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Hasbro and Takara populated the first two years of the globally successful Transformers toy line with moulds previously used in Takaras Diaclone and Micro Change Series lines, as well as drafting in moulds with Takatoku, Toybox and Toyco origins as well. For 1986, the year of the Transformers animated movie, we got our first Transformers-only toys and sculpts with a much more futuristic aesthetic. Post-movie, we had season 3 of the cartoon and then the 3-part finale to the animated show called Rebirth or season 4. It was through this 3-part show (not to mention the Marvel Transformers Comics) that Hasbro promoted their new gimmick-driven Transformers known as Headmasters and Targetmasters. This week we look at the four standard-sized non-base Autobot Headmasters Brainstorm, Chromedome, Hardhead and Highbrow. The titanic Fortress Maximus will be saved for a future chapter.

http://tfsource.com/blog/1987-autobot-headmasters/



All the best
Maz

The only one of these I owned was Chromedome. I always thought his vehicle mode had the look of something Doc Brown from 'Back to the Future' would build.

Another knock-out, fantastic article.

Had Brainstorm and Highbrow as a kid, I remember trading a friend some, gosh, I don't even remember what for them. Still have those two, gave Brainstorm some fresh Reprolabels a couple years back, need to do the same for Highbrow. Picking up Hardhead and Chromedome was a fun time when I went back and finished up G1. Looking forward to a follow-up with the Decepticons, maybe? They're some of my absolute favorite G1 Transformers.

ScottyP wrote:Another knock-out, fantastic article.

This

As usual, when it comes to archive historical TF trivia, Maz delivers!

Thank you so much for the kind words, guys! This was so much fun to do. Next week Targetmasters

All the best
Maz

Excellent read. Hardhead was the only one I had as a kid, and I really regret getting rid of him a few years ago. The Classics/Universe version is okay, but not the same.
I'd love to see Hasbro redo Highbrow, Hardhead and Chromedome as proper Headmasters just like they did for Brainstorm.

I had Highbrow. In 1987, my friends and I had this grand plan to make a stop motion film called "Transformers The Movie 2" using the toys from the 1987 line. A rich friend of mine already had most of the toys, but I got Highbrow & Fortress Maximus. We dug up a small portion of his backyard for landscaping, but unfortunately we never made the film. Silly kids and our ideas. -I never really wanted Highbrow, but once I had him, I thought of the 4 designs, he was pretty cool. Brainstorm was my favorite, but another one of my friends already had him.