Toy-Release: Rampart Edition A by Cris Rose (June 3-drop)

After the earlier posted teaser previews, UK-based artist Cris Rose prepares to unleash to the public his brand new resin-bot "RAMPART" (Edition A) this Thursday June 3rd via his online shop @ 6pm London-time!

Standing 4 inches tall, Edition A features a copper colorway and will be in an edition of only 5 bots: 4 x Regular Ramparts and 1 x Chase "Handy" Rampart (with additional "arms"). Each one comes with a little wooden crown and is priced at US$85 (+ shipping). Meanwhile as you contemplate your purchase (Note that Newsletter-subscribers gets a 24-hour headstart to order!).

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RAMPART-PRESS: Rampart is a 4" Resin bot with a protective acrylic dome. He weighs as much as the much larger Rummage (circa 300g) and is fully stackable to form your very own wall of Ramparts. He is also the most affordable bot to date, costing a mere $85 (+ shipping) and is an edition of only 5.

Each Rampart Edition A comes with a small wooden crown logo, with one of the five being a rare "Handy Rampart", a variant of the usual limbless bot equipped with arms for additional civic assistance.

WHAT-IS: Modeled loosely on the "British Bulldog", wearing a giant armoured "collar" and displaying helpful phrases such as "Keep Calm and Carry On", Ramparts quickly gained popularity on the streets a variety of friendly nicknames arose (such as "Bullbots", "Hoverdogs" and "Flying Gits"...).


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BACKSTORY: Rampart's programming was only possible due to the research and development of the Epoch Foundation. Their studies on packs of Rumbles in the "wild" had given the robot designers back at the factory a massive boost in the field of networked intelligence. Whereas Rumble packs were limited to 5 or 10, packs of Ramparts initially started at 20-40 but quickly evolved by themselves to incorporate as many as 600. Tho each bot possessed only half the individual intelligence of a Rumble unit, their combined hive-like intelligence became a near omnipresent guardian over their area of the city. Their reaction time in an emergency was so quick, their analysis so accurate, they'd soon learnt to predict incidents and help avoid them. They would request people leave shops before the fire alarms had even gone off, they would form walls in roads seconds before the hovertruck's brakes failed, they'd be waiting to encircle the mugger as he ran around the corner... There was no doubt - they were super smart as a team!"

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