I jumped on the Armorvor Standard Liocarrus.
For those just joining us, his body has been used for dozens of
figures. The lion head is new. I have a resin casting of the
prototype head from ages ago, but they made a lot of changes to it -
like cleaning up the hair, and adding an eye patch. It's a surprisingly
dynamic rendition of a Glyos head, looking a lot like a piece of comic
art come to life. I really like it. The body has been the same one for
ages, but there's not much reason to change it up at this point. [ READ THE FULL REVIEW ]
New! Healey Made dropped 2 new Glyos figures - Raider (Screaming Star) and Raider (Sky Grey) are up for $25 and $20, respectively. Presumably he will be the new leader of your Raiders.
I've missed some surprise launches lately, so I would not recommend relying on this blog as your sole source of launch truth, which presumably you weren't, so good for you.
I had the Neo Granthan Nemica Enforcer
for over 10 years, and didn't write the review or shoot the figures
until recently. It's a good figure, riffing on classic trooper figures
from science fiction and of course, Battle Beasts. The bulky
armored 2 3/4-inch figure is incredibly wide, making use of the
traditional helmeted Armorvor head as well as the then-newish Neo
Granthan head. It looks a little like a dinosaur.
I found Bluestar Astrodite to be a great thing and something from the Ironic Punishment division of toy making. I love glow toys, I love The Outer Space Men,
and a few orders in 2023 proved to be too much of a good thing. She sat
in a box in my photo room for a few years despite being every bit as
good as her peers. The $15 figure was marked down to $10 - unusual, as
many figures go up in price from this maker as they sell through - so I assume she wasn't a hit. That's not her fault, they did a nice job. [ READ THE WHOLE REVIEW ]
It's new! Well, it's a new head. The Armorvor is back at Onell Design, this time with a lion noggin. Also, it was late. Three flavors of Lion Armorvor were up, including a surprising return of the original Venjorun model - this time with a spare Lion head. Also the Four Horsemen Travelers were up, if you missed those, making this an ideal jumping-on point for these toys.
Update: the drop will now be Friday, February 27 at 9:30 PM EST.
Well there's a surprise! Feral Futures come to pass Thursday night at 9:30 PM EST. So mark your calendars for February 26. There isn't much to go on, other than a feline head on what seems to be an Armorvor body - so this should be fun and exciting. I have an old The Godbeast resin head that looks a little like what I'm seeing here, so I'm excited to see how he turns out. Click here for more.
And here's that old resin head. My photo file is dated May 2013.
I started taking pictures of the unnamed freebie Versirran Crayboth
back in 2012, with another batch in 2023, but never wrote the review.
As far as I can tell there's no Glyos Wiki page for the "stowaways," the
free figures Matt Doughty sometimes includes in shipments at no cost to
remind you that you should always order something. Back in
2012, the Crayboth had been around for roughly four year and this guy
was the 17th little critter in the line - so I had the wild idea that I
would be all-in on Crays and complete the set. A few years later, I
realized that was unlikely - and now we're up to hundreds of the little
guys. They're all great, and with so many crossovers and freebies and
promo figures that very few people are going to have them all. Cappy Space has a checklist
which was last updated around 2023 and it is worth noting that a lot of
these guys a) look similar and b) have no names elsewhere. If It
weren't for documentation like this, I assume there would be no record
anywhere of just how many of these guys were made over the years.
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I bought a lot of figures I was
missing a couple of years ago and have been slowly opening them. I
assume it's unlikely we'll get many more of these guys, so Bluestar Cyclops is something to be savored... and also taken for granted. There are just so many of them
that it was hard to really take them all in, even though they're
amazing little things on their own. The entire Bluestar series is 19
figures so far, most of which were at least $20 initially. It adds up,
and may be the biggest collection of blue glow-in-the-dark action
figures you can buy. [ READ THE FULL REVIEW ]
I ordered the Glow Vector Jump (Armor Kit)
back in 2017 not realizing it wasn't a full figure - oopsies. I would
later place the armor on a green Lime Material Boy that I got with the Mikros Regen Capsule [FOTD #2,114]
earlier that year. It's a good fit, don't you think? If you didn't
have a spare Knight of the Slice in glow handy, you can put this glow
armor on pretty much any of those basic figure bodies. [ READ THE FULL REVIEW ]
I probably won't keep buying all of these
guys in every color (especially with two figures being stow-awayed as
pieces) but I couldn't say no to Infinite Anti-Pheyden Scaphoidian.
(Or the Origin one.) Why? The mold's great, and the colors reminded
me of one of few toys I had as a kid, sold, and regret - the Construx
purple alien figure. The Sarvos head reminds me a lot of that helmet.
Given time and inflation, Onell Design manages to keep most of its stuff surprisingly affordable. Pheyden Prime
was $12 in 2023, only $2 more than a similar 2019 Pheyden Regeneration
figure. And for that $2, you got stuff - this figure is effectively
similar with slightly different paint applications, and a vest, and some
pins, and a scarf, and a blaster hand. That's $2 well spent.
