>>11143399Robot modes. It's interesting that Scourge is a Decepticon, but Bruticus is a Predacon; also, Bruticus has a purple Cyber planet Key, which is cool - all the other toys I've picked up from the Cybertron line have green ones (except for the botcon Weirdwolf I have, who uses the Snarl/Fang Wolf mold and includesd an orange Key).
I knew going in on these two from asking here beforehand that the robot mode articulation was going to be...lacking, but thought the beast modes were worth the purchase. Sure enough, due to the way the shoulders and hands transform, they're stuck in the 'gorilla arm' pose - while their elbows rotate, their wrists don't, and since the wrists are positioned sideways for some reason, your options are to turn the forearms so they bend inward towards their torsos to make them hold their axes facing forward, or turn the forearms so the wrists face outward if they want to bend their elbows in a natural direction. Such a weird design choice.
I've decided that I like using the three-headed gimmick on Bruticus more than on Scourge - not just because his electronics still work, but also because he's apparently some alternate version of RID Bruticus, who turned into Cerberus as his alt-mode (his colors are a direct reference to the RID toy as well).
They're both big and look awesome, but I don't see myself playing around with their robot modes too much due to the wonky arms - I'm more than happy to keep at least Bruticus in his beast mode so he can terrorize my other bots as a slobbering, three-headed guard-dragon, in any case.
