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News · 2026-08-25

Mondo's 1/6 Scale Shredder Is Up for Preorder, and the Window Shuts on September 4

Mondo's 1/6 Scale Shredder Is Up for Preorder, and the Window Shuts on September 4

Mondo’s 1/6 scale Shredder went up for preorder this morning and it is a Timed Edition, which means the clock is the whole story. Mondo’s own listing puts the window at “August 25 at 11am through September 4 at 11:59am CT time”. That is roughly ten days, and when it closes the order button goes with it.

The figure is 265 dollars, stands 12 inches, weighs 5 pounds, and is built from PVC, ABS and fabric. Mondo has it shipping in April 2027, so this is a long wait even by 1/6 scale standards.

Two things worth flagging before anything else. Mondo does not publish a run size on the listing, so the edition is defined by the window rather than by a number, and there is no way to tell from the page how many will exist. And the closing time genuinely reads 11:59am CT, not pm. That is Mondo’s wording, not a typo we have corrected, but if you are cutting it fine on September 4 it is the difference between a lunchtime deadline and a midnight one.

What is actually in the box

The Mondo 1/6 scale Shredder figure surrounded by its accessories on a white background: a blue Krang hologram, a purple Krang communicator, a spare helmeted portrait, a dark masked portrait, an unmasked Oroku Saki head, gauntlet blade attachments, eight swappable hands, a katana, and a small stylised Shredder figure

The full loadout as Mondo photographs it. Product photography: Mondo. The listing is marked “prototype shown, final figures may vary.”

Mondo’s contents list runs to twenty two lines. The headline items are four ways to display the head: the masked portrait the figure ships wearing, a swappable helmet, a shadow portrait, a classic Shredder portrait and helmet, and an unmasked Oroku Saki portrait underneath all of it.

The rest, straight off the listing: eight swappable hands, four hand blades, two katana with saya, a yari, three kunai, removable waist armor, a removable fabric gi, a removable wired cape, a removable wired scarf, fabric hakama trousers, a removable fabric belt and a figure stand.

Then the two that are doing something more interesting than accessory-count padding.

The Krang accessories are a hint

A Krang hologram and a Krang communicator ship in the box. Neither is a Krang figure, and it is worth being clear about that, because Mondo’s promotional photography for this release also features the Turtles and a set of white robotic arms that are not part of this purchase either. What you are buying is Shredder, his gear, and two props that put Krang on the other end of a line.

That is a deliberate piece of world building. Mondo has been assembling a TMNT continuity it calls the MondoVerse, and every release has carried a piece of it, including the Undercover Turtles soft vinyl four pack that turned up as a San Diego exclusive in July. Shredder arrives with a comic spread printed into the packaging, written by Jason Bischoff and illustrated by Ben Bishop, telling his origin in that continuity.

The mini Shredder is the best thing on the list

A small stylised Shredder figure with green eyes, an oversized helmet and exaggerated proportions, standing on a round black display base against a white background

The mini Shredder figure, included in the box on its own base. Product photography: Mondo.

Buried in the middle of the contents list is a “Mini Shredder Figure”, and Mondo photographs it as a fully painted, separately based little figure with green eyes and a helmet several sizes too big for it. It is a pack-in that most companies would have sold separately, and at a glance it is the piece of this release with the most personality.

Oroku Saki without the helmet

The Mondo Shredder figure displayed with the unmasked Oroku Saki portrait, a grey haired head with a topknot and a scarred face, wearing full silver armour and a purple cape

The unmasked Oroku Saki portrait on the armoured body. Product photography: Mondo.

The unmasked head is the one that will decide whether this is a shelf piece or a display centrepiece. Mondo has gone with a lined, grey haired Saki with a topknot rather than the smooth cartoon face, and paired with the fabric cape and the silver armour it reads much closer to a period samurai than to the 1987 series.

Credits on the listing are unusually full, and they are worth repeating: concept by Hector Arce and Peter Santa-Maria, concept art and design by Brian Kucharek and Dennis Kucharek, sculpt by Brandon Gash, Tommy Hodges and the Kuchareks, paint by Hector Arce and Mark Bristow, cut and sew by Esther Skandunas and Tim Hanson, packaging art by Ben Bishop, colours by Luis Antonio Delgado, packaging design by Jordan Christianson and photography by Raul Barrero.

Where this sits

At 265 dollars this is not competing with the four inch stuff. If you want a Shredder on the shelf this month rather than in spring 2027, Super7’s ReAction+ Wave 01 has one in stock at twenty five dollars, and the ReAction+ Mutagen Ooze set covers the same ground from a different angle. This is the other end of the hobby entirely: one figure, one window, and a nineteen month wait.

The window is the only part of this you cannot get back. Everything else about the release will still be true in October.

Sources

Product photography: Mondo.

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