I've bought lots of Glyos figures and some of them get reviewed immediately and some like Pheyden Regeneration
sadly take while. Since they tend to sell out immediately I'm not
necessarily in a huge rush - it's not like you can go buy it from the
original source. Or eBay, much of the time. Produced in the low
hundreds, these guys have been in production - in different colors -
since 2007. The paint masks change, the colors change, and the plastic
has been gradually tweaked until it had just the right amount of "give"
so you can easily swap parts between releases.
They're back! The Manglomortis has a new flavor and it's in stock at the ToyFinity shop. Click here to see the newest stuff, which include a bunch of parts and heads as well as some very lovely Phrangoss colored figures.
I missed out on the clear pink guy - all I got were legs so far - but I did get Infinite Anti-Pheyden Phrangoss.
It's really nice. Sarvos was $18, Pheyden was $20, and Phrangoss was
$22 - each figure has escalating paint applications. It's also worth
noting each figure has unique paint masks with some shared elements.
Silver Sarvos has the fewest, with all-red eyes and some other red
markings. Blue Pheyden has more, with painted soles, fingers, thighs,
belt, chest, and other odds and ends. Purplish Anti-Pheyden Phrangoss
adds pink shoulders and knees (but not the same spots as Sarvos) as well
as boot jets and lights on his back, just to name a few. Assuming
Onell Design is marking these up at a consistent rate, it's really
interesting to see what two dollars worth of paint and labor gets you.
Does it look better? No question. Is it worth the extra cash? I'd say
so.
You wanted Callgrim? Here it is! A new Custom Corps drop is up in the store, with hand-painted figures based on the popular How the Grinch Stole Christmas TV special. Well, not "Grimch Stealth," he's a production figure.
Sharing all the same parts as his two wave mates, Infinite Sarvos Buildborn
is the silver redeco that matches surprisingly well with over a
decade's worth of other silver guys. If you collect Glyos, a big part
of the appeal is the scale and the compatibility. Well, we've lost a
little scale in recent years, but you can easily swap parts between
figures of all sizes and wind up with some wild results. Moreso if you
like to paint. Sarvos has been around in some form or another as a
mass produced figure since 2008, usually but not always with a torso
distinct from Pheyden and often sharing the same limbs. This Infinite
version shares everything with him - but you've got option pieces to
make him distinctive. The "official build" from the product shot uses
the Sarvos head while making use of the belt and swapping out the left
hand for the phase cannon.
A nifty new mold - which you've seen in a few colors. The first version of this figure was the Void Sectavorian,
cast in translucent black glitter plastic with red eyes. I like it,
and I'll probably buy one or two more depending on which colors we get.
I really like this one, especially if you plop a silver head on it. It
looks pretty amazing, reminding fans of the 1980s toy world just how
many bug toys we got. Sectaurs, Buzz-Off, Baxter Stockman,
Insecticons, and many others probably had a little influence on this
guy. Heck, his alternate head reminds me a bit of Kamen Rider too. There's a lot to play with here.
It's incomplete! Announced on the 13th and dropped on the 14th, it was almost completely sold through before I even knew there was a drop. According to various posts online, a bunch of white figures like a new version of the white Armorvor Vortrooper MK II, Frontier Pheyden MK III, Glyarmor Enforcer MK II, and a really nice Kaisyriax Phrangoss that I honestly would have loved to get. It looks gorgeous.
Anyway, here's what's left when I saw it. This was the last Onell Design drop for the year, and hopefully we're in for a brief break from what may be one of the heaviest Glyos drop seasons I've ever seen.
I also came across this menu on Discord from user Device Mode Delay and I am totally stealing it unless I'm told to take it down.
A different version of the character was sold in resin quite a few times, but the Void Mothman Monstor
is its PVC debut. And brother, is it a deal. It's a big, beefy figure
with three alternate heads. The spider head has four sides of faces -
sure, there are only two of them, but it's pretty amazing all the same.
You get wings, you get open and closed claw hands, andit matches
numerous similar figures from over the years like the matching Void
Zulloid and the Vector Jump Nobody Knight from way back in 2017. The
Standard version (brown) would debut just a week later at LegionsCon,
but this guy is particularly striking because the black plastic and red
eyes make it look like many illustrations of the cryptozoological being
Mothman.
Supposedly the last The GodBeast drop for a while is up now! Click here to see what's left of several figures, including figures with bonus Armorvor bits and a whole lot of green. And silver. And some pearly whites.
It's that time of year, so give your friends the gift of Glyos and let them wonder what is wrong with all of us. It's great for the toy collector that has everything... but doesn't know about these yet.
I was a few minutes late to getting the pics, so if I missed anything please let me know or leave a comment. Or better yet, send me the figure I missed.
While details are scarce, Marty "The GodBeast" Hansen confirmed on social media that more Buildborn silver figures are on the way! Mark those calendars for Friday, December 5 at 8:00 PM Central.
The never-ending Glyos drop train continues! Knights of the Slice updated Saturday with at least two new products - the Tunnel Knight, and the Hera/Kyle Bugman. Some older items are still available as well. Click here to see what's available.
