TRANSFORMERS: THE BASICS on POWERMASTERS
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 พ.ค. 2022
- From Headmasters to Targetmasters, it's finally time to look at The Basics on the third, near-forgotten -Master gimmick: POWERMASTERS, and their Japanese counterparts, the GODMASTERS!
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I can still remember the day I stumbled upon Powermaster Optimus Prime in a toy store as a kid. My mom and I had stopped in to find something for my sister's birthday, and there he was - Optimus freakin' Prime. And he was a Powermaster?!?! All of this was new to me, and I was absolutely mesmerized by the box. I must have stood there for quite some time, because my mom laughed when she came back, and I was still staring at the same toy. I don't know what I'd done right at the time, but she gave in and got it for me. My Autobots finally had their leader, and that toy remains a favorite of mine to this day. I'll always love the Powermasters for that toy alone.
Are good that you found a transformer toy it makes you feel good
This is the best. Just another reason why Transformers are so amazing in so many ways.
Kind of the same thing happened to me. Didn't have the same level of attachment to my Powermaster Optimus Prime -- I'd really wanted and loved the original one, the way it transformed, but never talked my folks into buying me one before he was discontinued. But finally getting AN Optimus Prime was still a very, very fond childhood memory.
And with G1 rerelease toys, I finally own a G1 Optimus Prime, which makes me smile every time I see him on my display shelf.
Oh yeah. So much this.
I didnt get power mater optimus but i got double dealer as a gift for my birthday
I prefer the Powermasters concept. As Godmasters aren't actual Cybertronians, more like mecha. And I love the idea of a human partnering with a transformer to provide them with energy in an environment where energon might be scarce. It's nice that the human could actualy have a purpose in the partnership, and leads to lots of interesting ideas of withholding or boosting energy. Plus I like the image of a transformer trying to find food for it's human.
That “Chokon Power” obviously has potential for one of those juvenile jokes, you know the ones, “ligma”, “imagine dragon”, “candis”, those
The Masterforce concept seems more appealing to me. It's like super robots and henshin heroes come together in a transformers series.
I like that too, but I don’t like that they replaced Optimus Prime with a lookalike.
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I like Jinrai but yes, he should get a little bit of a Redesign
Appearntly,its time to make a playlist of the 1988 stuff:doubledealer-seacons-targetmasters-dreadwing-getaway-overlord-pretenders-quickswitch-spinister and now the power/godmasters
I always loved the God Master concept, humans becoming Transformers and having access to incredible powers.
I would love to see a video about the Brain Masters and the Breast Masters, it was a rare case where each faction had an exclusive gimmick group.
This actually an awsome subject to talk about,especially since ot comes to powermaster.I love the idea of transtectors and the fact that either wearing exosuit is a organic being and a small robost are the means by which these cybertronians are allowed to change into thier proper forms
minicons able do the energy absorbing because normal tranformer be unstable for a normal tranformers?
I'd never thought about it but you're right, it's the only gimmick that has never been revisited. We've had headmasters, target masters, pretenders but never have powermasters. I'd say the closest we came was in Cybertron with the planet keys that unlocked power ups. And even that is a stretch!
As a kid I viewed the powermasters as a kind of filter that allowed for a more pure energy for the transformers
I would argue the minicons are the new modern equivalent of this gimmick.
These days old Powermasters are reimagined as Headmasters. Recently, Doubledealer's buddies have been reimagined as casettes much like Soundwave's. I guess those two paths are the directions moving forward.
That, or Prime Masters.
@@rikajougasaki3296 good points however since in the case of headmasters the primary play factor was that the heads became pilots/drivers. Target masters, the guns became robots pretenders, a robot goes into a shell disguising the robot within. All have been duplicated.
Powermasters unlock the transformation. Has never been duplicated.
I would say that there has been one single exception...
Primus. In Cybertron you need that key thing to transform him. Closest thing other than cyber planet keys I can thing of to powermasters.
@@erubin100 similarly to cyber planet keys I mentioned, yes. They unlocked certain functions but they didn't unlock transformation which was the whole play pattern for this gimmick. As I mentioned in another comment there HAS been one comparable toy, Primus. Needs that key thing to unlock transformation.
