3A moving forward for 2010

Last Thursday saw another successful, though limited release, from Ashley Woods ThreeA. Drop cloth a 12 in. 1:6 figure from Ashley Woods WWR graphic novel was offered up in a limited 2 pack for 3AA members as well as a 4 pack. The 4 pack open to the public sold out in hours. While the EMGY and 4 pack was still open to the 3AA members who have a 24hour window of release to order now.

Ashley made the event interesting by also running a very special very limited Chinese New Year TQ or Tomorrow Queen another figure from his ever popular Popbot series. This 1:6 scale figure was originally designed as a gift from 3A with a low production count of only 30. Ashley decided to spice things up over the week by release 10 of these figures to the public at random from the Bambaland website. And as if this wasn’t enough Ashley then went on Thursday evening and released the highly sought after Daywatch and Nightwatch color ways to the drop cloth line...

Limited to just 100 figures the Night watch / Daywatch (or NW/DW) line is always a favorite amongst collectors and 3A fans. These color ways are a traditional all white for Day Watch and all Black for Night Watch. Both colors are crisp and devoid of the usual worn weather look that marks the style of 3A other robot’s. As ThreeA has grown very popular over this last year prices for figures have started to climb regularly on Ebay. As such, Ashley has taken to trying to limit highly sought after limited releases and has made them available in releases of 10 at a time for these sets. This made for exciting times for 3A fans who were lucky enough to log onto bambaland and see these up.

For those that missed out 3A has made very special retail exclusives of this Dropcloth robot. No details yet on when or where they will be available but Ashley did hint at some of the styles we will be seeing soon.

“retailer info I’m sure will be leaked to the net soon enough, don’t forget about ol slim red, commando, iron panda, junkyard, slaughterhouse the mad ( with meat clever ) etc"

Look for 3A to be dropping a new release of their World War Robot portable line for February. This months Robot will be a 1:12 figure called Large Martin. There will also be a Damn Large martin (seen with 2 mounted guns versus the standard 1. No word yet as to the pack sizes or prices. Look for these be sold as packs from bambaland and as singles from retailers.

As 2010 starts off this year, look for many great new designs to be released. From exciting collaborations like Kenny Wong’s Sea Monkey to licensed figures from 2000 A.D. comics. There should be plenty of great toys that will sure to please everyone’s tastes.

Written by:
Jame Brown aka anubis2night