Today I am going to look at something that is out of my normal wheelhouse of reviews. It’s time to give some love to the “little guy”; it’s time to put a spotlight on one of many new up-and-coming Indie toy companies. This review covers five colorways of the same figure, but these figures are no simple repaints. First, let’s get a little backstory on these figures and their creator Marty “Godbeast” Hansen.
Godbeast has been around as a sculptor and customizer for years now. Most people would know his work with Onell Designs Glyos figures. He started out making hand-cast resin heads and figures. Godbeast got help from the godfather of Glyos figures himself, Matt Doughty, in creating the design for the Kabuto Mushi II back in 2011. With the help of his friend and backer Kaleb Swenson, Godbeast unleashed his first retail release of the Kabuto Mushi II in January of this year. Now let’s take a deeper look into the figures themselves.
The five colorways in his second drop consist of metallic pearlescent silver, glow in the dark, metallic pearlescent black, metallic pearlescent blue with purple, and metallic pearlescent purple with blue. I hope my pictures can really show how amazing all these metallic pearlescent colors are in person. Trust me, they are amazing. The GITD figure has a very nice bright glow as well.
As an added bonus, each KMII comes with a Mini Mushi cast in the same base color as each figure. These little guys are non-articulated figures, but are a great little add-in.
Like I said, each figure is the same, so I will just use my favorite color from this drop to get a better look at the figure itself.
I love the “beefy” feel of these figures that stand them apart from a lot of the other Glyos figures. The figure can be broken down to 26 parts, which can be reconfigured any way you can think of and can also be combined with any other Glyos figure. That’s the beauty of any figure being a Glyos figure — it allows you come up with your own figures just by popping together random pieces. But for now I’ll be sticking to the “base” figure (more on the reconfiguring later).
All the articulation points are “cut joints,” but because the pieces can be twisted and moved around, you really can get some great poses.
The figure includes two heads. One is the main KMII head, while the other head is a “drone” head that also serves as KMII “backpack.”
Now, back to the bread and butter of any Glyos figure: part swapping! Here are just three examples of some great figures you can make with a single KMII figure. They really look like they come from a different “mold,” so even by buying five of the same figure, I can create a collection of different figures in just minutes.
Also, by combining a couple pieces from the GITD and black figures, I was able to make my very own KMII-inspired Onell Hades figure.
Then taking part-swapping further, you can combine parts from the KMII with any other Glyos figure. Here I have a couple simple shots of the KMII head on a Four Horsemen Power Lords figure. Then I combined the GiTD KMII with a GiTD Weaponeers of Monkaa figure, another favorite Glyos figure line of mine.
I think if someone is a fan of just plain old toy fun, this figure should be right up their ally. I am excited that Godbeast has started in the production toy world and cannot wait to see what else comes out of that crazy genius toy mind of his. As of the writing of this review, only the silver and GiTD are in stock. But there is one more chance to get some of the purple or blue KMII figures at this years C2E2. Like most Glyos lines, once a color is gone, it’s gone for good, so I hope everyone can have an open mind about supporting these great indie guys that are putting their toy love into these toys.
