'I' On Malaysia

Having spent three months on their own, Leaders Megatron and Bulkhead have at long last been joined by the only other Leader class figure from the Animated series that has been announced so far – Ultra Magnus.  This now paves the way for repaints though, as if you couldn’t have already guessed as much, unless new molds are created for characters in the (as yet unconfirmed) third season of the cartoons…

More advanced deliveries came my way this week with Animated Leader Class Bulkhead and Megatron coming in from Singapore.  Having seen the loose Bulkhead leader during my last visit and being asked to pay much higher than retail price for it, I figured I’d wait a few weeks to get a boxed version at retail price.  In the end, it took less than 2 weeks to get them and they didn’t come from one of the specialist toy shops – they came from Takashimaya, one of the big department stores there, even beating Toys’R'Us to the punch.

The ongoing re-releases continue as we head in to the final few waves of Movie related Transformers (at least for the next 12 months at least) as ‘Premium’ Optimus Prime and ‘Premium’ Megatron arrive.

Checking out Prime first, the Premium line hasn’t done much for him.

Last up and largest of the gang is Deep Desert Brawl.

Do Decepticons like the desert or something?  Desert Blackout, Deep Desert Brawl, Scorponok burrowed in to a desert somewhere…

Thankfully, Brawl looks a heck of a lot better after his transition to the desert and practically looks like an Army soldier dressed up in camouflage.  With the exception of the now mandatory blue spots of paint which are supposed to have been inherited from the last remnants of the Allspark destroyed in the movie.  Leader Brawl looks as good as ever though looking as big and menacing as the Devastator character in the movie so if you liked or missed out on ‘Decepticon Brawl’, then pick up a Deep Desert Brawl and you won’t be disappointed.