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.
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. They have a reputation for being hostile towards customers who wish to mod their Frames.
Headquartered in Silicon Valley, California.
Manufacturers of the Frame Girl EDIE.
Durandal-Masamune
Durandal-Masamune Performance Labs, typically shortened to Durandal-Masamune or DMPL, 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 Girl 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
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.
Pyroferret Productions is headquartered just outside of Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
Rivet Rose
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My writeup is likely a brand that was mostly ignored but secretly had great components, they went bankrupt and were aquired by some company, their gen 2 parts were awful and the brand was sold agaon and bought by one of the original founders as a return to form, but the components were never quite as quality as the gen 1 parts, but are still kinda nice as an upper mid range brandSo there's gen 1, 2, and 3 performance. omponents and decorative parts.
Some nerds insist that some gen 2 parts have merit, but its likely absurdist nerd brand loyalty and covering up some buyers remorse.
SOMEONE REWRITE THIS SO IT SOUNDS LIKE IT BELONGS ON A WIKI