Originally revealed by our good friends at the
MAN-E-TOYS blog in a series of four posts —
HERE,
HERE,
HERE, and
HERE — artist ensemble
The Disarticulators have partnered with
Unbox Industries to release a kaiju keshi series titled "Strange Monsters." With each 2½-inch tall piece cast in rubber-esque soft vinyl as opposed to the traditional rubber, pictured above is the "Tug-O-War" mini figure designed by
The Amazing Zectron, his first ever solo figure. Mutating the classic nautical kaiju theme, this beast has a back-mounted tug boat as its camouflaging dorsal fin! Then, pictured below, is
Tru:Tek's "Sunobite," a nightmarish joining of visual nods to a
rikishi (sumo wrestler) and The Chatterer cenobite from Clive Barker's
Hellraiser.
Pictured below is
Bigmantoys's "Shogu-Nasty" design for the series, this beast is a piece of towering, traditional Japanese architecture granted horrid life! As the back story goes:
Hatano Hideharu, 1541 – June 25, 1579, was head of the Hatano clan, and successfully maintained independance against the impossible Might of Oda Nobunaga. For three years he and his clan hindered Nobunaga’s march to Kyoto at Yagami Castle until he offered Nobunaga surrender, and was dishonorably executed.
His enraged spirit maintained itself in the stones of Yagami Castle, causing it to trmor, and deteriorate at a rapid speed. A thick, horrible electricity filled the halls of the castle, making it inhabitable. A proud caretaker remained for several decades alone, until the sound of breathing, living flesh in the walls became too terrible to take.
A year later, the castle was almost complete gone. Vanished. Old wives said they’d seen it slowly thundering through the forest, to the sea. No one believed them until now. Hatano has returned…
Stone, flesh, muscle and monster are destroying the best forces of the East Asian Experimental Mutagen Defence Force. Cannonballs rip through our cities and our best giantified martial artists are unable to offer any notable resistance. What we can offer him to make him stop, we do not know. We must defeat him…
Japan beseeches you, DIE! SHOGU-NASTY!!!
The final figure, the below pictured "Necrolossus" designed by
Ironhaus Productions, is captured in a truly dynamic pose, a menacing look to the creature as it bares sharp teeth and strains pulsating muscles. This creature also has a tale for its history:
Man’s reliance on nuclear power, ultimately, was the very dependency that would destroy everything. Humanity was notorious for it’s avarice. Every enterprise known to man employed penny-shaving tactics in business, and construction was certainly no stranger to that principle. When a construction company won a bid for a Pacific shoreline reactor, the cost-cutting practices went in effect immediately, affecting everything from materials to staffing. The job was finished before deadline and far under budget, resulting in promotions for those in charge of the project, and a hefty profit for those financially invested in it. Things were good… For a while… The cheap materials and rushed craftsmanship didn’t hold up for long, as five years later, the reactor was put to the test during a meltdown… And the reactor failed, miserably. What came next was expected, and unstoppable…
Death. On a grand scale. Radiation touched everything within a 50 mile radius, polluted the waters, and poisoned the air. The irradiated and necrotic flesh of not only the humans that died in the area, but every living thing in the area, gained a hive-like sentience and began to reconstitute itself. The aggregate monster took pieces of destroyed buildings, automobiles, trains, and whatever else it needed to create a corporeal form. The moment it learned to stand, the colossus made out of radioactive death emptied it’s lungs and nuclear effluvia filled the skies. Cable news media named it “The Necrolossus,” and he stomped towards civilization looking to feast…
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