Upcoming 2016 Combiner Wars G2 Bruticus Official Product Images

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

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.

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.

Unintentionally, you say..?

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...

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.

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.

Well, it's more the point that they (has/tak, as both helped design them I imagine) let this happen, that they intentionally let another blitzwing out into the market...

Unless it interferes somehow with a limb-mode, there had to be a way to lock the parts together, even if they changed the current pelvis to the mis-transformed one, and put a clip there to lock it together.

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

Glarryg

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.

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?

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.