In-Hand - Takara Tomy Transformers Unite Warriors UW07 Bruticus

That is some damn nice boxart. They're really going all out with him here.
God I want that Vortex. So bad.

But, can he actually do that pose...?

Dr Va'al wrote:Is the music also from those series? I haven't watched them in a loooooong time.

Nah, probably just some random techno. But all the voices & sound effects are definitely from the Japanese TF series.

Kurona wrote:That is some damn nice boxart. They're really going all out with him here.
God I want that Vortex. So bad.

I bought Grand Galvatron, and I have to say that I am incredibly impressed by the box art. My first thought on seeing this story was that the Bruticus box art is just gorgeous.

I love how it looks apart from Blast-off. The brown is way too light. They should have kept the darker brown. This poo brown doesn't work for me at all. This set just went from a 9 to a 7 for me. I hope Takara decides to go with the darker brown for the release and please give Bruticus/Onslaught a gun or two that he can hold. It can't be the guns on his back you need to have that for his silhouette.

DMSL wrote:I love how it looks apart from Blast-off. The brown is way too light. They should have kept the darker brown. This poo brown doesn't work for me at all. This set just went from a 9 to a 7 for me. I hope Takara decides to go with the darker brown for the release and please give Bruticus/Onslaught a gun or two that he can hold. It can't be the guns on his back you need to have that for his silhouette.

Agreed on the weapon front, I'm a little surprised they didn't put Legends Shockwave in the box, just so Bruticus could have a weapon to hold. The Onslaught guns are totally necessary for the silhouette, 100% agreed.

As for Blast Off, he's baby shit brown in this set; CW Swindle is baby shit brown for Hasbro. Talk about shitty opitions!

Dagon wrote:

DMSL wrote:I love how it looks apart from Blast-off. The brown is way too light. They should have kept the darker brown. This poo brown doesn't work for me at all. This set just went from a 9 to a 7 for me. I hope Takara decides to go with the darker brown for the release and please give Bruticus/Onslaught a gun or two that he can hold. It can't be the guns on his back you need to have that for his silhouette.

Agreed on the weapon front, I'm a little surprised they didn't put Legends Shockwave in the box, just so Bruticus could have a weapon to hold. The Onslaught guns are totally necessary for the silhouette, 100% agreed.

As for Blast Off, he's baby SHIZZLESNIT brown in this set; CW Swindle is baby SHIZZLESNIT brown for Hasbro. Talk about shitty opitions!

I'd have actually said Hasbro blast-off was the shit brown version, the takara one looks like a slightly brighter more milk-chocolatey brown.

But that is entirely dependent on our diets, i suppose

Yyyyyyyeah, I don't know what it is that you guys are eating, but if yall's poop is coming out that light/that copper a shade of brown, instead of a much darker shade of brown like Hasbro's CW Blast Off, then I'd very much advise that you all see a doctor about that, cuz that does not sound normal.

DMSL wrote:I love how it looks apart from Blast-off. The brown is way too light. They should have kept the darker brown. This poo brown doesn't work for me at all. This set just went from a 9 to a 7 for me. I hope Takara decides to go with the darker brown for the release and please give Bruticus/Onslaught a gun or two that he can hold. It can't be the guns on his back you need to have that for his silhouette.

Takara wont be giving him an extra gun and they will not be releasing Blastoff in a different shade. These images are final product images, there will be no changes from them which has been the case for every single release so far.

I always thought Brawl was the one that looked most like poop.

william-james88 wrote:I always thought Brawl was the one that looked most like poop.

In terms of the actual sculpt definitely.


Which is another place where the takara decco wins out for me.


You can't polish a turd, but you can roll it in glitter.

Perhaps...some forum admin might give us the dignity of placing all the "which combaticon looks like which color of stool" comments to its own thread? ...just a suggestion, but it is still early on the west coast and I haven't even had breakfast yet.

