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News Credits: 8 · Sat Feb 06, 2010 4:02 pm

That pretty cool but not for $18. Ill just keep my headmasters in alt mode.

News Credits: 3 · Sat Feb 06, 2010 4:35 pm

Interesting, hopefully in making these they get practice to make a sweet headmaster head for RoTF Mindwipe. :twisted:

News Credits: 1082 · Sat Feb 06, 2010 6:24 pm

This is AWESOME! And the card is classic, and does indeed picture the 'Snake' head being used for other things, like attacking Indiana Jones...

I really hope they continue with this. Sure official one would be excellent, but this is a really cool thing too.

I'm hoping for all the rest. I still need to get Shuffler (The elephant) from the original animals ultra rare white versions as well (these were official).

I hope they make some alternate colors, just for fun, and to sort of match existing mold colors that could have lost their 'head'.

Sat Feb 06, 2010 6:25 pm

I think its a great idea. I don't own any headless headmasters but, I still like the idea. Now they need to do generic guns for Targetmasters!

News Credits: 3 · Sat Feb 06, 2010 7:01 pm

Shadowstream wrote:This has to be one of the most obscurest marketing angles I have ever heard of in my entire life.

I'm not so sure about that. I mean, I've been wanting Hasbro to come out with new Headmasters for so long I can't really remember not wanting it. (This is part of why I was as happy as I was about U2.0 Targetmaster Cyclonus.) Maybe you don't hear about it so much, but for some reason I don't feel like I'm alone here...

mechabooks wrote:I think its a great idea. I don't own any headless headmasters but, I still like the idea.

The fact that I don't have one either is the only reason I'd consider passing on this. I think I might just get it anyway, even if only to show Hasbro I'm interested in new Headmaster figures.

mechabooks wrote:Now they need to do generic guns for Targetmasters!

Ditto. Unlike with the Snake figure, I actually have a need for such a figure. My G1 Kup (the one I've needed the weapon for forever) isn't the Targetmaster version, but the G1 Blurr I have is. I don't mind a generic third-party Targetmaster weapon...

News Credits: 8 · Sun Feb 07, 2010 12:46 am

ShGarland_1383 wrote:
Shadowstream wrote:This has to be one of the most obscurest marketing angles I have ever heard of in my entire life.

I'm not so sure about that. I mean, I've been wanting Hasbro to come out with new Headmasters for so long I can't really remember not wanting it. (This is part of why I was as happy as I was about U2.0 Targetmaster Cyclonus.) Maybe you don't hear about it so much, but for some reason I don't feel like I'm alone here...

mechabooks wrote:I think its a great idea. I don't own any headless headmasters but, I still like the idea.

The fact that I don't have one either is the only reason I'd consider passing on this. I think I might just get it anyway, even if only to show Hasbro I'm interested in new Headmaster figures.

mechabooks wrote:Now they need to do generic guns for Targetmasters!

Ditto. Unlike with the Snake figure, I actually have a need for such a figure. My G1 Kup (the one I've needed the weapon for forever) isn't the Targetmaster version, but the G1 Blurr I have is. I don't mind a generic third-party Targetmaster weapon...

Add me to the camp that is surprised the Generic Targetmaster hasn't been done yet too. Especfially since Hasbro has standardized now on a peg hole, or close to it anyway, ANYONE could buy them, or a very minor retool, not jsut people wanting to replace the G1 gunless dudes.

I gotta admit, I do like the Cobra head, but I was confused as to why Cobra until I read up. I like it, and might be something fun to have next to Soundwave and Autoscout. (Another fig I wanted to pickup. Strupid economy)

News Credits: 3 · Wed Feb 10, 2010 11:54 pm

We thought this would mainly be sold in Japan where we grew up watching the Japanese Headmasters so it was a little surprising at least some American and European people liked it.

Yes, the design probably makes more sense if you know the story behind it but we had to remove the info from the site

We do have more of these that are ready for production but we are going to change gears on our next release and go for something a little more general

Anyways, new pictures are up of the head on different bodies:

http://headrobots.com/?p=208

Thu Feb 11, 2010 12:53 am

The cobra mode is not so bad but the head....meh

News Credits: 104 · Thu Feb 11, 2010 8:27 am

Makes me glad all my headmasters have heads.

Thu Feb 11, 2010 6:50 pm

All of my Headmasters have their heads, but I would still pick up one of these. I think its a cool idea and I don't think the figure looks all that awful either.