Takara Tomy Transformers Legends Hardhead: New Image With Box, Headmaster Confirmed as Title
Wednesday, July 20th, 2016 5:36PM CDT
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Posted by Kurona on July 20th, 2016 @ 5:48pm CDT
In any case I'm adoring that retro packaging, especially with how the Headmaster is shown off in it's own little corner
Posted by Tigertrack on July 20th, 2016 @ 7:48pm CDT
Posted by Randomhero on July 20th, 2016 @ 8:30pm CDT
Kurona wrote:Not particularly surprising; Takara loved adhering to the past and I'm not actually sure why Hasbro renamed them Titan Masters anywho.
In any case I'm adoring that retro packaging, especially with how the Headmaster is shown off in it's own little corner
They already stated that all masters themed figures starting now will be called Titan masters. That includes headmasters, target masters and possibly even power masters IF they do that. And like I said somewhere else, who cares. You'll call it whatever you want when you have it.
Posted by william-james88 on July 20th, 2016 @ 8:38pm CDT
Randomhero wrote:Kurona wrote:Not particularly surprising; Takara loved adhering to the past and I'm not actually sure why Hasbro renamed them Titan Masters anywho.
In any case I'm adoring that retro packaging, especially with how the Headmaster is shown off in it's own little corner
They already stated that all masters themed figures starting now will be called Titan masters. That includes headmasters, target masters and possibly even power masters IF they do that. And like I said somewhere else, who cares. You'll call it whatever you want when you have it.
Only Hasbro stated that, not Takara.
Posted by Randomhero on July 20th, 2016 @ 8:45pm CDT
This toy is out in like a couple weeks and we're just now seeing the packaging and finding out theyre using the name "headmaster" and whos surprised? It's takara
Posted by william-james88 on July 20th, 2016 @ 8:52pm CDT
Randomhero wrote:This toy is out in like a couple weeks and we're just now seeing the packaging and finding out theyre using the name "headmaster" and whos surprised? It's takara
No, they revealed the packaging a month and a half ago at tokyo toy show http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/ ... age/35585/
They reveal their figures at shows, just like Hasbro does.
Posted by Randomhero on July 20th, 2016 @ 9:11pm CDT
Then again it's getting ridiculous now over here with the leaked blueprints and color schematics that are getting leake now. I still have a laugh thinking about all the people who claimed fortress Maximus was a fake. Yup, he's looking pretty good on my coffee table right now.
Posted by Kurona on July 20th, 2016 @ 9:21pm CDT
Randomhero wrote:Kurona wrote:Not particularly surprising; Takara loved adhering to the past and I'm not actually sure why Hasbro renamed them Titan Masters anywho.
In any case I'm adoring that retro packaging, especially with how the Headmaster is shown off in it's own little corner
They already stated that all masters themed figures starting now will be called Titan masters. That includes headmasters, target masters and possibly even power masters IF they do that. And like I said somewhere else, who cares. You'll call it whatever you want when you have it.
Yeah but there's no targetmasters or powermasters in this toyline so far despite characters who would have them - Blurr, Scourge, Triggerhappy, Powermaster Optimus Prime - being the ones that would have them, so it seems a bit pointless.
And I'm not exactly complaining, I'm just confused over the decision.
Posted by Randomhero on July 20th, 2016 @ 9:35pm CDT
Kurona wrote:Randomhero wrote:Kurona wrote:Not particularly surprising; Takara loved adhering to the past and I'm not actually sure why Hasbro renamed them Titan Masters anywho.
In any case I'm adoring that retro packaging, especially with how the Headmaster is shown off in it's own little corner
They already stated that all masters themed figures starting now will be called Titan masters. That includes headmasters, target masters and possibly even power masters IF they do that. And like I said somewhere else, who cares. You'll call it whatever you want when you have it.
Yeah but there's no targetmasters or powermasters in this toyline so far despite characters who would have them - Blurr, Scourge, Triggerhappy, Powermaster Optimus Prime - being the ones that would have them, so it seems a bit pointless.
And I'm not exactly complaining, I'm just confused over the decision.
Yet. There's none of them yet. It's not off the table. If they're saying all -masters will be called Titan masters then it's entirely possible were getting other stuff too and who cares if certain target masters and PM prime are headmasters. There still plenty of other characters
We don't know what's coming after Titans return just like we didnt know what was coming after combiner wars. Honestly I don't want another gimmick. Powermasters might come it. Just as long as it's not pretenders
Posted by Sabrblade on July 20th, 2016 @ 9:57pm CDT
Sure there are. The Titan Masters' vehicles have Targetmaster-esque weapon modes that are wielded in hand by the larger Deluxe and Up figures.Kurona wrote:Yeah but there's no targetmasters
Posted by Agamemnon on July 20th, 2016 @ 10:35pm CDT
Sabrblade wrote:Sure there are. The Titan Masters' vehicles have Targetmaster-esque weapon modes that are wielded in hand by the larger Deluxe and Up figures.Kurona wrote:Yeah but there's no targetmasters
Indeed. And aren't the vehicles also reminiscent of Action Masters?