Onslaught and Vortex look great, especially super sexy secret agent Vortex. The rest are kinda meh. I would be happy to pick up that Blast Off mold if he ever reaches the states.

I still think Bruticus is one of the better looking combiners in this line oops, wrong thread. In the CW line, Grand Galvatron takes the cake for UW

Sabrblade wrote:Not my pic, but it's funny:

Well, Galvatron pretty much always was a d***head.

I'm not going to step in the Blast-Off argument, though. Too messy.

carytheone wrote:Onslaught and Vortex look great, especially super sexy secret agent Vortex. The rest are kinda meh. I would be happy to pick up that Blast Off mold if he ever reaches the states.

I still think Bruticus is one of the better looking combiners in this line oops, wrong thread. In the CW line, Grand Galvatron takes the cake for UW

It was actually your comments which swayed me to just buy the Hasbro version when I saw the price drop. And you were right. It does have a great vaiety in mold use. If it was released earlier in the line, I am sure I would have loved him even more with the added novelty of some molds and of the combiner system.

I like those colors, expecially Onslaught and Votrex, but for the other three I think I prefer the Hasbro figure overall.

And since everyone is talking about the Gun: I ended up giving Bruticus the Barrel from my Combiner Wars Cyclonus. Not sure what I will do with the back stock. Obviously, the Galvatronus gun doesn't work the same way, but if you have a Spare CW Cyclonus now,

Perhaps it is another attempt at being accurate to the animated series? I mean...I cannot recall aside from using Shockwave in "The Revenge of Bruticus", him ever having a large gun. Heck even in Headmasters he fought with a light saber once, but not a gun that I can recall...

o.supreme wrote:Perhaps it is another attempt at being accurate to the animated series? I mean...I cannot recall aside from using Shockwave in "The Revenge of Bruticus", him ever having a large gun. Heck even in Headmasters he fought with a light saber once, but not a gun that I can recall...

He didnt have his own gun in the series. He used his fists mostly. And also used his arm as a buzzsaw, which the takara version can fullfill

william-james88 wrote: used his arm as a buzzsaw, which the takara version can fullfill

The revenge of bruticus was one of my absolute favourite episodes as a kid. Can't wait to find some tiny army men to stand in for the sentinels and reenact those scenes.

Though, thinking back to it, theres this scene where bruticus says to shockwave something like "you control giant sentinels, when you defeated cybertron is ours." Which is weird, aside from the fact that he refers to himself as both an individual and collective in the same dialogue, the sentinel robots that shockwave is training are tiny. I wonder if the orignial script called out for the gigantic omega supreme style guardian robots under shockwaves command before someone pointed out in a meeting late on that omega supreme is the last of his kind.

MemphisR56 wrote:

william-james88 wrote: used his arm as a buzzsaw, which the takara version can fullfill

The revenge of bruticus was one of my absolute favourite episodes as a kid. Can't wait to find some tiny army men to stand in for the sentinels and reenact those scenes.

Though, thinking back to it, theres this scene where bruticus says to shockwave something like "you control giant sentinels, when you defeated cybertron is ours." Which is weird, aside from the fact that he refers to himself as both an individual and collective in the same dialogue, the sentinel robots that shockwave is training are tiny. I wonder if the orignial script called out for the gigantic omega supreme style guardian robots under shockwaves command before someone pointed out in a meeting late on that omega supreme is the last of his kind.

Starscream's Brigade + Revenge of Bruticus are just two of the best G1 episodes period imo. Maybe I'm biased because I adore the combaticons, but the two episodes just really grew on me. Starscream getting his own little army and finally staging an actual mutiny against Megatron - and for a bit winning! - while each of the combaticons unlike a lot of combiner teams actually show off some very nice individual personalities; they're the most well-defined of any combiner team imo which is a big part of their appeal. Hell, even the Stunticons get to show off some personality in literally not giving a toss about Megatron. They're a bunch of junkies lmao.
I think the "referring to self as individual and a group" is a hint at how a combiner's mind might work... but maybe I'm looking into it too much as a cartoon. IDW goes into it much better... though it unfortunately had to come with the travesty of Combiner Wars.
But yeah, those two episodes are a ton of fun. It leaves a lasting impression on me that the Combaticons are part of Starscream's personal army that'd ally with him against Megatron one day; along with maybe the seekers. Always a cool thought - an army of jets flanked by this humongous monster of destruction.

