With the Skeletron Team prepping for JoeFest, they’ve shared their month end update a bit early! Check out the uninterrupted details below –
Onward!
Hello Roboskullers! As we prepare to join our friends at JoeFest tomorrow, we have some exciting progress to report:
PHASE C
- Roboskull MKII & MKII SE continue to be produced in the factory and they are truly glorious! We are absolutely thrilled with the final quality of these crazy red flying skulls! There is confidence from the factory that both the MKII & MKII SE will ship from China later this summer. We cannot wait to get these terrifying beauties into your hands!
Note the Yellow Lightning Breath Effect that will come with the MKII SE!
- Elite Flight Stand looks great and will be ready to ship with the Roboskulls!
- Roboknight Heavy Metal Armor Accessory experienced a setback that ultimately required this mask accessory to be re-tooled. We believe it will catch back up in the process, but we can’t yet be certain it will be ready to ship simultaneously with the MKII & MKII SE deliveries.
- Marauder 4″ Jungle Wolf Troopers will be ready to deploy with the MKII & MKII SE!
PHASE D
- 6″ Troopers, Pilots, & Gyre Wolf have been largely tooled, but we are still awaiting some critical tooling before production will be able to commence.
- 4″ Skeletron & 6″ Skeletron are making notable progress. Some tooling has been completed, but the majority of tooling is not yet finished. We love how our final swinging-effect laser sword is turning out!
Cory Cantelupe’s visit to China was extremely successful, and we thank our partners in China and Hong Kong for their hospitality and continued efforts!
“After 15 years working in the toy industry, taking my first trip to China was an amazing experience. The people were wonderful, I learned so much, and we were able to make tremendous progress as a team.” —Cory Cantelupe
Real progress continues every month on all remaining products, and, at the same time, we feel that PHASE D is not keeping pace as tightly behind PHASE C as we would like. The factory is dedicated and very focused on finishing out this Kickstarter with AWESOME product, and we believe we will be able to answer schedule projections more definitively in the next month. As always, we’ll keep you updated on where we are at on all fronts!
Onward to JoeFest, June 21-23
This weekend! SKELETRON will be at JoeFest with so many of our friends, including Marauder GR, Grindstone Toys, Total Toy Books, Operation: Recall, Creative Beast Studios, Delta-17, Raginspoon Toys, Savage Crucible, Spero, Super7, Toy Collectr, 4 Horsemen, Codename: Iowa, Joe Declassified, Roma Collectibles, The Toy Department, and so, so many other awesome companies and people! Skeletron will be at a booth shared jointly with Marauder GR, so be sure to stop by and say “Hello!” Palitoy Legend Bob Brechin be joining us for his first US appearance, and the legendary artist Douglas Hart will also be in attendance at JoeFest!
PALITOY & PIZZA
Beers with Bob Brechin & The Odyssey of Action Force
Join us for a Saturday night conversation with Bob at JoeFest! Bob worked at Palitoy in the UK from 1967 until 1984, and as Chief Designer was responsible for Action Man, Action Force, and so many other iconic toys! Decades later, he joined our SKELETRON design team to develop the soon-to-be-released ROBOSKULL MKII. Bob also very recently authored “My Palitoy Story” in collaboration with Brian Hickey to celebrate the creativity, ingenuity and vision of the Palitoy Team.
Bob will also have concept prints for sale at our SKELETRON booth, and will be available for signings. Then also join us for PALITOY & PIZZA with Bob at 8pm on Saturday night!
Perhaps best known in our collector circles for his classic work on G.I. Joe packaging art, Doug Hart is also the packaging artist for our Red Shadows Retro Series, Callsign: Longbow, and Operation: Recall! Doug will be on the showroom floor and also has a panel at 1pm on Saturday! We will also have Doug Hart Skeletron prints for sale at our booth!
Variant Cardback Retro O-ring Skeletron/Wolf Trooper
Making its debut at JoeFest 2024— a special cardback of our Retro Series 2-in-1 Wolf Trooper/Skeletron featuring breathtaking Skeletron artwork by the legendary Douglas Hart, whose iconic style adorned GI Joe packaging in the 1980s and 90s.
This figure is from the same production run as our sold-out Retro Wolf Trooper (also illustrated by Doug Hart), so this variant will appeal to those who missed out, want more, or simply enjoy another carded version with a killer Skeletron cardback design. Can’t make it to the show? Don’t worry! This Skeletron variant will be available online after JoeFest at www.SKELETRON.com, shipping worldwide at the same price as our sold-out Retro Wolf Trooper.
We will also have a very limited quantity of the sold-out Retro Wolf Trooper cardback version at the show.
BATTLE ACTION FORCE Pre-order is LIVE & at JoeFest
Total Toy Books is coming all the way from Ireland to show samples of the 3-volume BATTLE ACTION FORCE Deluxe Treasury Editions that have just gone up for Pre-order! Pre-order now to receive all three volumes of these beautiful, massive books at a very SPECIAL PRICE!
It’s not too late to grab a flight or take a drive- hoping to see you at Joefest, June 21-23 in Augusta!
Thank you all for your continued support!!!
-SKELETRON
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