XOPHOXX DAY! As a fresh new member of the WASP test crew, I was sent a WASP Skelephoxx to test. But it wasn’t a Skelephoxx. So I got a call, after I had already made a little video clip using what was sent, to tell me that what I had been sent was now in fact a prototype and that it was going to be changed. It was to be called XOPhoxx, as in exo-skeleton, rather then a mere ‘skeleton’. Hey it works for olympic bobsleighs but the coolest military engineering right now is for exo-skeletal robotics and these chaps are, after all, engineers who get excited about that kind of thing.
So, XOPhoxx it is and I can tell you that a tiny finger lanyard is all you need and that the open frame means that you can grip it in more ways than just a pinky-hole allows! I really liked it and it is going in The WASP’s Nest feature in issue five, with the three colours so far.. (you WILL want to collect these, though…)
The other side to my happy day’s news casting is going to be huge as well! THE NEW WASP KEY RING. A MINIATURE UNIPHOXX on a split ring!
It is a key ring and it was not made to be used as a miniature but I think we all know that everyone is going to band theirs up! (Me included, using the split ring as finger-security against possible letting go of such a tiny frame and getting it in the eye.) Heck, I think it needs it own Facebook group of people pulling off impossible sharpshooting stunts of cunning, fuelled by beer!
Here is that video, complete with my prequel and then the needed pre-prequel….and a journalist rolling his eyes at capricious creatives….. (Love ya guys!)
