shockblast2 wrote:ZeroWolf wrote:william-james88 wrote:Guys, you do know that the Optimus drawing is a fantasy situation right? And not supposed to be taken as a toy accurate interpretation of Combiner Wars? The fact that the colour scheme mimics perfectly the suggested Optimus Combination for Ultra Prime (in back of his box) makes it clear that it's this they are doing and not an indication that Bruticus is coming.
In any case, we already had a generations Bruticus.
I agree, that's probably an better example of orcams razor. People are only saying about Bruticus because of rumours about defensor and that alpha Bravo is an helicopter
No, it is because Bruticus is one of the five original gestalts and is only logical to be one of the combiners in the series.
I dont think looking at the 5 original "gestalts" is the right way to look for waht they will do. Also, the word gestalt gets thrown around but it wasn't used back in the G1 days.
I believe the best thing to look at are teh Scramble City combiners because this is what Hasbro is doing with the 2 confirmed releases of Combiner Wars so far. They are not releasing Devastator within this line (as the rumour has it) because he was not part of the Scramble City line or type of combiner (he had 6 robots of the same size forming one bigger robot which is different).
Good news to you though, Bruticus was a Scramble City combiner, which means he is on the shortlist I have copy pasted below:
Autobots: Aerialbots (Superion), Protectobots (Defensor), Technobots (Computron)
Decepticons: Stunticons (Menasor), Combaticons (Bruticus), Terrorcons (Abominus)
What I really meant for with this post was to show you what logic would work best to show that Bruticus has a chance of appearing. I still think it would be odd to see another Bruticus release (with a generations Bruticus already available in a bunch of different releases and decos, a PPC Bruticus-like figure also available, and a magnificent Universe Onslaught figure (we will have so many Onslaughts now)).
But then again, they just amde a pretty faithful Abominus in the Prime line, so it really could go either way between Bruticus and Abominus. And with all the evidence of it being Defensor for the autobots, I am still really hoping for Computron.