I wish they'd come out with more heads for the CoD line. That Rocksteady is an awesome figure, so I'm excited to get a chance to get more of them, and in 'normal' colors instead of grey. Sooo many customs lined up for that torso.

Just some fun pics with a turf battle deep in the sewers:

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Poor Skullcruncher. Those mean old turtles won't leave him alone.

Huge MegaBlok fan here, hope all are well. Have any of you seen the advanced soldier pack in the wild?

I see them often locally . I've been tempted to pick a set up but I have 20+ custom black suited soldiers with custom heads so I'm not sure what I'd do with them. I want the body armor though .

Btw I've always been a fan of headmaster transformers but outside of the original bots I haven't invested in any more.

Now if hasbro used a mega bloks style figure body as a template for a headmaster head I'd be all over that .

hmm, where are you located? I could use 3 sets.

Pick up Skully here as I can't imagine a G1 fan being disappointed.

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He is my favorite (although I dig them all). Based upon what you've seen of the new headmasters is there any possible way of making them as pose-able as a mega bloks figure ?

I've seen third party targetmasters that have ball shoulders , elbows , hips and knees. That would be good enough for me . I need hinge swivel elbow movement .

The Headmaster would take a ton of work to give any posability. The legs are not individual, the arms are tiny and would need to be sliced up carefully to add any motion beyond the shoulder pivot. They're tiny, too, so not going to work with your MB stuff. However, AV is right that Crunchie is great (except for some loose knees in bot mode that require some Future polish).

Lol, it was his hips I had to tighten up. Which knee is loose for you? I find the lower knee is meant to be popped secure all the way forward and non-functional in bot mode.

As for up-articcing the headbots, they're just too dang small. Next to MBs they're like MUs next to MLs. In head mode they're literally the size of dice. However, I've found that the socket for the headbot's own head is the size of a Halo MB's neckball, enabling an MB to wear the headbot as a head. Lemme see if I can find the pics I took...

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The left knee on mine was pretty loose. Wasn't a big deal for me, anyway, since I like him in gator mode. I'm loving the TR line a bunch, though. I do wish they were bigger, so the heads were MB sized. I may have to look into getting a one of the 3P Masterpiece-scale figures and see how close the heads are to MB size.

(Now there's a custom idea - get a Skullcruncher, paint him brown with blue highlights (to look like the 500 used in "White Lightning") and give him a Burt Reynolds head)

eta: That looks cool. I was wondering how big the headbot neck joints were. Some of them fit snugly enough in the transtector that I'm worried about them snapping off when removing. This makes me feel a bit better about it, thanks.

Yeah, I've noticed a wide range of tightness in plugging the headbot's head into the big bot's neck socket; but I'm thinking it's mostly about how deeply the socket clip is into the chest. Mindwipe's is set half-out of the chest and his head flops around like an old man's balls.

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This is all I need from a headmaster figure with regard to articulation :
http://toys.tfw2005.com/3rd-party-unlic ... lectibles/

The hips don't look like they would allow a complete side kick but they can be modified to increase their range of motion.

Or this guy!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/59184011@N05/14761805276


Looking at COD pictures has reignited the fire for new product . I like what I have but maybe an Advanced Soldier troop pack wouldn't hurt. A jet pack soldier would be nice as well but I don't like buying single figures for $10.

I'm thinking all those guys TF into heads about golfball size, Sunny. There's just not gonna be any real way to get that much artic into dice-sized headbots, man. Look at the pic I posted above and you'll notice the visor-and-grille part of the TF's face is little bigger than an actual MB Spartan's, then try to figure how to get that stuff into the volume of a Spartan's helmet's dimensions x2.

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