powermaster optimus has a titan master peg on either side of his head, which means he’s gonna get the worst shoulder angel/devils ever
NYCC - Titans Return Transformers Hardhead, Skullcruncher
powermaster optimus has a titan master peg on either side of his head, which means he’s gonna get the worst shoulder angel/devils ever
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I made a Lug! (I also made an Anode, but I’ve already put up pictures of her.)
I made my Anode using this Shapeways face by @therobotmonster on a repainted Titans Return Windblade body.
I made my Lug using this Shapeways head by @therobotmonster on a repainted Titans Return Rewind body.
If nothing else, Titans Return Fortress Maximus adds an element of scale to my desk.
So in Titans Return, most of the heads are based on something. Of course they are, this is a G1-rehash line. Everything is something old. Sure, Blurr’s headguy is really Stylor and Scourge’s headguy is really Nightstick (Fracas and Nightstick trade models all the time anyway), and Sentinel Prime, Galvatron, Blaster, and Soundwave are themselves, but…

…the Titan Masters size class, which are just heads and a transforming vehicle, gives us all these recognizable noggins that transform into…. not their previous partners. I have no idea where these designs are from. Nightbeat sure ain’t either Muzzle or Quig! And considering every other damn headguy in Titans Return is a callback to SOMETHING, it’s driving me mad that I don’t know who these guys are.
For a bright shining moment I thought Horri-Bull might be himself, but there’s too many conspicuous differences and I was once again defeated.
But seriously, this is causing this nerd some anxiety. WHO ARE THEY???
I… really think you’re overthinking this. I see some (vague) similarities in the head and face designs, and Brisko there shares a lot of the same color mapping. To me, it just looks like a series of really liberal interpretations of the “Headmaster Jr” characters, especially as their adding detail to characters that had to be limited by design.
I think YOU’RE overthinking this. All the guys in the top image are really obviously supposed to be a guy. Like, detail-for-detail, they are a specific guy that makes sense. You don’t have to pretend that Blaster looks like Blaster or that Vorath looks like Vorath, because they all overwhelmingly do. Their inspirations are apparent on the face of it. There are no leaps of logic. There’s no “massaging” them into one thing or another. There’s no “oh that’s close enough.”
The guys in the bottom image are completely different. They are definitely not obviously inspired by anything. None of them match up to who you’d expect them to match up to. Muzzle does not have a giant dial on his chest, and he doesn’t have any of those other details either. Like, none of them. If you are telling me that Siren’s headrobot looks anything at all like Quig, then you are telling me goddamn tales.
Now, one of us applying Occam’s Razor, and the other is stretching or obfuscating what’s apparent in order to fit a desired narrative, and I think the Occam’s Razor guy is the one who says the folks on the bottom are clearly approached differently.
(hint: occam’s razor guy is me)
My first Titans Return deluxe class toy!
The nosecone backpack isn’t officially supposed to go like that, but it can hang there fine with gravity, and to me the shoulder guns are an important part of his silhouette, so I’m doing it.
So in Titans Return, most of the heads are based on something. Of course they are, this is a G1-rehash line. Everything is something old. Sure, Blurr’s headguy is really Stylor and Scourge’s headguy is really Nightstick (Fracas and Nightstick trade models all the time anyway), and Sentinel Prime, Galvatron, Blaster, and Soundwave are themselves, but…

…the Titan Masters size class, which are just heads and a transforming vehicle, gives us all these recognizable noggins that transform into…. not their previous partners. I have no idea where these designs are from. Nightbeat sure ain’t either Muzzle or Quig! And considering every other damn headguy in Titans Return is a callback to SOMETHING, it’s driving me mad that I don’t know who these guys are.
For a bright shining moment I thought Horri-Bull might be himself, but there’s too many conspicuous differences and I was once again defeated.
But seriously, this is causing this nerd some anxiety. WHO ARE THEY???
All right, I might have the most dumb, mundane solution to this.

