Altered Perceptions! Fantasy-themed sets are finally up for grabs right now, including a mystery figure of unknown origins and Mystron in red. Click here to see the May 29 2017 Onell Design drop menu.Click here to order what's still available!
Altered Perceptions! Fantasy-themed sets are finally up for grabs right now, including a mystery figure of unknown origins and Mystron in red. Click here to see the May 29 2017 Onell Design drop menu.
With
monthly drops and all sorts of gorgeous figures, it's easy to get lost
in the output of Onell Design and the related Glyos family. We're now
seeing over 100 figures per year, which puts this family above even Star Wars in terms of sheer variety. The nifty Neo Granthan Rocker is made of 29 pieces, all of which come from existing toys specially (and heavily) painted to look like Rocksteady of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
fame. He might look like a familiar face - the color scheme and head
deco recall a popular character from a comic book, TV show, movie, video
game, and so on. But who? Obviously it's not Rocksteady - it's just
an armored dinosaur figure with paint that makes you think vaguely of
the rhino mutant from the classic cartoon series. By now you've no
doubt seen a few reviews of the Neo Granthan figures and the Armorvors
from which they were born, so know that this is a plussed up version of
those sturdy, nifty figures.
Was he sent here by the devil? No good sir, Cosmic Radiation Mystron's
on the level. The same figure mold is back for another go-round, this
time in glow plastic with silver highlights. Do we need this? No...
but yes. It glows, it's awesome.A post shared by Gary B Schaeffer (@the_outer_space_men) on
Refugees from the past! Standing about 3-inches tall, a Neo Granthan Skaterriun Mimic
is named for Matt Doughty's elusive "Skate Wars" concept that he
whipped up in the 7th grade. The sci-fi military figures looked pretty
cool, and the Sketerriun figures are a nod to it. As usual, the nifty
new color schemes got applied to many of the figures in the Onell
Design catalog including the lovely Armorvor/Neo Granthan buck. It's
good.
Sometimes things stay unfinished for a while, like this look at the Aurustell Elite Armorvor.
I shot these pictures over four years ago when it showed up in the
mail, but I'm only just now getting around to writing about it. This is
a shame, because it's a good one. The Armorvor (and later Neo
Granthan) mold has since come out in dozens of flavors, but I think this
is the only golden one so far. (There is also a bronze one.)