With the imminent arrival of the Titans Return line which will focus exclusively on the Headmaster
gimmick, I thought this might be a good time to write up Generations Brainstorm, the first in the new generation of Headmaster.
In case anyone doesn’t know, the Headmasters are one of the
stranger G1 concepts. Speaking only for the American branch of the fiction, the
*-masters were full-fledged Cybertronians who took on a symbiotic partnership
with residents of the planet Nebulous, whose indigenous Nebulons were engaged
in a generations-long civil war themselves. For some reason, certain Nebulons
offered their services to the Cybertronians, becoming tiny exosuit wearing
partners that transformed into the heads (Headmasters), weapons
(Targetmasters), or most puzzlingingly later on, engines (Powermasters) for the
larger robots, approximating the “two heads are better than one” approach to
life. With this development coming post-’86 movie, the robots had sleeker, more
futuristic and abstract vehicle modes, and somehow that kind of made this wacky
concept work. The Autobots entries in these three categories were generally
cars, while the Decepticons got a boost to their air force as well as an
assortment of animals.
