Women of Airlandia

Earlier this spring, I posted some art that was commissioned for the second series officers. Using the same artist, I decided to go ahead and do some additional of work for characters that were used in the comics [and planned for the cartoon] but unfortunately not in the toys. I’m speaking of Eeleta, the heroic……

Custom Air Raiders Vehicles

  I’m a big believer in fans trying to do new and different stuff with the toys and art they love. Oscar Torres (see his site here) has some cool Air Raiders projects posted on his Instagram account. They consist of two assault vehicles, one land and one air, made using a 3D printer (I……

Second Series Art Commission, Part 2

A little while ago, replicant01 and I commissioned pino44io to do some art for the squad officers from the unreleased second series (earlier blog post can be found here). For simplicity sake, I named them after mythical gods of wind to make it to work on the project. Here are the final pieces of art although……

Don’t Fear the Reaper!

One of my favorite toys is the Man-O-War. How could you not love this massive tank that’s bristling with guns, cannons and all sorts of neat gimmicks like the floating orb sensor and the scout car that launches from below? It’s an amazing vehicle and certainly one-of-a-kind. It always interested me that there wasn’t a……

An Interview With Former Hasbro Designer David McDonald

David McDonald went to the ArtCenter College of design to study car design. Eventually he ended up as a Senior Industrial Designer working in the Hasbro Boys Department back in the ’80s. His projects included the Inhumanoids, Dinosaucers, COPS, Crash Test Dummies and many others. He started working on Air Raiders after the first year……

The Lords of the Winds

I love Air Raiders but one of my big regrets is the lack of artwork. There’s the wonderful box art, some poster illustrations and the great box insert pages but that’s about it. Unfortunately the toys didn’t last long enough to expand into lunch boxes, puzzles, magnets and other merchandise that would have required a…

Wind Seeker Prototypes

I came across this auction a little while ago which involved a boxed Wind Seeker but also a ton of vehicle concept sketches. Many of them were 6-wheel designs so they settled on that early. Several also have a hoverpod concept too. I separated out a few of them to look at but the resolution……

Rough Sketch

Short post today. I plan on doing some sketches in the future to show what figures I hope to create with the 3D printer from this post. But in the meantime, I need to knock the rust off a bit as I haven’t had much time to draw lately. So my son and I have……

Lightning Strikes Twice!

Here’s some early Air Raider artwork courtesy of the Facebook Air Raider page. It consists of a bunch of cool drawings and specs for the Twin Lightning rebel aircraft. Most of them look like they were in the final stages of design as it looks pretty much like what ended up on the shelves. Although……

New Air Raider Sketches!

I found an auction from 2010 that was selling some sketches from the toyline. There’s some interesting details about the vehicles although I can’t make heads or tails about the figures. Link here. There’s some Man-O-War sketches. One is interesting because it has older design features like different gun placements and the attack car coming……