Wave 115 is GO!!!

Wave 115 is live!

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Note: Please place only ONE ORDER WITHIN THE FIRST HOUR TONIGHT. We will lift all limits after the first hour. Thanks for your cooperation. Have Fun!

We are still only shipping domestically (and to Canada) for this wave. We sincerely apologize to our international customers for the situation.

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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.

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!

Another Round of Jello Shots

When I was making the photo book with the original figures, somehow I decided to start messing with Jello to create some sets. It started out kind of fun, and then the heat kicked in and everything went melto-matic. Here are a few shots from the alien Voss Biovessel (AKA Jello World) sequence. If you poke around the older entries of this blog you'll find some more pics from this time period.

Oh, and we ate a lot of that Jello after the shoot. It was gross, but somehow delicious.

Battle Gallery

Jesse is at it again with these two new illustrations. First we have a hyper version of Gobon with his panels removed mixing it up with the space hunters known as the Voss. Amazing color and the usual kinetic energy fill this one. Michelle loves it. Jesse also sent over another Pheyden showdown. The crazy looking Pheyden with the dual Phase Arms sports a new head that we are actually making here at the shop for sale in a special edition set. Feel a little bad for what's left of that green Pheyden on the ground. Jesse is one sinister dude.

Cosmic Jello

Symbiotically connected to their living Biovessel, the Voss move with ease as their surroundings change with their thoughts. The figures are hand cast in urethane and the set is made of Jello. A ton of Jello.