Completely offtopic:

To site owners.
Is there a way that the View Discussion button on the News Section go directly to the page of that post in the forum? It always starts at page 1 and then I have to find page 235 where the post is from the one on the News Section. That could be a lot easier if it just went directly to the correct part of the thread.

And is there a way to look up a persons response and also go directly to that response in the thread instead of page 1 again?

I can't find the picture of Bruticus in this 278 page long thread.

Sorry for the offtopicness.

noctorro wrote:Completely offtopic:

To site owners.
Is there a way that the View Discussion button on the News Section go directly to the page of that post in the forum? It always starts at page 1 and then I have to find page 235 where the post is from the one on the News Section. That could be a lot easier if it just went directly to the correct part of the thread.

And is there a way to look up a persons response and also go directly to that response in the thread instead of page 1 again?

I can't find the picture of Bruticus in this 278 page long thread.

Sorry for the offtopicness.

Yeah, just click the number on the post.



For instance, in this case, you'd click the number 1790265.

Hope that helps. I'm not a site owner but one day I will be leader of the Seibertronicons

Sabrblade wrote:Not my pic, but it's funny:

Reminds me of



As for the previous page's Poopicus discussion, Swindle also can look like excrement, if you eat a lot of corn.

Rodimus Prime wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Not my pic, but it's funny:

Reminds me of



As for the previous page's Poopicus discussion, Swindle also can look like excrement, if you eat a lot of corn.

Quaid...Start the reactor. But seriously, thanks Kurona, I didnt know about the clicking the number either

That looks awesome!

Kurona wrote:Starscream's Brigade + Revenge of Bruticus are just two of the best G1 episodes period imo.

I just rewatched them for fun. And the one thing that I never realized before is how dependent Megatron is on Ramjet for that episode. Its like for this one time he becomes practically second in command.

Well, that's... vibrant

Am I the only one who transforms Swindle's leg mode by keeping the top of the jeep as it is in car mode?

Edit: no of course i am not, that is his standard transformation according to Hasbro. Intersting how the different companies tell you to transform them differently.


Transformers Generations Combiner Wars Bruticus Gallery

william-james88 wrote:Am I the only one who transforms Swindle's leg mode by keeping the top of the jeep as it is in car mode?

I do when he's a leg, but I found that I like the planes as legs, so he's an arm now. But yes, I do keep him with the roof down in leg mode

william-james88 wrote:Am I the only one who transforms Swindle's leg mode by keeping the top of the jeep as it is in car mode?

Nope, I do too, but since my swindle and hound are messed up, they end up looking all scrunched, but if I didn't the ankle would wiggle about, which doesn't help his already poor balance

william-james88 wrote:Am I the only one who transforms Swindle's leg mode by keeping the top of the jeep as it is in car mode?

Edit: no of course i am not, that is his standard transformation according to Hasbro. Intersting how the different companies tell you to transform them differently.


Transformers Generations Combiner Wars Bruticus Gallery

Didn't Takara do that so that the stripe of purple would be there to more closely match the animation model?

(I'm not having any luck finding a decent screenshot from the G1 cartoon... )

Agamemnon wrote:(I'm not having any luck finding a decent screenshot from the G1 cartoon... )

Here's one, but it doesnt match at all with the stripe:

william-james88 wrote:

Agamemnon wrote:(I'm not having any luck finding a decent screenshot from the G1 cartoon... )

Here's one, but it doesnt match at all with the stripe:

You're a saint for choosing that specific screenshot.

