Toy-Review: Mongrol (Black Hole Edition) from ThreeA Toys

It took me a pretty long time before I decided to open my MONGROL figure from 3A Toys - primarily because I knew that once I opened it, I would not have anywhere to display it afters! he box it came in was HUGE and had acted as a makeshift table for other items for a while. The I decided to open it, and it is without a doubt one of my favorite toys of 2011. In the fast-pace of toy-releases from 3A, this would be considered to be a "older" release.


It is the first figure to be released and one of seven toys from the A.B.C. Warriors series, from 2,000 AD (the second figure is to be Ro-Jaws available to order in February 2012). The edition I bought was the variant Black Hole Edition (check out the regular colored version here). Price was US$250 per (prior to 3AA's 15% discount) and was released for pre-orders in February 28th 2011.



How huge is HUGE? Try 30cm tall and 35cm across. Shown here is the figure next to a 1/6th-scale De Plume. What it might "lack" in height, it makes up for in girth! What is not shown here is a length of plastic-"chains" that are to be linked from the figure's "chin", and a vial containing a brain? Nevertheless, the paint app is - as ever - immaculate, and the articulation is unparalleled in toys of this size and genre - in fact, this toy has carved out a niche solely for itself, as do 3A Toys - and I so do look forward to be collecting the other 6 figures to be release under this line!

Check out more images HERE on my Fabcebook-album!


[FYI: Mongrol is now literally placed at the end of my bedside!]

ABC Warriors is a long-running 2000 AD comic strip written by Pat Mills, which first appeared in prog 119 in 1979 and continues to run today. Art for the opening episodes was by Kevin O'Neill, Mike McMahon, Brett Ewins, and Brendan McCarthy - who between them designed the original seven members of the team. Since then they have been illustrated primarily, though not exclusively, by Bryan Talbot, Simon Bisley, SMS, Kevin Walker, Henry Flint and Clint Langley.

The A.B.C. Warriors are a team of war robots designed to withstand 'Atomic', 'Bacterial' and 'Chemical' warfare. They were built to take part in the long-running Volgan War, which Pat Mills had described in several previous 2000 AD strips, including Invasion! and Ro-Busters. Each robot has a distinctive personality - often one programmed by its human creators - but each is more or less able to act with free will. [via Wiki / Image via]