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!]
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!]
I also got a Mongrol - although it's the standard red and yellow. The only complaint I have about this awesome figure is that mine arrived with the chin anchor broken off. Looking at the break, it seems unnecessarily fragile at that point. Although ThreeA is quite good about toy repair, I decided that I would rather have a magnet, so I drilled out the pin attachment in the chin and glued in a tiny cylinder rare-earth magnet. Then I changed the ring on the chain from plastic to metal and it's great! Not the solution for everyone, but I'm more about functional play than pristine collection.
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