New Galleries: Car Robots Brave Maximus, Brave, and Plasma

2000, what a time.

Some thought the world was coming to an end while the new millennium was being ushered in, some embraced the fact that we were seeing the birth of new millennium, a new century and a new decade all in one moment at the strike of midnight that holiday season. All were milestones we were witness to, milestones that many generations can never lay claim to.

A time of change for everyone.

2000 was also a time of change and a rebirth on another level, it was the year that Takara (and one year later, Hasbro) decided it was time to take Transformers back to their roots and make them vehicles again.
Our mouths agape, our stomachs empty and hungry, our wallets open and our hopes at a fever pitch, the fandom gobbled up this new melding of Beast Wars era articulation with G1 alt mode design.

In the place of Maximals, we had Autobots again and with this revival they brought back the biggest of them all: Fortress Maximus! The biggest, most expensive US release getting another chance to live? Awesome! Finding out that he wasn't coming to the States? Not so awesome. ( )

Then we find out, it's Brave Maximus and we're thinking "Who?" Sure, we've heard of Fortress Maximus and his Headmaster partner, Cerebros (who was partnered with Spike!) and some of us had even heard of Grand Maximus, y'know, the one with a Pretender shell and the God Sword? Yeah, that guy. But...Brave Maximus? Whodat?!

Brave Maximus ended up being this really cool repaint (and my personal favorite) of the Maximus mold in a darkened cityscape color set. Vibrant red splashed across almost neon blue and all wrapped up in a murky nighttime blue, dotted with little dashes of yellow to emulate little windows with lights on. It ended up being quite the pretty picture!

This time, however, he came with Brave (in place of Cerebros) and Plasma (Spike's out of a job!) but this all came with a pretty steep price... No Gasket or Grommet (so no Cog!) and no weapons for Max himself (aside from what came installed on his body)

PLEASE NOTE: The guns and sword you'll see Max sporting in this gallery did not come with the Takara or Sonokong (South Korea) release of the figure. There have been contests in the past that did produce those weapons officially, but most Brave Maxes sporting the weaponry obtained them through reproduction services that made molds of the original weapons and copied them. Some of the swords came legitimately from the TRU Japan exclusive God Fire Convoy set. (Repro weapons... Does that make them the first 3rd party products? Hmm....)

Still, even with the cuts in place, the price tag made for Brave Maximus to be a solid value and a worthy addition to one's collection. It was nice to see such a large figure make a comeback and for collectors to be given a second chance to obtain (at that time) the largest Transformer and do so affordably.

Seibertron.com is proud to present our newest Transformers gallery: Car Robots Brave Maximus, Brave, and Plasma

Click on any of the images below to be taken to the full gallery so you can see this massive beast in all it's splendor:

Car Robots Brave Maximus
















Car Robots Brave






Car Robots Plasma



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