Its been a whirlwind 24hrs, Goliath went up for sale and sold out in less than 2hrs!! This was not urethane or any kind of collectors edition, this was standard pvc production run in a pretty high number of units.

I am so thankful that all the fans turned out for this one and it sent a resounding message that the Evolution brand is a strong one and was definitely the right choice to take Goliath!

With that said IF you missed out, when we decided on production we ran a tiny bit extra to make sure some of our retail partners could expose the brand. This was extra run over what we put up for sale for consumers, another reason it was the highest number of production we have ever done.

Shortly a small shipment of Goliaths will make their way to Rotofugi in Chicago, so if you are around their store check them out or give them a call in the coming weeks.

They are located at 2780 N Lincoln Avenue, Chicago, IL 60614

You can call them at  773-868-3308 or email rotofugi@rotofugi.com

If you are in Japan there is a small shipment of Goliaths headed your way courtesy of our friend Don “datadub” Kratzer of Fig-lab, you might remember him from last summer when we entered the Japanese Market at the fall Wonder Festival.

We would also like to welcome Zverotech as our newest International Partner, they are a web based minifigure store in Russia that sells some unique bootleg Battle Beasts and other minifigures from their area.  They will also bring Goliath and MWOTR to the Eastern European market for the first time!

Everything is on schedule for the nearly two year journey of Goliath from 3D sculpt to mass produced release!

Get him at Noon CST today, you can click the shop button to the right , the banner icon to the right or head to http://www.mystwarriors.com/shop.htm

We are anxious to see these get into fans hands, there will be no limits so buy as many as you want 🙂

As our comic progresses you will see quite a few new characters that will expand our universe past the typical anthropomorphic ones you have seen so far.

Soon we will introduce a second organization from the land of the rising sun known as the OPW.

Francis Foul, Sheldon Sabre and Goliath are scheming in ways that might change the AWF forever…

Here is a look behind the scenes at some concept work from Lee based on my original sketches on sticky notes

We received word this morning the full metallic emerald green production run of Goliath will be here early next week!! Once we have firm details and have inspected the shipment we will let you know just when you can stop in the store and pick him up!

So keep your eyes posted next week 🙂

Exiting news for next month!

We have just signed a deal with the Iowa Wild to bring MWOTR to the Wells Fargo Arena to exhibit as part of their “Super Hero Day” event on 2-15-15

So if you are in the Des Moines area and want to see us then stop on by!

While we were secretly developing Evolution Goliath, we wanted him to be as close to his original sculpt as possible. In the C2E2 2013 Urethane release, some sacrifices had to be made in order for his production.

One of those was the three dragon like points on his chin as seen in his original concept art.

They were just too delicate to survive the casting process, they would tear off because they were so thin and they were axed.

Being able to add those back in for PVC of course fits into our philosophy that if we ever released a figure in PVC that was already done in Urethane it would be slightly altered so as not to cheat the collectors that buy the prototype castings.

Going back and working on a figure allows us to emphasize certain things. For example, the scaling on Evolution Goliath is deeper then the original Urethane, and of course the articulation is all new.

Because of this process and the changes we were able to make, we felt Evolution as a brand expansion was more than fitting 🙂

So as we prepare for the Goliath arrival from China in the next week or two, we turn our attention briefly to the comic book. Volume IV is at the printers and we expect to receive them well in advance of Kansas City’s Planet ComicCon and C2E2!

I also spent quite some time this week talking with Lee about where we want to go next, it is my expectation to get the remaining two issues for this arch released before years end. Could this culminate in the debut of Series 3? Only time will tell 😉

All I will say about that tidbit is you need to look at the comics and artwork we show off to figure out who we might be releasing, if you look at PowerCon 2013 we foreshadowed almost a year in advance who we were looking at releasing with the Ulric Wolfrom 3.0 promo art.

Marty, Josh and Adam are always up to something in Kansas City. You might remember last year we toured with a big 2up of Takeshi Sumo. For those outside of toys a 2up is basically a huge prototype which is 2x the size of the original toy. You see them a lot with the 4H toys and MOTUC.

Well this week we are working on something with these 2ups that should be ready around the time of Kansas City Planet Comicon and C2E2 😉

Much like how Leo’ original sculpt was re-purposed for the 5″ Generations Project and then re-purposed again for Series 2’s Generations minifigure, we like to utilize the fact that our sculpts can grow and shrink.

We have another re-purpose project in mind that may yield yet another brand expansion later this year 🙂

We just got the first samples from China this morning which usually predates the full production run by a week or two. Goliath will debut in a beautiful metallic emerald green color that matches the recent Kamen Rider inspired Kabuto Mushi from December.

We hope to have a firm release date set shortly, but we can literally feel the excitement on the net and in MWOTR HQ for his arrival!

The entire team would like to extend a Merry Christmas to the MWOTR nation!! We really wish we could have had Goliath available to be under trees this year but the timing just did not work out, maybe next year we will have a few more things for Christmas and who knows one of them might even be vinyl 😉

And its been a while since I did a “things I like” post, so I will talk about something I have become infatuated with. Onion Fights is the name of a indie line released in Japan in highly limited edition numbers.

Their site is http://www.onion-fights.com/ (warning it is all in japanese), they can also be found on twitter and Instagram

We reached out to them in the fall and sent them a MWOTR care package, I was honored to see this picture posted on their twitter feed

MACHINE ONION vs. KAYIN KUNGAA pic.twitter.com/22t8HSVBJJ

— ONION FIGHTS (@Onion_Fights) December 2, 2014

And they did a neat acknowledgement of our line

http://ameblo.jp/onion-fights/entry-11959751452.html

Its always interesting to see another similar line across the world that is unique enough to show that the genre can co-exist with multiple types and bring a large amount of variety for fans of wrestling minis

With Goliath well on his way to full production and a mid January 2015 debut at $6, people have asked us what is the news of Series 2’s release.

Series 2 is close to ready, we are the point where we really want the details to pop to the eye so the Chinese mold master figures have been sent to the True Cast Studio in Kansas City for THEGODBEAST himself to work on by hand and make them as detailed as possible.

Here are pics fresh from the studio this week, once they are finished they will be sent back to China and the mold modified so we will get another back of test shots (version 3) and go from there. Each step brings us that much closer to approval and mass production.