Here’s something a bit different, and more akin to the third party offerings many Transformers fans have access to these days. 1000 Toys is a company largely known for their excellent 1/12 Scale TOA Heavy Industries Synthetic Humans, which you can order from our site sponsor BBTS using that link. Now they’re taking a stab in a different direction with some figures heavily inspired by Super Sentai & Kamen Rider!
These new Synthetic Human sublines, “Nextman Synth” & “Knight of Synth” share the same basic engineering as the Heavy Industries figures, with a little toku sensibility mixed in. The seemingly rider themed Nextman figures are named Cyclone, Fusion, & Future. Each retailing for $80 USD. Their pizza themed sentai-inspired heroes are also on display. These guys appear to be based on figures originally created by Youtube pairing Toy Pizza. You may also be familiar with the Mecha Zone Pizzanuats figures based on these designs. The green knight is Lime, red is Brick, blue is Teal, and the black one is Death Knight. Each of these is also $80 USD.
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1000 toys is producing some fantastic 1/12 scale Sentai & Kamen Rider inspired figures. The various "Synth" Figures are based on their previous work, the 1/12 Scale TOA Heavy Industries Synthetic Human figure.
The seemingly rider themed heroes are labeled as "Nextman Synth". Those named on placards are Cyclone, Fusion, & Future.
The pizza themed sentai-inspired heroes are also on display. These "Knight of Synth" figures appear to be based on figures originally created by Youtube pairing Toy Pizza. You may also be familiar with the Mecha Zone Pizzanuats figures based on these design. The green knight is Lime, red is Brick, blue is Teal, and the black one is Death Knight.
Each of these figures retails for $80 USD.
They look more like aliens then bugs to me honestly.
Nearly every modern Rider design starts with Ichigou as a base, then riffs wildly. Fourze was a rocket... with compound eyes and little antennae. Wizard replaced the compound eyes with gems, and abstracted the antennae down to part of the "setting" shapes. Gaim re-imagined compound eyes as the meat of an orange.
They're not often blatantly bug references anymore - a person would have to have a certain level of familiarity to catch them - but they're nearly all remotely based on bugs. (Probably not Ex-Aid and maybe not Hibiki.)
Nice! That's Real x Head's Nextman design for sure! Price is a bit high for me, but I might bite, since that's about what the Sofubi are running these days.
Edit: Yup, from Mori:
https://twitter.com/4921RHND/status/887809800985235456
Nearly every modern Rider design starts with Ichigou as a base, then riffs wildly. Fourze was a rocket... with compound eyes and little antennae. Wizard replaced the compound eyes with gems, and abstracted the antennae down to part of the "setting" shapes. Gaim re-imagined compound eyes as the meat of an orange.
They're not often blatantly bug references anymore - a person would have to have a certain level of familiarity to catch them - but they're nearly all remotely based on bugs. (Probably not Ex-Aid and maybe not Hibiki.)
The vague hints toward the bug motif were lost around Den-O. They're superficial most of the time now, eyes and a few callbacks here and there. My point in making that point originally was that these figures don't have to look like bugs to be Kamen Rider inspired because Kamen Rider simply doesn't look like that anymore in the first place. When your themes become magic, cars, fruit, video games, trains, etc, the notion of a single motif is no longer valid. The bug theme isn't there anymore and that's perfectly fine, but compound eyes don't just re-validate the notion that it is either. Kamen Rider is simultaneously everything, it's unifying theme is heroism and justice now. It doesn't need to be bug related, nor is it any longer. You can grasp for it all you want, but the superficial design elements like compound eyes and belts to transform are about the only lingering elements left anymore.
I'm a big fan of the Knights of the slice figures the Knights of the synths are based on . Here's a few of the original ones from my collection !
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Hello! I'm Nicky, co-creator of the Knights of the Slice line.
I'd like to share a few more details with the line by 1000toys!
This new line, Nu Synth, is a collaborative efforts between 3 artists initially.
1, Knights of the Slice by Toy Pizza (www.instagram.com/toypizza)
2, Next Man / Ghost Cider Next by RealXHead (www.instagram.com/realxhead)
3, Glyos / Onell Design (onelldesign.blogspot.com)
The Nu Synth line is transforming their original characters and using the Synthetic Human as a foundation to build completely new figures.
RealxHead, Toy Pizza and Onell all have an strong affinity with tokusatsu.
I hope this helps! I can't wait for ALL of them to officially release!
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