@Qwan: The thing about Titans Return is it has a strict standardized design for the Headmaster partners, and in G1 Spasma and Krunk were anything
but standard thanks to forming the robot and beast mode heads. Spasma had his robot face on the back of his legs (where Titan Masters have a protruding spur and two hollows that act as connection points for seating them), and Krunk had his hip joints at his torso and his pelvis as his connector. If they wanted to keep that, they'd have to wait 'til
after Titans Return when they would thus be free from that stricture - that could be what he meant with that comment. There's also what Kurona said about priority, so he could have been talking about fitting in Apeface priority-wise.
@Stuartmaximus: Kirk, Rodney, and Loafer lacked the benefit of an animal form that provided a handy starting point for the vehicle. Also, we at least got Nightbeat and Siren as Titan Masters (which all the '88 Headmasters were relegated to because the '86-'87 cast had priority). Hosehead, I'll grant you.
Skritz wrote:ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Galvatron was never retooled into anything, but he's a loooooot more important and popular of a character than the Horrorcons. Apeface and Snapdragon's triple-changing head gimmick (and the resulting nonstandard designs) would not have played nice with the "One Titan Master fits all" nature of the line, and even if you through that out they would have been annoying - not difficult, just annoying - to do as modern figures while being faithful to their designs. The original toys were a bit clunky, Apeface and his two separate sets of limbs especially. So I'm guessing that between that and their relative lack of popularity (which would tend to translate into a lack of sales) Hasbro just didn't want to bother.
Couldn't they have just engineered them with non-Headmaster beastmode heads?
Well that and my gut tell me a dragon and ape would have sold way better than poor Broadside, who is shelf-warming to an absurd degree at least around my place.
Yes, they could have. I mentioned that possibility even. Although I said "through" instead of "threw"
Even with non-Headmaster beast mode heads bringing them up to modern standards would be annoying. I didn't say difficult, I didn't say impossible, I said
annoying. There's also what Kurona said about the Triple Changers being higher-priority for Hasbro.
Also, Snapdragon's beast mode is T. Rex, not a dragon.
Saved me a larger bill at BBTS because of having to buy two other figures with Sluggy. (Though I hate to do that to BBTS as they have been so very good to me...)
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