Here it is, the turnarounds for what will hopefully be next year's new toy:
UNHOLY BEARTANK
Yeah, Yeah...I know the last time I said "next year" it was two years but we did make something no one had ever done before and the sculpts and moulds had to be done numerous times because the parts are tiny. It took forever!
 This BEARTANK is 3 parts Japanese Soft Vinyl, 12 inch and for scale you can see he has skyscrapers around his legs and the space station imbedded in his shoulder....he's astronomical and pissed off with exposed spine, brain, cog ear and cyborg parts he's no Rupert.
Eric Nilla will be doing the sculpt and concept.
Initially, we'd spent a good part of this year working on a two part mini for our ION MAIDEN pilot for the Ion Men who was a Roller Derby playing bad-ass who could be produced in all different colors with capes etc but we figured the audience was too small.

I was very keen to do this 2-part mini because of all the different variants that could be made but then Eric Nilla and I started talking about the Beartank....Then the art came and...well...look at that thing...it's beautiful. Another item for next year is this new chest insert of The ION MAIDEN where she is in her full uniform and not her underwear or her derby gear that Eric did a sketch of last year. More of this on my Instagram: Aoimatt

Not finished version

The last 2014 ION MEN for this year were Eric Nillas ION MAIDEN pilot Ion Men, The SDCC unassembled ION Men and the UNBELIEVABLE SHIT TONNE of $10 DesignerCon Ion Men.

We're coming back to Tokyo...AND Antarctica! FUCK YEAH!

People Don't Know This:

Here are all the runs released so far -
Black Unpainted
Ivory Unpainted
TAG Exclusive BLACK/WHITE Unpainted Mixed Parts
SDCC 2013 Velocitron/Lulubell 1st run Red/Blue/Black/Ivory Unpainteds with light sprays.
Spankystokes.com Exclusive Red Unpainted with Resin Stroll Head.
Bad Teeth Comics Limited Blue W/Silver Sprays X 11 (TAG)
Unpainted Blue Limited to 10 (Lulubell)
Japan Superfestival 2014 Blue/Black Clear Unpainted Mixed Parts (no capes - some with b/w engine inserts)
turboPISTOLA Black Clear Smoke releases (various)
Clear Unpainted w/Inserts
Unpainted Pink with Gold Glitter
Painted Various

Feeling blue....
Right up until a box of parts arrived from the Japanese factory! Woo...these were the SOLID GOLD I've been waiting for!
I ordered a limited run of clear red and gold glitter Ion Men and some clears.
Weeeelllll, the red turned out HOT PINK.
It's hotter than hot...it's HOT HOT HOT! I love it! So I threw some together and took some shitty Iphone pics with them:

Taken from the DCON main sight....TAG exclusive ION MEN:
 UNPAINTED BLACK AND WHITE MIXED PARTS and
"BAD TEETH COMICS" UNPAINTED BLUE WITH SILVER SPRAYS
These are bloody AWESOME! I was really happy with the blue and silver, I wish I'd kept some blue/silver caped ones for myself since there are no more blue unpainted parts left....maybe.

Now at Lulubell Toy Bodega - Unpainted Black and extremely limited Unpainted Blue.
They can be bought here: http://www.lulubelltoys.com/products/ion-men-black-asst


and here for Blue: http://www.lulubelltoys.com/collections/frontpage/products/ion-men-blue-asst

There are only 11 blue unpainted in this lot and I won't be doing this colour again (There are, however, some silver spray blue figs coming and blue parts being used for mixed figs in the future.) I think I have one blue and white fig for a giveaway somewhere too. It looks like a Smurf.

So, I'm starting a new toy venture. I'm excited because I've always said "We ONLY do robots." but now I'm going to try a horror toy.
I talked to Velocitron ages back about this idea and I think it'll work....I think people will dig it.
HOWEVER...here's more Ion Men for next year. These have either clear chests and blue bodies or clear bodies and blue chests.
The clear chests will have glowing engines and the blue bodies will have glowing brains.
I'm talking to BAD TEETH in Brisbane and bouncing ideas for the engines.