Titanmaster Brawn Brawn is "due". His 1984 Minibot friends have all been done as Legends toys, to varying degrees of success, and a Legends Brawn was seen on a computer listing in 2013 but hasn't materialised as yet - he's still consistently rumoured to this day. Instead he reaches the shelves first as a Titanmaster. Brawn's Titanmaster is cast in a slightly metallic dark green and a pale yellow, both reminiscent but not identical to the green and orange used on the original. The green is used for his head, arms and upper legs while the yellow forms his chest & lower legs. It's hinting at the colours of the original Brawn here and indeed the Titanmaster's head resembles the original Microchange toy with visored eyes & a faceplate. The Titanmaster's head mode meanwhile is modelled after Brawn's animated version with a dark metallic grey round head and a silver face with eyes, nose and mouth. It's quite a clever way of homaging both design of the character. Brawn's accessory is a little dark green jeep. Unlike the traditional jeep design the wheels have been replaced with triangular tracks making it look distinctly odd! Brawn can "sit" in the jeep & drive it, if you count bending his lower legs back at the knee and plugging them into pegs in the rear of the vehicle's interior as sitting! Even in this position his head is poking over the solid yellow windscreen. Brawn can also combine with the jeep: his head mode, looking down, plugs into the rear of the interior to give you a vehicle looking a bit like the original Brawn Minibot vehicle design. The clip it plugs into can be slid down allowing you to move the head in place and then slide the clip back up round the grooves in the side of the head. Brawn's accessory transforms: The four panels at the front & back of each side fold forward & back. Fold the windscreen down into the vehicle and turn it over where you can see it's pushed a little handle bar control panel up. Lie Brawn's Titanmaster down so he can grasp this while his feet pegs are pegged into the rear of the interior. No I don't have a clue what this mode is meant to be? Space bike of some description perhaps? If you remove the Titanmaster and turn the space bike thing over you'll find you can slide the Titanmaster head clip down inside the interior which extends a 5mm peg out the bottom enabling it to be used as a gun. As weapons go it's quite a long thin gun and probably works the best of all the Titanmaster accessories as a hand held weapon. There's also lots of customisation options here: The rear of the weapon can be separated & folded forwards to beef up the sides or put the Brawn head inside the weapon or even seat the figure inside it. Very good Titanmaster. Decent primary vehicle, with two different ways of interacting with the Titanmaster, although getting him sat in it is a little troublesome positioning the foot holes on the pegs. Odd secondary vehicle mode. SUPERB weapons mode. Sorry Apeface, Brawn's the star of the new toys in Titanmasters Wave 2. I should mention that the first version of the toy I owned was missing the piece the head clipped into in the interior which is connected to the weapons mode handle. So I couldn't form the bulkier jeep or use it as a weapon!
Having mucked about with Brawn and Hardhead I've realised that Brawn's handle is a hollow tube, not a solid peg like the other Titanmasters, and the gauge on the inner hole is just right to slip it over a Titanmaster foot peg..... like the ones on Hardhead's arms. The handle will also function as an original Armada style Minicon peg.
There's one in the first post! I'll see if the light and my hands are good enough to get some more tomorrow. There's some at Things Adam Writes From A Hole In The Ground — Transformers Titan Masters - Wave 2 Head Modes. I...
Titan Master face needs some paint. I am just puzzled that they went through all of the effort to make a tiny little Brawn Titan Master and then not bring out any of the details with some paint. The same grey and silver from his head mode side would have worked wonders.
First attempt at painting Titan Master Brawl. When I was painting him, I realized how similar he is to Gobot Blaster: Maybe I will change the visor color to Red.
Nope. No paint; I just scoured all my extra Reprolabels sets until I came across a left over sticker of that color. Then I just used an exact-o knife and cut out a little piece for the front and back. Longest part was looking for the sticker in a pile of half used stickers. So subtle, yet so effective.
Yeah it looks awesome. I don't have any reprolabels and I actually enjoy adding the odd app here and there though getting the right shade and gloss level is kind of a PITA.
omg I can only imagine. (especially once you start mixing stuff) It was kinda ironic that I found a sticker almost spot on to what the original shade was on the G1 upgrade set.
Was out grocery shopping today and my local Meijers had the Deluxes and Titan Masters in stock on the shelves. While I had been planning on waiting a bit for financial reasons, having them in hand, I couldn't resist Hardhead and Brawn. In short, Brawn is a very neat Titan Master, but I'm not so enamored by the jeep/speeder/gun thing. Maybe I just need to see it on a Voyager or something. EDIT: I flipped the gun mode around and as an underslung cannon, it's actually not that bad. Plus it puts the Autobot insignia right side up to boot. I wonder if that's deliberate given the length of the handle.
