The Metromonger Prime is a large, fully featured and highly versatile 9L sling bag that is at home carrying anything from a 13" laptop to a full frame camera to a standard urban EDC setup or more.
00:00 - Introduction
04:13 - Special Note
06:19 - For / Not For
08:19 - External Design & Materials
13:25 - Straps & Zippers
24:48 - Front Compartment
30:40 - Laptop Compartment
32:22 - Main Compartment
37:16 - Summary
37:40 - Also Consider
This "Prime" variant of the Metromonger features a fully-optioned setup over the baseline construction and a robust VX42 Xpac body fabric and is manufactured by Greenroom 136, a small boutique bag maker based in Malaysia specialising in some highly customisable single slings and backpacks with some pretty interesting form factors and features,
The Metromonger's main claim to fame is that it is probably among the very best large sling/quasi-but-not-quite messenger bags on the market these days with an increidbly. It achieves this by offering a great combination of wide open main compartment with decent internal organization plus separately externally accessible laptop carry that works well in a wide variety of situations - anything from EDC, camera carry, travel and even light hiking situations.
Another strength is the high degree of flexibility both in pre-purchase order-time configuration and also lots of options for post-purchase customizability - it is possible to mount things on external molle, attach patches, swap different shoulder straps and even drop in a camera cube organiser.
There are a few small areas that could be better - while overall it's good quality, some of the material choice could probably be better - the airmesh on the strap/back is fairly pedestrian and I wasn't the biggest fan of the internal corduroy liner in the laptop compartment - both of these seemed like odd matches for the otherwise excellent X-Pac body fabric.
Additionally, the zippers on this bag jingle like crazy and the stabiliser strap dangles fairly annoyingly, though both issues are easily remedied with different solutions. Finally the bag has a few areas where it would have benefitted from slightly different material or design choices such as more elasticity in certain pockets, etc.
Nonetheless, this remains one of our favourite large slings/small bags to date and is highly worth checking out for folks who have smaller loadouts and are tired of lugging around backpacks and wish to explore alternative form factors.
Greenroom 136 Metromonger Prime
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Note: All the products in this review were purchased with our own money and all opinions expressed are our own.
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