I prefer that this new Apeface retains his triple-changing ability more than anything else.

 

Nice. Hopefully, they will make Snapdragon also. I was thinking of getting a 3rd party Apeface and Snapdragon. But, the Unique Toys are legends scale and the KFC ones are MP scale. So, I will just wait to see how the voyager one is.

 

Aren't the Battlemasters presented as mere small Cybertronians in Siege? =/

 

Hmm do you guys think springer will have 3 modes because he’s a triple changer??
Hmm do you think the headmaster character will have a headmaster?
Nah why would they?????

 

Plenty of instances where they've not got it right. 30th Nightbeat, TR Targetmasters, WFC Soundwave.....

So I can see why some people ARE worried but, for reasons quoted above, think it's undue here.

 

Fair point but for the most part I would say siege has done it right

 

Then you're in luck   because he was a triple-changer in Titans Return.

 

First Rule of Fight Club: Don't make life difficult for the board mods.
Second Rule of Fight Club: Have fun and be polite, it aint that hard.

 

I clearly missed something, but I'll get over it by watching Tombstone

 

Wonder if they will add an extra joint to the headmaster's legs so he can be both bot head & ape head like the original Apeface.

 

What if they abandoned the titan master idea but kept the tooling concept? For example have a face on both side of the upper half of the TM--so both his back and chest have faces--and use the leg section to flip over and cover whichever face is not being used.

 

I see what your saying, but then instead of the bot face only being on the back when the TM is not connected to the transtector, he would have the ape/face for a chest. That would look too weird even for Apeface.   imo.

 

True. That's why you'd have to just abandon the idea of his head(s) also being a little robot. It kills the headmaster gimmick and that would likely bum some people out. I was just speculating on how they might pull two faces off one tiny figure. 

 

Will just have to wait & see what cards( or heads) are up Has/Taks sleeves for this guy.  
And they better do Snapdragon too, gosh darn it.  

 

I think they'll probably go a route similar to TR Sixshot and Sawback and have the titan master form the "core" of the beast head, but not all of it.

 

IIRC in The Rebirth - and cartoon accuracy is in at the moment - the Headmasters didn't form the Horrorcons' Beast Mode heads. In a way this kind of makes sense, they always were a bit of an oddity in that respects, all the other Beast Headmasters had pilots.

(Do we see the Headmasters standing on the Horrorcons in Rebirth?)

So that then saves Hasbro the faff of having to engineer the Titanmasters to tripplechange. As the easiest way, and one that conforms to the cartoon I'd lay money this is the route they'd take.

 

My guess would be the beast head would either be separate, or they'd do like the trex titan master partner and just use the tm feet for the lower jaw

 

Has there been any new news, hints or indications as to when or where we might see these new figures of Astrotrain and Apeface? I'm still skeptical, dont want to get my Hope's up

 

Nope, still pretty quiet. Which is a bummer because I could use some leaks by now...