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News Credits: 104 · Mon Feb 13, 2012 8:20 am

I may still pick this up but it does not beat the Bruticus that we have now with the 3rd party additions.

Mon Feb 13, 2012 9:11 am

This is WHACK and an easy pass for me. The 3rd Party BRUTICUS crushes this. Looks like the PCC stuff and makes me want to give up collecting TRANSFORMERS. With all the hype surrounding this video game, you would think a combiner figure would do it justice. Oh well. Let's see if all the hardcore movie-hater fans rip this thing to shreds. If not, they should donate their sparks and head straight for the scrap heap.

Mon Feb 13, 2012 9:28 am

Yeah, wow... these are bright, saturated colors. Definitely off from what I'd hoped. Quite a bummer, since the actual game is a darker, serious tone. These look like children's toys.

I'll definitely be going with the Takara version if one comes out in G1 colors. This is too bright.

News Credits: 1 · Mon Feb 13, 2012 9:29 am

The individual figures don't look too bad but not amazing enough to outweigh my issues with the combined form, so in the words of Duncan Bannatyne: I'm out.

News Credits: 1 · Mon Feb 13, 2012 9:45 am

acchillyaout wrote:[u][b]Let's see if all the hardcore movie-hater fans rip this thing to shreds. If not, they should donate their sparks and head straight for the scrap heap.

Why should we? What's this got to do with the movies?

News Credits: 33 · Mon Feb 13, 2012 9:54 am

Cyber Bishop wrote:I may still pick this up but it does not beat the Bruticus that we have now with the 3rd party additions.

To quote Conner Macleod "There can be only one" and 3 party Bruticus is it the only way that can ever be topped is by FP making the other 3 combaticons.

News Credits: 1 · Mon Feb 13, 2012 9:56 am

So ... BRIGHT! Gotta say, I am not liking the colors here.

I may get it anyway because the individual guys look heads and tails better than their Classicsverse counterparts (although maybe not the FP versions), but I think FP upgraded Bruticus shall remain the Bruticus for me.

News Credits: 2 · Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:06 am

In case I missed it what's the deal on how this will be packaged as a whole or individual figures? I definitely agree as someone posted earlier and keep these as separate TFs never to merge them...'nuff said! :VEHI:

News Credits: 2 · Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:09 am

My eyes! They burn!

Gah; I greatly preferred the earlier colors that were more muted and (except for Vortex) shared a subtle theme. Now everyone's saturation has been cranked to blistering.

Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:27 am

unless this abomination costs 40 USD it will not be worth the purchase.
sorry but the only thing that kills it for the most part are the terrible shoulders. seriuosly! why are his shoulder the combiner pegs alone!make him look like bricks connected to each other through glued on sticks.
that goes for the hips too.

News Credits: 1 · Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:43 am

Vortex and Blastoff better get a color change in the game as well, or I'm going to be disappointed. I don't want purple and orange limbs if the game character has brown and yellow limbs.

News Credits: 462 · Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:06 am

Onslaught looks better than before... that I will say.

News Credits: 3 · Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:08 am

I pray this is not the official product. The colors on Bruticus the fist time we saw him are so much better than this piece of ****. If this were a G2 figure I wouldn't complain, but if this is what we're getting on store shelves then the Combaticons are off my list of TFs to purchase.

News Credits: 7 · Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:20 am

Wait, what happened to the game-accurate colors seen in GI?

News Credits: 1 · Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:28 am

"Kids like bright colors" ... I guess.

News Credits: 1 · Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:35 am

I'm starting to have mixed feelings about this one, somewhere between :lol:

and

or

but most definitely there's an undercurrent of :BANG_HEAD:

. I'm wondering if Mark Zuckerberg is part of Hasbro's design team because, just like Facebook, we have complained and all we get for a response is something that totally doesn't address what we complained about and we are somehow supposed to be grateful for it. They might as well have just repainted the Legends class RotF Devastator and said "There you go" if they were going to insult us.

News Credits: 241 · Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:56 am

*waits for the eventual Takara release and with it, whiners turning into rabid fender kissers* >:oP

Seriously guys, I wasn't really expecting much of it, since Generations, which will house all FOC toys, is Deluxe-only, so Onslaught suffers the most from that fact. So he's suffering from G1 Predaking-syndrome

I'm considering him, yes, as I'm a big fan of combiners.

Mon Feb 13, 2012 12:02 pm

OMG they just killed Bruticus !!!

To top it all off they made Blast off blue so you can have one of every color in the rainbow. Very educational. Now kiddies listen up, when you mix red, blue, yellow, and green, you get PUKE (Onslaught)

:SICK:

Please Takara save him !!! Make a G1 colored version !!!

Mon Feb 13, 2012 12:06 pm

Rated X wrote:OMG they just killed Bruticus !!!

To top it all off they made Blast off blue so you can have one of every color in the rainbow. Very educational. Now kiddies listen up, when you mix red, blue, yellow, and green, you get PUKE (Onslaught)

Please Takara save him !!! Make a G1 colored version !!!

and all those smiles still don't describe enough of how much desgust is given off from it. :-(

News Credits: 3 · Mon Feb 13, 2012 12:44 pm

Ugh. If the colors end up that bright in person I might pass on most of these; Blast Off is still tolerable.

Why can't Hasbro leave well enough alone?

Edit: "It was stated at Toy Fair that this just a physical prototype that isn't in the final colors."

I hope this is indeed the case. Blech on G2.

News Credits: 13 · Mon Feb 13, 2012 2:31 pm

definate buy on sight, but Vortex and Blastoff need to exchange paint schemes

Mon Feb 13, 2012 2:35 pm

grimdragon2001 wrote:definate buy on sight, but Vortex and Blastoff need to exchange paint schemes

am i looking at the right web page? what bruticus is a buy on sight? sorry but i can't see why u would want that. its just hhhhhhhnnnnnngggg.....
i don't mean to be down right mean i just want to know what makes u want to buy it?

News Credits: 13 · Mon Feb 13, 2012 2:42 pm

1. all Generations line TFs are buy on site for me
2. this is the first combiner that we have gotten that wasnt an Energon repaint or Legends class
3. while ill admit the arms seem a little too big, it still looks pretty good to me

Mon Feb 13, 2012 2:46 pm

As much as I'd love a G1-accurate scheme for Blast Off and Vortex (and really only because the other three have them...) I'm still pretty dang stoked for this. It also looks like they've decided not to go for a Scramble City-style combiner with his design; unless I get proven wrong once people start getting this in their hands, it looks like the legs and arms aren't interchangeable.

Fine by me; I tend to stick with one combination per combiner anyway, and it lends itself to a less complicated design process if the limbs only have three modes instead of four anywho. Consider these guys bought upon discovery :KREMZEEK:

Mon Feb 13, 2012 2:50 pm

grimdragon2001 wrote:1. all Generations line TFs are buy on site for me
2. this is the first combiner that we have gotten that wasnt an Energon repaint or Legends class
3. while ill admit the arms seem a little too big, it still looks pretty good to me

good enough for me. thanks for helping me see this fig in a positive way.