Something I wasn't aware of when I wrote about
Brunt
was that his design had been based on the Centurion droids from the IDW
comics, as a massive improvement on the crummy,
seemingly Fantasy-influenced design of the green, dome-headed droids from the G1 cartoon. It
seemed only logical, then, that a repaint should be in the works, since the
figure seemed to be very much geared toward those who like to build
armies of identical figures, like the
Vehicons
from TransFormers Prime.
Leave it to Hasbro, then, to re-release the figure only as part of a
limited edition boxed set, along with a set of accessories missing from their
individual toys. And, typically, it was long sold out by the time
Hasbro Pulse reached the UK.
Since Brunt was - for my money - about the best toy in the entire
Siege line, I was keen to get hold of the repaint, even if
troop-building was out of the question (had been desirable to me in the first
place, which it... wasn't... honest). The set was re-released by Takara Tomy earlier this
year, but that set was equally hard to find. Thankfully, the repaint figure
was the only part of the boxed set that I wanted, so I figured it was only a
matter of time before someone put it up on eBay having bought the set for the
accessories. Back over the summer, that's exactly what happened, so I snapped him up.
