First in pack look at CW Brawl

[fatbot]

First in package look at CW Brawl from Facebook

[UltimateGalvatron]

That looks really cool.
I like the look of his combiner foot/hand.

[prjkt]

Do want this guy, and the rest of his team - might be the last remaining full retail combiner set I'll buy...

[5FDP]

Looks 1000% better than the FoC version... hopefully it's not as hollow.

[griffin]

Get that darn toy out of the way... it's blocking the view of that new Rescue Bots toy.

[griffin]

Brawl looks really good... but I have a soft spot for him, as Gen1 Brawl was my first "Scramble City" combiner toy. (and I hated it when Megatron "killed" him in the Marvel comics - it was probably the only time I've ever felt sad about seeing a Decepticon/bad-guy die)


So many Hasbro toy leaks this month... unless this is now intentional, to try to do what Yuki does for Japanese toys on twitter (giving teases and hints months in advance to hype up the collectors).

[5FDP]

Brawl looks really good... but I have a soft spot for him, as Gen1 Brawl was my first "Scramble City" combiner toy. (and I hated it when Megatron "killed" him in the Marvel comics - it was probably the only time I've ever felt sad about seeing a Decepticon/bad-guy die)

I remember reading that issue for the first time standing in my local newsagent thinking 'that was BRUTAL' when Megatron basically crushed his head with his bear hands. That was my favourite issue

[Lord_Zed]

Not bad, but I'm still going to wait and see what TakaraTomy do.

I remember reading that issue for the first time standing in my local newsagent thinking 'that was BRUTAL' when Megatron basically crushed his head with his bear hands. That was my favourite issue

Given later in the same issue Megs had half his face scratched off and yet still delivered a KO to Predaking, brutal is rather apt.

And clearly Brawl's crushed head was not fatal seeing as how he showed up only a few issues later hunting Throttlebots. Obviously Brawl doesn't use his head much.

[GoktimusPrime]

The source of the Combaticon photos is a Vietnamese hobby shop, so these are likely to have been poached from the factory... or Hasbro are releasing toys early in Vietnam as soon as they are manufactured.

Heh, wasn't the avoidance of factory poaching one of the reasons why HasTak relocated manufacturing from China to Vietnam (as well as cost)? Although I guess it's not surprising that security at a factory in an even cheaper labour market wouldn't be much improved.

Wow, not even remolding Blast Off's head is really lazy on Hasbro's part. Not to mention that I'm not a fan of using a jet in the first place.

Don't know if its just the photo, but Bruticus' arms look way to long and spindly compared to his chunkier torso and legs. Brawl and Swindle are looking mighty fine though!

I can understand not remoulding, as it is costly; and these don't seem to be the gang-moulded redecos that we get with toys like Dead End/Streetwise etc. And I personally approve of the choice of having Blast Off as a fighter jet rather than a space shuttle, since it actually makes more logical sense in a team of combat vehicles (which a shuttle isn't). Besides, Blast Off was already a jet in Fall of Cybertron. Having said that, I think that a better solution would've been to simply repaint Firefly. Same alt mode, but the head looks more similar to Blast Off's IMHO.

[yoshi594]

i really hope takara fixes blastoff! will defo be skipping the hasbro release.