The Gendrone Alliance! The Villser returns in three new colors, as does the armored-up Knights of the Slice figure, the Glyknights, and a mystery figure. Click here to see the September 14 2017 Onell Design drop menu.
It's
easy to forget, but from 2010 to 2013 each and every San Diego
Comic-Con and New York Comic Con had at least three exclusive The Outer Space Men
action figures. Now you might see some at a New York show here and
there, but the sets you could set your watch to are long gone. One of
the last sets to be sold at New York Comic Con included a White Star Ohpromatem,
at least sixteen convention exclusives in 2013 - easily one of the most
prolific years the line had ever had for this kind of thing. The
figure shares tooling with Terra Firma and Horrorscope, plus a few of
Metamorpho's parts for good measure. It's a nifty figure, combining
the cartoon proportions of Playboy's comic panels with nightmares from
outer space. It's also largely unpainted.
I missed it due to being on a plane, but an awesome, amazing, I wish I got it Matryx Pheyden went up and sold out for $11 on Thursday night.
As any line goes on, you can be forgiven for saying "Hey, have I seen this before?" The Neo Granthan Reptoriun
is brown with green, similar to the copper with green Neo Granthan
Sendollest Hunter a while ago. That one had richer colors and different
paint masks, too - this new one looks sort of like an orc or an ogre
from a fantasy series. I quite like it - especially the new deco on the
Armorvor head.
Because
of the sheer, seemingly nearly endless variety of figures it's hard to
describe things as essential in the indie sphere. If you see something
you like, another recolor may be on the way and you might like it more -
but not the Armorvor Bopper. This 29-piece wonder will likely
never make an encore because it was part of a massive TMNT-themed set
that evoked one of the most popular series of the 1980s and 1990s.
Sadly, there was no room for Splinter or April, but you pretty much got a
tribute to everybody including the punk Warthog thug Bebop - a style of
music I assume nobody watching this cartoon really had in their record
stacks.
Going bright - not just white, the Outer Space Men continues the long march to the sea with White Star Orbitron.
I should be bored with the format, but I'm not - the unique body
types cast in white look worthwhile, so the unique space bug-esque parts
pop nicely when extruded in white with blue highlights.
Shadow of the Villser! A new mold is here - with multiple flavors - with the sizable and long-awaited Villser. The Argen/Buildman mold returns, and a lot of figures in classi Pheyden colors were also up for grabs. At press time, 14 of the 21 releases are still available and I would wager that might change by morning. Click here to see the August 3 2017 Onell Design drop menu.
