Jizaitoys Totemia?

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    The elephant (clearly modelled on Megatron), hippo, and dragon are the only ones I can stomach in hu-mode. They could pass for robots. The others they tried to hard to make the faces look like humans. But I could go for the frog, snake, bat, and kangaroo.
     
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    he did that wheelie exclusive that got knocked off, i picked that one up, alot of die cast metal in that one. great toy.
     
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    YES YES YES! OMG, these are like holy grail designs that many of us have drooled over for like ten years! If they finally get made...

    YES YES YES!
     
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    Yep, still my favorite Wheelie figure. Totally genius transformation. It’s a little limited in articulation but the look and transformation makes up for it for me.
     
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    Ok, so a freelance designer and just concepts. Shame, he has a lot of original ideas, like a Strika and a couple botbotesque figures I saw on daimchocs page. Hope these ones get released one day, I’d take the whole set. Might paint the faces of some to look less human, but I’m always here for beastformers.

    Edit: just noticed that the bowtie on the kangaroos tail becomes her heel in beast mode. Haha that is genius! I hope the baby roo becomes her headmaster or targetmaster.

    Interesting to flirt with for sure. You wink at her, her chest winks at you.
     
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    Totally honest here, I'm more excited by this than any other toy release right now. Fingers crossed they move into production.
     
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    Wow, never thought I'd see these happen as actual toys. I might pick them up just to own some of this crazy stuff, Jizai has always been brilliant with transformation schemes.
     
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    I remember seeing that Frog Girl 10 years (or more!) ago. I was disappointed that it wasn’t a mass production thing. It just looks cool.
     
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    the kangaroo has a little joey. i would buy all of these, even if crafted from wood.
     
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    They all look cool. :)  They seem to evoke a legends class figure but I could be wrong. Either way this isn't a bad way to expand people's beast era collection.
     
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    It's kinda weird that it appears someone is making toys based off of Jizai's earliest works, but I'd totally buy them. I love his style, and his ability to come up with creative transformations that are still pretty simple and streamlined.

    It sounds like you're just seeing stuff that's being reposted, here is Jizai's blog where you can see all his concepts 変形バカ一代!ジザイトイズ. It's in Japanese, but it's not really needed to navigate the site. just click on the title of a post to show more, and use the page buttons on the bottom to see more. He frequently posts CAD transformation videos for his concepts and they're all worth watching. Some of his stuff is transformers related, and some is just him having an idea and running with it. Ranging from pretty standard transformer stuff to completely bat$#!^ stuff like a Jesus Christ with a transforming cross mech suit アーマードクライスト2: 変形バカ一代!ジザイトイズ.
     
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    OMG, the last time I visited his site that JC mech suit wasn’t up. I love the brilliance of that. I mean even the symbolism of it is perfect. I’m not religious in the slightest but I’d buy one.
     
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    Yeah, I think it's brilliant too. I wish more of Jizai's designs would get released physically. It's not ideal, but I greatly appreciate the KOs that have come out, like Wheelie and SD Prowl. I wish there was more of them. I do have some hope that as 3D printing gets better and more widespread that Jizai will sell his CAD files for people the world over to enjoy.
     
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    Yeah just concept art I’ve seen posted, but these looked developed so I hoped they’d been released. Sadly it turns out there’s no cool (mostly) fembot beastformers coming right now.

    The armored Christ was his? That was brilliant!

    He could just 3d print and sell them himself. The designs don’t look overly complicated, and it’d be fun to paint them however you want.
     
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    Ah Jizai, had alot of cool stuff. First designer to design an animation accurate Cyclonus back in the day before the design got somewhat "borrowed" for CHUG Cyclonus *facepalm*
     
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    I'd really love to see his stuff get released. I'd buy most of it. Armored Christ was incredible... I remember seeing these animal bots yearrrrrrs ago. Does anyone have clarification on what the OP photo was about? Is it someone else jacking his designs or is it just a mockup
     
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    アニメユニット ピコグラフ  代表 太田さん・河原さん・mebaeさん | | アーカイブ
    The answer is somewhere in here if, unlike me, you read Japanese. I found the pics googling for jizaitoys.

    ..and then I remembered it’s 2019 and I need no Japanese classes. Google translated, and it seems an anime studio is making ”Spirit War Totemia”. Holy shit.

    Some images of what looks like the old version of frog girl and art from the show:
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    We might see actual toys after all.
     
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    ...i think I'm out of the loop. Who designed these and why do so many people know?

    Anyways, I think I could jump on a few of these if they had different heads. Looks so weird to me.
    Must be a pain getting shirts on. That is if she can't close the eyelids. ...now I'm thinking of questions that shouldn't be answered....WHY, BRAIN????
     
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    Jizai, a freelance toy designer who so many people know for designing Fansproject's headmasters figures. He is particularly good with innovative transformation ideas and most of his designs have at least one or two "wow" moments that feel like magic.
     
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    Ah. That's why I don't know them. I didn't pay attention to FP's HMs because I was happy with Hasbro's TMs. Neat info regardless.
     
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