and the original Triggerhappy was a fine example of this. Gone was the idea of 'robots in disguise' in favour of an underachieving sci-fi aesthetic, where the vehicles were basically all sci-fi, with the occasional excuse that they were Cybertronian forms. Gone were the unlicensed-but-accurate, part die-cast model cars that magically transformed into decent-looking robots and, in their place, we had unconvincing blocks of plastic masquerading as vehicles, which transformed into clumsy, poorly-articulated robots. One of the reasons I started to give up on TransFormers toys from about 1987 onward was that the aesthetic changed so dramatically after the animated movie. Until I started hearing/reading comments from folks who'd gone out and bought him, to the effect that it was an awesome figure with a unique and surprising transformation.
G1 Triggerhappy was a bit of a train wreck, engineering-wise, and among the weirder designs that was deliberately not a terrestrial vehicle, so I was all set to not bother with it. One such figure was Triggerhappy, a remake of the G1 TargetMaster who's no longer a TargetMaster unless you waited for the Legends version.
#Titans return highbrow fix movie
My initial plan was to get Takara Tomy's version of Blurr just to complete my '86 animated movie Autobots set ( Classics Hot Rod, Kup, Wreck Gar and Grimlock, Thrilling 30 Springer, along with Legends Arcee & Ultra Magnus), but several other figures turned out to be fairly interesting and, almost before I knew it, I'd nabbed a whole bunch of the new Deluxes and Voyagers. Back when it first emerged that the Titans Return toyline would largely comprise remakes of G1 HeadMasters and TargetMasters, all of which would come with tiny Titan Master figures ( HeadMasters by any other name), and feature the enhanced articulation of contemporary figures, I honestly didn't see a great deal to get excited about.
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