Finally got my hands on the big bad battlin' dudicus! And I gotta say, he is AMAZING. He's seriously giving Superion a run for his money as my favorite 'standard' Unite Warriors combiner! No paint or QC issues to speak of, everything's solid all over, all the joints hold well even in combined mode (no forward lean, unlike Defensor!), and he's just so much FUN to play with as both the individual Combaticons and combined as Bruticus!



The only gripe I had with him was the standard problem that Blast Off wouldn't stay together in arm mode, but that was actually the part I cared about the least because I never liked how caramel-colored UW Blast Off was and was going to replace him with Prime Wars Trilogy Blast Off anyway. The new arm works like a charm!



Also, since Bruticus' shoulder cannon barrels and Blast Off's shuttle thrusters are both 5mm compatible, he can accommodate War for Cybertron Trilogy effect parts. I had a lot of fun putting the blast effects from Siege Jetfire on him!

(Fun fact: the small 'nub' on Bruticus' codpiece isn't actually a 3mm post, but it's close enough that you can put a blast effect on it with some twiddling with the soft plastic of the effect part. So if you want to have someone shoot Bruticus in the crotch, go for it.)



Lastly I took some pics with his creator, Earthrise Starscream, to close everything off.

 

You might want to post that in the review thread, rather than the news one:

Unite Warriors UW-EX Baldigus

 

Ah, I see. I just posted it here because I couldn't find a thread for Bruticus in the review thread, just for Baldigus/Ruination. I'll keep that in mind next time.

 

Great pics and great figure. So glad TakaraTomy did their own thing with the Combined Wars stuff, not only in deco but tooling. It was a dream come true to do Computron, Defensor, Bruticus, Defensor, Menasor like they did. To top it all off by returning to that same way of doing combiner's and doing King Poseidon, God Neptune, Volcanicus, and Abominus. Love it!

 

That looks great. At the time these were released I was vintage and MP only, had previously sold all my CHUG stuff. Earthrise brought me back and I've managed to go back and pick up everything I want except these Unite Warriors combiners. I did pick up Superion since that was reissued and I assumed the current eBay prices are as good as it's going to get for awhile. Just don't know whether to pay the eBay prices for the rest or wait to see if they get reissues also.