Y'know that's probably why, as a beast wars kid, that aspect of the franchise has always been very low priority to me
It took me several tries to get into Victory.
I watched and enjoyed it but it was definitely a slog at first.
I like tokusatsu, maybe that’s why I was so taken with Masterforce.
Sari's case is basically like if a Maximal protoform scanned a human for their alt mode instead of an animal.
Yeah, same on both accounts. Masterforce is easily my favorite of the Japanese series, but I am also a big Toku/Sentai fan.
Wait, what if that's why we never see 'modern' Pretenders in the main line? They keep remaking Rumble, and Rumble cracked all their shells...
Victory starts out run-of-the-mill in a way that feels like a deliberate soft reboot. They stripped out the gimmicks (aside from how gimmicky the toys are, which the show liked to ignore outside transformation sequences anyway) and went back to basics. The Autobots and Decepticons are back to just fighting over energy, and the Decepticons aren't led by some poorly explained space thing like JG1 otherwise loved.
I always rank Masterforce as easily the best of the Japanese shows. It's bright and fun has good animation and characters that all have fun personalities and interact in fun ways and the story develops and goes somewhere. It feels kinda like if a TF show was also a GI Joe show. I wish all three of the shows were Masterforce.
I have Victory but I've never made it all the way through, the early episodes feel very cliche "kids anime." I do mean to finish it someday.
Headmasters on the other hand I've watched all of. it is very flat as a whole. Very little personality in any of the new characters, weak animation, and the story is overall both dull and meandering.
-ZacWilliam, I wish Headmasters had the writing of Masterforce but those characters are in desperate need of personality.
I have Victory but I've never made it all the way through, the early episodes feel very cliche "kids anime." I do mean to finish it someday.
Headmasters on the other hand I've watched all of. it is very flat as a whole. Very little personality in any of the new characters, weak animation, and the story is overall both dull and meandering.
-ZacWilliam, I wish Headmasters had the writing of Masterforce but those characters are in desperate need of personality.
The only thing I dislike about Masterforce (and I'm using the term 'dislike' very loosely here since it is my fave JG1 series and my fave Transformers series overall) is that the whole setting of the series feels very incongruent with the previous shows. Like Headmasters was obviously very clearly set in the then-future of the 21st century since it was continuing from season 3 of the original American cartoon (the whole 'season 3 is set in 2010 in Japan vs 2005/2006 in the US' thing aside, that doesn't really matter here) but Masterforce feels like it was set in the then-contemporary times of the late 1980s.
Also yeah gotta agree with the stuff about Headmasters. It's a complete boring slog of a show. I'd say it's better than The Rebirth but that's not really high praise because being 'better' just means 'Well at least they weren't trying to cram an entire year's worth of toy reveals into three stinking episodes and also AKOM didn't animate it'. At least the Omni dub is fun and Omni dub Galvatron is my internal Galvatron voice.
Also yeah gotta agree with the stuff about Headmasters. It's a complete boring slog of a show. I'd say it's better than The Rebirth but that's not really high praise because being 'better' just means 'Well at least they weren't trying to cram an entire year's worth of toy reveals into three stinking episodes and also AKOM didn't animate it'. At least the Omni dub is fun and Omni dub Galvatron is my internal Galvatron voice.
There's usually been a decent track record of characters on the box art showing up as toys in relatively short order.
That said, I don't think there's been any rumours of Acid Storm to this point...?
That said, I don't think there's been any rumours of Acid Storm to this point...?
We're rumored to get rereleases of the coneheads, so they might push more redecoes out while they have the mold and factories prepped.
Glad to get them any way we can, although I want that Earthrise packaging.
Wonder if that sky camo Ramjet is a possibility. It'd be one more custom to retire, but it'd be neat.
Wonder if that sky camo Ramjet is a possibility. It'd be one more custom to retire, but it'd be neat.
I believe that was my motivation for watching it, I wanted to see the season 3 cast in new adventures and I lost interest soon after they left, the second time I watched it was because of IDW's MTMTE and I wanted to see the headmasters animated even if they were different characters and it was enough for me to finish it.