Here is something I was thinking about. At the end of masterforce the JR headmasters robot bodies turn into real transformers and split from the kids.. That's it right? But wait. Metalhawk has the transforming bands and could just give go shooter (siren in star tv dub) another robot body. Why would he do that? Go shooter is his adopted son. (Maybe not fully adopted but he took him in after his dads death and is still with him in big book of masterforce that takes place at the end of masterforce) Why would a autobot not give his son a suit to protect himself. They gave one to daniel in the movie after all. Then again star saber never gave his son anything. Also did the pretenders stay on earth or did metalhawk ship goshooter off to space with him? I don't think we saw the pretenders leave. Do they think the Jr headmasters got new forms or did metalhawk just give his adopted son a exo suit from the movie and call it a day? What do you guys think?
The Pretenders stayed behind on Earth, never to be seen again. (No joke, we've never seen from them again.) The process of Transtectors isn't a garage job; all of it was a monumental task; that's why they fought so hard for claiming the Transtectors they had (Remember, they had a single batch that got intercepted, hence the entire series setup). Beyond that, there is a philosophical question; given that the "awakened" Transtectors were a kind of bootstrap lifeform, taking a piece of the original bracelets souls to ignite their own lives, what's the price on Shuta? The short answer is, no. The series was over and Shuta deserves to be a boy, even if his life was complicated. Long answer is no, because this is a fiction to sell toys and after the series is over, the characters are usually forgotten.
They returned in the victory manga and were all over that series so someone used them but yeah other then the victory cartoon cameo and book of masterforce they never showed up again as far as I know.
I'd say that manga is questionable canon in regards to the original G1 Japanese cartoons in which they use elements from.
Yeah, I was going to point that out, too. They're not questionable. The question has been asked and answered. They are officially part of the continuity and come from Takara directly, not even through some middleman party like IDW, the way our comics do.
He's kind of right, if we were talking u.s. cartoon and US comics you might have a good argument for saying they are separate but Takara and the Japanese series have had a histiry of connecting their comic book stories right into the cartoon series from the start
