o.supreme wrote:Dr. Caelus wrote:I never saw the Headmasters cartoon, so for another $160 I need more justification in my mind...
ER Scorponok is actually modeled more after the one seen in the Sunbow animated "The Rebirth", rather than the Japanese Headmasters series. Though the Deluxe Robot head is modeled after the Japanese Scorponok, and the tiny Titan Master Lord Zarak, which is kind of a cool amalgamation.
You know what's funny?
Titan class Scorponok is the second Titan to have coincidentally, unintentionally, taken a concept for a Titan first introduced in Beast Wars: Uprising and put it into toy form.
The first was Titan class Trypticon, having had its battle station mode replaced with a spaceship mode that still maintained Trypticon's traditional design. While Aligned Trypticon was the first version of the character to get turned into the Nemesis, that version of him was designed to have his ship mode actually resemble the Nemesis, while in BWU, the design of Trypticon's ship mode still looked like Trypticon himself; it just bore the name of "Dinosaur" instead of "Nemesis", in honor of the Predacon ship from Beast Wars Neo.
And as for Scorponok, it was Beast Wars: Uprising that first gave him the same "Double-Headmaster" configuration as Fort Max, which his Titan toy now also has. Though, with BWU having an unorthodox policy of trying to avoid name repetition (with Megatron and Rampage being the exceptions, since Predacon Megatron named himself after the ancient Decepticon leader, while Rampage just doesn't care that he's using the same name as the ancient Decepticon tiger), the name "Scorponok" went to the BW Predacon so G1 Scorponok instead used his Japanese name "MegaZarak", and was a lifeless superweapon controlled by the middle-sized head robot, a Decepticon saboteur named "Zarak", while the little Headmaster was a Nebulon named Fausto Borx, who binary-bonded with Zarak to also jointly control MegaZarak with him. Though, at some later point, Borx was replaced as Zarak's binary-bonded Headmaster by a Cyberdroid named Dante (as well as another Cyberdroid named Caliburn, who became Zarak's new Powermaster, augmenting his power even further).
In a way, Hasbro inadvertently made toys of the BWU versions of Trypticon and
Scorponok MegaZarak a reality.
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