[Four Horsemen] SCARABUS

The Four Horsemen announce that SCARABUS has finally gone into production. Scarabus is the long-awaited winning character of the 2008 FANtastic Exclusive vote, and the main character from the Four Horsemen's property - Gothitroplois.

Pictured is a look at the first tooled samples showing Scarabus' size in relation to past FANtastic Exclusives and the amount of articulation the figure will feature.

As production moves along, the Four Horsemen should have a better idea of when Scarabus will be finished and ready to ship, but they expect to have things ready to go around the beginning of 2011.

Len escreveu:Figuras muito legais, mas são de que série? Não os conheço.

Bento escreveu:Não tem um personagem assim da linha SPAWN?

Oblivion escreveu:Tem sim, o Poacher:

murcegão escreveu:acho q todo mundo aqui sabe quem são os Four Horsemen, não sabem??? sei q muitos tem bonecos deles....

são os caras q fazem dc universe, motuc, ghosthbusters pra mattel e TMNT pra NECA... então muita gente aqui deve ter bonecos deles hehehe

essa linha ai, eh uma das exclusivas deles... não tem embasamento em nenhuma série ou algo pré-existente, são experimentações dos mestres... eles tem mais de uma...lembro de uma egípcia q naõ sei se chegou a ser lançada e tal.

mas resumindo, não pertence a nenhuma série, e 4 cavaleiros são os caras q criam, e não os bonecos

History

The origins of Four Horsemen Toy Design Studios can be traced back to the four partner's days of working together in the trenches of McFarlane Toys. Eric Treadaway, Jim Preziosi, H. Eric 'Cornboy' Mayse, and Chris Dahlberg discovered early on that their various abilities worked well together, and they tried to make sure that each new project that came their way became a collaborative effort between them. They went on to create such McFarlane classics as Cy-Gor, Cy-Gor 2, The Crow, Mandarin Spawn, Chucky, Manga Spawn, Leatherface, Manga Freak, The Flukeman, The Monsters Playsets, and three different lines of Kiss action figures just to name a few.

After working together at McFarlane Toys for a few years, they realized that the toys that they were having to design and create were moving in a somewhat different direction than they had anticipated. While they understood that there was definitely a market for more posed, statuesque figures, the four wanted to continue to create toys that displayed the detail and dynamic sculpting that they had become known for, while still containing a certain level of 'playability'. They saw no reason why the action features and articulation of a figure had to be sacrificed in order for it to still remain a cool collectable item. It was during this time that one of them jokingly said that they'd 'eventually ride off like four horsemen into the sunset' to start their own toy design company.

Even though they were joking around at the time, the joke soon became reality when an opportunity arose in the form of a friend with major connections within the toy industry. Through various discussions, the four learned that the largest toy company in the world, Mattel, had been considering the possibility of bringing in an outside design group to help in the re-design and re-vamping of some of their core and new brands. The quartet eventually set up a meeting with Mattel and boarded a jet for L.A. Upon arrival at the Mattel design offices, the four were a little surprised at the loose, easygoing nature of the group that they met with at Mattel. While they'd expected to meet with a bunch of stuffy 'suit and tie' types, that couldn't have been further from the truth. While the Mattel guys were definitely professional and knowledgeable about their craft, they were much more 'down-to-earth' and approachable than the four had anticipated.

Throughout the discussion, Mattel and the quartet seemed to be on the same page with everything that was discussed. Even when the idea of re-launching He-Man and the Masters of the Universe was thrown out. Everything just seemed to fall into place. Soon after, the newly dubbed 'Four Horsemen' had signed an exclusive agreement with Mattel and began work on the He-Man and Skeletor action figure prototypes. Since then, the Four Horsemen Toy Design Studio has not only helped in Mattel's successful re-design and re-launch of their He-Man and the Masters of the Universe toy line, but they've also done various deluxe figures for Mattel's Harry Potter action figure line, a line of high-end cold-cast collectable Harry Potter statues, a villain for the Max Steel action figure line - the Bio-Constrictor, and a couple of Micro-Hot Wheels playsets that are currently in limbo as to whether they're actually going to be produced or not.

One of the group's greatest achievements to date is the thrill of seeing their re-designs of Mattel's classic Masters of the Universe figures brought to life, not only in 3-D toy form, but also in the new cartoon and comic book, as well as upcoming video games and other properties.

pavlov cesak escreveu:Essa deve ser uma serie mista, com representações indiana, nordica, egipicia e sei lá mais o que. Mas que são legais são.

m4rc3low escreveu:Ainda bem que eu não coleciono nada nessa escala.
Mas que ficou bacana, ficou!