Manga for Takara LGEX exclusive Titan Master set

Like on the show.

Well that was surreal.

Emerje

I have no idea what's going on...but I love it!

Black Hat wrote:I have no idea what's going on...but I love it!

Took the words right outta my mouth.

It looks like the Headmasters' Nebulan counterparts seized their transtectors to fight Scorponok/Zarak.

Keep in mind, The Rebirth did eventually get dubbed in Japanese, but was treated as separate from the main Japanese continuity, complete with its maintaining the American theme song opening sequence.

It looks like the Brainstorm, Chromedome, and Hardhead that come in the Headmasters Set are actually the Nebulans Arcana, Stylor, and Duros from The Rebirth. Could we be looking at how Nebulans came to be in the Japanese G1 universe as they were mentioned to exist in the Nucleon Quest Super Convoy bio?

Cyberpath wrote:It looks like the Headmasters' Nebulan counterparts seized their transtectors to fight Scorponok/Zarak.

So what happened to the living autobot headmasters then? Time to call UM to sold the Mystery!

fenrir72 wrote:

Cyberpath wrote:It looks like the Headmasters' Nebulan counterparts seized their transtectors to fight Scorponok/Zarak.

So what happened to the living autobot headmasters then? Time to call UM to sold the Mystery!

They are there, sneak attacked by their Nebulan doublegangers. And teaming-up with them later to defeat Scorponok.

That what it looks like to me.

Cyberpath wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:

Cyberpath wrote:It looks like the Headmasters' Nebulan counterparts seized their transtectors to fight Scorponok/Zarak.

So what happened to the living autobot headmasters then? Time to call UM to sold the Mystery!

They are there, sneak attacked by their Nebulan doublegangers. And teaming-up with them later to defeat Scorponok.

That what it looks like to me.

I think fenrir was asking about the full-sized Autobot Headmasters from The Rebirth. If their Nebulan partners are here, what happened to the big guys? Are they all stuck in vehicle mode now, being headless and such?

Sabrblade wrote:I think fenrir was asking about the full-sized Autobot Headmasters from The Rebirth. If their Nebulan partners are here, what happened to the big guys? Are they all stuck in vehicle mode now, being headless and such?

They probably are!

Sabrblade wrote:

Cyberpath wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:

Cyberpath wrote:It looks like the Headmasters' Nebulan counterparts seized their transtectors to fight Scorponok/Zarak.

So what happened to the living autobot headmasters then? Time to call UM to sold the Mystery!

They are there, sneak attacked by their Nebulan doublegangers. And teaming-up with them later to defeat Scorponok.

That what it looks like to me.

I think fenrir was asking about the full-sized Autobot Headmasters from The Rebirth. If their Nebulan partners are here, what happened to the big guys? Are they all stuck in vehicle mode now, being headless and such?

You read my mind. Were they left in the American G1 universe then?

Huh, looks like Grimock ended up working at the same maid cafe Windblade and Cab (a guy in drag) are working at, owned by BWII Starscream. How the mighty have fallen... I like how the Crashbash body works for him.

It looks like Brawn, Grimlock and Flywheels have found the Hive City... which Flywheels thinks it's a shopping center (or it's posing as one) Note how it's not named "Scorponok" upon transformation, but "Gigantic Machine Scorpion"

The Neublan and the JP Headmaster interaction in the manga is a neat call back to how the Headmasters worked in the US cartoon, with the partner in a cockpit. It's more of a reversal of the norm in that the Nebulans control the whole body and the Headmasters are in the cockpit this time!

Also neat is that Grimlock and Brawn get their original vehicle models via their redecos Butler/Batora and Synapse! What's more, the combined modes are called "Two-In-One", the Japanese name for the Duocons! Flywheels gets nothing, ironically. We also learn a consequence of using Batora's capture mode: you're stuck like that every time it happens

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:and Cab (a guy in drag)

Oh Sakamoto you rascal.

I was wondering if anyone has any idea if Takara is still selling it's Cloud toys cheap at show as it has in the past - I was wondering if they might have some at Wonderfest ?

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Huh, looks like Grimock ended up working at the same maid cafe Windblade and Cab (a guy in drag) are working at, owned by BWII Starscream. How the mighty have fallen... I like how the Crashbash body works for him.

