Just so we're clear. This came out in 1987. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past which was the first game to reference the Master Sword properly did not come out until 1991. Nuff said. :D
Not to mention that the way Fortress Maximus summoned it seems to be what inspired the way Daizyuujin gets his Godhorn sword in 1992's Kyouryuu Sentai Zyuuranger (aka the Megazord's Power Sword in 1993's season 1 of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers).
The transformation process is a rare patch of quality as far as _The Headmasters'_ animation is concerned - the show is usually AKOM-level stuff. And of course, the quality to this scene is undercut by the wonky broken-leg post-transformation pose.
@@sara.cbc92 Yes and no. The core concepts and characters have largely been of American invention, even if most of the toys have been developed or co-developed by Japanese designers and many of the cartoons have either employed Japanese animation studios or been produced in Japan outright and then dubbed for the US (or in the case of Armada, had the US dub rushed out _before_ the Japanese airing)
If you're G1 TF fan, this has to give you the goosebumps :) The music, the animation, the transformation sequence.... freaking awesome :) Of course, much better than the Rebirth, I take this as my official G1 season 4 instead of the Rebirth
-Optimus Prime dies immediately -Scourge and Cyclonus are relegated to comic relief and unceremoniously booted from the show -Sixshot becomes blatantly overpowered -Galvatron gets killed by *ice* & Scorponok takes over -Rodimus Prime peaces out & *this guy* takes over -final battle is won by the Power of Friendship yes, much better than the Rebirth indeed.
@@christopherbravo1813 with all the bad sides of the Headmasters that you pointed out (and they are relevant, apart from the Sixshot's one), it's still 1000 times better than the Rebirth. It also has a ton of good things, while with Rebirth it's enough to mention only one thing: their stupid idea of Transformers becoming basically just robotic bodies for humans and Nebulans, and that kills the show beyond salvation no matter anything else.
@@BegUltra honestly I don't particularly mind Sixshot getting buffed to absurdity, but some people do so i figured it was worth pointing out also yeah you're not going to like Masterforce at all.
@@David315842 The two actually DID tangle - more than once; Fortress Maximus was, in fact, built for the express purpose of taking down Scorponok - who had injured - and later kidnapped - Spike's son Daniel - who was binary-bonded with Aleta-1 to save Daniel's life. Daniel getting hurt got Spike hacked off; it also got pacifist Cerebros hacked off - which is why he taught Spike the binary-bonding process. (Yes; this is the SAME Spike Witwicky that dates back to when the Transformers emerged from that long nap.)
@@PGHammer21A You failed to realise that was further referencing the infamous dub, in particular the scene where Scorpinok/Zarak says 'Fortress Maximus has come himself'.
seriously why are the japanese iterations of the transformers better than the western ones they even got really nice sequences & soundtracks to boot ill never get tired if these
How I like to think of Fort Max is having his smallest headmaster be the size of a normal transformer than he forms the head of a huge transformer that finally forms the largest head for Fort Max. I do this because the Fort Max base is freakin huge but when his headmasters combine to form his head the scale isn’t right.
@@gabrielchee8470 As much as I hated the series, Car Robots / RID did it far better with Cerebros transforming into the head of the emisarry which in turn transformed into the head of Forress Maximus made more sense than regular sized "Fortress" masss shifting to become the head of Maximus in this series.
Damn it Link, you time travelled too far to the Earth year 2011 and into the wrong universe. (In reality Transformers had used the name before The Legend of Zelda did).
It was funny that our italian adaption in 1987 translated "Master Sword" in "Master Sodo" because of terrible english pronunciation of japanese voice :D
@@MidoriNatsume Beh no il mio esempio vuol dire che all'epoca gli adattatori non sapevano quanto fossero cani i poveri giappi a parlare inglese. Il tuo esempio mostra che alcuni adattatori non conoscevano manco la lingua italiana 😄
No need for seven sages to seal away Ganon, just send in a giant...I mean BIG robot after him and crush him in any possible way assuming it's not gonna fall over itself from the extremely bent legs.
@mariusvanrhijn I'll ignore the autobots immediately shooting comment... I prefer it to let robots have whatever color eyes they want, why have such a narrow requirement? then we can have blue eyes, red eyes, green eyes, yellow eyes, etc. for variety.