Unlike Sinnertwin, Hun-Grrr really is a 2-headed "hydra" dragon. He's mainly light grey in colour with darker grey used for his highly articulated neck, rear lower legs & feet. There's some purple panelling & scales on his back. The panelling has some 5mm peg holes in it, ostensibly for attaching his chest shield when he forms Abominus' body, but they can also be used as a mount for his robot mode gun (or any other 5mm peg weapon) to give him some weaponry in beast mode like the other Terrorcons. The two identical heads are a lovely angular sculpt with a visor for the eyes which makes each head look like it's a control cabin with someone within. The neck articulation is the star of the show here: the heads can look up, the neck bends down half way along, bends to the side both ways a quarter of the distance out from the body and at the body turns and swings out to the sides. So a great range of poseability in the neck. Elsewhere on the beast all four legs turn where they meet the body and in addition the rear legs bend at the knee and toes. The tail, however, is a solid stubby lump with no articulation.
Hun-Grr's character art shows a Base Mode not in the instructions: Fold the front legs back then straighten the necks out in front of the toy. The necks then fold out to the sides and then bend down at the top joint. Straighten the rear legs and stand on the front of the toy with the underside facing you. It might be a cannon mode I suppose formed from the tail, but it doesn't attach to either of the Scramble City cities and besides it looks rubbish. Come back when I review Scattershot for a really decent cannon mode.
Transformation: Straighten the necks out so they point straight out the front of the toy. Fold up the heads. Turn the front legs forward and fold under the toy. Straighten the rear legs and fold forward so they're along the side of the beast. Fold the toes on the rear legs back then fold forward the hands from under the legs. Fold the tail back under the beast and turn the now exposed head 180 degrees so it faces up. Stand on the beast heads.
Very little in the way of new colour is revealed by the robot mode, primarily because only three new parts have been exposed: a pair of pale grey hands complete with 5mm peg holes and a bright purple head with moulded face and silver visor. I'd have painted the face too to delineate it from the rest of the head. He comes with a large dark grey gun which he can hold and a large purple shield, vaguely shaped like an elongated triangle. The shield can just about be hand held if the wrist is bent down, but it can also be mounted on his shoulder thanks to a fold out peg with a Special Team/Scramble City connector moulded into the end. As we've seen in the transformation the head turns while the arms have in inherited the rear beast leg articulation turning at the shoulders and bending at the elbow as well as the wrists which can bend down for use with the shield. There's a distinct line round the middle of the toy which could almost be an abandoned waist joint. The legs turn at the hips and swing to the sides at the same point. A joint between hip & knee allows the leg to unnecessarily swing to each side, but this is more intended for his transformation. His knee bends and his foot moves at the ankle. Unfortunately the scales moulded in to the front of the leg make achieving an in dependant stable kneeling pose next to impossible.
Hun-Grrr combines with Rippersnapper, Sinnertwin, Cutthroat & Blot to form Abominus:
Hun-Grrr also comes with the purple hands & feet necessary to build Abominus.
Trying a beast design out at this size has worked well and results in a decent toy. He lacks the base mode of the earlier Scramble City combiners, but he's solid and has plenty of articulation. Well worth a look.
Hun-Grrr is Terrorcon TR-5 and was sold in the west in 1987. In Japan he's D-79 Hun-Gurrr which is also available in the D-84 Abominus giftset. Of the countries that sold Transformers in the west, only Italy got an Abominus giftset.
Hun-Grrr has never been reissued or repainted. However he has made a return appearance: Universe Legend Hun-gurrr, a repaint of Legends of Cybertron Scourge, was found in the Special Team leaders boxset, exclusive to Target in the USA and Argos in the UK, which also contained Silverbolt, Hot Zone (Hot Spot), Razorclaw and Scattershot. Two other special team leaders, Menasor (Motormaster) and Onslaught were previously sold separately.
