NEW RELEASE - the BATTLE OF PHRANGOSS

 

All new release, in the store right now!

Get over there and add to your collection!

MANGLOR MADNESS CONTINUES! Tonight, only at Onell Design!

A new release from Onell Design tonight continues the month of Manglors Madness!

At 9:30 pm EST, add these new warriors to your collection with this official crossover!

Available only at https://onell.store

Manglors Wave 1.5

Due to popular demand, the standard Manglord is back! 

We are offering a special five day re-order - from today, 2/6/2023 through 11:59 pm on 2/10/2023 - allowing you to add this supreme warrior chieftain of the Manglor tribes to your collections!

But he is not alone...

As a special bonus, you will also have the chance to add a returning threat from the primordial times of planet Uzalek to your collection - the PROTOLORD and his demonic followers, the PROTOMORDLES! 

Please see the Press Release below for the full scoop!

PRE-ORDER NOW

This pre-order is expected to ship May 2023.

Video produced by Toyfinity & Onell Design
Art by Nate Baertsch
Animation by Marc Beaudette
Music by Arcadia Doughty

Manglors - Press Release

For decades, the legends of their horrors have persisted.

The eggs, hidden in the depths of FOSSIL POINT, have existed in a state of hibernation.

Now, after forty years of silence, the volcano of MANGLOR MOUNTAIN has erupted again - and the MANGLORS - are back!

In 1983, the Ideal Toy Company introduced the "stick-icky creatures from another dimension", the Action Aliens known as the Manglors.

Comprised of both ferocious warriors and incredible creatures, these beings "made of the strangest stuff on earth" - sorbothane - were stretchy, sticky clay-like monstrosities.

The incredible box art by the late, great Ken Kelly promised the ultimate warriors of terror, but a perplexing marketing decision prompting kids to tear them apart doomed the line. Not even the addition of the amazing Prehi-Storage Eggs in 1984 could save the Manglors from tumbling into the toyboxes of obscurity. 

In 2013, Toyfinity officially acquired the rights to the Manglors. 

Developed for ten years, redesigned from the combined minds of Matt Doughty and Erwin Papa, the new Manglord stands tall at 4.25 inches of power!

The reimagined Manglors utilize the GLYOS SYSTEM of joint technology, allowing them to finally fulfill their original promise of "tear em apart / stick em back together again!"

Additionally, you can mix Manglors parts with any other Glyos compatible toyline to create your own custom monstrosities. 

The initial release of the new Manglors was on 1/29/2023 - with the standard classic colors Manglord selling out in less than two hours.

Now, due to popular demand, the standard Manglord is back! 

We are offering a special five day reorder - from today, 2/6/2023 through 11:59 pm on 2/10/2023 - allowing you to add this supreme warrior chieftain of the Manglor tribes to your collections!

This pre-order is expected to ship May 2023.

But he is not alone...

As a special bonus, you will also have the chance to add a returning threat from the primordial times of planet Uzalek to your collection - the PROTOLORD. Risen again from the depths of Manglor Mountain to challenge the Manglord, this malleable menace has never known defeat!

His two-tone green look is inspired by the vintage unpainted Manglord who was released with Manglor Mountain. Joining him are his demonic followers, the PROTOMORDLES, plus you will have the opportunity to purchase Prehi-storage Eggs in two varieties, created from the vintage Manglors tooling!

Any order placed during this special pre-order period will also come with a special art card by Erwin Papa depicting the battle of these two warriors for the title of Manglord! This art card will only be available during this pre-order.

Looking into the future, the terrifying vision of artist Nate Baertsch provides a preview of the breadth of Manglors to come.

Don't miss out on your chance to start a Manglors collection with the keystone figure in the collection, the Manglord!

Only from Toyfinity! 

Manglors - Hatch the Horror Inside!

Manglors is a registered trademark of Toyfinity LLC, 2012-2023.
Manglord, Fossil Point, Uzalek, Prehi-Storage Egg and all associated characters are trademark Toyfinity LLC, 2013-2023.
Glyos is a registered trademark of Onell Design LLC.

Age of MANGLORS

The new store is LIVE:
https://toyfinity.store

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!

Also, due to the state of things with Covid-19, we will only be shipping domestically (and to Canada) for this wave. We sincerely apologize to our international customers for the situation.

MORDEMONS

Clash at Fossil Point

Art by Erwin Papa!

Manglord

After nearly forty years of incubation, EGGS will HATCH.

This Sunday, January 29th at 9:30 pm EST.

MANGLYOS!

Did you get your Manglor-inspired Glyos Skeledens on Sunday?

It's too late for the Manglor warrior purple and green one, but get over there and get some of the others right now!

Manglors!

The Marvelous Manglord, by Tim Baron!

We take a break from our regularly scheduled CLUB ZETON push to show...MANGLORS.

A taste of things to come?

For Crazy Steve - the Ideal 84 Spring Advertising Catalog!

So, one of the great debates I have going with the Roboplastic Apocalypse concerns some of the information floating around about Tiltor and the unproduced Robo Force figures.
As in, why would there be line art for figures that were never made (or more likely, prototyped but never sold)?
Now, we have two examples of Ideal's program for line art. Above, see a recent acquisition for the Toyfinity archives, the Spring 84 Retail Advertising Catalog.

As Steve has noted so many times on his blog, there were a few ways that different retailers assembled their ads. Ideal seemed to be heavily reliant on line art, making line art for each and every character in the Manglors assortment. I suppose Thrift Drug might have really wanted to create their own advertisement featuring Manglosaurus and Manglodragon...imagine having that job circa 1984. "Jones, make me an ad for those Manglor things! You choose what you want to have in it."
The only thing I'm sorry about is that I knew someone who had a copy of the 1985 line art catalog who I have lost touch with over the years. Dave, where are you?

Drop is LIVE~!

Get your Solar Storm and Rampaging Editions now, as well as the first-ever (and probably last) GLOW IN THE DARK MANGLOR EGG!*

*you put your Mordles in it! For now...

Vintage Manglors ad!

Rule for life: one must never think they know everything about a subject. There is always something more to learn and experience.

Case in point:

 

Thanks to good friend of Toyfinity Mark Bellomo, I received an unused Robo Force fan club packet from the 1980s. The full contents will pop up here in posts from time to time, but today's information comes courtesy of the first (and only) issue of the Robo Force Magazine, which was included in the membership packet.

Part magazine about robots, part propaganda packet for Ideal Toy Company, it marks the first and only time I have seen a print ad for Manglors...

Manglors must have sold really well in 1983 for Ideal to bring it back in 1984. They pushed the hell out of the "prehistorage egg" in the Toy Fair catalog from '84, and you can see how prominently it is featured in both this ad and the vintage Manglors commercial.

The chicken or the egg? Nope - it was a Manglor!

I had this magazine as a kid, and I don't remember this ad, but now we can all enjoy it again. I love the design work and the way it spotlights Manglodemon. It is my hope that by this time next year, we'll all have the ability to play with a brand-new Manglodemon! For now though, let's enjoy these classic examples of advertising.