Frame Manufacturers
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In the Universe of BattleFrame Girl, various companies serve as manufacturers for the Frames themselves. These companies can vary wildly in their goals, corporate ethos, and chosen aesthetics and styles. While there are several names vying for market share, the majority of Frames are produced by the 'Big Four,' who collectively maintain a majority in the Frame Girl market.
The 'Big Four'
Wonder Toys
Primary article: Wonder Toys
Founded in 1952, Wonder Toys is primarily an Edutainment toy company focused on kindergarten through elementary school learning aids. As a long time partner of BattleFrame Industries, they have produced some of the first and oldest Frame Girl designs. They produce a wide variety of Frames, with the only common theme being that they are named after historical or mythological figures. Their current CEO is Analise St. Cross, replacing the previous CEO who disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
Headquartered in Albany, New York.
Planetary Defense Coalition
Primary article: Planetary Defense Coalition
Planetary Defense Coalition (or PDC) is a multimedia entertainment company with a focus on television, video games, and comics. The smallest of the Big Four, PDC is nonetheless beloved for the rich lore and universe they have created for their Frame Girl designs. Their Frame Girls have a distinct 'future military' aesthetic.
Headquartered in Houston, Texas.
Save-Mart
Primary article: Save-Mart
Save-Mart is a nationwide department store chain founded in 1961. A long time retail giant, Save-Mart produces its own Frame Girl toys under license from BattleFrame Industries to sell in their store Toy departments. Their Frames are often the cheapest of the Big Four and produced in larger quantities, making their models popular with beginners and casual hobbyists as 'Starter Frames.' However, they also have a reputation for lax design tolerances, making their build quality inconsistent.
Headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas.
Alternate Attack
Primary article: Alternate Attack
Alternate Attack (or AA) is a music label famous for artists such as CATGIRL MURDER SQUAD that in the late 2010s started a new division of their company dedicated to making BattleFrame Girls. AA prides itself on its Counter Culture aesthetic, and tends to specialize in Melee Type Frames with loud, alternative styles.
Headquartered in Portland, Oregon.
Other Manufacturers
BLK-STR
Primary article: BLK-STR
A new company that has only been in the Frame Girl market for less than a year. BLK-STR's product philosophy is that Frame Girls should be ready for competition immediately upon purchase, and often packs cutting-edge technology into their designs. BLK-STR's Frames are typically characterised by utilising advanced features that come with steep drawbacks. They have a reputation for being hostile towards customers who wish to mod their Frames, and are maligned among Frame Battlers as producing 'Pay to Win' Frame Girls.
Headquartered in Silicon Valley, California.
Manufacturers of the Frame Girl EDIE.
Durandal-Masamune
Durandal-Masamune Performance Labs, typically shortened to Durandal-Masamune or D-M, is a joint company who specializes in producing Frame Girls with an extremely high quality of engineering and complexity. Their engineering is typically sophisticated enough to allow for their Frames to be adapted to a second Battle Type, a characteristic that is very rare in factory state Frames. Due to this complexity, Durandal-Masamune Frames are also some of the most expensive designs commercially available, with a typical MSRP being $2,000 - $2,500.
Headquartered in Europe/Japan.
Manufacturers of the Frame Girls Tsubaki and Skadi.
FABRIQUX
A company that primarily partners with other media companies to make limited runs of promotional tie-in Frames. They are committed to staying accurate to their source material moreso than making their Frames competitively viable.
Manufacturers of The Frame Girl Nameless.
Groove Dynamics
A boutique Battle Frame Girl customization company specializing in performance-based Frames with theatrical aesthetics. Known for their commitment to flair and functionality, Groove Dynamics caters to hobbyists who value both spectacle and precision.
Manufacturers of the Frame Girl Disco Whip.
HachiDoll
A small company based in Japan that primarily made ball-jointed dolls before a tentative launch of the GAL-TA model. The model was popular enough that it became their primary product. They focus on customization above out-of-the-box viability, offering a number of cosmetic (faceplates, body forms, etc) as well as functional mods (to change the playstyle of a given Frame Girl, with the expectation being that the buyer will arrange assembly themselves upon delivery, either themselves or through a technician.)
Manufacturers of the Frame Girl Gal-TA.
Pyroferret Productions
Primary article: Pyroferret Productions
While Pyroferret Productions may have, quite literally, began as three men in a garage, the Frame manufacturer quickly grew into a small-scale enterprise threatening to spill over into a regional powerhouse. They focus on a quality over quantity approach, and offer extensive customization, repair, and parts refurbishment services to their small but growing base of loyal clientele. It may be difficult to find their models in most brick-and-mortar hobbyist stores given their relative small size, but consistent placements have made the brand far better known than their size would indicate. Their owner and founder is Hadin Ganavi.
Pyroferret Productions is headquartered just outside of Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
Rivet Rose
Rivet Rose is a small independant Frame Girl manufacturer based in Maryland, USA. Rivet Rose is considered a mid grade manufacturer, producing affordable Frame Girls on a small scale with a distinctive military dieselpunk theme. Many hobbyists regard the small company in the same breath as others that focus on affordability, such as Pyroferret Productions. They primarily sell frames online, but do sell Frame Girls in person from their only physical storefront, which is also their development lab and manufacturing facility, where the receptionist also acts as the store manager. Their CEO is a Maryland native known only as Kyle W., who has a short, uninformative bio two sentences long on the Rivet Rose company website. Kyle is reclusive and mostly declines media attention, preferring to stay in the back and work rather than court the press.
Headquartered in Maryland, USA.
Manufacturers of the Frame Girl Chaffee.
Tartarus
A small scale brand that was regarded for its extremely high quality parts and was seen as a well-kept secret by high level battlers in the early days of the hobby. Tartarus went bankrupt and was bought out by a larger conglomerate leading to the manufacture of 'Gen 2' parts, which had a drastic drop in quality compared to the previous 'Gen 1' equivalents. The company was sold again and bought by one of the original founders, leading to a return to form with 'Gen 3' parts, though these are still not as highly regarded as Gen 1. Deadstock Gen 1 Tartarus parts still command a high price in secondary markets, and there is fervent debate online on the differences in efficacy between Gens 1-3.