fenrir72 wrote:Related to that, were the original Headmasters Cyberdroids too like those guys involved before Mt.St. Hillary exploded? ( 6-turbo, 6-train etc)Cyberdroids are they technically not "Micromasters" until they can "transform"?
It seems safe to say that the Cybertronians who immigrated to Master were Cyberdroids, yes.
But they weren't Micromasters. Cyberdroids lacked the ability to transform. Micromaster, erm, I mean Micro Transformers, or, wait. There's a bit of confusion here.
See, in the Japanese continuity, what we knew as Micromasters in the West were at first known as "Micro Transformers" in Japan (yes, I'm aware of that name also briefly being used in the West at first before the "Micromasters" was finalized, but bear with me). Unlike in Western media, in which Micromasters were just small-sized TFs, the Micro Transformers of Japan were habitants of the planet Micro and were primarily all childlike in personality with cheery, happy-go-lucky attitudes and mindsets. Very few of them (most of which were non-toy characters) were depicted as being adult-like.
In 2003, Takara rereleased the Operation Combination toys (plus Sixliner and Landcross) under the the "Transformers: Micromaster" line, in which they were given new fiction that identified them as "Micromasters" in Japanese continuity, but with a different backstory from the "Micro Transformers" of 1989/1990. Here, these ones were depicted as having been Cyberdroids who were mutated into Micromasters and seemingly had ordinary personalities like the Western media depiction of Micromasters.
Eventually, the terms "Micro Transformer" and "Micromaster" in Japan came to be synonymous with each other over the years, and so now we have two different types of Micromasters in Japanese continuity. Childlike ones who are residents of Planet Micro, and presumably-non-childlike ones from Cybertron who used to be Cyberdroids.