ROTF Brawn

[Death's Head]

Another pleasant suprise from the Revenge Of The Fallen toyline, Brawn is a solid figure that homages the original 1980s toy, and makes good on that character's bio of being the Autobot's muscle. This also makes up for 25 years of having one of the Autobot's strongest warriors represented by a largely rubbish toy, so hooray for that.

Brawn takes his cues from some of the Movie-verse's ancilary military vehicles, and is some sort of armoured pick up truck. Those who care overmuch would be able to tell you the exact make and model. its a nice, chunky little thing with some nice detailing and a suitably murky colourscheme for urban assault. Transforming Brawn is relatively simple. He's a shell-former, with the robot mode foling out from the chasis and the vehcile parts folding around the robot mode. Its a simple enough sequence devoid of any major frustration, which means he makes an excellent plaything. The military grey opening up to reveal a mix of silver, green and gold, accented with red highlights is a winning combination too! I like that the roof mounted weapon can also be moved into position above his head, so that along with his two hand held pistols, Brawn looks every inch the Autobot warrior - much in the vein of Ironhide, but more successfully realised.

A good, solid figure and one that transcends his 'homage' status, managing to be a character in his own right. A nice suprise from a line that has shaped up to be one of the best offerings from Hasbro over recent years. As ever, a steep retail price is the toy's biggest failing, which makes him only worth bothering with if you can find him for a tenner or less.

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[we_are_forest]

Brawn is a quality figure that's for sure and looks pretty bad ass. He can strike some brilliant poses too.

I got mine from The Entertainer for under a tenner when they had them on sale. If you can find him still he's definitely worth picking up!

[Robtimus]

I love this mould so much I have three of it - two Brawns and a Fallback.

[Killamarshan]

He is a really nice figure with equally impressive bot and alt mode. If I had to nitpick I'm not quite sure where the toy fits though, he doesn't seem to go with either the Classics or Movie toys, for me he just fits in with the other handful of HFTD/Generations hybrids. I also really would have liked the pistols to combine and the gun at the back to have become a shoulder cannon - but I'm perhaps being unfair on a $10 toy.


He's also ever so slightly mis-transformed in your robot mode pic DH, the shells on the side of his thighs should be placed so the windscreen is at the top, although I do think your way looks better and it also makes the kibble on the legs less intrusive.

[Death's Head]

yeah, i thought it looked cooler my way. i like that with modern tfs you can wiggle all these bits about how you please

[Prowler]

I gotta say it again, I like your reviews the best, DH. You give us background on the figures themselves and let us know about little things that might help us out when it comes to displaying or playing with our figures and the pics are, in my mind, better suited to these reviews than the video attempts.

This figure is awesome. I think it totally fits with the movie-verse figures and looks awesome. I read the reviews before looking at the pics and was wondering how much of an homage the 'bot could be and I see what you mean. The head and coloring are very Brawn... as is the attitude the figure oozes. I didn't know this had come out for the ROTF line. Usually I'll get the main characters that come out in the movie and look past the 'other' movie line figs, ever since the first movie line with all their repaints of Armada or Universe figures who were given familiar names but didn't seem to fit. Another reason why your reviews help out and gives us some more information. This figure looks like it had some serious thought behind it and fits right in with the rest of the movie-verse.

One question, though, what size is it? It looks like it has a bit more stuff going on than a Deluxe.

Thanks for the reviews, man, and keep 'em coming!

[Robtimus]

It's packaged and priced as a deluxe.

[Blaster]

Robot mode is very.....Protform like, which I like, Iceman (I refuse to call you otherwise) lol where do you purchase Europe wise?

[Prowler]

It's packaged and priced as a deluxe.

Thanks, bro. Seems bigger for some reason.

[Robtimus]

Robot mode is very.....Protform like, which I like, Iceman (I refuse to call you otherwise) lol where do you purchase Europe wise?

I do most of my shopping at Archonia.com these days, but I also use TFSource, All The Cool Stuff, Kapow Toys and of course eBay.