Toy Review - Titans Return Brawn (Legends)

[Dimi194]

Great little figure! Love when legends have accessories; the use of the kibble as a shield is an awesome idea, I'd love to see more of that kind of thing tbh.

Paint is nice, and love the extra details, such as fold out heels and thigh swivels!

Good looking truck too... A very fun legends toy (and much better than the W1 redeco city of TLK)

[SMHFConvoy]

Notice that he has subtle TF Animated proportions? Stubby legs, long torso and hulking arms?

[GoktimusPrime]

The only similarity with Animated Brawn is the long torso, but I think it's coincidental as a result of the Titan Master cockpit gimmick. Hence why I would still rate Wheelie above this toy as I really love how Wheelie is able to compact his cockpit to shrink the size of his torso, but I suppose with Brawn they've opted to make him look more bulky with the larger "Dwarven" proportioned torso.

For comparison...
+ G1 Brawn (cartoon model): more or less proportioned like a human with the torso being a tad smaller than a human's. A human's torso is 3 head heights, G1 Brawn's is about 2.5. Arms and legs are the same proportion as a human's with the hands resting below the hips and legs being longer than the arms.
+ Animated Brawn: Torso is proportionately longer than a human's, being about 3.3 head heights. Limbs are more proportioned like a monkey or ape with the arms being about 1.5 times longer than the legs! His limb proportions are more similar to Optimus Primal, but of course, Primal transforms into an ape.
+ Titans Return Brawn: Torso is proportionately the longest - four head heights. Legs are about the same length as the arms, much like earlier hominids like Australopithecus.

So I guess TR Brawn is like the evolutionary "missing link" between the ape-proportioned Animated Brawn and human-proportioned G1 Brawn. Although Australopithecus didn't have such long torsos, if anything they were proportionately shorter than human torsos (about 2 head heights).

[FatalityPitt]

Now THIS is Brawn!

I wasn't the biggest Brawn-fan until I bought this. Until now, I've never owned a single version of Brawn. I have a feeling, with this; I'll never need to buy another Brawn ever again.

Maybe it's the New-Toy-Syndrome talking, but everything about this toy screams BRAWN! It looks unmistakably like Brawn (the headsculpt, colours, proportions, etc), even the one sentance bio "This Autobot loves a challenge even if it's a Decepticon 10x his size" is SO Brawn. Sure, the transformation is super-easy and painfully cliche; but I don't care - it's such a faithful representation of such an iconic character who is the quintessential macho G1 Autobot.

It's not my style to tell people what to buy, but if you like G1 and you happen to have $20 in your pocket - buy him! Even if you don't like Brawn, it'll make your Neo-Classics G1 collection more complete.

[Maruten]

I'm not really a Brawn fan but man, this guy is really great.

[Jellico]

Picked him up today. Unloke most of the Legends his TM head can remain in his seat when in robot mode. It is all sorts of awesome to transform him, open the hatch and have him wave, "heyyy".

[shockNwave]

While I regret missing out on Overhaul (Cybertron), Brawn definitely makes up for it. Love it how the weapon/shield can be placed on top of the vehicle in more than one way.