Post of the day!

 

Digging what I'm seeing so far. Now, For that Headrobots add on set for the ROTF mindwipe.

 

Seems like each Headmaster FP releases is better than the last. I can't wait to get this. Hopefully they can get this one out a little faster.

 

Agreed. Code lacked aesthetics... and I thought QuadU lacked the solidity that Code had. Don't have SmartRobin in-hand, but he seems to have the best of both those figures... this one seems to be great as well so far.

 

I'm down for this pending color choices/more pics, and am really hoping for a Snapdragon.

 

Did anyone else notice the "collar" like pieces around his head? He's definitely channeling his inner Dracula.

Inglés es en realidad mi primera lengua, pero eso es lo que sigo oyendo. De cualquier forma, la figura se ve increíble!

 

The m in "look at me" looks more like a lower case m to me.

I see it as L.O.O.K. a.T. m.E.

And I keep thinking about the Joker in Dark Knight Returns when I see it.

 

Well, since I have a long commute and need lots of coffee, this occurred to me:

If you use a simple numeric substitution, e.g., A=1, B=2, and so on to Z=26, you get:
MINDWIPE: 13+9+14+4+23+9+16+5=93
LOOKATME: 12+15+15+11+1+20+13+5=92

I had thought that maybe they would add up to be equal, but they're off by just one, which still seems like it might be intentional, but then I wondered why they didn't just go with LOOK IN ME, which does add up to 93 (although "look in me" is open to rather different interpretations than "look at me", so maybe they figured it was close enough and went for clarity over equality).

Then again, the past teasers in this series haven't been the figure's actual name, just (very) oblique clues:

The Battle Begins (Code's booklet, referencing Quadruple U)
Head-On Challenge (Quadruple U's booklet, referencing Smart Robin)
L.O.O.K. a.T. M.E. (Smart Robin's booklet, referencing next figure of unknown name)

Something else I noted is that both MINDWIPE and LOOKATME are 8 letters long, and have a single repeated letter, making it possible that one is made from the other using a substitution cipher...I wonder if that's the clue (i.e., the periods don't signify an acronym, but instead suggest that one should look at the individual letters, not the words), and that the designer used the same cipher to create the figure's actual name (which will probably then sound like random words, rather like the previous names in the series).

Anyway, random thoughts.

I'm really wanting to see what the next figure's name is now.

Also, I obviously don't want to be at work today....

 

Its going to be named friend head

 

Seriously? Well, that blows my theory out of the water.
On the plus side, I can put off doing work a little longer now...

Edit: Hmmm..."Dead Head" might have been an interesting choice...though "Friend Head" is sure making me think a lot more...

 

I dare them to go with "Eraserhead".

 

Code didn't excite me at first, but he's totally grown on me. He has very late '70s aesthetics. He's not a copy of the toy that existed, he's what my childhood imagination was able to pretend existed. If they changed the color scheme or the lines too much, they'd have lost that.

 

Mindwipe: Look into my eyes, you are under my control

Headmaster: Yes master!!!

 

Except mind wipes eyes are on the headmaster

 

Not in beast mode they ain't.

 

Robot eyes are the Headmaster, not Bat eyes  . In the show, the Mindwipe in Bat Mode hypnotized his own headmaster into joining him  

Mindwipe is definitely my favorite headmaster.

 

It's just the font...

 

Another picture of not-Mindwipe not mentioned in this thread is the illustration on the back of Tusker's box. It has a bat robot, who seems to be the Function X-4 alt mode.



Hey, just a crazy thought, that one marked "unknown combiner", the leg could possibly be Code? Function X as a combiner?