G1 Victory Leo didnt.
He the expection to the rule along with GaoGaiGar!
He used to look like Optimus Prime before he got turned into a lion so in a roundabout way it still worksG1 Victory Leo didnt.
It's the one iteration of the TR Blurr mold I missed out on, and I bitterly regret it...Maybe not, but I have always liked it
You mean like this?
About as much as my remote work looks like work, which... it'll do!
I mean yeah, it'd be nice to get an even further tweaked SS86 Arcee (or an all-new mold, sure) that has the Headmaster functionality (there IS an open seat there). But this was a pretty neat release.
OR they could have some fun with it and base it on the Chromedome redeco concept from the Generations mook...
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Yes. It does. About as much as any other update. Between the colours, the head/face sculpt, the car fronts behind her shoulders, the white point deco on her chest, and the futuristic car spoiler...thing... yeah.... reads as Arcee to me.
I suppose they could take ER Arcee or SS '86 Arcee and reverse engineer a Titan Master port into it, but I have a feeling the proportions would be off. Meanwhile the TR version exists if anyone absolutely must have a Headmaster Arcee.
I really liked ER Arcee's head sculpt. Meanwhile I preferred SS '86 Arcee aside from the head. So I swapped them. I feel like I got there in spirit 
They changed the lore for Titans Return to make it so the heads were little robots instead of humans in robots suits, which is probably why Daniel became Leinad.
And then IDW just went "actually they're just Japanese style small robots with Transtector bodies."
Seems no one wants to touch the implication of humans and humanoids bending like that.
I miss Nebulans. They make the Masters so much better, because they give them built in story and character conflict. Bob wrote some great little personalities for those guys and not much got done with them ever.
I want a story about the Nebulan quarters on Scorponok's ship and the Steelhaven. Just slice of life stuff from the point of view of a dozen or so "humans" living on a ship of giant robots that they are bonded to.
-ZacWilliam, I think it's more likely they've been left out of modern stuff because they require you to set up Nebulos and explain their race and then explain them bonding to tfs and if you have limited story space it's easier to skip all that.
I want a story about the Nebulan quarters on Scorponok's ship and the Steelhaven. Just slice of life stuff from the point of view of a dozen or so "humans" living on a ship of giant robots that they are bonded to.
-ZacWilliam, I think it's more likely they've been left out of modern stuff because they require you to set up Nebulos and explain their race and then explain them bonding to tfs and if you have limited story space it's easier to skip all that.
That and, as someone who has dabbled in fiction writing, it effectively DOUBLES the number of characters you have to deal with. For every Head, Target and Powermaster, you have to account for TWO characters.
That's a LOT to juggle with the already hefty cast loads most Transformers fiction deals with.
I think the tone of more serious character-driven storytelling would conflict too much with the inherently doofy gimmick. It also adds extra hoops to jump through when any interesting character interactions could be achieved more or less with just the Transformers. "Hahahaha The head and body don't get along" is good for maybe one or two stories, then just becomes cumbersome or another character quirk.
Plus, it never really made much sense. I just can't imagine that having a smaller person be your handgun (or engine, or head, or whatever) would improve your combat abilities.