Steve Jackson Games Exclusive October Toys' OMFG Series 2

Fans of the Munchkin game series, G.U.R.P.S., Illuminati, and Cthulhu Dice know exactly who Steve Jackson is.  Today, October Toys revealed a Steve Jackson Games exclusive orange edition of the OMFG series 2 gang.  The set includes a Munchkin bookmark featuring Puke Knight, a member of  "The Overpowered Munchkin-Fighting Gentleman".  Head over to Warehouse 23 to get your set.

+The Highest Fever 

Mystical Warriors of the Ring wrestling-themed mini figures by Fantastic Plastic

Introducing Mystical Warriors of the Ring, produced in the same factory as October Toys' O.M.F.G. figures. These ultra detailed 2" scaled mini figures are a new product from the partnership between Fantastic Plastic Toys and True Cast Studio (prototypers for NECA and Sideshow Collectibles).

Available previously only in Limited Edition Urethane, late last year they made the jump to more affordable PVC.

Currently 5 colors are available on their website for an affordable $9.00 per pack (Glow in the Dark pictured below is $10). They also have a Black retail exclusive at Jay's CD and Hobby (www.jayscdandhobby.com).

Mystical Warriors of the Ring will be touring the USA in 2014 with the first stops being Kansas City's Planet Comicon in March and Chicago's mega convention C2E2 in April. There will be an exclusive colorway at each show (colorways not yet announced).

Mystical Warriors of the Ring figures are supported by a line of comic books, and there have been discussions of future animation and video games. So if you like Wrestling and if you like mini figures, this line is right up your alley.

October Toy's SDCC exclusives available online

If you weren't able to attend SDCC this year and have been crying into your Puke Knight plush (is that a thing? Somebody make that a thing) ever since missing out on those sweet yellow and blue Baby Deadbeets and OMFG series 2 figures then dry your eyes you sad little person!  October Toys announces that they'll be releasing those sets on their site tomorrow at Noon PST. Just like every other OT release you can expect these to sell out quick so get your mouse calibrated and your internets all lubed up or whatever you do to make them go fast.

Along with that joyous news, October Toys also announced a rebranding of their figure line to OTMFG and you can expect some new figures coming soon.   They even have a swanky new logo by Turbopistola.

http://octobertoys.com/products/otmfg/

Via the October Toys blog

-The Highest Fever
@thehighestfever

October Toys' SDCC Exclusives: Blue and Yellow OMFG S2 and Baby Deadbeets

Fans of little rubber guys better add a stop by Booth 4591 at this year's San Diego Comic Con (you know you were going to anyways) and check out the exclusive offerings from October Toys!

Brought to you with exclusive header packaging, each set of SDCC Blue OMFG (Outlandish Mini Figure Guys) Series 2 includes five collectible 2” PVC mini figures – Shirtle designed by Kenjitron & George Gaspar, Cry-borg by Andrew Scribner, Cuddlehard by turboPISTOLA, Grimm Gourd by Greg Merreighn, Charles Marsh, and Mike Fleming Jr., and Puke Knight by Jared DeCosta (with alternate color Puke!).

Alternate. Color. Puke. 

The SDCC OMFG Series 2 sets will be $10.00 each.

And my personal fav, Baby Deadbeets, are getting an SDCC exclusive color as well.  

Clocking in at 1.5″ of PVC goodness, each set of Baby Deadbeets includes one SDCC Yellow and one SDCC Blue mini figure in exclusive header packaging. Designed by Scott Tolleson and sculpted by George Gaspar.

The blue and yellow Baby Deadbeets will be sold as a set for $4.

via October Toys

-The Highest Fever

@thehighestfever

You can find OMFG Series One and an exclusive OMFG White Series 2 here!

Featured Product for March 21

Featured Product

So this is a new daily post (save for the weekends sometimes) featuring a product from the shop that you should be interested in and add to your collection. I am starting it off with one of my favorites that I still need to pick up my self, the OMFG Series 2 Tenacious Toys exclusive white colorway. These are reminiscent of those M.U.S.C.L.E. toys from the eighties. I used to collect them and would sit in class and imagine them wrestling one another around the school while my teacher droned on, now with the OMFG series I imagine them taking chunks out of one another, but that is a discussion for me and my shrink. Anyway, not only are these some bad ass toys from some bad ass artists (redjarojam, Kenjitron/George Gaspar, RuFuS, turboPistola and Monsterforge/M-Flem-Jr) So head over to the Tenacious Toys store and join me in my delusion by picking up this exclusive colorway today. The set of five is only $10 and with this being basically blank, would be great as is or for customization. 

