Upcoming 2016 Combiner Wars G2 Bruticus Official Product Images

steals_your_goats wrote:

ThunderThruster wrote:lets be honest, one of the few reasons they're using Skylynx for Leokaiser is the cat-like combined mode head.

Without a doubt that's why. It was the First thing I thought of when I heard what they were doing

Hellscream9999 wrote:

steals_your_goats wrote:

ThunderThruster wrote:lets be honest, one of the few reasons they're using Skylynx for Leokaiser is the cat-like combined mode head.

Without a doubt that's why. It was the First thing I thought of when I heard what they were doing

I'll be honest, it was one of the first things I thought of when I saw it, so they're not too far off base

Can't wait to get my hands on the torso dude, it's a complete shame they're using 2 of the crappy brawl mold (can't believe I'm saying this already for it )

Hellscream9999 wrote:HA! Even hasbro is using the pelvis mis-transformation to cover up the fact that they f@$ked up Brawl

Shuttershock wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:HA! Even hasbro is using the pelvis mis-transformation to cover up the fact that they f@$ked up Brawl

With that Purple face and the tread arms, Brawl looks unintentionally like a tiny Tarn.

Shuttershock wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

steals_your_goats wrote:

ThunderThruster wrote:lets be honest, one of the few reasons they're using Skylynx for Leokaiser is the cat-like combined mode head.

Without a doubt that's why. It was the First thing I thought of when I heard what they were doing

I'll be honest, it was one of the first things I thought of when I saw it, so they're not too far off base

Can't wait to get my hands on the torso dude, it's a complete shame they're using 2 of the crappy brawl mold (can't believe I'm saying this already for it )

There are certainly ways of making it look like Liokaiser collectively, at the cost of the torso bots.

The problem is that a vehicle that turns into a beast is unlike most other bots outside of the current RID line. More suited to a Hatchet or, dare I say, a Purple Griffin. Heck, with retooling and replacing the shuttle, you could make an argument for Hun-Grrr.

Delta Magnus wrote:Man, Vortex, Swindle and Blast Off actually look pretty good in their G2 colours.

But that Shockwave...his colours are somehow MORE tasteful than the regular Shockwave. I'm sorry, but this is inexcusable. He shoulda been bright magenta with orange highlights, or at least coloured like Energon Sixshot. G2 without horrendously vulgar colour schemes is like cheesecake without any cheese.

(In all seriousness though, he does look pretty nice.)

What's wrong with CW Brawl by the way, and is there any way of fixing him? I mean, I'm planning on getting the UW version, so hopefully based Takara will fix him...

Delta Magnus wrote:Man, Vortex, Swindle and Blast Off actually look pretty good in their G2 colours.

But that Shockwave...his colours are somehow MORE tasteful than the regular Shockwave. I'm sorry, but this is inexcusable. He shoulda been bright magenta with orange highlights, or at least coloured like Energon Sixshot. G2 without horrendously vulgar colour schemes is like cheesecake without any cheese.

(In all seriousness though, he does look pretty nice.)

What's wrong with CW Brawl by the way, and is there any way of fixing him? I mean, I'm planning on getting the UW version, so hopefully based Takara will fix him...

Shuttershock wrote:

Delta Magnus wrote:Man, Vortex, Swindle and Blast Off actually look pretty good in their G2 colours.

But that Shockwave...his colours are somehow MORE tasteful than the regular Shockwave. I'm sorry, but this is inexcusable. He shoulda been bright magenta with orange highlights, or at least coloured like Energon Sixshot. G2 without horrendously vulgar colour schemes is like cheesecake without any cheese.

(In all seriousness though, he does look pretty nice.)

What's wrong with CW Brawl by the way, and is there any way of fixing him? I mean, I'm planning on getting the UW version, so hopefully based Takara will fix him...

Apparently it's an issue that, because of the hinge on his hips, there's an unintended large gap between his chest and hips (no abdomen). The G2 image shows the hips hinged differently to fill the gap, but they don't lock together.

I can see this aggravating a child trying to play with it more than an adult displaying it, where he's either always combined or part of a group. Personally, I don't mind and I'll just fiddle with it to get a good look.

RiddlerJ wrote:I don't remember who suggested it, but someone said G2 Shockwave should've been him in his Radioshack (Astro Man?) colors. Which would've been cool.

Glarryg wrote:Purple and orange Shockwave is the Action Master version, which, I think, is closer to garish G2-ness than an all-gray version.

Glarryg

RiddlerJ wrote:And I still can't figure out where the handle is on Shockwave's gun mode. How does Bruticus hold him?

RiddlerJ wrote:And I still can't figure out where the handle is on Shockwave's gun mode. How does Bruticus hold him?

