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'''BMOG Toys''' is a toy company started in 2013. They specialize in adult collectible robot toys.

==BMOG Toys==
===Development===
BMOG Toys was started by Trent Troop. He said he came up with the idea of BMOG Toys when playing with a Generation 1 Top-Heavy figure. He was joined by artist Greg Sepelak and engineer Alex Androski.

He also says it was inspired by Glyos, Micronauts, Starriors and Zoids.

Trent designed his first mold, a bear, in Studio 3D. The hexagons in its design are inspired by honeycombs. Early names for this bear included Bruination and Bear Made of Guns. The name Bruination was abandoned due to it's similarity to a character owned by another company. The name Bear Made of Guns went on to inspire the name of the company.

Fundraising for the BMOG Toys bear and manta mold was done through Kickstarter. The goal of raising $19,000 was surpassed by the end of the fundraising period on December 13th, 2013.

Development of BMOG has slowed since Alex Androski passed away.

===Reception===
The Cybercast podcast for October 19th, 2013 discussed BMOG bear mold in the news. They mentioned the Kickstarter campaign and compared BMOG's modular design to Lego bricks. Although they thought it was neat, they didn't think it was for them.<REF>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0l9cW2DWjA</REF>

The Good Morning, Cybertron! podcast for October 22nd, 2013 discussed the BMOG's Ursenal in the news. The hosts thought it looked great, although they thought Ursenal was a tiger, and likened him to the Action Master partner Catgut. The hosts hoped it would sell for $10 to $15.

===Interviews===
The Good Morning, Cybertron! podcast for October 25th, 2013 interviewed Trent Troop about BMOG Toys, where he mentioned Ursenal, Mant-Axe, Featherblight and the Non-Dino Squad.[3]

The Radio Free Cybertron podcast for November 17th, 2013 interviewed Trent Troop. During the interview he mentioned Featherblight, Mant-Axe, Ursenal and the Non-Dino Squad. He also mentioned wanting to make characters inspired by the Inhumanoids and Wheeled Warriors toy lines.[4]

Doomkick.com interviewed Trent Troop about BMOG Toys on December 2nd, 2013.[5]

The Good Morning, Cybertron! podcast for December 8th, 2013 interviewed Trent Troop about BMOG Toys, where he mentioned Ursenal, Mant-Axe, Featherblight, the Non-Dino Squad and Chainbill Splatterpus.

===Fiction===
In the BMOG Toys fictional setting the Bio-Mechanical Ordnance Gestalts were brought to life when weapons made by a group of evil interdimensional arms dealers were exposed to the power of the last world seed. Two factions were formed, the heroic Augmentoids and the evil Paraxxoids.

===Products===
BMOG Toys products are designed on a 5mm peg and port system intended to make them compatible with a wide array of other toy lines. Each BMOG creature is made of 1 or more pieces that can be used as weapons and accessories by other toys. The initial toys themselves were sold on a single plastic sprue, to be punched out and assembled by the customer, with stickers to apply. Later products were released on Shapeways.

====2014====
*Military Black bear and manta set, Kickstarter and retail release
*Action Hunter Orange bear and manta set, Kickstarter exclusive
*Toxic Spill Green bear and manta set, retail release
*Piratical Purple bear and manta set, BotCon 2014 exclusive
*Defender Green bear and manta set, TFExpo 2014 exclusive

====2015====
*Heroic Blue bear and manta set, retail release.

====2017====
In 2017 BMOG Toys changed their name to Prize Inside! and started releasing products through Shapeways.
*Brainsaw (Chainsaw plant brain Paraxxoid)
*Chainbill Splatterpus (Heroic Blue duckbilled platipus Augmentoid)
*Non-Dino Squad (prehistoric reptiles Augmentoids)

====2018====
The Kuma (convention exclusive set with two bear/manta sets and an exclusive head)

====2019====
*Griefcutter (robot head)

====Unreleased designs
*Bun-Bun-Boom (grenade rabbit)
*Clampray (clamp eel)
*8-Bot/Retroid (robot)
*Featherblight (Raging Red eagle Paraxxoid)
*Unnamed swordfish knife

==References==
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