~Mr. N. Visible

OMFG Series 3 is now live on Kickstarter!

Chances are you already know what these are, and you want to back this project.

Go get them!

OMFG Series 3 at Kickstarter.com

-WolverineBurger

Wolf Voigt's Custom SolarColorDust OMFG on eBay!

Wolf Voigt (creator of Solar Color Dust) has customized a bunch of his "Ice" OMFG Series 2 figures and they are available on eBay, right here. Aside from a couple with the holographic glitter (seen here on Cuddlehard), there are several with color-changing paintjobs, shown below.

Wolf has long been known in the mini figure community for his technical wizardry when it comes to insane dyes and paints, and we are all glad to see him bringing his skills to OMFG.

-WolverineBurger

Cuddlehard: Fully Engorged edition, exclusive pink artist colorway

These are dropping on Thursday, January 17 at 9pm Eastern U.S. time. They are limited to 160 pieces and come bagged with a header card that he designed for this drop. Each figure is $5 usd with a maximum of 3 per person/ household.
Buy them here: www.turbopistola.bigcartel.com

Don't Deadbeet around the bush!

Imma just break it down like this:

Exhibit A: Killer concept by Scott Tolleson

Exhibit B: Killer sculpt by George Gaspar of October Toys, scaled with OMFG figures

Exhibit C: 2 FREAKIN' DOLLARS EACH!?  Awesome.

Exhibit D: First Class Shipping option (so your $2 minifigure doesn't cost $11 to ship - a pet peeve of mine)

I did not feel guilty about buying these immediately and neither should you.

- Ahren

New O.M.F.G. AP series - King Castor

File under: HOW DID I MISS THIS?!

The King Castor O.M.F.G. Artist Proof has been released.  Buy it here for $6 or get an AP with sketch card for $12.  The original flesh color is also available for $3 each.

I have gone on record that this is my favorite Series 1 figure.  I have ordered my AP with sketch (and an extra flesh one because I am weak).

Also, if you haven't pre-ordered your O.M.F.G. Series 2 (in Tenacious Toys White here, complete list here) what are you waiting for?

- Ahren

Tenacious Toys Exclusive White OMFG Series 2 sets now up for preorder

 We now have our Exclusive White OMFG Series 2 figures up for preorder here. We expect our shipment to arrive this month or next month, if there are no delays. The set of 5 figures (bagged with header card artwork by Carlos Soto) is $10, and we have 200 sets made in our white colorway.

What is OMFG?
Good question! OMFG stands for "Outlandish Mini Figure Guys" and they harken back to the MUSCLE figures we played with as kids growing up in the 80s. OMFG is and always had been a community-driven project. Helmed by George and Ayleen of October Toys, the figures in both  OMFG series were designed by various artists from all over the globe. October Toys held an open call submission process on their forum, yielding hundreds of character submissions that were compiled and voted upon by the toy collecting community. In each series, 5 winners were chosen and put into production.

Of course, production costs money, so October Toys turned to Kickstarter to fund these series of toys. A few select retailers- smart enough to know a good thing when we see it- jumped on board with each series to request and pay for their own exclusive colorways of OMFG figures. For Series 2, we opted for White, as we have a lot of artist customers who'd probably be interested in picking up a few sets to paint. If sales from our Series 2 White figures go well, we will reinvest in October Toys by purchasing a White Exclusive run of Series 1. For now, you can go to our shop and order Series 1 sets in Flesh or GID.

The figures in OMFG Series 2 are as follows:

1. Puke Knight designed and sculpted by Jared DeCosta (aka redjarojam) from Massachusetts
2. Grimm Gourd concept by ScruffyNerfHrdr from Kansas, designed by Charles Marsh (aka Monsterforge) from South Carolina, and sculpted by Mike Fleming Jr (aka M-Flem-Jr) from Colorado
3. Shirtle designed by Kenjitron from Hawaii and sculpted by George Gaspar from Los Angeles
4. Cuddlehard designed and sculpted by turboPISTOLA from Tennessee
5. Cry-Borg designed by Andrew Scribner (aka RuFuS) from Rhode Island

Vote for OMFG Series 3 figures during September

October Toys has been producing these awesome tiny figure reminiscent of the M.U.S.C.L.E. Men we all grew up with... the mini figures by October Toys are called OMFG (Outlandish Mini Figure Guys) and you can see Series 1 (the top row) and the soon-to-be-released Series 2 (bottom row) in the image above which I stole from an excellent toy blog called Man-e-Toys.