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Oh for goodness sakes, before we even try to do a Liokaiser, can we at least get proper technobots? And why hasbro would release a japanese only show combiner I have no clue. If it looks good that'd be nice, but some of these choices just don't sound right, and all things considered, I'd hope they would not do him and instead wait.

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Glarryg wrote:Purple and orange Shockwave is the Action Master version, which, I think, is closer to garish G2-ness than an all-gray version.

Glarryg

Yeah, but energon sixshot takes the cake (while everyone was cringing at his colors )

Seibertron wrote:I love the Action Master homage for Shockwave. I think it looks great. I'd rather have that than the other suggestions made.

leokearon wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Glarryg wrote:Purple and orange Shockwave is the Action Master version, which, I think, is closer to garish G2-ness than an all-gray version.

Glarryg

Yeah, but energon sixshot takes the cake (while everyone was cringing at his colors )

Indeed a missed opportunity so here is my Digibash Energon Sixshot

Seibertron wrote:I love the Action Master homage for Shockwave. I think it looks great. I'd rather have that than the other suggestions made.

Hellscream9999 wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Oh for goodness sakes, before we even try to do a Liokaiser, can we at least get proper technobots? And why hasbro would release a japanese only show combiner I have no clue. If it looks good that'd be nice, but some of these choices just don't sound right, and all things considered, I'd hope they would not do him and instead wait.

Right, an combiner with a lackluster scattershot, and a nosecone with no abs... pass.

What I don't get is that there are a metric f@#k-ton of combiners coming out, considering CW is ending halfway through next year.

We know the G2 and Victorion waves are box sets, maybe G2 sups and menasor will be a case assortment, and G2 Bruticus and victorion will be a case assortment?

So (if the [fairly accurate thus far] rumors are to be believed) then, how are the (inevitably crappy and flawed) technobots and liokaiser going to be released? They can't all be boxsets, right? Will they be interspersed throughout TW, or will they really be boxsets too? I really don't want to pay $100 for a set with 2 crappy brawl figs just to get - what I imagine would be - an epic Sky Lynx repaint.

Agamemnon wrote:

leokearon wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Glarryg wrote:Purple and orange Shockwave is the Action Master version, which, I think, is closer to garish G2-ness than an all-gray version.

Glarryg

Yeah, but energon sixshot takes the cake (while everyone was cringing at his colors )

Indeed a missed opportunity so here is my Digibash Energon Sixshot

Ow ow ow ow ow ow ow




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Hellscream9999 wrote:

Agamemnon wrote:

leokearon wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Glarryg wrote:Purple and orange Shockwave is the Action Master version, which, I think, is closer to garish G2-ness than an all-gray version.

Glarryg

Yeah, but energon sixshot takes the cake (while everyone was cringing at his colors )

Indeed a missed opportunity so here is my Digibash Energon Sixshot

Ow ow ow ow ow ow ow




OW

Oh God! My eye's

Now THAT, that is G2 right there

Hellscream9999 wrote:HA! Even hasbro is using the pelvis mis-transformation to cover up the fact that they f@$ked up Brawl

Hellscream9999 wrote:

RiddlerJ wrote:And I still can't figure out where the handle is on Shockwave's gun mode. How does Bruticus hold him?

Yeah, the abs are painted, so no trickery there, so... black magic?

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:HA! Even hasbro is using the pelvis mis-transformation to cover up the fact that they f@$ked up Brawl

Perhaps that's been the right way to transform it all along? Better that it doesn't lock in than have that floppy mess?

Hellscream9999 wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:HA! Even hasbro is using the pelvis mis-transformation to cover up the fact that they f@$ked up Brawl

Perhaps that's been the right way to transform it all along? Better that it doesn't lock in than have that floppy mess?

Well no, the cw version has painted details showing you which is the proper side, besides, the front that's showing in the pic there, is where has/tak are putting the trademark info...

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:HA! Even hasbro is using the pelvis mis-transformation to cover up the fact that they f@$ked up Brawl

Perhaps that's been the right way to transform it all along? Better that it doesn't lock in than have that floppy mess?

Well no, the cw version has painted details showing you which is the proper side, besides, the front that's showing in the pic there, is where has/tak are putting the trademark info...

I don't know what they were thinking there. Maybe the hinge was supposed to be on another corner of the crotch piece and it would have actually sat properly there, but instead they put the actual ab crunch in the wrong spot? I just don't see how anyone thought that was a good idea

Hellscream9999 wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:HA! Even hasbro is using the pelvis mis-transformation to cover up the fact that they f@$ked up Brawl

Perhaps that's been the right way to transform it all along? Better that it doesn't lock in than have that floppy mess?