It looks like Brawn, Grimlock and Flywheels have found the Hive City... which Flywheels thinks it's a shopping center (or it's posing as one) Note how it's not named "Scorponok" upon transformation, but "Gigantic Machine Scorpion"

The Neublan and the JP Headmaster interaction in the manga is a neat call back to how the Headmasters worked in the US cartoon, with the partner in a cockpit. It's more of a reversal of the norm in that the Nebulans control the whole body and the Headmasters are in the cockpit this time!

Also neat is that Grimlock and Brawn get their original vehicle models via their redecos Butler/Batora and Synapse! What's more, the combined modes are called "Two-In-One", the Japanese name for the Duocons! Flywheels gets nothing, ironically. We also learn a consequence of using Batora's capture mode: you're stuck like that every time it happens

Even in Re-birth, the system was kind of the same except that the vehicles were sentient and that the Headmasters were organic while Takara's were pure cybertronian.

Coming to you from Wonderfest all the way from Japan is images of Godbomber! Wonderfest is a trade show similar to toy fair which showcases new toys soon to be on the market in Japan. Twitter users Diver and Chromless have posted some pictures of what Godbomber will look like, and the combined form of Godginrai (with Super Ginrai). Check them out!

Choujin Gattai!

Godbomber is HUGE!!!!!!!

Gotta admit, it is making me wonder where the heck Godbomber was in those TR Boxsets when it would have made sense with Magnus Prime and it was consistently rumoured. Would've liked it a heck of a lot more than I-am-totally-quickswitch-and-not-bad-extremely-loose-redeco
Maybe they changed their plans half the way through?

The Wonderfest 2017 juggernaut just keeps on rolling, with the next set of figures up for images. Here we have the LG-EX headmaster set, which is comprised of 6 Hasbro Titans Return Titan Master figures in Takara legends coloring, so that way if you own a legends figure, you can actually swap heads with appropriate colors! The set is comprised of: Brainstorm, Hardhead, Chromedome, Flywheels, Gong (AKA Brawn), and Grimlock. You can check out the images below courtesy of Twitter users いたっちょ＠PSO2_Ship1, たごーる, and トランスフォーマー情報局!

Wow, I did not expect Godbomber to be so big.

Maybe that's why is TR self is no longer in that one box set. Maybe he's big enough they had to qualify him as a leader class and he'll be in a 3rd box set!

The reason why Ginrai had those funky feat. May can't come soon enough!

Would be nice to get the takara headmasters individually.

These look really nice, alot better than the lazy no paint hasbro ones

may cant come soon enough!
im a little concerned about his wings being too high and too short though

TFPhotoguy wrote:Would be nice to get the takara headmasters individually.

These look really nice, alot better than the lazy no paint hasbro ones

The 2 new ones Hasbro revealed today are pretty amazing!

william-james88 wrote:

TFPhotoguy wrote:Would be nice to get the takara headmasters individually.

These look really nice, alot better than the lazy no paint hasbro ones

The 2 new ones Hasbro revealed today are pretty amazing!

Who are those two Hasbro commissioned Takara to make? The one on the right I am assuming is Thunderwing. The one on the left looks like Hotrod or Rodimus.

fenrir72 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

TFPhotoguy wrote:Would be nice to get the takara headmasters individually.

These look really nice, alot better than the lazy no paint hasbro ones

The 2 new ones Hasbro revealed today are pretty amazing!

Who are those two Hasbro commissioned Takara to make? The one on the right I am assuming is Thunderwing. The one on the left looks like Hotrod or Rodimus.

Rodimus Prime and Thunderwing. They come as heads only in the speed and strength Titans return sets. Rodimus was confirmed to have diecast. Thunderwing maybe

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

TFPhotoguy wrote:Would be nice to get the takara headmasters individually.

These look really nice, alot better than the lazy no paint hasbro ones

The 2 new ones Hasbro revealed today are pretty amazing!

Who are those two Hasbro commissioned Takara to make? The one on the right I am assuming is Thunderwing. The one on the left looks like Hotrod or Rodimus.