Posted by Kurona on July 20th, 2016 @ 10:37pm CDT
Sabrblade wrote:Sure there are. The Titan Masters' vehicles have Targetmaster-esque weapon modes that are wielded in hand by the larger Deluxe and Up figures.Kurona wrote:Yeah but there's no targetmasters
That's true, but those aren't exactly the Titan Master characters themselves, are they? They're just equipment.
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on July 20th, 2016 @ 11:07pm CDT
Kurona wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Sure there are. The Titan Masters' vehicles have Targetmaster-esque weapon modes that are wielded in hand by the larger Deluxe and Up figures.Kurona wrote:Yeah but there's no targetmasters
That's true, but those aren't exactly the Titan Master characters themselves, are they? They're just equipment.
To Hasbro, they're just vehicles. To TakaraTomy, they're sentient drones and as such they have names (Batra and Tankette). Think of them like Action Master partners, without the Action Master.
Posted by Cyberpath on July 21st, 2016 @ 1:54am CDT
Posted by Cyberpath on July 21st, 2016 @ 2:10am CDT
Posted by Professor Smooth on July 21st, 2016 @ 7:07am CDT
Posted by Burn on July 21st, 2016 @ 7:15am CDT
Professor Smooth wrote:I had high hopes for Takara's Legends version of PM Prime, but this is even better than I had dreamed.
Damn! So many little differences here and there which all come together to just make him that little bit better looking.
Definitely will be getting him.
Posted by Kurona on July 21st, 2016 @ 7:23am CDT
In other Legends news, fellow Seibertronian Cyberpath has shared with us a tweeted picture from Yuki of Hardhead singing Karaoke, along with a picture of his packaging, and of the latest Legends comic (number 37), which is a prologue to the comics found with the upcoming headmasters.
Posted by steals_your_goats on July 21st, 2016 @ 7:34am CDT
Posted by Sigma Magnus on July 21st, 2016 @ 7:50am CDT
Eventually.
Posted by Cyberpath on July 21st, 2016 @ 7:57am CDT
Posted by Sabrblade on July 21st, 2016 @ 7:59am CDT
Those feet might be due to a forthcoming Godbomber upgrade meant to attach to those feet to give him his God Ginrai boots.steals_your_goats wrote:I think he looks great all the way up until his feet. What the hell happened there?
Also:
HOLY SMOKING COW!!! That comic's set during the same year as the Grand Galvatron and Lynxmaster comics, ten years after The Headmasters cartoon, featuring characters from Masterforce alongside characters from The Headmasters, with little Headmaster Scorponok in his BlackZarak colors that were never seen in the show.
And it looks like we see how everyone got their Legends bodies, and how the non-Headmaster characters became Headmasters.
Posted by Sigma Magnus on July 21st, 2016 @ 8:04am CDT
...speaking of which, what the SHIZZLESNIT is taking them so long to show that off?
Posted by william-james88 on July 21st, 2016 @ 8:04am CDT
steals_your_goats wrote:I think he looks great all the way up until his feet. What the hell happened there? I'm definitely getting him though because I love the new cab and the other remolding and new guns are always a plus.
Yeah, dont get the feet either. Not a fan. But it is cool how this is pretty much its own major retool of the already exsting retool. I really like that cab.
Posted by Autobot N on July 21st, 2016 @ 8:07am CDT
Posted by william-james88 on July 21st, 2016 @ 8:08am CDT
Posted by Sabrblade on July 21st, 2016 @ 8:13am CDT
william-james88 wrote:Ok so the next time someone asks if it will be shown in the fiction or if any fiction covers non headmasters being headmasters, there is this.
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on July 21st, 2016 @ 8:13am CDT
Posted by RodimusConvoy13 on July 21st, 2016 @ 8:16am CDT
Sabrblade wrote:william-james88 wrote:Ok so the next time someone asks if it will be shown in the fiction or if any fiction covers non headmasters being headmasters, there is this.
Sorry, this is the original and one and only mic drop.
Posted by Big Grim on July 21st, 2016 @ 8:26am CDT
Posted by Sabrblade on July 21st, 2016 @ 8:28am CDT
Also, just like Sakamoto promised at BotCon.william-james88 wrote:Ok so the next time someone asks if it will be shown in the fiction or if any fiction covers non headmasters being headmasters, there is this.
