ZeroWolf wrote:Sabrblade wrote:AllNewSuperRobot wrote:No show has been designed to look like Sunbow really.
Aside from Transformers: The Headmasters.
I have to wonder if things would be any different if that had been imported to America
My gut says no but would be fun to think about
I really wish Hasbro would have worked a deal to have the then current voice cast dub the Headmasters series at the time in 1987. My guess is that importing the finished animation and dubbing 39 episodes would have been not much more cost (perhaps even less?) than commissioning AKOM to animate 3 last episodes as "The Rebirth".
I would have loved it as a kid, so would my peers as we were all into other anime shows like Star Blazers, Battle of the Planets Voltron etc... and this fits that aesthetic. Also, the ending of Headmasters was much more satisfying, and definitive than The Rebirth. Even if Hasbro opted not to bring over Masterforce and Victory because of its wildly different tone, and too many non US toy characters (unless they would have brought them all over?) It would have been much better. Honestly it took us kids until *whenever* in 1988 that Transformers stopped airing Monday-Friday in syndication, and went to Sunday mornings with that Prime puppet before the reality set in that no new episodes would ever be made.
Admittedly overall it would probably have been looked at by the fandom as the season where "quality dropped off immensely", even more so than season 3 although that is objectively untrue. Personally I think the animation quality of Headmasters is far better than anything AKOM ever did. The stories would definitely need some messaging, and hey we would have had a domestic Raiden toy so sounds like another win
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I've stated this several times. Headmasters-Victory are for ME the definitive seasons 4-6 of what started with the Marvel/Sunbow show. For years I wished Hasbro would return to this universe, but it seems they never will. The Devastation Video Game is probably the closest thing we will ever get. Also, since we have lost so many more talented members of that original cast in the past few years, I no longer what Hasbro to make the attempt. I've given up, time and indifference have lost the battle. Still I have the original 6 seasons,
and TF:TM I can still watch anytime I wish.
Bucket/Want List: Botcon 2016 Customization Class Ratchet (G2 Deco), or Customization Class Ratchet (Marvel Comics Deco) **would also be willing to pay for an Unpainted Botcon 2016 Ratchet, TT Legends Fortress Head (only) with working Electronics
Wish List of Modern Combiners: Road Caesar, Monstructor & Dinoking (proper size to fiction), Landcross, Guard City, Battle Gaia, & G2 Defensor. Wish List of Titans:Metrotitan,Majin Zarak