Brutus stood out to me immediately within the first trailer for Skeleton crew and I used to be delighted to see all of the pics of the Brutus costume at D23. I’ve an ideal love for the wolf-man within the Star Wars Cantina, so I used to be excited to see them convey again that species for a brand new present. I hoped he would get a determine, which isn’t the positive factor it was again within the day, so I used to be very happy that he made the reduce. Let’s check out Pirate Captain Brutus!
The field has some good artwork of Brutus on the facet and again, however no biographical data for him, simply the PR blurb for the sequence. I suppose I’ll wait one other couple of weeks for more information. I’m nonetheless getting used to the brand new bins for the road, however it’s much less of a drastic change for Black Sequence than G.I. Joe and Marvel Legends. I feel the left facet of the field is just a little plain and when wanting on the pegs, I’d like some extra figuring out data on that facet.
The equipment are 5 completely different blasters that go into 5 holsters on Brutus’ particular person. The great factor about these blasters is all of them have just a little little bit of paint to convey out the main points, which is form of uncommon for this line.
Brutus wears three blasters throughout his chest that calls to thoughts one other pirate captain, the notorious Edward Educate AKA Blackbeard. The principle nonetheless from Skeleton Crew reveals off how Brutus wears on the weapons on his chest and these weapons match these and slot in these spots on the determine. I wasn’t positive concerning the final two weapons, however the bigger pistol match completely in the suitable holster and the tiniest gun match completely in the suitable holster.
The gun design does that Star Wars factor the place they take a real-world gun and greeblie it up a bit to make it completely different. I’ve seen some dialogue that the weapons are just a little too real-world, however I feel they’re simply as modified from their real-world counterparts as say Han’s DL-44 is from a broomhandle Mauser, however we’re simply far more accustomed to pirate weapons than we had been with WWII weapons once we had been children.
I’m actually impressed with the sculpting on Brutus, particularly the textures in all of the completely different supplies of the costume. The face is fairly dead-on to what I’ve seen up to now for Brutus, however the hair is just a little fuller right here than what they confirmed at D23. It’s nearer to the one scene I’ve seen him within the trailers and stills, so I’m not involved. I feel they might have gone just a little wilder with the tooth dimension.
The paint is sweet and I particularly like the best way they’ve weathered the sleeves and the ends of the coat. I feel his face might use just a little drybrush to convey out that element and I want the eyes popped a bit extra. Perhaps a brighter purple and a gloss coat would assist make them stand out as they virtually glow purple within the transient scenes we’ve seen. One thing I didn’t discover till reviewing close-up images is that the purple dot for the attention overlaps one in every of his decrease eyelids.
Articulation is sweet for Black Sequence. They’ve slowly chipped away at what their commonplace is over time, however what they do strikes fairly properly. I feel the slight swivel you get from the ball and socket hips is slighter right here than on different latest figures with that piss-poor model of a thigh swivel. I do want the ankle hinged ahead just a little greater than it does to facilitate crouches a bit higher. There’s a skinny shirt overlay that goes over the shoulders, so whereas you may get fairly full vary of movement, if the arm lifts too excessive it can raise the shirt. The cape can also be fairly versatile and pretty skinny whereas holding element. Brutus has:
- Swivel/hinge shoulders, elbows, hips, elbows, and ankles
- Ball and socket decrease neck, head, waist, wrists
- Hinged butterfly pectorals
Total it is a good determine with a bit greater than the standard variety of paint hits you see on Black Sequence. I feel they did job capturing what appealed to me about this character’s look within the trailer. It’s all the time just a little harmful to get too connected to a personality for a brand new factor based mostly on their look in a trailer. They might be utterly lame within the present, however on the very least I can all the time add them to my Cantina alien group.
