Note that the Japanese Headmasters series disregards all events in the three-part "The Rebirth" story set after the return of Optimus Prime in the American TV series.
Links to scans of the catalogs and other inserts for figures in this series can be found at the bottom of the page.
For my video captures from this series, check out my video capture page here.
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Alpha Trion
Arcee and other female Cybertronians
Blurr
Char (Kup)
Chromedome, Highbrow, Brainstorm, and Hardhead
Convoy (Optimus Prime)
Cybertron and other places
Dinosaurer (Trypticon)
Fortress and Fortress Maximus
Galvatron, Cyclonus, and Scourge
The gestalts
Jazz and other miscellaneous earlier Transformers
Metroplex
Pounce and Wingspan
Hot Rodimus (Hot Rod) and Rodimus Convoy (Rodimus Prime)
Sixshot
Soundwave and Broadcast (Blaster),
and Soundblaster and Twincast, and their cassettes
Spike, Carly, and Daniel
The Throttlebots
The triple-changers
Ultra Magnus
Vector Sigma
Weirdwolf, Skull (Skullcruncher), Wipe (Mindwipe)
and the Horrorcons Apeface and Snapdragon
Wheelie
Wreck-Gar
Zarak and Megazarak
- Upper body view (48K, series, 3/23/99).
- His form as a ball of energy (34K, series, 3/23/99).
- Recharging the Matrix (32K, series, 3/23/99). The Matrix was being held by Hot Rodimus, who will shortly become Rodimus Convoy.
Despite not having a physical body, Alpha Trion still played a pivotal
role in the beginning of the series. He accompanied
Convoy (Optimus Prime)
on his search for
Vector Sigma
while
Hot Rodimus (Hot Rod)
looked for the Matrix elsewhere. When
Galvatron, Cyclonus, and Scourge
interfered, Alpha Trion spun into a ball of energy to
recharge the newly found Matrix and turn Hot Rodimus into
Rodimus Convoy (Rodimus Prime).
Here are some pictures I took of Alpha Trion from the series:
Arcee and other female Cybertronians
- Talking with Blurr (52K, series, 4/28/99).
- With Char (Kup) and Blurr (48K, series, 4/28/99).
- With Rodimus and Char at Twincast's creation (51K, series, 4/28/99).
- Female robots (56K, series, 4/28/99).
- More female robots (51K, series, 4/28/99). Daniel and Wheelie can be seen in the background.
Arcee is the female Cybertron in the series. She often was at a console
revealing the latest events, but did little else. Unlike in the
three-part "The Rebirth" story set after the return of Optimus Prime in
the American TV series, she never became a Headmaster in the Japanese
Headmasters series, which disregards all events in "The Rebirth".
There is never an actual official transformable Arcee figure made for sale,
even though there reportedly was a prototype built, but
there were model kits for her sold in Japan, as shown
here (52K, figure, 11/24/98).
That hasn't stopped some people from trying to make their own models of Arcee. An exceptional one that can transform can be found at the 1998 Japanese BotCon. The web site is in Japanese, but the pictures of her aren't. ^_^
Here are a few of my pictures of her from the series:
The series has one short sequence in which some other female robots appear. They were in an arcade where Wheelie and Daniel were playing a video game. Here are some of my pictures of them from the series:
- Front upper body view (34K, series, 3/23/99).
- Talking with Arcee (52K, series, 4/28/99).
- With Char (Kup) and Arcee (48K, series, 4/28/99).
- Another upper body view (42K, series, 4/28/99).
Blurr talks as fast as ever. ^_^ He eventually left with
Char
and
Rodimus Convoy (Rodimus Prime)
to search for a new homeworld for the Cybertrons after the destruction of
their planet.
Here are my pictures of Blurr from the series:
- Front upper body view (35K, series, 3/23/99).
- Warmly welcoming Fortress' return (36K, series, 3/23/99).
- Close view of head (41K, series, 4/28/99).
Also known as Cha, Char (Kup) is the same old Transformer as always, with stories to tell.
He recalled the origin of
Galvatron
and the resurrection of
Convoy (Optimus Prime),
and fondly remembered
Fortress
as the one who led several of the Cybertrons away from the war on the planet.
He is last seen leaving with
Blurr
and
Rodimus Convoy (Rodimus Prime)
to find a new homeworld when the planet Cybertron was destroyed.
Here are some of my pictures of Char from the series:
Chromedome, Highbrow, Brainstorm, and Hardhead
- Confronting the Destrons (50K, series, 3/23/99).
- Very close view of head (42K, series, 3/23/99). His eyes, nose, and part of his upper head look very similar in the series to that of Convoy (Optimus Prime).
- Robot mode, from commercial break (41K, series, 4/28/99).
- Car mode, from commercial break (41K, series, 4/28/99).
- Upper body view from above (36K, series, 4/28/99). It was yet another of his hotheaded moments.
- Aboard the Fortress Maximus battlestation (46K, series, 10/31/99).
- In space with Daniel (45K, series, 10/31/99). He had just escaped from the exploding asteroid aboard which he was in a duel with Sixshot. Daniel's intervention stopped it, and Sixshot helped Daniel and Chromedome escape when Zarak blew up the asteroid with hidden explosives.
- Robot mode, from commercial break (49K, series, 4/28/99).
- Upper body view (48K, series, 4/28/99). Note that he doesn't have a mouth plate. His toy figure and his appearance in the American TV series "The Rebirth" do.
