Battle Hardened

Record of the Renegades

The Gendrone Chronicles: Transmission Received

The Chronicles continue!

Renegades Wrangled

Man, whose idea was it to paint so many Gobons anyway? I know, it was the same fool who thought that he could do it in only a month. Yeah, that would be the bearded fool writing this.

First off, I wanted to say thank you so much for the incredible next level patience that everyone who ordered one of these has shown over the past 3 weeks. Now I can finally say that the Renegades are officially wrapped up!

My apologies that it took me extra time to complete all the customs, but I wanted them all to receive full attention to detail. I kept getting inspired to push the limits and I had to follow the feeling. I think these are some of the most realized customs yet because of it. Just the size of these big boys tacks on some extra labor as well! I can safely say that this went beyond the last CC release as far as intense paint applications. Some dye action made it into the mix, but the majority of the figures just have a ton of paint applied. We are packing up everything tonight and shipping begins tomorrow. I hope you guys like these beefballs, they are surprisingly heavy!

On another note that kind of took us by surprise, we have a new run of Pheyaos ready to go! Due to the EMS craziness that has been going on, Mori wanted to get something over to us before the new restrictions went into effect. Since our next Pheyden wasn't quite ready in time, Mori put together a very cool mini run of Pheyaos in record time! The thing that is completely wild about this edition is that Goto-san applied a DIFFERENT paint application to every single figure! Even though at first glance they all look somewhat similar, each has its own thing going on. Out of nowhere and super unique! Once again Mori proves he is the true Sensei of the toy world.

The new Pheyaos will go on sale Friday, November 26th at 8PM EST (Black Metallic Friday). They will run $35 each and are limited to one per customer. There will also be a little surprise going up that was inspired by all the awesome work Mori has been doing all over the place right now.

Last but not least, we will be resuming The Gendrone Chronicles, with new pages going up later tonight. Looking for some explanations behind some of those weird Renegades customs? Then get ready as we continue to deliver the answers wrapped up in Ralph's amazing artwork!

I think I may have inhaled a bit too many paint fumes, I'm starting to sound more insane than usual. Anyway, thanks again guys!

In Outer Space

The talented crew (thanks Daniel) over at itsalltrue.net connected with us a while back and asked for some deeper details about our involvement in the Four Horsemen's OSM project. You can check out their interview here of a certain Bearded Fool in particular, and see how the trips to my Grandparent's house as a child opened the OSM vortex for me.

Also, if you really want some excellent information about the man behind the original Outer Space Men line, head over here to learn about Mel Birkrant's role in building the juggernaut that we all grew up with and loved - Colorforms. What an absolutely fascinating look behind the curtain from a man who could basically turn anything into gold.

I literally played with almost everything he had a hand in creating during the 70's and 80's! Now I need to search for those old Colorforms sets....

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War comes to The Gendrone Chronicles!

Mr. Gittleman Comes to Town

All photos by David Gittleman

Recently we had a visit from our friend and photographing genius, David Gittleman. Dave is the man behind all the amazing pics you see adorning the packages of the toys produced by McFarlane Toys. He is their main man for visual data and does work on prototype development and product quality control as well.

One of Dave's passions is learning about how things operate. Whether it's an iPod, a camera or a business, he has a true interest in what makes something work.

Combing his razor sharp skill behind the lens with his analytical mindset, Dave has been working on an original project for the last year. This fresh endeavor is an account, both visually and through the written word (and even some video), about how independent artists do their daily business and stay alive.

Dave has been up to the house a total of 2 times now, and we have loved having him visit. This guy really knows his craft, and puts his left handed wits to work around the clock. We are lucky to be involved in his mission to record the crazies at work, and we're really looking forward to visit #3!

Mercenary Alert

The Callgrim dailies return...

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The Gendrone Chronicles roll on!

Callgrim Joins the Ranks!

Congratulations to Jesse on the RXH Callgrim launch! The next edition can't come soon enough. Now get designing some more attachments for that big beast! Oh, and you're the Food Baby!

REAL X HEAD X CALLGRIM

Available now at: callgrim.com/realxhead

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The Gendrone Chronicles continue!

Mercenary Alert

The RealxHead X Callgrim vinyl will be available tomorrow,
November 11th at 8pm EST at blog.callgrim.com!

The Gendrone Chronicles: Transmission Received

The next installment of The Gendrone Chronicles is up,
and Ralph continues to amaze us all!

The Gendrone Chronicles: Transmission Received

Ralph shows more of his killer abilities in the latest pages of
The Gendrone Chronicles!

More Metal!

We have added a few remaining Battlegrip x Onell Design Metal Heads to the store! Another thanks to Phil- it was fun having live coverage 2 feet from my toy-mountain of a work space. If you're wondering what happened to the junkshop, it became my desk. I would also like to note that T-Ride was in full effect during this heavy metal launch. -marcus

Thank You!

Thanks to everyone out there for the great response on this little release! We are so grateful to be able to continue doing this each and every day. It is 100% because we have the best group of people supporting and joining in on this ever evolving endeavor.

As a special extra thanks, we've posted the next 2 pages of The Gendrone Chronicles, showcasing the amazing artistic talent of Ralph Niese!

Also, we would normally be pulling the CC down at this point, but for the guys who may not have been able to get in on it earlier last night, we are leaving the store open until 12 noon today. We will honor all orders that come in and create the extras if they are needed (kind of like CC3). We want to keep this open and easy to interact with. Hopefully this system will cover everybody who wanted one of those Renegades. Thanks again for everything you all bring to this project, we are nothing without all of you.

Now, back to building!

Custom Corps 1.4 Renegades

The Renegades are here
(refresh onelldesign.com/customcorps)!

We hope you guys like this batch! Special thanks to Phil Reed of Battlgrip.com for producing some awesome white metal parts to add to the mayhem! These pieces are in their raw state, so make sure to get your knives and polishing paper ready if you grab some. Thanks Phil (from across the room)!

On a personal note, exploring another side of good old Gobon has been one of my personal pet projects for a number of years. I actually started the "Protobon" heads a ways back, when Gobon was only a urethane master, and finally got them finished up in time to tell the story of the Renegades.

Which leads me to something that Marcus and I have been really excited about. Onell Design is truly honored to be working with the creative powerhouse known as Ralph Niese! Ralph recently came for an extended visit, and during his time here we all decided to finally do something official together.

With that being said, we are super psyched to unveil our new joint project - The Gendrone Chronicles! This all new online comic tells the tale of Buildman Argen and what he's been up to since deciding to stay on Rilleco at the end of the Glyaxia Passcode from earlier this year. We will be popping up new content all throughout November, leading up to the next big launch at the end of the month.

Ralph's style is unique and completely amazing, seeing the Glyos characters done with the Ralph spin is refreshing and inspiring for all of us over here.

Thanks for being a creative workhorse Ralph, I hope you still speak to me at the end of the month! HA!

Ready for Assault

We're on track for a 9PM EST release tonight (November 4th). The Renegade Gobons have been amassing their forces and are prepared to invade! Each Renegade Gobon will be priced at $35 USD and limited to 2 per customer.

There will also be some special surprises at launch time tonight (Metal Heads get ready)!

More details in a little bit...