For the love of Primus, when is the last time ANYONE here lost a Headmaster or any other accessory?!! I am sick to death hearing naysayers say Headmasters are useless if you lose the head. If you lose a head at the age you are now, you may as well just give up on life, because it's going to be much too hard for you. Lose a head?!! Either you are lying to us, or you're being dishonest with yourself. You aren't going to lose any effing heads.

And even if you somehow did manage to lose a head, because you got blackout drunk or your cat ate it or the Headmaster Fairy stole it from under your pillow while you slept, Hasbro is selling a wide variety of new heads you can swap out for super-cheap. So quit making these lame excuses.

 

Wasn't Sigma Six the first real "GIJoe meets anime"? Sure, it wasn't Ghost in the Shell level quality...but it was made by Gonzo and had several anime tropes throughout.

 

Not really sure sepuku is wisest choice of action when losing a head of a toy...

 

agreed....I mean they missed a good opportunity to flesh out the new combiner limbs like Alpha Bravo, Rook and Offroad.

That'd be funny and sad at the same time.

i'm amazed they took so long. They might as well make this Titan Returns instead.

It was, and it was my first GI Joe series.

 

Tell me about it.

 

Dude, eat a Snickers.

 

Right?
By now I would have figured that they would be animating.

So maybe the strategy is for the toys to be an advertisement fot the show

 

It's not so much the older fans I'm worrying about losing Headmaster parts, it's the kids who buy MOST of the toys. I lost a shitload of TF pieces when I was a kid and I STILL can't find 'em. It is a lot easier for us older fans to keep track of pieces (especially since the old Headmasters AND the Titans Return ones have it so you can store the HMs in the vehicle mode), but kids? Not really.

 

It's not even important anymore. If a kid loses a head for one of these guys now, Hasbro has it so they can buy TWO equally cool replacement heads for next to nothing. So go nuts, kids.

What I'm complaining about is people here who don't like or want the Headmaster gimmick and don't want ANYONE to have it, and try to convince us how bad it is because "what if we lose the head?!!" which I say is a disingenuous argument to use here. I say no one here is going to lose any head, because no one here is a hyper-spastic 4 year-old.

 

I'm not worried about loosing head/titan masters and am looking forward to these guys. My one worry is that Hasbor will screw things up with tolerance issues.... Two cases: you try putting a head master on a body;
1) "oh no! the head is too loose in the socket and falls out if i breathe on it!"
2) "oh no! the head is too tight and won't go in the body! maybe if i push a little harder.... OH NO! now it's stuck and i broke the headmaster getting it out! now no head on the 'master and a head trapped in the body! 2 toys ruined at once!!!!"

They are advertising the head-swap angle of this, so they WANT you to do it. They had the same thing with Armada mini-cons, but it wasn't a huge issue if one minicon from a 3pack didn't stay on a deluxe or larger figure's port. Loose/tight headmasters i can see being a BIG issue....