Eons Realistic Articulated Proboscideans

Hello, Mammoth Fans!

Exciting news today — We have "unearthed" some new friends to share with you. Both as new rewards and add-ons, you can now get our Eons fossil magnet set, with a trilobite and ammonite based on real fossils. We also have a bundle of enamel pins and a signed mammoth postcard, and a 18" x 24" poster signed by the Eons hosts!

If you'd like one of these items, select the reward level or add them on to your pledge! 

And just as a bonus—if you have get one of our mammoths (even if you've already ordered), you can get a bonus for free. Nothing is required of you now to get these bonuses, you'll be automatically asked after the campaign to select your bonus item.



We're approaching our last week here on this project! Thanks for being here with us! 

Looking at our 1/18th Scale Wooly Mammoth figure and worried your paycheck might go extinct? Don't fret my friends, because we've just enabled the Pay Over Time payment option!

Any order over $150 now qualifies to stretch your payment into four monthly charges with no added fees. Backerkit has more details about their program here.

So you want to hear about more figures. We've heard you! So here’s the situation - Making these big mammoth boys is expensive and we here at Complexly spend most of our time and money making educational entertainment. But what we don't have is a big budget for making merch. All the artists, designers, painters, and sculptors, paying the factory mold-costs (almost $160,000 by itself!), the raw materials – everything – all has to be paid for in advance, so we need the crowd-funding campaign to advance us the money before we can make anything. 

We know this is different than what you may have experienced with kickstarters run by companies who are primarily in the “making products” business! They usually spend a lot of their own money to make their goods, but every dollar we spend on mammoths is a dollar we're not spending making educational content.

The cost of the Mammoth, Baby, Snowy-Variants, and the 1/35th scale, with a minimum order quantity demanded by the factory, is set at the ambitious $185,000. If we hit that goal, we can make just those figures. If we can get more, we can unlock more figures!

We just don't have the budget to make these rad figures at a deficit without your help! 🙏 But we’re excited to make whatever we can!

So… what are we doing to make this happen?

Our incredible PR manager, Mark, secured lots of coverage for this project. Go read and share these articles! 

Paleo Nerd

The amazing Eons team has been making videos and promoting this project across our platforms. Watch our recent videos, some of which have a special star you may recognize!

What's next? We will keep telling everyone we can about this Backerkit project! We’re so grateful for everyone who has joined us so far.

I know it’s a ways to go, but we have big - even MAMMOTH - dreams!

The exploded view of our 1/18th Scale Wooly Mammoth shows you how all the pieces fit together, and grants you a literal insider's-view of the effort that went into the articulation.

Hello friends!
We're very excited today to have a Q&A with David Silva, who spearheaded the design and development of the figures in this project. When Eons had the thought to create some figures to tie-in with our videos, he was the absolute no-brainer choice. David has created all kinds of incredible action figures and toys—some you may already have in your home. We encourage you to check out his website to see all the amazing dinosaurs and figures he's designed!

When did you start getting into toy design, and what inspired you to do so?

Toys were a very important part of my childhood growing up in the 80’s with toys like Transformers, Masters of the Universe, and Dino Riders. Fast forward to art school and I got back into collecting as a young adult with Beast Wars, Spawn, and the 200X Masters of the Universe toy lines. I eventually became so interested in toys, that I shifted my focus in school from comic books to concept design, which allowed me to get my foot in the door with Mcfarlane Toys as a designer three weeks after graduating.

My favorite projects preceding Beasts of the Mesozoic would have to be the Scavenger Clan Dragon (McFarlane Toys), Star Wars Dewback (Hasbro), Pacific Rim Otachi (NECA), and anything from the Kenner Predator line (NECA).

There were a couple of potential opportunities to create this concept with my previous employers, but the projects in each case would be abandoned. I was already making science-based dinosaur model kits during this time as Creative Beast Studio and I felt strongly about the action figure idea, so after the second failed attempt, I decided to bring the concept to Kickstarter on my own and the rest is history. 

The animal figures we create are a celebration of our natural world- vibrant, beautiful, and dangerous. There’s no Hollywood influence and no dumbing down of the data for mass consumption. We treat each design as a living breathing creature and attempt to capture a personality for each one. It’s part paleoart and part interactive model.

Like any extinct animal, we had to be careful to find only the most current and widely accepted fossil reference. Each Proboscidean species has seen a variety of interpretations over the decades, and by working with artists experienced in reconstructing ancient mammals from fossil data, we created our own interpretations which aim to bring us closer to their actual appearance than ever before.