Actually I have a feeling what we'll be seeing will be less "organics becoming the heads of normal sized robots" and more "normal sized bots forming the heads of massive robots" hence the Titans aspect.

 

Ya I read that too they said it would be like Combiner Wars where not everyone would be turned into one just cuz of their toy release like Cyclonus his toy bio is very different from how he is portrayed in the comics

 

Indeed. If I had to guess, the only characters that are certain to show up are Sentinel Prime (we've seen the comic cover, plus there's no reason he can't show up) and Fort Max. I say Fort Max is a certain just because he's the big toy this year, like Metroplex and Devastator before him.

That's not to say that the toy has to be directly linked to the tankformer Tyrest enforcer dude. We just recently had Cerebros name dropped, and I would not be shocked if he ended up becoming the head of a titan instead.

Another likely one is Mindwipe. He just showed up out of nowhere in RID, making it a bit suspicious. Now, all the same, he doesn't have to become a Titanmaster, he could just end up featuring prominently. I think this could apply to a number of characters. Chromedome, Blurr, Blaster, Scourge, etc may very well play a large role, but they don't have to become Titanmasters.


All the same, all bets are off because sometimes we get rather forced inclusions. Tankor gets a one page appearance in Dark Cybertron, Defensor shows up for a moment and leaves just as quickly, possibly to never combine again in IDW (hell, I wouldn't be shocked if Rook never even appears again).

 

My question was really only Comics based, we know there will be some overlap with toys but certainly not all.

It was stated that these bodies were organic but from the one peek of a hand we saw they definitely seemed upgraded. Its safe to say these are cyborgs so Titan Master is certainly not out of the question.

I've been researching the Comics and we know the people of Gorlam Prime were self upgrading, as well as the Scorponok experiments on Earth and at least one other planet.

It's mentioned that there are 40 or 50 bodies and that sounds about right for a full run of TMs, counting both the ones with bodies and the spare ones with weapons/vehicles.

My best clue that these bodies are vital to the storyline is that Megatron was pivotal in saving them... It's basically his story at this point and saving biologicals is way out of his comfort zone. It's gotta be important, right?

 

If we do get Titanmasters coming into the comic and sticking around, I hope it's the Japanese style, because to me that sounds like it would fit better with the kinds of stories they tell.

 

It'd be nice if Scourge came back from the dead.

The dude never gets to do anything.

 

My guess, the pod people are Nebulon survivors from zombie Thunderwing's attack on the planet during Stormbringer. So if they are related to Titan Masters, they be going Sunbow/Marvel route after all.

 

You had to say Pod People.

Now I can't stop thinking of this as "Pod Masters"

 

You know what? I'm gonna go a step further and say this guy is a Titan Master! No one has any idea what he is otherwise, right?

 

Chromedome was specifically mentioned as being one of the bots who WON'T be getting a partner in canon.

We have had a spat of "clean" head removals for potential Headmasters though. Kaon and Roadbuster specifically. Trailcutter was taken apart more zealously, but I'd mark him as a prime candidate with the foreshadowing we've been getting.

Oh, and I have a sneaking suspicion Galvatron is going to get a nasty surprise from his "ally" on this front.

 

^^^this here. Yeah, I suspect you may be right....

 

Everything we have seen in the Comics so far is consistent with organics becoming the heads of regular size robots.

If we insist on going back to toys (which seems to be required here) they have already made a huge deal about one size TM fitting on all size bodies, with either spring up faceplates or an intermediary bot making the appropriate size adjustment.

Of course, from a biologic pov, anything above a minibot could be considered a "Titan".

 

I don't know, I have more of a feeling the "titan masters" are the robots as we know them, and the titans are new giant bodies they can control. The only one of the figures that gives me pause in this being galvatrons titan master looking like megs.

 

Titanmasters'll probably end up being like Secret invasion where the transformers certain bots have been replaced by Stentarian infiltrators who have turned those bots into transtectors.

 

Well, hope all you like but there is no support for any of that stuff in the books. The main bodies still look like their regular bodies do now so that IS them. And the titan masters look nothing like those main bodies so they are something else.

Yes, the Galvatron head looks like Megatron, but it's not him, it's just an homage. There is no way they are going to mess up the Autobot Megatron story-line at this point.

And what would transectors even be doing in an American comic book where maybe 2% of us would know what they even are? That's just nonsense.

 

Why would that matter? If they introduce the transectors in the IDW comics, it's going to be explained for the audience what they are, regardless of how many of them knows what they are already from the Japanese continuity. Besides, characters like Star Saber, Overlord, Dai Atlas, Deathsaurus, Black Shadow are all originally Japanese characters. Should they not have been included in the IDW comics just because not as many American fans would be as familiar with them?

 

Well, introducing new characters is easy, but transactors is a whole different thing. You're talking about turning beloved characters into headless TF zombies dominated by humans? Not gonna be a fan favorite move.

But hey, I'm fair.... I've show you evidence from the books themselves supporting human sized upgraded biologicals partnering with existing robots, going all the way back to Scorponok's ham fisted attempt to recreate this tech with Hunter/Sunstreaker.

So show me any evidence at all supporting your theory? Go ahead, we will wait.

 

I don't know what you're talking about here... Show you evidence of what theory? All I'm saying is that it shouldn't matter if the majority of American audiences aren't familiar with the concept of the transectors. Either way, that'd be something that they would explain in the book so that the audience would know exactly what they are. Just like they've done when they've introduced any other concept in these comics. And there was nothing stopping them from using characters American audiences wouldn't be so familiar with, so again, why would it matter if they used a concept that was originally from the Japanese continuity that an American audience wouldn't be so familiar with as well?

 

It's very simple. I'm talking about storyline, foreshadowing, you know... one thing leading into another so they all make sense?
The old marvel books didn't care about that stuff but IDW does, so I'm asking you to show one single piece of evidence pointing towards them throwing in transactors in a supported and sensible way. Oh, and it better be happening right bloody now because they will be in stores any minute.

OR, we could discuss the storyline they have actually been leading up to slowly for like 100 books now?

 

The Alpha Trion/Galvatron issue (#34) has shown natural born Cybertronian headmasters, disciples of the same prime that created the enigma of combination. The enigma is not only still with Starscream, but Blackrock (and thus now Glavatron) has the full code of the enigma which Blackrock has decoded.

Given the emphasis on the pre-history stuff in Transformers lately it's not really worth dismissing the idea that the Titans Return story involves transformers bonding with larger bodies