* ArchivePanic: A common reaction from many a new collector.
* TheLawOfFanJackassery: Minimate collectors fall on the obscure/benign end of the scale. [[FanWank Mostly.]]
* MemeticMutation:
** ComicBook/KangTheConqueror (specifically, the [[ToylessToylineCharacter lack thereof]]) to the fandom. Even WordOfGod likes to play around with this.
** When Kang's absence was finally rectified, the fandom has splintered into factions vying for characters from [[ComicBook/XMen Toad]] to ComicBook/SquirrelGirl.
* MisaimedMerchandising:
** ''Film/SilenceOfTheLambs'' is the biggest offender, but other movies like ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' and the Film/DollarsTrilogy aren't exempt from this.
** A ''ComicBook/TarotWitchOfTheBlackRose'' Minimate is in the works. [[VaporWare Kind of.]]
* PeripheryDemographic: one theory behind the [[EnsembleDarkHorse surprise popularity]] of the ''[[{{Music/Madonna}} Desperately Seeking Susan]]'' Minimates.
* ItsTheSameNowItSucks: when an early-wave character gets reissued with ''[[MindScrew not enough detail]]''.
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