Kurona wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Agamemnon wrote:(I'm not having any luck finding a decent screenshot from the G1 cartoon... )

Here's one, but it doesnt match at all with the stripe:

You're a saint for choosing that specific screenshot.

Here's another pic:



Though the stripe isn't a stripe on Takara's figure, they mistransformed Swindle to make his purple match with the purple on the leg in the animation model.

Just glad they didn't try and match the stupid huge eyes the cartoon always drew him with

Although we know Takara is going for original series animation accuracy, the original animated series was not the only medium to portray Bruticus with Huge goofy eyes.

Then there's this beauty from the UK comics

o.supreme wrote:Then there's this beauty from the UK comics

That wasn't actually in any of the comics themselves, but is instead art from a Marvel UK collectors card.

It's basically just Bruticus missing his helmet, using Onslaught's head instead.

Honestly I kinda like the look. CW's warmed up to a black headed Bruticus.

Woot! I finally got my Grand Galvatron sets in the mail today!

I absolutely love how "Tactician" Cyclonus came out. That shade of "tropical indigo" looks great on him. I thought I'd share the love and post a few pics of him along side his "Armada."



I only have my iPhone 6S+ as a camera, and the lighting conditions in my apartment aren't ideal, but I hope these pics can be appreciated, nonetheless.

Holy cats, Wolfman! ARMADA!?!? That's awesome!

How do like the rest of that odd squad?

Cobotron wrote:Holy cats, Wolfman! ARMADA!?!? That's awesome!

How do like the rest of that odd squad?

They're pretty awesome. I love everything about Cyclonus. He is my new "Classics" Cyclonus for my self, once I get Titans Return/Takara Legends Galvatron and Takara Legends Scourge. As you've already noted, a trio of Combiner Wars Cyclonuses (bought on sale from TFSource) will be the "Armada," while a trio of Titans Return Scourges will be the Sweeps.

Starscream is fun. He's my first ever "Ghost" Starscream. I've got "Zombie" War Breakdown standing next to his Conjunx Endura, Knock Out, on my Classics shelf. Both are representing their G1 IDW selves. Thrust looks amazing in person. I can't wait to get TFCC Armada Skywarp to go along with Armada Thrust, Armada Starscream, Armada Thundercracker/Starscream Super Mode, and Armada Megatron. The gem of the limbs, I feel, is IDW "Wandering" Roller. His colors look amazing. He looks even better than Rook. I've placed him along with the Autobots on the shelf, because...he gets over that abandonment thing. At least I think so.

Ah Wolfenstein, those pics and that concept is great, I love it. I can't wait to see the entire group.

UW06 is an amazing set.

From Figure King Magazine...

Thanks to Seibertronian Cyberpath we have a new image from Figure King Magazines showing off Rook with his retooled parts that are to be included with Nosecone, part of the Unite Warriors Set. All the retooled parts are in different colors and it also shows that the drill can function as a hand held weapon. Check out the image mirrored below and let us know what you think in the comments section, and as always stay tuned to Seibertron.com for all your latest Transformers News and Galleries.

Seeing the new parts on Rook really highlights how clever the retool was; Nosecone winds up feeling much more distinct than he actually is.

Oh man, that is a really nice retool. Can't wait for August!

I'm kinda surprised they're using Rook to show it off rather than Roller, considering Rook was never released in Japan.
Ah well. It's still a really interesting look into the design process and it's probably one of my favourite retools just from appearances; another reason I wish Takara released their UW guys separately haha. I need him if only for Giga Drill Break combiners

Oh wow, I had assumed they completely overhauled the entire mold, but no.

Kurona wrote:I'm kinda surprised they're using Rook to show it off rather than Roller, considering Rook was never released in Japan.

Considering the production times involved, Takara was probably crafting those parts before any Rollers were produced - the prototype might even be built around a Rook test shot.

(Very curious about the exact production times involved with some of the Hasbro v. Takara molds, especially in regards to Computron. We know Takara's unique retools/mold were designed after mainline Combiner Wars, but how much later?)