Honestly I think what happened is so many parents probably complained after little Timmy broke his toy after loosing the powermaster (guilty!) That Hasbro pretty much scrapped the idea.
The Brain Masters and the Breast Master were neither revisited.
with ginrai being one of my personal favourite japanese media charactrs,i'm glad to see the powermasters get attention,the concept is so unique abd feels like something from powerrangers,i hope for ginrai to appear in american media
I prefer the Japanese late G1 lore to the Western take as well as stanning Ginrai. Dude's a 19 years old trucker who loves combing his hair, but then he finds some magic bracelets, his friends get merced, he starts a blood feud with the responsible parties, and vows vengance, as one does.
But before the year's out Ginrai's grown into a competent albeit cocksure leader inspiring his troops - including four Cybertronians possibly millions of years older than himself - to become much more than just the sum of their own parts, becomes a big brother/father figure to the Headmaster Jrs., learns mercy with Dealer's stay at Mountain Base, and even grieves the absolute loss of his opponents' humanity after the bittersweet victory in which he avenges his fallen friends.
Ginrai's character progresses and develops better than any other character in that show. By the end of Super God Masterforce (suppose Super Robot Sentai Life was a bit on the nose) I like to think there was a symbiosis between Ginrai's own spirit and some of the wisdom and personal traits of the transtector's intended spark via space magic.
I think Ginrai's had some intended spiritual successors like Kicker that egregiously miss the mark, but the combination of burning justice and fighting spirit tempered with mercy and compassion is unique in many ways. Ginrai feels like G1 Animation Rodimus "done right" imo, and I'd love to see a series of God Ginrai and the Masterforce and Headmasters casts set after the series and before Victory. God On!
The idea of the Powermasters themselves is an interesting one, kinda creating a sort-of symbiotic link between the transformers and humans that do add a bit more importance to the human partners in the series. It’s a shame the concept hasn’t been revisited in recent years.
Yes I would love nothing more than powermasters with modern engineering
I miss all this Masters subgroups, they were really fun and brought something new to the franchise in their momento, now Hasbro no longer takes risks with their products
It'd take DRASTIC decline in Transformers sales to push Hasbro to make DRASTIC risks. If Beast Wars didn't take off, Transformers would have ended a long time ago.
You always present such a complete picture of the aspect of Transformers that you're covering in each video. It's always quite an excellent source of information.
This my absolute favorite gimmick in Transformers. I know a lot of people don't like it. But whether it's Powermaster or Godmasters I absolutely love every part of this idea. The debut of Powermaster Optimus is my favorite comic of all time. With some of my favorite Transformers designs and characters (even if they are that real or significant)
I love the Power Masters. I have Getaway, Slapdash, Optimus and Overlord. They were my favourites of the 'masters' when I was little, even though we had no cartoon to go with them. I did have the comics though. Getaway's design is so cool. My biggest issue was the size of Optimus' head... It is huge compared to the rest of his body. Overlord was released later than the others- I got him with Motorvator Lightspeed - possibly the last of my Transformers toys when I was little before I got into TMNT.
The G2 Power Masters were only spelled with a space on English-only packaging (available in Australia and New Zealand). On both multilingual European packaging variants (which are arguably more common), they were definitely spelled "Powermasters" as a single word, just like the Cyberjets became "Mini-Jets" in Europe, the Laser Cycles became "Lasercycles", the Auto Rollers became "Autorollers", and the G2 Go-Bots became "Gobots".
i honestly prefer the japanese reimagining of this concept,it even give us one of the most unique and great characters,ginrai,i wish if we can get a genration selects ginrai (repaint and retool of the POTP optimus) or a haslab mold
You’ve made about 4 comments calm down
I liked the Japanese idea behind Headmasters better. However, I like the alternate energy source concept behind the American power masters. Given that a search for an energy source was always one of the primary story reasons for leaving Cybertron, it's an evolution that makes a lot of sense.
I think we already did cause we got the same thing with takara’s POTP
Yeah... Japanese kinda handled it a little better
@@electrobuster5483 yeah but that one was for star convoy
My "Robertverse" actually uses a version of the Godmaster concept whenever people are recruited as secret agents who undergo cybernetic surgery.
