The Energon Pub

News Credits: 60 · by **fenrir72** » Mon Jun 27, 2016 6:27 am

http://beam.to/goktimus

Never realized how this guy (together with Shoji Kawamori) has contributed to our wallets bleeding since our high school years :lol:

(The engineering appreciation component of our hobby that is.

News Credits: 402 · by **Mkall** » Mon Jun 27, 2016 10:20 am

That was pretty cool. Thanks for sharing!

News Credits: 60 · by **fenrir72** » Mon Jun 27, 2016 5:19 pm

One in particular that will strike the readers. Original G1 Fortmax was almost a pipe dream. Too bad that I can no longer link to another source I read but it was "O.K."'s boss in Takara who encouraged him to proceed with Fortmax.

It was a verrrrryyyyyyyy risky project back then to create the world's biggest robot toy at that time. Risky as in how the recent Fortmax has a lot of re-used parts (20% by my estimates).

Website · by **RK_Striker_JK_5** » Mon Jun 27, 2016 5:23 pm

Thanks for that, fenrir. A nice little slice of history.

News Credits: 41 · by **Cobotron** » Mon Jun 27, 2016 7:36 pm

Super cool to read, Fen! Thanks for posting it.

This also confirms my suspicion that Head Masters was a Takara originated concept. A question and hunch that has been on my mind for a while.

;)^

News Credits: 60 · by **fenrir72** » Tue Jun 28, 2016 4:34 am

Cobotron wrote:Super cool to read, Fen! Thanks for posting it.

This also confirms my suspicion that Head Masters was a Takara originated concept. A question and hunch that has been on my mind for a while.

Thanks y'all. Glad to share a bit of trivia.

And the inspiration was an old Super Robot anime by Go Nagai....Kotetsu Jeeg/Jeeg the Steel Robot in some english dubs.