Classified

The old Classified black returns for this month's drop! Pheyden will have some other things to showcase in this round as well...

Block Testing

CC decided to give the Block a "mud" test while we were taking a walk around a mini beach. A Neo Voss Pheyden was inside and survived without a grain of sand in his pants. That seal on the Block is pretty tight!

Mercenary Alert

A little behind the scenes Wraith action can be found over at the Callgrim blog! Read about "stabbing and burning" capes, compliments of Mr. Moore.

New Anomalies

Some new Anomalies have landed over at NiStuff.com and will be up for grabs at 3 PM EDT, today, May 12th!

This is the first time Ni has run his Anomalies in GITD green PVC and Metallic Silver PVC and they look great in hand. The colors match up perfectly with Hades and Argen and make for a cool team up.
Be on the lookout for some surprises as well!

Darker Things

We've been wanting to bring Clear Smoke back for a while, and rolling it out with the upcoming Neo Voss color feels like the right move.

The Clear Smoke color pays homage to many things, but I want to personally dedicate this new run to our friends Yasuhiro Nightow and Noriyuki Jinguji, two of the creators of Assemble Borg. Now we can have some matching parts to build Mr. Assemble a partner for battling the Jarknoids.

More sneaks up soon!

Phaseon Manipulation

Ever since the Phaseon came into the picture, I've been drawn more and more into playing with the little bugger. Maybe it has to do with the core parts finally being returned to the fold after existing as the Beanbot for a number of years. Or perhaps it's that I'm a little sentimental about the figure in general due to its history within our ranks. Whatever the reason, I really like building with the Phaseon.

One of the big concepts behind the Hub Set was creating something that could breath new life into the older molds without breaking the bank. The Phaseon was one of the main targets for this thinking.

I imagine that the Phaseons are the "children" of the Renegade Gobons, existing as mechanical lifeforms designed and built by other mechanical lifeforms, true successors to the Gendrone legacy in their collective mindset. On the surface they seem almost like lifeless drones, barely making a sound and going about their business without missing a beat. But within they share a secret agenda, a plan that could guide the lowly Phaseons to an all new level of existence, one that could take them beyond the Edge of Space.

The Master Phaseon expands on the Strike Form Hi-Phaseon's  pattern, adding 2 more Phase Arms and 2 more Gobon Blasters. A contained build, this is one tall glass of Phase Energy.

There is a reason that these particular Phaseons avoid the Axis Tech and stick with the Phase powered stuff...


*The pic of the Neo Voss Master Phaseon up there is shot in lower light to better show the hue. It really is a unique color that behaves in some unexpected ways. It practically glows in direct sunlight!

Hiccups

It's been a bit! The late April restock ran into a few snags on our production side of things, bumping the toys back a little. My apologies for not updating sooner, I let the time get away from me while I had my head buried in getting a stack of challenges sorted through. The reorder of the ZED Conversion Kits is in, as well as the restock of Black Axis Joints and Black Hub Sets. A run of DSG Cane from the Explorer wave is still being worked on and will hopefully make it here by the end of the month.

On a positive note, we will have some all new stuff to release towards the end of this month. Returning to the selection will be the old sea glass looking "Voss" color, only this time it will be called Neo Voss, due to the slightly lighter tint in this batch. The Neo Voss color owes its hue to my days on the beach as a kid in Gloucester, MA. I would scrape around looking for old sea glass like a maniac, always searching for that perfect aqua-greenish color to be peeking out from under the sand. The name Voss is from my old Rechlen and Aves stories, where a symbiotic race called the Voss caused all kinds of grief for those troubled Space Trappers.

We're all pretty excited to have the Voss color back in the mix again, and it will be featured across the molds, except for Gobon, whose mold has been getting some long overdue maintenance.

There will also be another tinted clear color in the upcoming wave, as well as some all new clear vinyl. The clear vinyl is much like the previous runs we have done, containing air bubbles and visible casting "waves" inside the parts. These are not perfect, slush molded masterpieces but they are super solid, durable and less expensive than our regular painted vinyl. We had an opportunity to run the last of our clear vinyl for this release, so after this round, chances are extremely slim we'll ever produce clear colorless rotocast vinyl again.

Details will be popping up over the next few weeks, but we are on track for a May 25th release as of today. Still waiting on a few last minute additions to the order that should inject a little sparkle into the works.

Mercenary Alert

The Wraiths are LIVE over at Callgrim.com!!!

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The Beverly Beast emerges once again to buck the trends set before him, debuting some truly progressive Callgrim toys tomorrow night (April 27th) at 9PM EDT.

Jesse has always wanted to manufacture things that really capture his personal vision of old Skullface's world, and over the past year he has worked extremely hard to make what lives in his head a reality.

The prices are higher than what you are used to as far as Glyos toys are concerned, but these new creations represent an artist going for exactly what's in his heart, regardless of public opinion and how much it cost to do (which was quite bit).