All of the Titan Masters function as part of one of their Titan Master vehicle’s modes, so maybe their chest stuff is supposed to look like random engine-like machinery instead of robot torsos. Not all of them have their robot stuff visible in this combined-with-vehicle mode – some of them just fold over on themselves and plug in somewhere – but for the purposes of cross-compatibility with their wavemates, maybe looking like machinery (or beasty clawy stuff for the one animal guy) is the case for everyone regardless.
Titans Return Deluxes, sans Chromedome.
So you’re young and queer and everything you know about sex has come from porn because nobody’s teaching it to you at school and frankly some of what you’ve witnessed is terrifying. You’re intrigued by sex and your hormones are raging and you want to have sex but you don’t want to get fisted while someone beats you with a cheese grater. You’re young and your baseline state of being is *uncomfortable* and *powerless* and you just want some semblance of control and something resembling comfort and you want to find people who don’t make you feel so weird all the time. You see queer people reveling in being weird, and you’re panicking that people think you’re like that because the last thing you want is to be seen as weird. You’re gay but you’re not gay-gay, you’re normal if you can just ignore this one small difference.
And then here comes a group of people who commiserate with you, but only on the surface. They, too, hate how weird Pride is, how weird queer culture is, how terrifying queer sexuality is, how awful kink is. They tell you that your discomfort is actually a form of harm, that nobody should ever make you think about the things you don’t want to think about, that you should be protected from it. They use the language of social justice and it feels like social justice to you. People are doing things to you! Without your consent! It’s psychic rape! How dare they?
But then you get older and you scratch beneath the surface and remove the masks and find that underneath, those people who told you that you were being harmed were intense homophobes, who found queer sexuality terrifying because they found queer people terrifying. They don’t “consent” to queers being sexy or kinky because they don’t “consent” to queers existing. They consider all sex bad, and queer people as inherently sexual, so queer people are inherently bad unless they go out of their way to desexualize themselves as much as possible. And you find that they’re transphobes and terfs and they consider trans identities to be fetishes and this is why they want to hide fetish. As soon as they’re done driving all the sexy, kinky, trans queers into hiding with your help, they can move onto the less outrageous queers. They’re moving onto you, even though you’d never call yourself queer because you’re young and uncomfortable and afraid of being weird. They’re uncomfortable and they learned that their discomfort was harm and they never sat down to examine those feelings. They’re the Karens of the world calling the cops on black folks for just existing in their vicinity. They think children should be completely sheltered from all that liberal nonsense.
And the queer elders try to speak up, try to tell the young ones about our history, but it’s so hard when we keep getting entire generations wiped out in the holocaust and the AIDS crisis. Our books burned and our people left for dead. Half of those left only survived through assimilation and internalizing that they needed to shed all of their queerness and become plastic Barbies and Kens, perfect and sexless, and this worked for them, in a way, in that they survived, so they think that this is a reasonable solution. Just cover up and get married and live quietly. Disown the loud queers, the ones still demanding more, the ones still pushing boundaries, the ones who don’t want to hide, who question the rules. They rewrite history to say gay rights were won when marriage was won and now the fight is over and anyone who is still complaining should shut up, lest our overlords hear and take away what little we were allowed to have.
The truth of the matter is that people are more naked at the beach than at Pride. Kink harnesses are normalized in fashion everywhere. Overt displays of heterosexual sexuality are everywhere. Children are not harmed by this. They will not be harmed by all of this in a queer context. No one will be harmed by this because discomfort is not harm and it was never about that. It was about hijacking discomfort for an anti-queer agenda. It’s being driven largely by sheltered teens and homophobes taking advantage of them. But the internet is a big stew where those people have the same platform and reach as queer historians and activists and hot takes spread faster than research and knowledge. We don’t have to engage. It’s settled. It’s done. Wear your gimp mask to Pride. The kids are alright.
