Something I've found to be quite odd over the last few years is how many lines Mini-mates are doing now that Medicom alreayd made in to Kubrick form (see Back to the Future, some DC and Kellogg's Cereal)
I was starting to get worried about the lack of a SW Kubrick Series 8 announcement that Art Asylum had somehow got the Star Wars block figure license and would start making them...somehow Lego is also in the mix there somehow which I think is why Kubricks can't be released in North America...
Anyway, I like Minimates and all but I like Kubricks better and its sad to see another company doing a "me too" sort of thing. However, I also enjoy the breadth at which MM have gone as far as character selection and scale in that there is a whole crapload of stuff out there in a few years...something Medicom hasn't done or do very well.