Except they're dubbed as "Eversphere" bracelets.
Crazy that Optimus was in powermaster mode for most of the comic. Loved his design though - made him look like a beast. Galvatron vs Powermaster OP would be an insane rematch (it did happen in time wars but galvs was loosing his mind at that point to be honest)
Interesting how the Godmaster engine is called an Iacon. That name also is applied to a city on Cybertron, the capital city of the Autobots.
I wasn't a huge collector, but I had a Doubledealer back in the day. I liked that toy a lot.
i always wondered what happens to the human powermasters when they connect with their robot partner
I loved Godmasters, that was so different in transformers lore that get me up to watch all the episodes back in 2014 when I found it in the internet
Powermaster Optimus Prime was my first ever transformers figure, when I turned 4 years old.
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Another GREAT TransFormers Video
The Masterforce approach makes more logical sense, but nostalgically I'll always love the Marvel comic (to this day my favorite TF continuity, only occasionally sharing the #1 spot with IDW1) and Powermaster Optimus Prime is still my all-time favorite design/body for him. What can I say, he rocks those red optics.
The toy looks like a lot of fun, but I cannot forgive it for introducing that faux-part chest, since seen on too many Prime toys. However, that does mean I prefer the super-robot form of Powermaster Prime, who incidentally is a good fit size-wise with Galvatron.
@@originaluddite It's not really a faux-chest since in the Masterforce animation he really does have the cab fron on his back and the chest that just looks like it.
@@ShinGallon yeah.
My one gripe with the masterforce models is they keep the engine on.
Basically having another weak spot
As a person who grew up with The Unicron Trilogy Transformers, I'm more fond of minicon gimmicks in Armada, the powerlinx gimmicks (for the autobots in Energon), hidden weapons (for the decepticons in Energon), and the cyber key gimmicks from Cybertron.
I'm not really a fan of either official take on powermasters but actually have my own headcannon/idea for powermasters.
Basically late into the war sometimes bots t-cogs would get damaged beyond repair and replacements wouldn't be available, so both the Autobots and Decepticons would run experiments to get around this, leading to the creation of 'powermasters'. A minicon who volunteered for the program would be bonded to a full-sized bot and when the minicon powered up the bot like usual the full-sized bot would also be able to use the minicons t-cog for themselves, allowing them to transform again.
That's just my own concept if they ever decided to bring them back though!
I've always been more a fan of organic partners. So while headmasters are pilots and targetmasters are tactical gunners, powermasters are engineers. I see them as managing the robot's energy distribution and other support systems.
They aren't actually any stronger or faster than a regular transformer, but they can seem that way as the partner is able to reroute power wherever it is needed most at any given time.
@@EmeralBookwise That’s actually a pretty cool idea! ^^
Unrelated but Optimus Prime leg from Bumblebee is on Chip N Dale rescue rangers.
The headcanon I have to keep both Western & Eastern versions of lore, along with the new names for things, has it like this: Targetmasters, Headmasters, & Godmasters are humans or other organic beings bonded to Transformers or Transtectors; Battlemasters, Titanmasters, and Powermasters are sub-groups of Minicons and are small robots that fulfill the same role.
The Marvel Comics gave another purpose for the Powermaster process in issue #68, and indirectly #75. Starscream notes that the fuel the TF's take on Earth is of lower quality than Cybertronian fuel. As a result they constantly operate of only a fraction of their normal levels. The powermaster process corrected this and more.
Not only can the powermaster exist on different types of fuel, but it's always converted into the optimal power source making the TF operate on maximum capacity and thus stronger and faster than a regular TF.
This is by far my most favourite episode ❤️ I absolutely love the Power master / God master form,they definitely need more love ❤️ now I wanna learn more about other masters: brain master, powered masters,etc
My favourite PowerMaster character is Optimus Prime, since I have the Transformers G1 reissue of Powermaster Optimus Prime (which a mould of Super Ginrai and came with God Bomber who is renamed and reimagined as a different character as Apex Bomber). :)
Vector Prime once stated that in some universes, Apex Bomber is an upgraded Roller.
"The engine is the key, that unlock their Transformer energy!"