- Tank mode, from commercial break (39K, series, 3/23/99).
- In Headmaster form, inside his transtector (47K, series, 3/23/99).
- Robot mode, from commercial break (41K, series, 3/23/99).
- Upper body view from below (48K, series, 4/28/99).
- Upper body view from above (51K, series, 4/28/99).
- Watching as Convoy passed away (60K, series, 3/23/99).
- Another angle of above (41K, series, 3/23/99). The brightly glowing object in the picture is Vector Sigma.
- Highbrow and Hardhead in robot modes (54K, series, 4/28/99).
- Hardhead and Chromedome in vehicle modes (44K, series, 4/28/99).
- Brainstorm and Highbrow in vehicle modes (40K, series, 4/28/99).
- Fighting Abominus (54K, series, 4/28/99).
Chromedome, Highbrow, Brainstorm, and Hardhead are the other Cybertron
Headmasters besides
Fortress
who built their transtectors (Transformer bodies) on planet Master,
where Fortress had settled some Cybertronians escaping the war back
home. They are the most prominent characters in the Headmasters series.
Below are some of my pictures of them with descriptions.
After Fortress became leader of the Cybertrons, Chromedome was the one who ended up leading missions simply because Fortress doesn't have a mode other than becoming Fortress Maximus' head. Chromedome possessed a hotheaded temperament which somehow went along with his coolness to make him a capable commander.
Groups with the above Headmasters
- Flashback to his first death (43K, series, 3/23/99). This flashback appears at the very beginning of the Headmasters series, explaining that Convoy had died earlier but was resurrected (only to die again shortly, as seen below).
- Upper body view (37K, series, 3/23/99).
- Convoy and Hot Rodimus (48K, series, 3/23/99). Here Hot Rodimus had jumped in to protect Convoy from Galvatron, who had been firing at Convoy.
- Convoy and Rodimus Convoy (53K, series, 3/23/99). Hot Rodimus had just become Rodimus Convoy with the recharged Matrix, and had given Convoy some of its energy to stabilize him.
- Close view of head (35K, series, 4/28/99). The glow was from Vector Sigma.
- Galvatron choking Convoy (48K, series, 4/28/99). They were beside Vector Sigma, whose glow can be seen. Galvatron had extricated himself from the wall where the Cybertrons had thrown him into, and jumped upon Convoy just as he was about to touch Vector Sigma and give his lifeforce to it to stabilize it.
- Another angle of above (45K, series, 4/28/99).
- Convoy turning grey as he died (44K, series, 3/23/99). He is being held by Rodimus Convoy after giving his own Matrix-infused energy to Vector Sigma to stabilize it and prevent Cybertron's destruction, at the cost of his own life.
- The Convoys surrounded by the Cybertron Headmasters (60K, series, 3/23/99). The Headmasters from left to right are Brainstorm, Chromedome, Hardhead, Highbrow, and Fortress, looking on as Convoy passed away.
- Another angle of above (41K, series, 3/23/99). The brightly glowing object in the picture is Vector Sigma.
- A farewell (35K, series, 4/28/99). Rodimus and the other Headmasters bid farewell to him on Earth.
Convoy (Optimus Prime) had resumed his leadership of the Cybertrons at the
beginning of this series from
Rodimus Convoy (Rodimus Prime),
who went back to being Hot Rodimus (Hot Rod).
His main role in the series was to locate and stabilize the malfunctioning
Vector Sigma while Hot Rodimus looked for the
Matrix. In this he was aided by the ghost of
Alpha Trion,
who recharged the Matrix by becoming an energy form and merging with it.
With help from
Fortress
and Rodimus Convoy (restored to his form
by the newly found Matrix), he fought off
Galvatron, Cyclonus, and Scourge,
who tried to interfere.
After shoving aside Galvatron to reach Vector Sigma,
he merged with it to save the planet Cybertron,
leaving Rodimus Convoy as leader again.
Here are some of my pictures with Convoy from the series:
- Full view (38K, series, 3/23/99).
- Cybertron during a battle (45K, series, 3/23/99).
- The Cybertrons' crashed ship on Earth, the Ark (48K, series, 4/28/99). Note that it looks similar to the ship as seen in the Transformers episodes of the first three seasons of the show, but different as well.
- Cybertron headquarters on Earth (43K, series, 4/28/99). It looks like the Autobot City in the movie, but with some differences.
- Iacon (45K, series, 4/28/99). This is the Cybertrons' headquarters on Cybertron.
- Destron headquarters on a moon, Jollo (44K, series, 4/28/99). Its description is at the bottom.
Pronounced as "Seibertron" by the Japanese, the planet is a battleground
for the two factions until its destruction.
Zarak
caused its demise by ordering his
Destron Headmasters
to attach adhesive bombs to
Vector Sigma.
When
Galvatron
learned why the Cybertrons were evacuating from the planet,
he reached Vector Sigma just in time for it to explode.
Rodimus Convoy (Rodimus Prime),
Char (Kup),
and
Blurr
set off afterwards to look for a new homeworld for the Cybertrons.
Here are some of my large pictures of the planet Cybertron from the series:
There are other places seen in the series. Here are some of my pictures of them:
- Trying to run down Wheelie and Daniel (31K, series, 4/28/99).
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Dinosaurer is the same as before in this series, a giant brutal dinosaur
Transformer.
Sixshot
usually is found giving him commands. Here are some of my pictures of
Dinosaurer from the series:
