Review – Neo Eyezon

Today I’m hanging out at Glyos Central while Matt and Marc complete the newest launch of toys from Onell Design. While they work hard at getting everything finished I’m playing with Matt’s toys, and when I uncovered this Neo Eyezon (Max Toy Co) I just had to snap some pics of him and take a very close look.

Mark Nagata (blog, Twitter) designed Kaiju Eyezon, a wacky creature that feels like it belongs in some twisted dream, and the toy was created by Yajima-san of Dream Rocket. I’ve been looking at this toy for a little while now, so getting the chance to actually play with one makes me happy. I love being surrounded by toys.

Eyes Everywhere!

With ten eyes — eight on his body and one in the palm of each hand — Neo Eyezon is probably watching me right now as I type this. What’s a little creepy is that the eyes are looking in several directions, which implies that Neo Eyezon can not only look at many different things at once but focus on everything around him. I sure wish I had that skill; I’m so ADD-powered that focus is tough. Oh, wait. We were talking about visual focus and not . . . I’m doing it again, aren’t I?

Anyway, about those eyes. They look great and, as shown in this post at his blog, Mark Nagata took the eye theme pretty damned far by using floating eyeballs on the header cards. Scroll all of the way down on the page for a look at his beautiful artwork.

Airbrush Attack!

This particular Neo Eyezon is a rainbow of colors, with sprays of yellow, green, purple, and red blending together with spots of silver spray. And to pop the eyes out of the sculpt bright silver splashes bring each eye to life. I seriously need to buy an airbrush and start practicing, because there’s no way that I’ll ever get a paint effect anywhere close to this beauty if I keep sticking to spray paint.

Articulated Vinyl Fun

So coming in at about five-inches tall, the Neo Eyezon is constructed out of four different bits of vinyl, but only two of the three connecting points are actual “points” of articulation. The arms swivel but the third point, at the waist, is more an assembly point and just barely has any movement. It’s unfortunate that the waist wasn’t a bit rounder than it is, because if the waist was cylindrical we would get articulation at the waist and then we could twist this guy to look at approaching enemies. I guess that isn’t necessary since he has so many eyes, but it would have been nice.

A Ton of Different Colorways

I couldn’t identify this particular colorway if my life depended on it, but I’m betting that Ben Mininberg (blog, Twitter) could. It seems that Ben is a major fan of this toy . . . check this page at his blog for way too many versions of Neo Eyezon. Wow, this colorway is incredible. I love the “blind” eyes effect on this version of the toy.

For more great photos of the Neo Eyezon visit toybot studios. Very nice photography work!

Closing Thoughts

Kaiju toys are expensive, yes, but they’ve got such a great design and feel so good in the hands that I find myself falling deeply in love with them. The fun of kaiju toys is indescribable; you really have to pick one of these up and play with it to truly understand why they have such a strong following.

Neo Eyezon is one of the better Japanese vinyl toys I’ve played with, and if this is the type of working coming out of Max Toy Co then I need to watch the company very closely. As it is I already missed the chance to join the Max Toy Club, and I completely missed out on their exclusive Steregon (mentioned here), so if I want to make sure I don’t miss any other amazing toys I had better start paying attention.

Philip Reed can hear Glyos talk behind him as he sits on the floor and plays with Neo Eyezon. Man, it’s a good thing Philip doesn’t live in this part of the country or he would never get any work done. Toys!