- Powermaster Toy Commercial
Very informative! I love these guys, as Super-God Masterforce is probably my favorite of the G1 animes.
In my school vr game the Imagen order were trying to replicate the technology with the resources and research given by shattered glass science master iron cannon but ultimately when they got it completed the tech was destroyed by a scared siren tyseen from Borderlands 3 after she saw the character sattlespect goalius which fun fact the game says that sattleair was used as a science project genipig and was forced to bound with the siren astrlas but it back fired and caused the 2 be 1 which ultimately gave goalius a headache and was forced into stasis lock
I really wish they would bring back the concept of Godmasters. It'd be cool to se Humans actually get involved and use Transtectors. I would also like to see the way Masterforce handled the Piranacon where they were an army of drones with one guy who could comine with four of them to for God Neptune. That was a neat concept for a disposable army.
Imagine a universe where, in a far off galaxy, there were brilliant scientists named “Hi-Q” and “Hi-Test.”
Some of the G1 Powermaster figures were also a figure in the Transformers Titans Return toyline like Getaway (which was called Breakaway in Titans Return), Overlord and Power Master Optimus Prime/Ginrai.
I absolutely loved Slapdash as a kid. Maybe 11 was too old to play with toys but man he was awesome.
This video is extra special Chris, because you released it on my birthday. So thank you.
I'm partial to the Japanese version myself, since I am very much into the whole "henshin hero" thing. Growing up, I didn't have much access to the comic, so all I had to go on was the cartoon, and I had started to lose interest after the loss of Optimus Prime and others. The toys were still very fun though, and I just kind of went with whatever gimmick they had as just being "some kind of weird new Transformers technology" without really needing an explanation.
I just realized that the Powermaster, or rather Godmaster, concept was reused in the Brave series. Specifically in Dagwon and Gaogaigar.
Thanks 4 all the hard work.
I'm currently watching Masterforce and really enjoying it. The animation is really good.
Great video brother Chris!👍🏿
Great Stuff, as always!
I have my original Powermaster Optimus Prime on my desk with me as I watch this. Thank you for making my day better.
The transtector idea is so much better than the human or nebulan approach. I always thought that idea was cringe before I even knew what cringe was…
My god Chris, GOOD Video.
I never knew till today that the Motor/Power-source-form in Super God Master Force was called 'Iacon' i almost drop my coffe hearing that!!!
I think that THIS gimmick was perhaps the most effective of all. I mean: The headmasters are awesome but let be honest: The fact that it's a head makes kinda tricky the conception of WHERE its the 'conscience' both robot and nebulan/human in the American Lore and with that we cant tottally understand if they are simbiotic or a gelstat-way kind of counscience 'two beings in one body' ok, but with ONE of that beings forming the head makes me difficult to think that the Robot has ANY counsciense of its own... And if the soul of the robot emerges when its fused with the head, then its akward because: what its the final use of the person/robot that forms the head? Futhermore in the comics Zarak contols the Skorponok body without being connected to it. In HM anime they made a good interpretation of that making the little robot being THE robot...
IN THIS CASE!!!!!!!!!!!! MY GOD!!! They are their energy-sources in the original conception... SO: There is no doubt that its a parasite-simbiotic relationship!! AND FUTHERMORE: IN JAPAN!! MY GOD JAPAN!!! THEY ARE GIVING THE SOULESS BODY A SOUL TO BE BORN AND DEFEND THE UNIVERSE... Sorry but for me THIS was the best re-interpretation of the Transformers concept in the 80s.
I didn't know about them being called "Iacons" either. Looking it up on the TFWiki, this term was apparently only ever used on the toy packaging and never in the Masterforce cartoon or comics. (Which explains why I was unaware of it, since the only toys I had were the US versions.)
In the US, the robots that became Headmasters simply had their "personality" contained in their bodies rather than their heads. (I don't remember the exact terminology used. They downloaded their personality into their bodies before removing their heads or something of that nature.)
"...what its the final use of the person/robot that forms the head" The US cartoon briefly shows the Autobots (prior to the events that led them to become Headmasters) testing and performing some tasks more efficiently when they let a human do the driving, etc. (Obviously, in reality a toy company told some writers to write a story around a new gimmick, and they did the best they could under the circumstances.)
