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installment of AAFR takes a look at a 3.75”
scale Ninja
/ Hero of the Dark / Fighter / Play Set,
distributed by the
enigmatic Dollar Tree Distributors in the uncharted city of Chesapeake,
VA. I
picked up this particular gem for a mere fifty-cent piece, plus
additional tax. As always, pay attention to all safety warnings and age recommendations! |
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CONCEPT: It’s a freaking wild boar with a machine gun mounted on its back! The mighty boar is legendary for its ferocity in ancient and medieval literature. Scandinavian warriors used to etch the figure of boars on their helmets, hoping that the totem would enchant them with the might of the powerful porcine marauder...and that was before man had the technology to mount a high calibre automatic weapon to its haunches! Not since Dino-riders has such an unethical cyborged monstrosity of flesh and firepower hounded plastic heroes! The action-figure equivalent of PETA would be alarmed, but international terrorist organizations will be delighted! |
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ACCESSORIES:
As mentioned above, I am fairly certain this toy is meant as an accessory pack, since the weapons it is packed with are about as randomly matched as the words “wild boar” and “mounted machine gun.”
The ambiguously named “play set” comes with an auto-cannon, a dish-shaped grill (assumably for sliding over the nose of the auto-cannon), a red mace, a large grey sword sword, and a red dagger. The auto-cannon easily can find a home in any military toy line. The large grey sword, which has various chips and “stress,” would also make a good prop for ancient ruins. The solid colored mace and dagger are fairly generic weapons, and the dark red is a manly enough color so as not to raise suspicions about the wielder’s personal life.
In the end, the accessories, like a wild boar with a machine gun mounted on its back, are an odd mix of futuristic technology and medieval barbarism.
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FEATURES: The boar itself is a single piece of plastic with no articulation. The machine gun can swivel and easily pops in and out of its joint. The paint job on both the boar and the machine gun are fair. The machine gun actually has a “weathered” look. Unique paint colors have been added to the tusks, eyes, gun strap, and strap buckles. There even appears to be a subtle layer of paint applied to the boar’s mane. I look on the slave-labored details of this piece with admiration and capitalist guilt. The only other “feature” appears to be that you get to slide a grill onto the auto-cannon. At least, that’s what I did with mine. I just hope I put it on the right way. This, of course, assumes that it’s supposed to be a cannon. Maybe it’s just a radar dish that the wild boar with a machine gun mounted on its back uses to get satellite TV in his den or radio his wife and piglets from the field. |
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PLAY VALUE: Being
a single piece of plastic, this boar will most likely
bio-degrade before it ever breaks. The ease with which
the machine gun pops on and off also reduces the chance of ending up
with a
wild boar with a back brace rather than a wild boar with a machine gun
mounted
to its back. Tresob Yr's original plan for this figure (SPOILER) was to
make it the
leader of the renegade dollar store toys in his action figure comic
over at CreatureCantina.com.
He abandoned that story arc midway, and without even so much as a
single curious e-mail from a reader...poor guy. |
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| Until
next time...
--Charlie Clone |
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