just picked my set up from the post office.

First thoughts:

Onslaught's joints are tight. Really tight. I'm liking the new Bruticus chest plate, but not sure that I prefer the silver head over the Hasbro version there. The main colour is a lot more blue than the muted teal of Hasbro's version, more inline with their FOC Onslaught colour wise - neither here nor there for me.

Swindle is basically the same colour, just a few highlights and colour changes (Black weapon/canopy bars are now silver) and the front bonnet is now purple. Chest is more silver now, but there's still plenty of the purple - I think I prefer the Takara version here.

Brawl is as Swindle, mostly the same, just a few extra silver highlights. That head however, sucks imo, no need for the red and yellow there. May swap the head over, otherwise Hasbro is a winner.

Vortex I'm not sure about, I really like the dark colours here, and the extra two rotors add some differentiation from Blades/Alpha Bravo, but I really do like the colours on the Hasbro one, they just pop.

Blast Off is quite obviously a brand new mould, props to Takara for attempting a space shuttle'ish design, but I think this one's no where near as good as their DLX Groove. If they'd used this mould for one of the members of Victorion, there'd have been a lot of "sexists" calls made as the chest is huge and he's got trouble keeping his legs together.

Colour-wise the light brown is a little too light, I'd have preferring more of Hasbro's Blast Off colour scheme here (which we may get if Hasbro release it later on in the year...).

Overall not a terrible mould, but far from the best of the CW moulds I've seen so far.

Unlike Hasbro Bruticus' generaic grey bits, Swindle and Brawl's extremity piece is in the same colour as their base plastic, while Blast Off and Vortex' are a gunmetal great, with a little metallic sheen to it.

In conclusion, I'm a little 50/50 over this set, it's not an essential upgrade over the Hasbro release, but it's still more (imo) than any of the other UW sets so far released, and with a little mix and match, I might end up with my "perfect" Bruticus.