completes its cycle and collapses in upon itself.  Once a new universe is born out of the old, great GALACTUS will rise, and feed again.

Phew.  I guess a big figure needs a big biography and they don't come much bigger than the Marvel Universe's Marvel Masterworks Galactus.