A new Standard Edition Kabuto Mushi is also available.
Click here to check it out.
Sunday, October 30, 2016
Wave 17 Kabuto Mushi Drop Live Now
A new Standard Edition Kabuto Mushi is also available.
Click here to check it out.
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Review: Onell Design Glyos Pheyden Frontier MKII
The hero with many faces gets another face with Pheyden Frontier MKII.
It's a pretty simple figure with extra deco - it's a Pheyden molded in
white with thick paint on the legs, hands, and arms to replicate the
molded plastic of the original figure
that sold out ages ago. He doesn't have spare heads or anything, but
it's a nice one nonetheless. It looks cool, which is a reason to buy
it - the Onell Design crew came up with tons of great colorways back
when they started, so it's nice to see them brought back for the
newcomers or those who lacked the foresight to pick it up 8 years ago. [ READ THE FULL REVIEW ]
Thursday, October 20, 2016
Glyos Onell Design October 20 2016 Drop Menu
TMNG! The turtliest drop of your dreams will no doubt get you into the Turtle Club with four green teens, a comic-inspired Crayboth figure, Shredder and Foot-inspired Glyninjas, a Shinobish Glyninjas, and a lot more await you. And it was popular enough to cause the shop to be closed to check inventory within a few minutes - at press time nothing is sold out and the store is closed. Click here to see the October 20 2016 Onell Design drop menu.Click here to order what's still available!
Review: Onell Design Glyos Crayboth Zekroyas
The trend to incorporate sidekick figures - or just apply the plastic and paint of one figure to another - is delightful. Crayboth Zekroyas is a tiny little crab guy, designed to match Alpha 7 Zekroyas [FOTD #1,535] from the same wave as well as a Quallerran, too. [ READ THE FULL REVIEW ]
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Delayed - Onell Drop Moved to Thursday, Later Time Too
Review: Bit Figs Mega Bit Pheyden Standard Set
I already bought one version of this mold, but a painted colorway of Mega Bit Pheyden
- a Standard Set - seemed to be an essential purchase. (I'm also
interested in a green "bad graphics" one and/or glow-in-the-dark
someday.) Pheyden in Pheyden colors is an important thing to have, and
this blocky one is nothing if not charming. If you got the Mega Bit Pheyden Trophy Set [FOTD #1,531]
the figures offer little new other than changes in color, but they're
good changes in color. In addition to these figures, an unpainted blue
duo was also put up for sale.[ READ THE FULL REVIEW ]
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Review: RawShark Studios The Order Bobaran Action Figure
Made of aa couple of dozen parts, this figure is amazing if for no reason other than its color matching skills. The Order Bobaran's
inspiration is baked in the colors, which RawShark Studios kingpin
Jesse Moore somehow painstakingly matched or maybe he just blackmailed
someone to get the Pantones perfect. It's based on the original
mail-away (and retail) Kenner Boba Fett Star Wars action figures,
a true classic and one of those things that's both an artifact of great
mythological significance while oddly being a staple of millions of
children's toy boxes almost 40 years ago. As an inspirational force
behind Callgrim, it only makes sense that the character would be adapted
to these original needs.[ READ THE FULL REVIEW ]
Monday, October 17, 2016
Review: Onell Design Glyos Gendrone Force Defender Villser Core
One of the things about Glyos that eventually gets to me is the names - I can't keep all of them straight. When I look at the Gendrone Force Defender Villser Core
it impresses and delights me, while also terrifying me that I will
never, ever remember what it is called. I think that has contributed to
my lack-of-hardcoreness with the Glyos world as it goes on, mostly
because there's so much great stuff, which I have bought and admire, but
I can't actually talk about it without a crib sheet. It's a green
take on the ToyFinity Robo Force mold, with some wonderful paint
applicatins and a color that reacts in fun ways depending on how it's
lit. It's also hefty, providing you with 41 pieces for $16.00 - and
they're big pieces.[ READ THE FULL REVIEW ]
Sunday, October 16, 2016
Onell Design Goes Green This Week - New Drop Wednesday
They're saying that they "will be ready to celebrate in true 1980's style, dressing up for what might be our craziest assortment since we started back in 2007." Well! I'm interested.
Friday, October 14, 2016
Review: Plastic Imagination Rise of the Beasts Rhino - Flesh
Hey, it's a classic! I got the Rhino - Flesh
a couple of years ago, and basically shot it and had him ready to
review - I like to keep a few figures around for a while so I can look
back on them and see how they turned out after a few years. Rise of the Beasts
was a Kickstarter project that got funded, but due to some factory
issues was pulled at the last possible minute - and later released, sans
Kickstarter. Later, a second series went to Kickstarter - this did
not get supported. In this time a grand total of 20 PVC figures were
released, each of which had 4 points of articulation and was based on
one of two sculpts. As is popular, they were eventually run in "flesh"
plastic like the popular vintage M.U.S.C.L.E. line, which to this day remains one of the gold standards for collectible minifigures.[ READ THE FULL REVIEW ]
Thursday, October 13, 2016
Review: Bit Figs Animal Series 1 Pup
I
bought a sack of animals and a sack of ninjas, and didn't complete
either set. With the animals, I think there were some oddities. For
example, Pup - the dog - came in unpainted orange and painted
orange, as expected. He also came in grey, the cat color, with a pink
nose. Well, I was surprised - but I like weird variants, and this was
indeed a surprise as we're not entirely sure what all got made yet. In
addition to all of these, the manufacturers sold gold figures direct to
the consumer.[ READ THE FULL REVIEW ]
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
Skeleton Warriors Returns, with Pumpkin Spice Flavor
It's big! It's pretty great as a toy - I don't have one in this color yet, but the glow and bone ones are superb.
Monday, October 10, 2016
Spy Monkey Creations - New Drop Live Now
Click here to see what's left!
Thursday, October 6, 2016
Review: The Outer Space Men, LLC Outer Space Men Cosmic Radiation Edition Colossus Rex Action Figure
I would be a hack to say this figure deserves glowing reviews. I'll do it anyway. While the mock-ups for this Outer Space Men figure were painted white plastic, this glowing Cosmic Radiation Edition Colossus Rex
is 5-inches-and-change of solid glow-in-the-dark plastic. If you
collect these guys, you're probably wondering how the glow plastic of
this convention exclusive (available this weekend in New York at NYCC)
stacks up against other Glyos figures. I can say that the 2010 glow
Metamorpho and the 2011 glow Electron+ are a little paler, a little more
boney in color than this guy. Glow Rex is a near-perfect match to the
many other Onell Design (and adjacent) glow Glyos figures like glow
Gobon, Leyden, and many many others. They all vary a tiny bit, but it's
superbly close. [ READ THE FULL REVIEW ]
Tuesday, October 4, 2016
New Battle Tribes Next Week - Glow!
Remember when it used to feel like Glyos would go and not do much for months at a time? Well, that's over.
On Spy Monkey Creations' Facebook we see plans for another Battle Tribes drop - a very good one - set to hit online shelves in 7-10 days. Glow figures, a figure that looks vaguely like Prince, and some very nice He-Man-ish paint jobs. It's worth checking out.
A ton - ton - of pictures of the new figures and alternate heads may be scoped out on their Instagram.
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