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Onell Design is an independent toy company and artist collective. They produce the Glyos System Series featuring the characters Pheyden, Exellis, Crayboth, Argen, Gobon, Armodoc, Armorvor, Noboto, Buildman, Skeleden, and various others. The toys are made of

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, and hearken back to the durable, small-scale action figures of the 1980s, such as Adventure People. The figures can be described as a cross between an

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and

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. Onell Design toy figures are primarily sold directly by the manufacturer, although on occasion a release may be made available where a specially decorated figure is available elsewhere.

Background

Onell Design has worked with several other independent toy companies over the years, helping with design, production, and incorporating The Glyos Peg System. The companies and their respective lines include: Culture Pirates' Bit Figs, Fantastic Plastic's Mystic Warriors of The Ring, Four Horsemen Design's Power Lords and Outer Space Men, The Godbeast's Kabuto Mushi and Nemesis, Little Rubber Guy's Rise of The Beasts, Nemo's Factory AVR Robot, Ni Stuff's 481 Universe, October Toy's Skeleton Warriors, Rawshark Studio's Callgrim, Rocket North's Planet Banimon, Spy Monkey Creation's Weaponeers of Monkaa and Battle Tribes,

Toyfinity Toyfinity is an independent toy company and artist collective. They produce figure kits compatible with Onell Design's Glyos System Series. Several are former lines previously released by Ideal Toy Company. The toys are made of interchangeable ...

's Mordles, Robo Force, Zeroids, and Knight of Darkness, Toy Pizza's Knights of The Slice, True Cast Studio's The Walking Dud, Zullbeast and Zullens, Bio-Masters, Galaxxor, ManOrMonster? Studios' Warlords of Wor, Spaced Out Design's Geo, and

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's Mega Merge retail line. Several mini figure lines have been manufactured by Onell Design such as October Toy's Outlandish Mini Figure Guys (OMFG) and October Toys Mini Figure Guys (OTMFG), Kaiju Big Battle, Last Resort Toys' Run-A-Mucks, and The Mini Figure Militia's Oozarian OMFG/OTMFG and Slime Pit Mordles collaborative exclusives. There has also been numerous independent artists who have created resin and rubber Glyos compatible heads and accessories, such as 1Shot Toys, Cassetteman Studios, and Bah'glenn Creations. Onell Design has also collaborated with international artist Real x Head in

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. The Glyos System Series received the #1 Best Mini Line Toy Award 2008 from the popular toy review site Plastic and Plush. Onell Design's interchangeable vinyl piece "The Rig" was featured in

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's Top Ten Toys of 2010.MTV Geek News
2010 Also in 2010, the Onell Design Glyos System was incorporated in a new line of Outer Space Men action figures. In 2011, Onell Design introduced the Glyan, a 2 3/4-inch figure in various colors which includes Onell Design's first-ever

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head. In 2012, they introduced an Armorvor, a production version of a figure which recalls Battle Beasts and offers the first-ever Onell Design production animal head.

References

External links

Onell Design Official Website

Glyos System Official Blog

Glyos/Onell Design Forum at October Toys
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