Rodimus Prime and Thunderwing. They come as heads only in the speed and strength Titans return sets. Rodimus was confirmed to have diecast. Thunderwing maybe

Wild conjecture on Rodimus. Is it possible to have a Takara vehicle/ body for him too? Even Thunderwing using the Skyshadow mold? Takara please please? So long as it ain't a Mall exclusive.

That God Bomber is something else. May can't come soon enough!

Magnus Prime looks good but I really don't like the Godbomber stuff at all.

Rodimus Prime head looks cool but what body would you put it on?
Don't like the Thunderwing face much. But still their robot modes are nicely painted.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:Magnus Prime looks good but I really don't like the Godbomber stuff at all.

Rodimus Prime head looks cool but what body would you put it on?
Don't like the Thunderwing face much. But still their robot modes are nicely painted.

Well... given that their only difference in animation was ever their head design, probably Hot Rod.

In any case, think you've got the wrong thread friend

Kurona wrote:

Carnivius_Prime wrote:Magnus Prime looks good but I really don't like the Godbomber stuff at all.

Rodimus Prime head looks cool but what body would you put it on?
Don't like the Thunderwing face much. But still their robot modes are nicely painted.

Well... given that their only difference in animation was ever their head design, probably Hot Rod.

In any case, think you've got the wrong thread friend

What do you mean? The Hot Rod body isn't Rodimus Prime.

And why wrong thread? :O

Carnivius_Prime wrote:

Kurona wrote:

Carnivius_Prime wrote:Magnus Prime looks good but I really don't like the Godbomber stuff at all.

Rodimus Prime head looks cool but what body would you put it on?
Don't like the Thunderwing face much. But still their robot modes are nicely painted.

Well... given that their only difference in animation was ever their head design, probably Hot Rod.

In any case, think you've got the wrong thread friend

What do you mean? The Hot Rod body isn't Rodimus Prime.

And why wrong thread? :O

In both the cartoon and Marvel, Hot Rod and Rodimus had no discernible differences between their bodies other than Rodimus having slightly darker shades of colour, more lines on his face and sometimes he was taller. So the Hot Rod body... does work as Rodimus if you really want it to.

And that'd be 'cos all the stuff you mentioned aside from Godbomber were Hasbro reveals last night, not Takara

Kurona wrote:In both the cartoon and Marvel, Hot Rod and Rodimus had no discernible differences between their bodies other than Rodimus having slightly darker shades of colour, more lines on his face and sometimes he was taller. So the Hot Rod body... does work as Rodimus if you really want it to.

And that'd be 'cos all the stuff you mentioned aside from Godbomber were Hasbro reveals last night, not Takara

Titans Hot Rod works fine as Hot Rod but doesn't have the size/stature of Rodimus Prime who should be Voyager class in comparison to the HR toy and scale with other figures of similar rank and power like Voyager Megatron, Galvatron, Optimus Prime. And plus the alt-mode is vastly different. A full Rodimus Prime voyager figure by either Hasbro or Takara could be awesome. He's never really had a successful & affordable one of that form.

And I was responding to the image posted in this thread just a few posts above.

Was this it for Wonderfest? If so that's incredibly disappointing. Takara hasn't shown a thing for the legends series besides the headmasters set for months. I really thought they were just saving stuff for this convention.

steals_your_goats wrote:Was this it for Wonderfest? If so that's incredibly disappointing. Takara hasn't shown a thing for the legends series besides the headmasters set for months. I really thought they were just saving stuff for this convention.

The whole Transformers booth was not that big, admittedly, and they focused a lot on Godbomber, the TLK stuff, and then general showcases from the MP line and Prime 1 Studio. Maybe Legends is reaching towards its end, to make space for the movie year? Maybe a hiatus? I dunno, I'm just saying words.

Va'al wrote:

steals_your_goats wrote:Was this it for Wonderfest? If so that's incredibly disappointing. Takara hasn't shown a thing for the legends series besides the headmasters set for months. I really thought they were just saving stuff for this convention.

The whole Transformers booth was not that big, admittedly, and they focused a lot on Godbomber, the TLK stuff, and then general showcases from the MP line and Prime 1 Studio. Maybe Legends is reaching towards its end, to make space for the movie year? Maybe a hiatus? I dunno, I'm just saying words.

