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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 29, 2024 19:38:12 GMT
Why would Ramhorn want Blaster's head?? -Ralph So Titanmaster Ramhorn could take it's place on Blaster's body..... or is that not allowed? |
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 29, 2024 19:57:15 GMT
No, Phil, no.
-Ralph
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Post by Toph on Feb 29, 2024 20:21:59 GMT
I mean that is the central gimmick of the titanmasters. And the original headmasters they're based on!
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 29, 2024 22:41:00 GMT
Disgusting.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 1, 2024 8:58:58 GMT
Headmasters are not for swapping!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 1, 2024 9:44:15 GMT
Oh yes they are. The tech spec meters prove that as they're powered by the individual tabs on the Headmasters and reveal what stats whichever head gives the toy
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Post by Toph on Mar 1, 2024 9:45:57 GMT
And the Titanmasters specifically give whoever they're attached to new powers, like minicons.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 1, 2024 10:52:32 GMT
Oh yes they are. The tech spec meters prove that as they're powered by the individual tabs on the Headmasters and reveal what stats whichever head gives the toy Nonsense. -Ralph |
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Mar 1, 2024 21:27:09 GMT
It's a play feature. Embrace play features, Ralph.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 1, 2024 22:14:27 GMT
It was never advertised as such on the toy packaging or comics back in the day.
-Ralph
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Post by Benn on Mar 1, 2024 22:40:30 GMT
It is with the Titans Return toys though.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 1, 2024 23:04:27 GMT
Correct!
-Ralph
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Post by Toph on Mar 1, 2024 23:28:43 GMT
So then you shouldn't have had issue with me stating Ramhorn could rip off Blaster's head and pilot him!
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Post by Llama God on Mar 2, 2024 9:34:25 GMT
It was never advertised as such on the toy packaging or comics back in the day. They're shown to do it in the Japanese Headmasters cartoon. |
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 2, 2024 9:45:13 GMT
It was never advertised as such on the toy packaging or comics back in the day. They're shown to do it in the Japanese Headmasters cartoon. Funnily enough, those cartoons weren't shown in the UK when I was a kid. Nor were UK children aware they existed. -Ralph |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 2, 2024 11:15:22 GMT
Yes, but most kids weren't oddly puritanical about their transformers accessories and would swap them around as part of the play pattern, thus Headmasters, Targetmasters and Powermasters would often have different partners than the ones they were packaged with.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 2, 2024 15:22:09 GMT
Honestly, none of us at school/peer group did. It never occured to us, perhaps because none of us had more than one Master.
I had one Targetmaster (Crosshairs) and one Headmaster (Hardhead). Didn't have a Powermaster.
-Ralph
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Post by Jim on Mar 2, 2024 16:28:23 GMT
I was fortunate enough to have multiple Powermasters (Slapdash, OP, Doubledealer) but I didn't swap the engines around because even as a kid I just thought it didn't look good, the colours clashed too much. Same with any weapon where it's distinctively coloured.
So I think had I been lucky enough to own more than one Headmaster (and boy did I want to have even just one so, so much!) it's unlikely I'd have done much swapping. _Maybe_ if I'd had some story going on in my playing where a Decepticon steals an Autobot's body or something like that.
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Post by Benn on Mar 2, 2024 16:44:53 GMT
I had Mindwipe and Hosehead, and it always made my laugh at how silly Mindwipe looked with Hosehead's tiny head on him.
I agree they look better with the right heads and engines and whatnot, but I did swap them around too.
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Post by that_bluestreak on Mar 2, 2024 23:09:38 GMT
Of course, in the TFUK comic it is implied that nebulons / heads can headmasterise any headmaster, unless it was just something that Lug and Playback could do.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 2, 2024 23:34:58 GMT
PinwigSpoiler in post 1 updated with all the remaining Legacy United mainline product numbers
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 3, 2024 6:28:45 GMT
Of course, in the TFUK comic it is implied that nebulons / heads can headmasterise any headmaster, unless it was just something that Lug and Playback could do. Playback was dead. Dunno if it would have worked if he'd still been alive. With Fortress Maximus, Galen had to transfer is control helmet to Spike before Spike could interface with Fortress Maximus. So if you put Hardhead's head on Highbrow's body, would it imply Duros got Gort's control helmet? Powermasters... it was originally just about the Nebulan providing energy to the robot from food consumed. Hi-Test and Throttle had no problem putting that energy into the reanimated Starscream at the end of 'Race With the Devil'. But then in the Furman era the Powermaster process evolved into something else, with Prime's mind ending up in Hi-Q after the Unicron war. That suggests something unique about the pairing. Targetmasters? Dunno. Guess you just have to hold the gun and point it at the enemy. Doesn't matter who's inside the gun. Martin |
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Post by Benn on Mar 3, 2024 9:13:36 GMT
Maybe Spike only needed the helmet because he hadn't had any of the enhancements. Duros would be fine to take over Fort Max, although I imagine because they weren't Binary Bonded it wouldn't be as good a working connection. There'd be a fair amount of mental static on the line, as it were. But it'd work in an emergency.
If you look at 'The Last Autobot', maybe the helmet is only needed for remote control?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 3, 2024 21:37:20 GMT
*Ponders where Phil's going to put this when he wields the big thread chopper* Phil's got his chopper out and made a new thread. I think we have an existing one on the same theme somewhere but I can't find it |
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 3, 2024 22:22:55 GMT
I don't like it when Phil whips his chopper out.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 3, 2024 22:51:01 GMT
It does keep things interesting.
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Post by Shockprowl on Mar 3, 2024 23:08:58 GMT
I wonder if he's had it insured.
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