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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 11, 2015 7:35:08 GMT
Which depiction of the Headmasters concept is the best?
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jul 11, 2015 8:10:30 GMT
I voted for Bob Budiansky's Headmasters mini-series which I thought were great, but I'd have struggled to decide which way to vote if you'd included an option for Earth humans as per the Masterforce cartoon series, which was equally good. Anyway, one way or the other, for me it's got to be a human-robot merger of some kind, showing the evolution of a new kind of life-form coming from the convergence of two very different types of living being.
I don't know what the IDW story is as I haven't read it. I vaguely remember seeing a bit of it ages ago in Maximum Dinobots.
Martin
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 11, 2015 9:06:16 GMT
I had completely forgotten the Masteforce Headmasters!
Since only Martin and I voted I've reset the poll with an extra option.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 11, 2015 9:09:49 GMT
I've gone for Headmasters Japanese cartoon. I liked the Budinsky series but the ideas in the Headmasters cartoon always grabbed me.
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Post by Benn on Jul 11, 2015 11:25:36 GMT
As a toyline, the Headmasters series made more sense. Small, weak robots overcoming a planets harsh environment by making bigger stronger bodies they could control? Done. That's cool.
But as a stotyline, the IDW Sunstreaker/Hunter (SunHunter?) was looking to be really impressive, and we could focus on the motivations and drawbackas as well as the upsides of Headmaster technology. Shame it got so cut off.
And no mention of Animated's Henry Masterson? "OWNAGE! TOTAL OWNAGE!"
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jul 11, 2015 12:07:06 GMT
Argh! All right, I've still gone with Marvel, but it was a tough call. The Junior Headmasters also made for a good story.
Martin
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 11, 2015 12:20:29 GMT
I've gone for Headmasters Japanese cartoon. I liked the Budinsky series but the ideas in the Headmasters cartoon always grabbed me. Same here. It's a tough call when you have to pick one, but the fact that the Japanese Headmasters series kept the smaller robots as Transformers wins out. I'm not saying there aren't better ways to approach that concept, and the Marvel mini-series has more depth to it in terms of characters, but there's something fundamentally off about the way that Fort Max sacrificed his crew to becoming controlled by Nebulans just to survive. It stopped them being Transformers, they effectively became exosuits for an alien race, despite the idea that the intelligences should meld when combined. Shouldn't there be a ladybird option for this?  |
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Post by legios on Jul 11, 2015 13:44:19 GMT
For me it has to be the Masterforce version - it made the most mileage out of it in terms of building it into the overall mythology of the show and gave us characters who I feel did more in terms of developing over the course of the run.
Karl
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jul 14, 2015 22:49:08 GMT
This poll is positively teeming with options not unlike ourselves! *Duros shocked expression*
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Post by Shockprowl on Jul 15, 2015 0:19:03 GMT
I've gone for Marvel comic, but I never really 'got' Headmasters, even though I like many of the characters. Headmasters are itchy.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 15, 2015 11:54:41 GMT
Marvel comic. It's bonkers but made sense when I was 10. I rarely associate Masterforce with the HM idea.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 18, 2015 22:26:33 GMT
Marvel Comic.
Narrowly edged out the green roid-monsters of The Rebirth!
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 18, 2015 22:32:07 GMT
I am shocked that you did not vote with The Rebirth in this matter. Who are you?
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 19, 2015 21:21:31 GMT
More daftness in Marvel, had there been more than 3 episodes of the Sunbow Nebulans I would have voted for them!
Andy
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Post by chrisl on Jul 23, 2015 10:34:41 GMT
As I don't really think of the Headmaster Jnrs from Masterforce as being Headmasters in the same sense as the regular Headmasters, I'll vote for the Japanese Headmasters approach as it is the only one that made sense to me. I've hated The Rebirth since I was a child, and the Marvel Comics did nothing for me.
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Post by Toph on Jul 24, 2015 12:37:48 GMT
Western concept of Nebulons is far far more unique and interesting to me.
Japanese took the easy and most boring way out. And their evolutions of the concept (explaining the powermasters in a similar way) just plain fails to make any sense.
My vote goes for Marvel. Though I think IDW was the best in depth look into the concept.
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Post by Benn on Aug 13, 2015 16:01:03 GMT
Marvel never really explored it enough for me. The UK text stuff and 'Worlds Apart' tried to, but was hampered by the size of the cast.
By focusing on just one pairing (we never really saw what Dante/Scorponok was going through) we got a bit closer to seeing what that procedure could do to an individual.
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