Victory

Oh Victory...you made me wet my panties :D

It's so sad that this was the last full instalment of G1 Transformers from Japan anyway...

LOVE

Cool new robots for me to lust over
Star Saber
Pretender Shells are able to act independently of the robot, like in Marvel
Star Saber
Lots of new concepts are introduced for the first time (Breastforce, Brainmasters)
Star Saber
LOADS OF COMBINERS!!!
STAR SABER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Dinoforce are just great
STAR SABER STAR SABER STAR SABER!!
Old characters reappear (like Minerva, Ginrai, Perceptor and Zombie Wheeljack)
Did I mention Star Saber?
When Ginrai became Victory Leo he takes his time acclimating to the new body, unlike when Bumblebee became Goldbug or Hot Rod into Rodimus etc
Ginrai gets his jst deserts as well, in Masterforce he had 2 power-up partners (his trailer and Godbomber) yet now he becomes a power up for Star Saber
The Breast Force aren't all introduced at once, You get Leozack first, then the 3 land vehicle ones, the Hellbat, then Gaihawk, then a seventh member who dies, and then their combined form...whew
Subspace is used a lot too to explain the weapons appearing from nowhere :D

HATE

Misleading weapons, like showing the characters having swords when they actually have guns in the toys
Galaxy Shuttle...I like the ide aof the characters, he's huge, powerful...but he has THAT voice...WHY DOES HE HAVE A FREAKY HIGH VOICE?????
Also Galaxy Shuttle is just used as a space bus, which is depressing, considering how strong he is...I am glad however that he didn't mass-shift at any time
The Micromaster Bases are used in the series, but their Micromaster partners aren't seen anywhere

Minibot Interlude!!!

I really want more updates of minibots to happen, even if they are just repaints...so what have we got so far:

DONE

Bumblebee - Classics
Cliffjumper - Classics
Windcharger - Generations
Huffer - PCC
Brawn - ROTF
Beachcomber - ROTF
Cosmos - Universe
Powerglide - Universe
Seaspray - HFTD
Outback - ROTF
Wheelie - Universe
Warpath - Universe

STILL NEED

Hubcap - Can be done with a remolded head on Classics Bumblebee
Gears - any idea?
Tailgate - Repaint/Remold Generations Windcharger
Swerve - any idea?
Pipes - Repaint/remold PCC Huffer
Glyph - Repaint Classics Bumblebee
Tap-Out - Repaint Classics Bumblebee
Rook - Repaint Generations Windcharger

Masterforce

Okay, I loved Headmasters, but I ADORE Masterforce (ps I use a more graphic verb for my feelings about Victory). Basically, this is Transformers crossed over with Power Rangers, and thus is pure love, so here's my run down again:

LOVE

There are ZOMBIES in episode 2 and 3!!!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE (Well Destroids technically)
Sixknight is basically Batman here, he appears from nowhere to save the day, and then goes away again...plus he can probably breathe in space <<
There are loads of non-animated-before characters here again, plus a lot of them use their Western counterpart's colours instead of the proper Japanese ones (weird) So we get DoubleDealer instead of Doubleclouder etc
The Humans actually do stuff instead of standing around cheering on the robots
The Pretender Technology makes more sense than in the Marvel comics
Brilliant Music and Animation
The Transtectors are able to drive by themselves as well as being driven (showing that they have some sentience)
The bases for both factions get destroyed quite a lot, requiring the factions to use some base modes instead (ie Overlord's base mode and Ginrai's one)
Master Braces are cool....AND COME IN KINDER EGGS!!!!!
They have very catchy catchphrases (MASTERFORCE!!! PRETENDER!!! SUIT ON!!! HEAD ON!!! GOD ON!!!)
Characters die, and then don't appear again in crowd scenes (here's looking at you Prowl!)
Wilder kills a puppy, just so Minerva will fight...WAHHHHHH (lol the puppy is named "Pis"
There's quite a bit of faction swapping as well, especially after DEvil Z starts showing his desire to kill all humans
Lightfoot is gay for Ginrai :D

HATE

THE DUB!!! MINERVA IS NOT NIGHTBEAT!!!
The action takes place just on Earth and the Moon :(
The humans muse be contortionists to turn into Heads and Engines :(
A MAJOR missed opportunity here, the Decepticon human characters could have stolen the Autobot Transtectors at some point, and posed as them, causing problems etc (ie Giga steals Ginrai and poses as him etc)
Okay I think that's it, I should be talking about Victory tomorrow :D Enjoy!!

Headmasters

I LOVE the Transformers: The Headmasters series from Japan, when I first saw it I was so happy, it was just after I collected the G1 DVD's from Metrodome, so I was in the mood for more Transformers. I mean despite this series being like 20 years old or something when I saw it, it just always felt new to me

Now My actual thoughts:

LOVE

The Trainbots - Lets face it...Robots that turn into trains are just cool and we didn't get enough over here in the west

The Headmasters - Whilst the Nebulon Headmasters are what I remember most, I actually prefer that the Headmasters in Japan were just purely robotic instead of little aliens in suits

Cybertron exploding - Who couldn't find that incredible

More toys!!! - Not more than we had in the West really, but I mean we see more toys on screen than we did in the West, like the Monsterbots, and most others having a larger role, like Punch or the Clones...and Sixshot of course

Ultra Magnus - I'm not a fan of Ultra Magnus, I admit that, I find him irritating really, but I loved his death scene..yeah..I'm a sadist

Combiners - So many combiners fighting *droooolllll*

A paced out intro for characters - Because Season 4 in the West was so contracted, you had like 50 new characters appear in one episode or something, at least in Headmasters we get episodes specifically for specific characters to be introduced

Targetmasters - I like how they aren't just guns (ie held by a handle), but weapons that actually attach to the larger robots

The bloodbath - These episodes have a lot of death in them, I mean not every episode, but certainly a lot of them

Sixshot - He got shafter in Season 4, now he has his revenge, he's Earth Commander, a super ninja, a mass murderer and later a defector, joining the Autobots as seen in Victory (as Greatshot) plus...you know...SIX ALT MODES!!!

Drunk robots - Hardhead gets drunk and makes Twincast act like a karaoke machine as he sings the closing themetune to the series, and Wheelie gets drunk too (LIGHTWEIGHT!)

HATE

Arcee - "Here's your tea Mr Maximus" is essentially her role in the series

DUB DUB DUB!!!! - I tried watching Headmasters in the dub form first, then I cried, I just couldn't watch it...now I tend to watch foreign films in subtitled form rather than dub, unless they are dubbed by a proper company like 4Kids or something

Daniel - Seriously? How old is he meant to be??

I'll probably update this every so often as stuff come to mind