It's entirely possible that legends is ending. Disappointing if the case but at least I can order Sixshot now and quit waiting on Takara so I don't miss out entirely.

Quickswitch not Greatshot? Please Takara! Maybe Christmas 2017?

After all the stuff bought in 2016 I wouldn't mind a short hiatus.

Looking forward to the clones though.

Can Sixshot transform without removing the Titan Master?

Cyberpath wrote:After all the stuff bought in 2016 I wouldn't mind a short hiatus.

Looking forward to the clones though.

Can Sixshot transform without removing the Titan Master?

He can indeed, though if I recall correctly not removing the Titan Master somehow interferes with the Wolf mode.

Cyberpath wrote:Can Sixshot transform without removing the Titan Master?

Yes.

Cool! I might replace my "G1" brick sometime.

Leader class is a good size too, since he was Skyfire-kind of tall in Rebirth. (He could also scale down like Megatron in gun-mode. Shame he doesn't come with a mini-me gun. )

Kurona wrote:

Cyberpath wrote:After all the stuff bought in 2016 I wouldn't mind a short hiatus.

Looking forward to the clones though.

Can Sixshot transform without removing the Titan Master?

He can indeed, though if I recall correctly not removing the Titan Master somehow interferes with the Wolf mode.

There is a hole in the wolf head right behind the ears. The titan master, in head mode, is supposed to lodge right in there. If you keep the titan master in the helmet for transformation, there will be a hole in the wolf mode neck

Cyberpath wrote:After all the stuff bought in 2016 I wouldn't mind a short hiatus.

Looking forward to the clones though.

Can Sixshot transform without removing the Titan Master?

Yes! Get him bro'/ Aside from the lack of ratchets on the knees, he's a great fig! Or maybe wait for the Takara version

Va'al wrote:

steals_your_goats wrote:Was this it for Wonderfest? If so that's incredibly disappointing. Takara hasn't shown a thing for the legends series besides the headmasters set for months. I really thought they were just saving stuff for this convention.

The whole Transformers booth was not that big, admittedly, and they focused a lot on Godbomber, the TLK stuff, and then general showcases from the MP line and Prime 1 Studio. Maybe Legends is reaching towards its end, to make space for the movie year? Maybe a hiatus? I dunno, I'm just saying words.

Words are very unnecessary, they can only do harm. I can see Takara taking a break for the movie line, then coming back with their versions of the Wave 3 and 4 figures.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

Va'al wrote:

steals_your_goats wrote:Was this it for Wonderfest? If so that's incredibly disappointing. Takara hasn't shown a thing for the legends series besides the headmasters set for months. I really thought they were just saving stuff for this convention.

The whole Transformers booth was not that big, admittedly, and they focused a lot on Godbomber, the TLK stuff, and then general showcases from the MP line and Prime 1 Studio. Maybe Legends is reaching towards its end, to make space for the movie year? Maybe a hiatus? I dunno, I'm just saying words.

Words are very unnecessary, they can only do harm. I can see Takara taking a break for the movie line, then coming back with their versions of the Wave 3 and 4 figures.

That's very strange to me. Is there precedence for this sort of thing happening? I know there's quite a few figures they've originally skipped, but the bulk of a main line like this kept on hold for so long?

Kurona wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

Va'al wrote:

steals_your_goats wrote:Was this it for Wonderfest? If so that's incredibly disappointing. Takara hasn't shown a thing for the legends series besides the headmasters set for months. I really thought they were just saving stuff for this convention.

The whole Transformers booth was not that big, admittedly, and they focused a lot on Godbomber, the TLK stuff, and then general showcases from the MP line and Prime 1 Studio. Maybe Legends is reaching towards its end, to make space for the movie year? Maybe a hiatus? I dunno, I'm just saying words.

Words are very unnecessary, they can only do harm. I can see Takara taking a break for the movie line, then coming back with their versions of the Wave 3 and 4 figures.

That's very strange to me. Is there precedence for this sort of thing happening? I know there's quite a few figures they've originally skipped, but the bulk of a main line like this kept on hold for so long?