Watching Jesse build up his part of our collective world is rejuvenating, and I'm extremely proud of him for sticking to his 30 piece PVC guns.

Nice Wraith, Gimli!

Upgrades

Playing around with some more builds. The Hi-Phaseon gets some extra power with the addition of two Phase Arms and two Gobon Blasters. The Combodrone is made up of one Hub Set, one Axis Joint Set and one Phase Arm and Gobon Blaster Single Set.

Spy Monkey Returns!

Our friends at Spy Monkey Creations are set to release three all new Armory Sets tomorrow, April 13th at 12 PM PST.

On deck are the following:

-Metal Series (vacuum plated gold ABS/clear colorless PVC) $20 USD
-Solid State Series (white ABS/white PVC) $15 USD -SPECIAL PRICE
-GITD Green (GITD green ABS/GITD green PVC with aqua paint highlights) $20 USD 

Congratulations once again to the SMC crew for another great selection of stuff! I love that we can make a proper Henshin Eagle and I had a really fun time building with this new batch of parts. The white build is dedicated to the old Panzer World Galient series as well as the Lovecraft inspired alien beasts that dwell in the dark around here.

Well, maybe those are just my kids.

Conversions

Some more ZED Conversion Kits from the Zorennor Wave will be popping back up in the store before the end of April. Based on the drop night response and various emails over the past two weeks, it seemed like another round of these particular parts should happen sooner than later.

Some more Cane Version Deep Space Glyans will also be returning this month, along with a restock on black Buildman Gendrones, black Axis Joints, black Hub Sets, black Glyans (Cane) and possibly a small surprise.

Thanks again for making the recent launch a good one, and for being so patient while we got everything out the door.

Wrapping Up!

Just a few packages left and everything from the drop will have shipped out!

Once again I want to thank my sister for working like a maniac all week long. Michelle was also a one woman super force as she processed everything that came through the system.

I would be living inside a box under a bridge without the efforts of these two.

Above are a couple of pics from before the packing started. The little Hub Jumper that Cane is standing on has been my companion since the stuff came in. I'm more obsessed with the contained builds than ever before.

The crazy Wedge construct that Sullkren is "taming" is what happens when you try to replicate the old Rubik's Twist snake. You can actually fit a Block perfectly inside the middle of the "ball" formation.
Marc and I have had a blast rolling this thing around the driveway when it is connected end to end in a circular form. It acts like some kind of crazy frisbee/bio wheel and is pretty durable under the stress of play. Maybe we'll get a quick video of it in action next week.

Shipping Assault!

We have been processing and packing since the drop last week and things are finally starting to roll out! Orders will continue shipping right through this coming week, hopefully wrapping up around next Thursday afternoon.

Huge thanks go out to my sister Megan, who has thankfully returned from her recent Hawaiian adventure just in time to add some much needed hustle to the works. She is a true left-handed postal terminator

Thank You!!!

Thank you to everyone who was part of the drop this past Friday night! It was a wild release for us, in that we had never run all our molds in one launch before. This was fun and also slightly horrifying! My apologies for the fast burn rate on the Deep Space Glyans. I thought that because the configuration could be made from the other stuff available that it would just kind of be a fun extra thing on the menu. That was definitely not the case! Running all the new Hub Sets with the dome area painted seemed like it would limit some potential builds, so the DSGs were set up as more of an experiment. Next time there will be more of of them available.

The numbers in general worked out pretty well (aside from the DSG) and most of the items stayed active for longer than usual. The limits on a few things were put in place to try to ensure that everyone got a chance at some of the more busy items (based on past launches). The traffic was our highest yet, and the site seemed to hold up much better than last time, with very few reported problems with the store's performance. Overall the night was fun.

The next wave of stuff will bring back a few colors that might be a bit unexpected for some of you old timers. A few shades that have not rolled out in a while. The vinyl side of things will take a different route as well, with a "less is more" approach in the paint department. Hopefully you guys will like what's on deck when it shows up!

In the near future, keep your eyes on the Callgrim blog. Jesse has some absolutely wild projects coming together that will push things to a whole new level on the full production side of things. I think that his next release will be something to measure all other projects by. If you are into heavily painted deluxe battle machines, you will be extremely happy come late April.

Thank you again from all of us over here at Onell. It will forever amaze me that we are allowed to make these little toys, and that somewhere out there they each have a place to call home.
That's 100% thanks to you.


EDIT: Thanks for the sharp eyes Papioca!

Glyos United

The store is LIVE - refresh: onelldesign.com/store

9:30 PM EDT

We are bumping the drop a little to 9:30 PM so we can finalize a few last minute details. Everything is still looking good, just need the extra half hour to nail it down, this is kind of a beast! Sorry for the small delay!

More Zorennor

Some contained building.

I've been playing with that Hi-Phaseon like crazy, having it chase old renegade Beanbots around, trying to steal their parts.