Posted by william-james88 on July 21st, 2016 @ 8:28am CDT
Autobot N wrote:Meh. I'll wait for Perfect Effect's Godbomber.
WHy pay more, both Takara and Hasbro are doing one.
Posted by Kurona on July 21st, 2016 @ 8:32am CDT
It's goofy and dumb.
I love it.
Posted by william-james88 on July 21st, 2016 @ 8:33am CDT
Kurona wrote:Oh hey, there's a picture of the base mode now.
It's goofy and dumb.
I love it.
Yeah, its in your news post
Posted by SureShot18 on July 21st, 2016 @ 8:38am CDT
Posted by Kurona on July 21st, 2016 @ 8:38am CDT
It's sort of like Ginrai drove up and unfolded his trailer for a quick command base, sort of like how other versions of Optimus like the Armada guy would do so. I like it.
Posted by Dagon on July 21st, 2016 @ 8:41am CDT
RodimusConvoy13 wrote:Sabrblade wrote:william-james88 wrote:Ok so the next time someone asks if it will be shown in the fiction or if any fiction covers non headmasters being headmasters, there is this.
Sorry, this is the original and one and only mic drop.
I'm not sure that a response to a reasonable question is really the occasion for a mic drop.
Posted by Sabrblade on July 21st, 2016 @ 8:46am CDT
This is probably due to the original toy having the cab not involved in the base mode.Kurona wrote:Looking at it a bit more, I think it's actually my favourite base mode so far for one particular reason: the cab's left untouched and on the ground.
It's sort of like Ginrai drove up and unfolded his trailer for a quick command base, sort of like how other versions of Optimus like the Armada guy would do so. I like it.
Posted by Skull Grin on July 21st, 2016 @ 8:48am CDT
Posted by Kurona on July 21st, 2016 @ 8:50am CDT
Sabrblade wrote:This is probably due to the original toy having the cab not involved in the base mode.Kurona wrote:Looking at it a bit more, I think it's actually my favourite base mode so far for one particular reason: the cab's left untouched and on the ground.
It's sort of like Ginrai drove up and unfolded his trailer for a quick command base, sort of like how other versions of Optimus like the Armada guy would do so. I like it.
Really?
*looks at it again*
... oh, huh, you're right. Learn something new every day.
Posted by william-james88 on July 21st, 2016 @ 9:20am CDT
So... yay? I dont know, I feel going too G1 kinda ruins this for me. I mean, if I wanted the G1 toy, I would just buy that instead.
Posted by Autobot N on July 21st, 2016 @ 9:27am CDT
Because that would let me have Iron Apex in his robot mode (which I'm assuming he'll have one). Besides, Perfect Effect's will likely be better.william-james88 wrote:Autobot N wrote:Meh. I'll wait for Perfect Effect's Godbomber.
Why pay more, both Takara and Hasbro are doing one.
Posted by Dagon on July 21st, 2016 @ 9:51am CDT
william-james88 wrote:Autobot N wrote:Meh. I'll wait for Perfect Effect's Godbomber.
WHy pay more, both Takara and Hasbro are doing one.
God forbid someone spend their money on the toy they like, rather than the one someone else likes or thinks is sufficient.
Posted by Kurona on July 21st, 2016 @ 10:15am CDT
Dagon wrote:william-james88 wrote:Autobot N wrote:Meh. I'll wait for Perfect Effect's Godbomber.
WHy pay more, both Takara and Hasbro are doing one.
God forbid someone spend their money on the toy they like, rather than the one someone else likes or thinks is sufficient.
He's just making the person aware of alternative options
Posted by Autobot N on July 21st, 2016 @ 10:18am CDT
Yeah. While I had already made my decision on what to get, I completely understand what Will is saying.Kurona wrote:Dagon wrote:william-james88 wrote:Autobot N wrote:Meh. I'll wait for Perfect Effect's Godbomber.
WHy pay more, both Takara and Hasbro are doing one.
God forbid someone spend their money on the toy they like, rather than the one someone else likes or thinks is sufficient.
He's just making the person aware of alternative options
Posted by Tigertrack on July 21st, 2016 @ 10:26am CDT
Posted by Ultra Mad on July 21st, 2016 @ 10:28am CDT
Posted by Kurona on July 21st, 2016 @ 10:55am CDT
Posted by Tharag on July 21st, 2016 @ 11:19am CDT
I do like the improvements Takara made to the arm panels to give the hands full clearance, but otherwise I think I prefer the feet and chest on the on the Hasbro version. While in vehicle mode I do like Takara's more traditional cab, I think I prefer the color layout on Hasbro's trailer. I don't know... if I had the money I'd consider getting both and seeing if I could just kitbash them together to get the best of both worlds, but as is I'm just not entirely sold on either.