Thew AND Chris Mcfeely posting on the same day? We are blessed
1:17 the only reason to invent time travel is to go back and watch this studio session.
Great video. I'd love to see these come back in the new mainline of legacy.
I always still love Powermaster Optimus Prime and this character got me back into Transformers in 1988.
I have the Powermaster Optimus Prime from the Powermaster line, the one you mentioned in your video the first one mentioned and it’s the one with the nebluions who were modified to become engines for the Autobots and the Decepticons.
You got to admire how there's an entire Transformers anime where most of the Transformers featured aren't even real Transformers at all, but humans piloting Transformer mecha.
That's the kind of thing that would never fly as part of the franchise today.
No,it can work with some changes
That's kind of the reason I don't care for Masterforce, it feels more super sentai show to me than Transformers show. Not hating on it, but when you take the majority of the "spark" if you will out of the show, I lose interest.
7:50 that side car guy I saw in a post wanting bad figures to be done up in the studio series line.
wow. waiting for this for a long time
2:46 “Wouldn’t almost anything make a better battery than a human body? Like a potato? Or a battery?”
I have both Optimus and ginrai they are both wonderful toys. I get so satisfied when combining the cab and body. That click brings me joy.
Such cool ideas. I had Powermaster Prime as a kid, still have him now. I eventually picked up the reissue so I could have Apex Prime/God Ginrai
I really like the Idea of God Masters, specially if they can inter merge with other Transformers, like pilots on a mech
Another absolutely amazing video!!!! We’ll done!!!!
I do like that the recent Doubledealer eventually got some casette versions of his cores that you can attach and that the figure was clearly designed to store these new interpretations
I love this concept plus last week I just got PCC Leadfoot in the mail and I enjoyed both him with pinpointer. Well I hope this would be revisited again soon.
5:35 *spit take* “until what year?!”
If I could bring back a Transformers series that dealt with the Headmasters, Targetmasters, and Powermasters, I would have a 21st century version of Masterforce. By the way, Overlord should have been brought to the United States in 1988 as Gigatron. He could have come from Nebulos as Scorponok's secret weapon of destruction. Giga and Mega could have been Gigatron's Nebulon partners.
If I remember correctly, I heard or read somewhere years ago that the Autobots had planned on reviviing Optimus with the Transtector that Ginrai found. I could be completely wrong on that, so if someone wants to correct me, then by all means.
It gets sketchy. The clip show Masterforce Super-Secrets tried but failed to explain how the transtector would have brought back Prime. The Legends manga clarified that the transtector was found in G Nebula. And then a new transtector was built in another attempt to revive Prime... until it was sent to Ginrai to deal with a revived Devil Z since Unite Warriors had Prime brought back by Vector Sigma (just for one week, until Return of Convoy).
Great work as always, Chris! Next you should do the Autobot Cassettes!
I know that his Powermasters were retooled cassettes, but I was surprised to not see an explicit call-out of Earthrise Doubledealer as a recent toy with Powermaster partner figures, especially since he includes a little detachable engine block you can attach to Knok's back.
That was mentioned in Doubledealer's Basics episode.
I remember watching the Godmaster cartoon and as they keep building up to Ginrai's transtector I was thinking "oh crap, it's Optimus Prime!" Even after he transforms he looks exactly like Optimus Prime, but the show never acknowledges it. I guess Convoy just wasn't that popular in Japan.
The transector that was Ginrai's body at first was created as an upgrade for Convoy/Optimus Prime but it was stolen by the villain before he could get it, for that reason they look the same.
In several dubs of the God Masters anime the dubbing team said "screw it, that's Optimus Prime" and called him Optimus Prime, watchers thought that Ginrai was Optimus Prime reincarnated as a human.
@@Hektols As ridiculous as that sounds I would actually love it if it really was Optimus Prime reincarnated as a human. That's the kind of thing that could only come from Japanese Transformers.
Japan has the habit of replacing old heroic leads with new leads every season/year. Takara was no different, after the third season finale in G1, Prime dies again in Headmasters. He was brought in Return of Convoy... which was just Takara jumping the shark.
