{"id":30473,"date":"2020-03-01T00:00:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T05:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=30473"},"modified":"2025-05-14T01:28:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T05:28:41","slug":"minimate-mini-review-384-shriek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/03\/minimate-mini-review-384-shriek\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimate Mini-Review #384 - Shriek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/minimates.png\" width=\"265\" height=\"145\"><\/p>\n<h3>#384 - Shriek<\/h3>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/mmmmcbafs1.jpg\" title=\"Shriek (shown twice actual size)\" width=\"250\" height=\"375\" align=right style=\"margin:5px 0px 0px 25px\"><i>Emancipated from the maximum security mental institution known as Ravencroft by the insane Carnage, this femme fatale - appropriately named Shriek - eagerly joined the frenzy of Maximum Carnage as the \"surrogate mother\" to a family of Spider-Man's enemies! Living up to her shrill namesake, she turned Manhattan into a riot scene of epic proportions with her \"psychic virus\" and sonic blasts!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>As the Build-A-Figure for <i>Marvel Minimates<\/i> Series 76, Shriek doesn't get a bio anywhere on the packaging, so that text comes from a trading card. You may question the logic of recruiting a mutant villain with sonic-based powers for a team led by someone wearing a symbiote that's weak to sound, but hey, nobody ever accused <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=30069\">Carnage<\/a> of being sane.<\/p>\n<p>Shriek's skin is white, meaning that's a cut-out over her chest, not just a design on the costume - and since it goes all the way around, she's basically wearing <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/mmmmcbafs2.jpg\" title=\"some assembly required\" width=\"220\" height=\"80\" align=left style=\"margin:7px 15px 0px 0px\">a strapless jumpsuit and a separate neckwarmer. (The white should go onto the shoulders, but that would be too hard to do in this style, so they cheated it by cleverly just doing it on the sides of the torso.) Since the arms are molded in black, we're left with visible rings at her wrists. Her belt is a molded piece, and they've even remembered to paint the loose cords around her shins.<\/p>\n<p>Minimates all share the same basic body with different paint decos, and they all move at the same 14 points: neck, waist, shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips, knees and ankles. The modular construction is perfect for the BAF idea.<\/p>\n<p><center><font size=-1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=30069\">Carnage\/Demogoblin<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=30183\">Cloak\/Dagger<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=30323\">Sonic Attack Spider-Man\/Black Cat<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=30339\">Venom\/Doppelganger<\/a><\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H5>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;<\/H5><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Spider-Man is headed to the Supreme Court\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/12\/spider-man-is-headed-to-the-supreme-court\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Spider-Man is headed to the Supreme Court<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Superposeable Spider-Man addendum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2016\/02\/superposeable-spider-man-addendum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Superposeable Spider-Man addendum<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Minimate Mini-Review #151 - Marvel Minimates TRU Series 13\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/05\/minimate-mini-review-151-marvel-minimates-tru-series-13\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Minimate Mini-Review #151 - Marvel Minimates TRU Series 13<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Marvel Comics action figure variant covers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/11\/marvel-comics-action-figure-variant-covers\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Marvel Comics action figure variant covers<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Spider-Punk designs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2023\/06\/spider-punk-designs\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Spider-Punk designs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#384 - Shriek &lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;Minimate Mini-Review #87 - Spider-Man Friends &#038; Foes Rustin's Spoils of the Week #215 Rustin's Spoils of the Week #170 Rustin's Spoils of the Week #234 Spider-Man Marvel Legends: Black Spider-Man review<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,25,137],"tags":[53,59],"class_list":["post-30473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-asylum","category-marvel","category-mmmr","tag-minimates","tag-spider-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30473"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44486,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30473\/revisions\/44486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}