Well no, the cw version has painted details showing you which is the proper side, besides, the front that's showing in the pic there, is where has/tak are putting the trademark info...

I don't know what they were thinking there. Maybe the hinge was supposed to be on another corner of the crotch piece and it would have actually sat properly there, but instead they put the actual ab crunch in the wrong spot? I just don't see how anyone thought that was a good idea

The problem are those little trapezoidal bits right under the torso, you can see them in the pic, they obstruct the hinge from collapsing flush against the torso;

But I agree, this is an inexcusable travesty, especially, as it's one of two (entirely) new molds for the rest of the line, and already has a whole host of repaints of it - all of which are ruined now by virtue of association.

Mindmaster wrote:
If it's those two tabs that are being a hindrance, it shouldn't be that difficult to take them off. Exacto knife ought to do it, nail clippers too. Cut those little suckers off, sand down what's left, and that should eliminate the problem entirely. What I'm curious about is how big of an effect, positive or negative, would have on the whole figure.

Mindmaster wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:HA! Even hasbro is using the pelvis mis-transformation to cover up the fact that they f@$ked up Brawl

Perhaps that's been the right way to transform it all along? Better that it doesn't lock in than have that floppy mess?

Well no, the cw version has painted details showing you which is the proper side, besides, the front that's showing in the pic there, is where has/tak are putting the trademark info...

I don't know what they were thinking there. Maybe the hinge was supposed to be on another corner of the crotch piece and it would have actually sat properly there, but instead they put the actual ab crunch in the wrong spot? I just don't see how anyone thought that was a good idea

The problem are those little trapezoidal bits right under the torso, you can see them in the pic, they obstruct the hinge from collapsing flush against the torso;

But I agree, this is an inexcusable travesty, especially, as it's one of two (entirely) new molds for the rest of the line, and already has a whole host of repaints of it - all of which are ruined now by virtue of association.

If it's those two tabs that are being a hindrance, it shouldn't be that difficult to take them off. Exacto knife ought to do it, nail clippers too. Cut those little suckers off, sand down what's left, and that should eliminate the problem entirely. What I'm curious about is how big of an effect, positive or negative, would have on the whole figure.

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:
If it's those two tabs that are being a hindrance, it shouldn't be that difficult to take them off. Exacto knife ought to do it, nail clippers too. Cut those little suckers off, sand down what's left, and that should eliminate the problem entirely. What I'm curious about is how big of an effect, positive or negative, would have on the whole figure.

What it is really is that there is now way for the hinge that the waist is on to fold up against the underside of the body properly. you couldnt cut it off since you would be cutting off the whole hinge the body is attached to the waist with. There really isnt a way to fix this besides replacing that whole hinge/waist area

Hellscream9999 wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:
If it's those two tabs that are being a hindrance, it shouldn't be that difficult to take them off. Exacto knife ought to do it, nail clippers too. Cut those little suckers off, sand down what's left, and that should eliminate the problem entirely. What I'm curious about is how big of an effect, positive or negative, would have on the whole figure.

What it is really is that there is now way for the hinge that the waist is on to fold up against the underside of the body properly. you couldnt cut it off since you would be cutting off the whole hinge the body is attached to the waist with. There really isnt a way to fix this besides replacing that whole hinge/waist area

If you watch the video, you'll notice trapezoidal bits that the hinge is being pressed against, get rid of those, and the pelvis should rest against the torso flush.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:HA! Even hasbro is using the pelvis mis-transformation to cover up the fact that they f@$ked up Brawl

Perhaps that's been the right way to transform it all along? Better that it doesn't lock in than have that floppy mess?

Doctor McGrath wrote:G2 Bruticus looks fun but I wish the G2 colors weren't the go to recolor since we just got them in the FoC line. I would have rather seen Ruination.

Doctor McGrath wrote:G2 Bruticus looks fun but I wish the G2 colors weren't the go to recolor since we just got them in the FoC line. I would have rather seen Ruination.

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

Doctor McGrath wrote:G2 Bruticus looks fun but I wish the G2 colors weren't the go to recolor since we just got them in the FoC line. I would have rather seen Ruination.

Ruination would have been a really cool repaint. I have the autobot FoC version, but the old RiD guy would be awesome too. at least he wouldn't have needed any remolding!

PS: I am the member who posted first on page 500!!

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

Doctor McGrath wrote:G2 Bruticus looks fun but I wish the G2 colors weren't the go to recolor since we just got them in the FoC line. I would have rather seen Ruination.

Ruination would have been a really cool repaint. I have the autobot FoC version, but the old RiD guy would be awesome too. at least he wouldn't have needed any remolding!

PS: I am the member who posted first on page 500!!

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