There was only a sentence in a clipshow episode of Masterforce that stated that the "Ginrai" transtector had originally been intended as a new body for Optimus Prime. I think "Convoy" was popular with the KIDS that were watching the show, as he's constantly getting new Masterpiece figures. In Japanese G1 he was eventually brought back in toy form as "Star Convoy".
It was probably just like in America, where the people running the toy company didn't know just how popular the character was until later.
I always thought there should have been toys that were both power and head masters with the same mini-figure. Not sure how this would have worked exactly, but basically, the mini figure would be a tripple changer with head/robot/engine forms. This especially would have worked with Optimus Prime. A name like "Hi-Q" just seems like it should have been a head master instead of a power master. Heck, throw in a transforming version of Prime's classic ion blaster to make him a target master too and call it "Ultimaster Optimus Prime".
Been a fan of Headmasters since the Titans Return line and then the Japanese Legends line stepped things up by incorporating Targetmasters which I also really like. They need to bring back the Power Masters fittingly. I hated that Darkwing and Dreadwind were just retooled Combiner Wars Aerialbots with a half-assed attempt at making them Power Masters and a combined mode. At least they were good to use as alternate arms/legs for Combiner Wars combiners. Definitely want to see a proper Power Master Optimus from Hasbro. Good thing Perfect Effect made the TR/Legends Ginrai version a true God Master figure.
From the toy side of things, I can't say I see the appeal to this gimmick. If all they do is lock away the main figure's ability to transform behind inserting the mini figure, then they're not really adding anything to it over a standard Transformer toy. I feel like the Minicons absolutely did this concept better.
Ah yes, 2020. The year infamous for Devil Zed's recruitment of humans as godmasters.
Hi Chris,My favorite Transformers are both Power masters & God masters,My favorite Power masters version are The Marvel Comics Version of the Power masters especially The Autobot Power masters and Decepticon Power masters and their Nebluain Allies,Partners, & Friends who binary bonded to both Autobots and Decepticons,also thanks for sharing Chris keep up the good work and have a wonderful day.🙂👍💪🤛😊🦸🏋️🇺🇲
Oh god Chris memories of 1988, I was 16 years old and my family which consisted of me, my younger brother who would have been 13 on December 8th and of course my father Nick and my mom vassa we were living in what was a town called Markham in Ontario Canada just north of the big city of Toronto which I so wanted the powermaster octimus prime toy never got it that your because we couldn't afford it, my dad was the only one working at the time and unfortunately my mom died on October 16 1988 from a brain aneurysm in her sleep at 38 years old and I was the one who found her dead body :-(. Now almost 50 years old and a stroke and cardiac arrest and now colon cancer survivor and living alone and getting a Disability check from the government here to live off I still love collecting the odd transformer toy. Love your videos Sir thanks for listening
Great Video. Masterforce is my preferred take on these characters by far.
I had powermaster prime growing up, it was one of my last transformers as a kid
Did not expected the voice tone for the commercial
A awesome and very cool review. I liked it very much
Power master Prime was my first transformer ever, I loved the gimmick
"The tiiiiiipp of your finger is the key... that unlocks their transformer energeeeeeey!"
-Tacticons from es
That explained alot for me, I still have a old headmaster and I use to have powermaster when I was a kid.
I love the Power Masters and Godmasters from Masterforce Ginrai been one of my favorites TF ever specially as God Ginrai, that is god tier levels of awesomeness design for Optimus (yes I know Ginrai is another character but in the latin america dub they keep the name Optimus XD). I wish they made a comeback specially many of the characters in Masterforce as how they where intended, the Headmasters Jurniors (Cab, Minerva, Shuta), the pretenders, all the amazing characters in the show, be in a Japanese exclusive show (its been a while since Japan make a new anime for Transformers I will love to see something new from there) or in a comic.
I just finished Masterforce, now I always think of Powermaster Optimus as Ginrai. I feel like he deserves a Masterpiece figure.
There’s a 3rd party figure of him. But it would be neat to see how Takara could do an official one.
One of the designers at TT is itching to design one. Hopefully he can get to do it soon
I watched the dub of Masterforce many many years ago. I remember it being not terrible, but it was weird in that they choose to use the American robot names for the humans. There's this French girl named Nightbeat walking around town. Lot of camera angles looking up the dress of a boy named Hosehead.
