Only if you don't mind the ugly and thoughtless design of the articulation. And the kibble also includes the window halves at either end of each arm and under the arm, which is just patented bullshit. http://www.tfu.info/2008/Decepticon/Sto ... otmode.jpgonslaught86 wrote:I'd cite Hot Shot as an example of another figure with car kibble arms, but he's not a good toy either. Stockade's kibble actually 'is' his arms, so it doesn't wreck the articulation.
In what manner?He has a good range of motion in his shoulders, tho'.
I'm largely frustrated in how with a little more effort he could have been rad, but instead they left him a minicon with more kibble.
This is one that takes me back to when I wondered what kind of drugs you were sharing with O6. The ridiculous "head" is shit, movable ears or not, and has NO Personality no matter what you move, it just looks like someone broke a jet fuselage in half. The "claws" don't really make up for the way oversized forearms that are just lazy junk on shitty articulation sticks. The VTOL gimmick is kinda fun, but blocked by the figure's leg-bomb. It always amazes me when you guys will throw love out to a toy like this because of some fetishization of a singular gimmick or feature he has, thus ignoring all the glaring flaws surrounding said gimmick, and then stick with that opinion for ever and evers. I mean, fuck, even if you can get past the horrible arms and shitty head, there's still the puny and fucked up lower body that even Ben had to give the figure a thumbs-down over: http://www.bwtf.com/toyreviews/movie2007/dreadwing/Another one I thought I'd hate and ended up loving, definite shades of Vehicon with that one, some elements of the admittedly superior (But damnit, he's one of the best TFs ever) Deluxe Jetstorm. The elbows and waist suck, I like what they did with the triangular look of the robot and the movable ears give him lots of personality, with the opening claws showing they cared more than they did with the horrible Armada Thrust toy (A mangling of a solid design). Overcast looks better, the jet mode's still really cool, and I dig the way it pops apart to reveal the VTOL turbine.
The vehicle sculpt is lazy and boring, slight deviations making it look almost silly, and then has panel alignment problems. The colors sucked (Camshaft had better bot colors, but a fuggo alt mode deco), the head movement sucked (it should have telescoped up), the arms needed to be rethought, the lower legs didn't really get the job done right, and the torso didn't hold together for shit. The gimmick often ended up dislodging the torso completely as well (although as we would find out in the next movie a la Chromia, apparently that shit doesn't matter, TFs are just a loose collection of parts that can do anything). There was a vaguely good idea buried somewhere DEEP in the evolution of this one, but the execution left it all behind.Needed a hand weapon, elbows were a bit wonky, head took some effort to turn acceptably. Camshaft got more points from me than Swindle for being more visually interesting, though the paintwork was sloppy. Door kibble worked better pointing down, and yeah, dig the transformation. Also liked the gimmick working in both modes, much better execution than many other gimmicks in the same line.
I did, I kinda liked him when everybody was hating on him for pop-off parts, but I wouldn't recommend him without heavy reservations, he's an interesting toy but between all the panel folding and the giant plunger sticking out his back, he's got issues. The plunger is so frustrating, if they had made it fold down somehow he'd be way cool. His camera head is so much better realized than Dreadwing or Swindle too.Did you get Payload? That was one with great ideas and bad joint tolerances letting them down, still waiting on that redeco..
"A nightmare to get clipped back on", really? The whole thing behaves as I'd expect a quality deluxe to, I don't have the fears you do either. I'll give you that he's somewhat hampered in pose by various issues, but overall he's a big tank that turns into a big robot, and delivers a real bad guy to go against Leader Prime. When I look at my TFs, I think of them as a larger universe, and Leader Brawl looks like a true Decepticon baddy should, big, dangerous, well-armed, and transforms into something mean.He grew on me a lot over time, I still don't get your love for him though. That transformation ONLY works in vehicle-to-robot, those leg panels are a nightmare to get clipped back on, and I hate cramming the arms into his sides, feels like something will give and it's just a matter of time. Too many sprung parts in robot mode, things are hanging on by friction rather than locking in place. Those panels in the backs of the legs nullify most poses, there's not enough range in the arms or ankles to do a lot with him, and the head's blocked by the treads. He was a solid effort and much more akin to Prime than Megatron, I am very glad to be able to cite him as proof that the Super price point can churn out good toys that aren't Primes.
And as for the treads blocking the head, yeah, the deluxe has it too. We just accept sometimes there's silly stupid shit in TFs, not unlike giant wings hanging off forearms on Dreadwing.
At least Brawl's treads by his head can move and act as armor. AHM Megatron could have learned something from that. 
I don't really "love" him, it's just that he's the only Leader-class Decepticon worth a damn so he's the top of the heap, and he's also the best large tank-bot we've ever gotten (sorry Armada Megatron, maybe if you weren't a lazy H-tank I might have been kinder).