Honestly, I don't remember. I know Animated was held off because retailers wanted more movie toys. Thinking like Takara, outside of Sixshot they might feel the Headmaster line is done since most of the major characters have been released.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

Kurona wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

Va'al wrote:

steals_your_goats wrote:Was this it for Wonderfest? If so that's incredibly disappointing. Takara hasn't shown a thing for the legends series besides the headmasters set for months. I really thought they were just saving stuff for this convention.

The whole Transformers booth was not that big, admittedly, and they focused a lot on Godbomber, the TLK stuff, and then general showcases from the MP line and Prime 1 Studio. Maybe Legends is reaching towards its end, to make space for the movie year? Maybe a hiatus? I dunno, I'm just saying words.

Words are very unnecessary, they can only do harm. I can see Takara taking a break for the movie line, then coming back with their versions of the Wave 3 and 4 figures.

That's very strange to me. Is there precedence for this sort of thing happening? I know there's quite a few figures they've originally skipped, but the bulk of a main line like this kept on hold for so long?

Honestly, I don't remember. I know Animated was held off because retailers wanted more movie toys. Thinking like Takara, outside of Sixshot they might feel the Headmaster line is done since most of the major characters have been released.

I suppose... though also it would be odd of them to release Astrotrain and Blurr without giving us Blitzwing, Octane, Hot Rod and Kup. Those are a few pretty significant sets.

Kurona wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

Kurona wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

Va'al wrote:

steals_your_goats wrote:Was this it for Wonderfest? If so that's incredibly disappointing. Takara hasn't shown a thing for the legends series besides the headmasters set for months. I really thought they were just saving stuff for this convention.

The whole Transformers booth was not that big, admittedly, and they focused a lot on Godbomber, the TLK stuff, and then general showcases from the MP line and Prime 1 Studio. Maybe Legends is reaching towards its end, to make space for the movie year? Maybe a hiatus? I dunno, I'm just saying words.

Words are very unnecessary, they can only do harm. I can see Takara taking a break for the movie line, then coming back with their versions of the Wave 3 and 4 figures.

That's very strange to me. Is there precedence for this sort of thing happening? I know there's quite a few figures they've originally skipped, but the bulk of a main line like this kept on hold for so long?

Honestly, I don't remember. I know Animated was held off because retailers wanted more movie toys. Thinking like Takara, outside of Sixshot they might feel the Headmaster line is done since most of the major characters have been released.

I suppose... though also it would be odd of them to release Astrotrain and Blurr without giving us Blitzwing, Octane, Hot Rod and Kup. Those are a few pretty significant sets.

Yes, but I also think it was odd of them to release the non-classic Headmasters.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

Kurona wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

Kurona wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

Va'al wrote:

steals_your_goats wrote:Was this it for Wonderfest? If so that's incredibly disappointing. Takara hasn't shown a thing for the legends series besides the headmasters set for months. I really thought they were just saving stuff for this convention.

The whole Transformers booth was not that big, admittedly, and they focused a lot on Godbomber, the TLK stuff, and then general showcases from the MP line and Prime 1 Studio. Maybe Legends is reaching towards its end, to make space for the movie year? Maybe a hiatus? I dunno, I'm just saying words.

Words are very unnecessary, they can only do harm. I can see Takara taking a break for the movie line, then coming back with their versions of the Wave 3 and 4 figures.

That's very strange to me. Is there precedence for this sort of thing happening? I know there's quite a few figures they've originally skipped, but the bulk of a main line like this kept on hold for so long?

Honestly, I don't remember. I know Animated was held off because retailers wanted more movie toys. Thinking like Takara, outside of Sixshot they might feel the Headmaster line is done since most of the major characters have been released.

I suppose... though also it would be odd of them to release Astrotrain and Blurr without giving us Blitzwing, Octane, Hot Rod and Kup. Those are a few pretty significant sets.

Yes, but I also think it was odd of them to release the non-classic Headmasters.

Not necessarily - after all, these are major characters. They released Optimus Maximus and Sky Reign just fine and even added their own new Combiners-out-of-previously-non-combining-characters into the mix, so they seem pretty easy-going on gimmicks being added like that.