I always pictured the Master-Braces, used to allow humans in Super God Masterforce to become Godmansters and the Headmaster Juniors, were made from the remains of the Key to Vector Sigma.
I think the reason PowerMasters never got a resurgence is because the toy designers realized it was a bad idea for the transformation to require a small and easily lost second figure.
Couldnt the same be said about the headmasters?
I AM EARLY FOR ONCE! Can we have 'the basics' on The Transformers' Fandom? Weird request I know! But, it'd be a definitely unique topic
I remember a comic where Optimus Prime was being stored as a computer program and (I think Spike?) was trying to build him a new body, but whenever the program was uploaded to the body, it would fail. So he decided to bond with the body and be the additional power source needed to allow Optimus to live again in a physical body.
That was buster witwicky and the creation matrix
@@8ball180 but it still made him and Optimus bonded as a Powermaster
The thumbnail makes it look like God Ginrai is reaching out for Ginrai in his engine form like someone just threw his suitcase lol.
Interesting how the Japanese storyline slowly worked its way back to the Diaclone concept of piloted mecha, which I guess makes for more human-relevant story-telling. And then there's the practically Shinto incorporation of more spiritual elements to these machines that moved the story away from science fiction.
So, in the original early issues of what I’m probably going to call “the power master saga“ the Nebulons were basically snacking without stop to keep up with the Transformers power supply and stuff.
Awesome 😎
Funny thing with the timing of the release of this video, as I've been talking to an artist about the subject. The idea of what a Powermaster Rodimus Prime could look like.
Future “The Basics” episodes that I personally think would be interesting subjects. Again totally up to you, I’m just spitballing ideas to you.
Deathsaurus
Chromia
Pyra Magna and The Torchbearers
Rattrap
Blackwall
Hubcap
Thunderclash and The Turbomasters
Brainstorm
The Firecons
Spike Witwicky
MLP vs Transformers IDW Crossover
Elita-1
Strongarm
Dai Atlas
Slide and Oiler
Breakdown
Strika and Obsidian
My HeadCanon: The PowerMasters was highly advanced Headmaster technology; The nebulons discovered the Master Force and Integrated it into HeadMaster. Instantly Hyper advancing HeadMaster technology into PowerMaster Technology, They created Master Force Bands and They also Invented Transtechers. A Human or Nebulon can use the Master Force Bands to Transmute their Bodies into Robot ones to become engines for the Transformers. A Transtecher is a lifeless robot body that When PowerMaster becomes it Engine, He or She will complete control over it. A Godmaster is something different, when a Human who’s mastered Chōkon power uses the Master Force Bands to become a PowerMaster and merge with a Transformer they become a GodMaster and their both able to use Chōkon Power to far greater extent. When a Transformer becomes infuse Chōkon power, The Transformer starts slowly dying and can only be saved by Merging with a human through the human becoming a PowerMaster with it, this also results in to them becoming a GodMaster and able use the Chōkon power to far greater extent. If Human masters Chōkon and become a PowerMaster engine for a Transtecher, nothing changes they don’t become a Godmaster but if two people who mastered Chōkon uses one Transtecher at the same time they are Able to boost their Chōkon power massively, becoming a False Godmaster; but they will have great drawbacks to this, like their Chōkon becoming uncontrollable and If not working in unison there Chōkon power and Transtecher becomes all but useless
Trivia
Chōkon Power is dangerous to Sparks but Given to souls
Chōkon power infused Transformer only survive by becoming a Godmaster with a human
When a Transformer becomes a Godmaster their Spark and Soul are United making it to be a true bond between Cybertronian and Human
Becoming a PowerMaster with Transformer is highly increase in Survival for both and works even better than Headmasters
I miss mine.. I use to have a bunch of the Powermasters, Target masters, and Head Masters.. now, i have the retro ones from Wal-mart, then I got the Power of the Titans ones, I also use to have the marvel comics. Prime was also a Head Master as well.. in the power of the titans line.. I also got tyranticon.
Honestly a persona becoming the engine of a transformer I prefer much more then becoming their head.