I love this little guy. D.D. uses a lego cap and a heavily modified Hunchback of Notre Dame coat. The hair is sculpted. The rest is paint and decals.

I love this little guy. D.D. uses a lego cap and a heavily modified Hunchback of Notre Dame coat. The hair is sculpted. The rest is paint and decals.

Pepper is perfect. The entire Clue Club Gang is impressive but she is the best. In the cartoon she was curvy but the block style still translates well. I tucked her hair under her collar to match her cartoon style. Perfect!!!

Brenda is possibly the curviest of all of the Hanna Barbera females which presented a challenge for a block figure. I couldn't envision her looking right based on any of the hairpieces that I had in my parts bin available to send to Psyguy to make her. Since her body would never look right, her hair was key. I don't think I actually sent a hairpiece across the pond with this set. We discussed two options. I don't remember the first option but he had mentioned having a spare Alice hairpiece that and that was the answer. This perfectly depicts the character and takes away from the lack of wide hips.

Sadly Dee Dee is the Minimate of the Captain Caveman Gang that has no real story to her. I'm very happy with how she turned out but the other two girls in the group required more work to make them accurate. So here's Dee Dee, tomorrow's Brenda. Then we start Clue Club.

Taffy is the character that gave me the idea to pursue having custom Hanna Barbera Minimates made. When I saw DC Minimates' Star Sapphire, I felt her collar and hair, minus the mask would make for the perfect Taffy. Throw in a Star Trek Nurse Chapel skirt and boom. Turns out I was right. I love when that happens. More Psyguy greatness.

Today is the Shaggy of the Speed Buggy Gang, Tinker. Speed Buggy is the Johnny Lightning release. The scale is slightly off for Minimates but I have an artist working on Hot Wheels scale vehicles for all of the Hanna Barbera groups so although they can't sit in them, the groups will be complete.

Tinker's hair and goggles are sculpted from scratch. Psyguy once again nailed it. I'm going to continue to say that. A lot. Because he did! The Hanna Barbera minimates are truly the greatest custom set of toys that I own. Period.

Today is the girl of the Speed Buggy Gang, Debbie. Psyguy nearly always nails every likeness of the Hanna Barbera characters on his first attempt. In the beginning, with the Josie Gang, we debated how they would translate with noses since part of Minimates charm is that the characters do not have noses. Since the noses on Hanna Barbera's designs are simple I asked him to add them. I think they help depict the characters very well. Very few of the Hanna Barbera have required revisions from his initial attempt, however Debbie was one of them. She has an odd flip to her hair that he missed on the first attempt. He also missed the color of her hair on the first try which is also unusual because he had a great eye for color hue. By the second attempt she was the perfect representation of Debbie. I never thought it would be possible to have plastic representations of all of these characters.

Today is the first member of the Speed Buggy Gang. You could learn everything you need to know about race from Hanna Barbera. What? Yes. After Scooby Doo, the granddaddy of it all, most of the pet detective groups featured one character that had darker skin than the rest of the Gang. Nobody discussed it, they just worked together to solve the mystery. Is Mark Spanish? Black? Who cares. He was a member of the gang and here he is in plastic.

Today is the last member of the Josie Gang, Alan. Hanna Barbera likes to give their leading men broad, bulky chests which is a tough aspect to translate in to a Minimate. The perfect toy. Hey, you can't have it all. The bulkier chest piece wouldn't translate well to Alan, it's too much besides the bulky chest wouldn't work with his ascot. This is still a great representation of Alan. I changed his hair from what he originally came with. When we designed him we initially used the Marvel Secret Wars Beyonder hairpiece that Valerie uses painted yellow. He now uses an extra Steve Rogers hairpiece.