Glyos Onell Design March 31 2015 Drop Menu

Return of Skeleden - plus Noboto, Gobon, and More! The big special this time was an exclusive recolor of the Robo Force mode, and it's gorgeous - I regret that I did not get an order in for this one. There are a few items left as I type this, with 8 items remaining of the initial 21 offerings. Click here to see the March 31 2015 Onell Design drop menu.

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Bronze Onell Design Drop Tuesday - with Robo Force Molds

Surprise!  I missed the memo and new Mission Details are up on Onell Design.  The new drop hits Tuesday night with a new Neo Granthan, Noboto, Gobon, Skeleden, and a Gendrone Force Defender - which is Maxx Zero bits reconfigured for you here, and for $16.

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Review: Plastic Imagination Rise of the Beasts Cerula - Green Scorpion with Grey Paint

He's green! The Glyos-powered Rise of the Beasts line is pretty fantastic, although it's hard to view them purely as wholly their own thing. I keep expecting to see squat little guys, but Cerula - Green Scorpion with Grey Paint is more of what a small figure of the 1990s might look like, rather than the 1980s. The overly-muscular creature is fundamentally the same as Cahriv except for the coloration.
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Review: Onell Design Glyos Neo Granthan Cliffstalker Action Figure

The name is evocative! The Neo Granthan Cliffstalker is a brown, chocolate-flavored take on the Battle Beasts-inspired Glyos figure. With an orange skin and a red Black Core, this feels like many of the popular 1980s robotic toys out of Tomy. While not a perfect match, it immediately reminded me of Robostrux mixed with a little bit of the ever-lovin' blue-eyed Thing. He is orange with blue eyes, after all.
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Review: Onell Design Glyos Skeleden Standard Action Figure

In a rare instance of a figure showing up in an Onell Design game months before the toy release, the Skeleden Standard figure was a delightful surprise. We knew at least one version was coming as part of the Skeleton Warriors Kickstarter line - one with purple elements, it turns out - but last month Onell dropped two and a half flavors of this new mold. A wonderful blue version was joined by a clear armor kit you can use to upgrade your existing figures for five bucks... I ended up getting them all, because I can. The standard one is, far and away, my favorite.
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Review: Onell Design Glyos Standard Ecroyex Glyan Action Figure

For a while I made it a point to buy one of every figure with a Glyaxia symbol, like good old Standard Ecroyex Glyan here. And then we had drops that would cost a couple of hundred bucks to assemble, at which point I thought "Well, that was fun." There are still plenty of great figures with awesome design flourishes, and the little quasi-Atari faction symbol on his shoulder really is quite cool. While nobody probably needs every last flavor of this one, I will say I'm glad I bought it - even if I sat on it for about a year before opening him.
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Review: Banimon Red Army T-011 Bunkerbuster Tank Vehicle

I missed the first drop for the yellow one, so I was happy to see that the swell Red Army T-011 Bunkerbuster Tank didn't sell out immediately. I'm sure the price had something to do with it - $30 is on the high end of these smaller vinyl items, even if it has a lot of paint, stickers, and options. It's also the first toy I've bought in ages that actually was designed to make good use of all those extra Glyos heads you've been storing in boxes for the last few years. It's quite versatile and as it can fit most Glyos figures, heads, or even 3 3/4-inch action figures, it's easily the best Glyos-compatible vehicle to date. If you're a toy collector and you also like Glyos, this (or a subsequent recolor) is an essential purchase.
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Review: Fantastic Plastic Toys Mystical Warriors of the Ring Green Goliath Action Figure

The Mystical Warriors of the Ring have been around as specially-cast figures and as non-articulated figures in the proud tradition of M.U.S.C.L.E. and O.M.F.G.. This Green Goliath is the line's first take on a Glyos-compatible figure, even though the big guy remains in scale with the rest of the non-articulated slug figures. He's made up of 9 pieces and swaps out very nicely with Armorvors and Kabuto Mushi figures - I assume customizers are going to have a blast with this one.
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Review: Onell Design Glyos Standard Ecroyex Glyan Action Figure

For a while I made it a point to buy one of every figure with a Glyaxia symbol, like good old Standard Ecroyex Glyan here. And then we had drops that would cost a couple of hundred bucks to assemble, at which point I thought "Well, that was fun." There are still plenty of great figures with awesome design flourishes, and the little quasi-Atari faction symbol on his shoulder really is quite cool. While nobody probably needs every last flavor of this one, I will say I'm glad I bought it - even if I sat on it for about a year before opening him.
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Review: Four Horsemen Power Lords Slate Zone Power Soldier Action Figure

Cast in grey plastic, the Slate Zone Power Soldier is - as are his siblings - a wonderfully engineered figure. The Glyos system was adapted to a so-called "Glybrid" joint system in which we got the functionality of Glyos and Hasbro's ball joints in a 3 3/4-inch humanoid figure. So no matter what, this is a good figure with a great range of motion. When placed in context of its line, it becomes a bit of a bore being one of only two body types during the line's first year and a half, give or take. Endless repaints are a bitter pill to swallow, with other Glyos-compatible lines usually cranking out an all-new figure ever year or so with more customization options. It seems almost unfair to judge this figure for things outside its control, because the plastic person presently performs pretty admirably.
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