Series 1 was hella popular; Series 2 promises to be just as popular. We opted for an exclusive colorway of the Series 2 figures, choosing white so that our customizing customers can pick up a set from us and get customizing! We'll be getting 200 sets of white OMFG Series 2 at the end of the year.

October Toys is not slowing down, however, while Series 2 is in production... the toy collecting community (that means YOU!) is now voting on the 5 figures to be included in Series 3!

 Click here to see all 144 entries put in by artists, and click here to sign into the October Toys Forum and cast your vote! Voting is open until September 29th. I just voted!

Dan Brodzik Customs (and what they mean for the rest of us)

What's that familiar shape?  Roll on deodorant.  For reals.

Dan Brodzik paints customs like most people wish they could.  Like some sort of...professional.  In a field littered with Johnny-Come-Latelys trying to ride the wave and one trick amateurs, it is refreshing to see someone with a depth of technique and variety of application.

Dan got started doing f/x painting then moved on to painting toy prototypes freelance in 1999.  There are a bunch of great examples of production toys on his site.  A few of his customs are pictured below BUT before we get to the customs (and before I start getting hate mail), I want to address something.

Some people might object to my statement above about "Johnny-Come-Latelys trying to ride the wave and one trick amateurs" but I stand by it.  Every artistic field has these, there is nothing unique about custom toys in that respect.  I'm not calling anyone out and I have no interest in "naming names" so don't bother asking.  (However, if you read that sentence and got bent out of shape, maybe that is a sign that you know you need to step up your game.)

So, what does that mean for the rest of us?  Let me be clear here: my point in contrasting those people with someone like Dan (and there are plenty of others) isn't meant to be derogatory.  It is meant to be inspirational.  Talented, hard working people in any field help show us what is possible and provide inspiration for what might be next or even the next next thing.  My view is that we should all be constantly improving our techniques through practice and helping each other by providing honest feedback and suggestions.  And this goes double for Johnny-Come-Latelys and amateurs.  Welcome to this big messy world, now get to work!

Back to our regularly scheduled article:

- Ahren

Outhouse T-Shirt by Kyle Thye available at Paste

The OMFG! Kickstarter to fund a run of cool little artist-designed mini figures reached full funding in August 2011. This is old news. I backed it, I got my figures, I got exposed to a bunch of talented new artists as well as Kickstarter as a viable funding platform. Great stuff.

Many of the artists involved used the added recognition to help launch new products and designs based on their contributions to the OMFG! series. One such artist is Kyle Thye, whose "Phantom Shithouse" figure made it into the series. (Now, OK, we commonly call it the Phantom Outhouse to be nice-nice on teh internetz, but it will always be the Shithouse to me.) You can purchase the Outhouse t-shirt, designed by Kyle Thye, from Paste Apparel here. Sweet shirt for $25.

Daniel Yu releasing his OMFG Crawdad Kid APs and customs Sunday

Daniel Yu was a part of the AWESOME October Toys Kickstarter-funded project called OMFG! (outlandish mini figure guys). The 2" figures in this series are an homage to our beloved M.U.S.C.L.E. men figures we all played with 20 years ago... all sculpts were developed by members of the designer toy community, and crowd-funded by artists, toy collectors and shop owners like myself!

Daniel is releasing his Artist Proof edition hot pink Crawdad Kid figures, as well as a bunch of custom Crawdad Kids, today. Go here to his store to buy them at 9PM EST tomorrow (Sunday March 4th), or check out his blog post here for more info and pics.

"Lobster Soup" hot pink AP edition Crawdad Kid ($6 each)

"Scourge of the Seven Seas" custom Crawdad Kid ($20 each)

SpankyStokes.com Exclusive Artist Proof Hot Pink OMFG! Series 1 Stroll

 Click below to buy this one. It's only $5. Do it.

SpankyStokes.com Exclusive Artist Proof “Hot Pink” OMFG! Series 1 “Stroll” - SINGLE - SpankyStokes