Following our reveal of Zectron’s Tug-O-War last week, we proudly bring you details of the second figure in Unbox Industries‘ upcoming “Strange Monsters” mini figure series… Shogu-Nasty from fellow Disarticulator, Bigmantoys! A horrifying mix of towering Japanese architecture and flesh, the hand sculpted beast has been realised in the same scale as Tug-O-War, coming in at an oversized 2.5″ tall and 2.5″ wide. To be produced alongside Tug-O-War plus designs from another 2 as yet unconfirmed artists – more on those very soon – Shogu-Nasty is due to come in a unique, keshi-like slosh cast soft vinyl, a medium we’re very interested in checking out! With a debut release slated for as early as the end of December, you can be sure that as soon as a release has been confirmed, you guys will be the first in the know…
Backstory-
“Hatano Hideharu, 1541 – June 25, 1579, was head of the Hatano clan, and successfully maintained independance against the impossible Might of Oda Nobunaga. For three years he and his clan hindered Nobunaga’s march to Kyoto at Yagami Castle until he offered Nobunaga surrender, and was dishonorably executed.
His enraged spirit maintained itself in the stones of Yagami Castle, causing it to trmor, and deteriorate at a rapid speed. A thick, horrible electricity filled the halls of the castle, making it inhabitable. A proud caretaker remained for several decades alone, until the sound of breathing, living flesh in the walls became too terrible to take.
A year later, the castle was almost complete gone. Vanished. Old wives said they’d seen it slowly thundering through the forset, to the sea. No one believed them until now. Hatano has returned…
Stone, flesh, muscle and monster are destroying the best forces of the East Asian Experimental Mutagen Defence Force. Cannonballs rip through our cities and our best giantified martial artists are unable to offer any notable resistance. What we can offer him to make him stop, we do not know. We must defeat him…
Japan beseeches you, DIE! SHOGU-NASTY!!!”
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