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Compatible toys in other lines

Unite Warriors

Legends Blurr received a drastically different deco compared to his Hasbro release.

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Associated fiction generally repurposed the Titan Masters as Headmasters and Godmasters (with larger Transtector bodies), though in toy terms, they remain cross-compatible with the Titan Master head swapping gimmick. The Titans Return compatible toys in Legends are as follows:

Torsos Convoy Tactician Cyclonus Dolrailer Grand Scourge Hot Spot Megaempress Motormaster Onslaught Scattershot Silverbolt Sky Lynx

Limbs Afterburner Air Rider Blast Off Brawl Breakdown Zombie War Breakdown Dangar Dead End Drag Stripe Firebolt First Aid Flowspade Graze Greejeeber

Groove Hepter Hound Ironhide Lightspeed Ligier Lunaclub Moonheart Nosecone Prowl Ratchet Wandering Roller Shuttler

Skydive Sling Ghost Starscream Strafe Streetwise Sunstreaker Swindle Curse Armada Thrust Trailbreaker Trickdiamond Vorter Wheeljack Wildrider

Legends Leo Prime, a character who did not appear in the Titans Return line. Godbomber was designed from scratch to be exclusive to Legends.

Others

Cogman, breakout star of The Last Knight, was referred to as a Headmaster by the film's dialogue.

Evidently thinking they'd mastered the concept, Hasbro and Takara would frequently dip back in the Titans Return well whenever a toy necessitated Titan Master engineering. The toyline for the live-action movie The Last Knight, which overlapped with the tail end of Titans Return, introduced a pair of molds to represent new Titan Master-compatible characters. Elsewhere, existing tooling would be used to represent anything from new takes on old characters to real-life Japanese celebrities. New toy designs based on Titan Master engineering were still being produced for the War for Cybertron Trilogy toylines in 2020, four years after the debut of Titans Return; of these, Earthrise Snapdragon would herald a sea change in terminology, with his product copy referring to his small partner Krunk as a Titan Master and Headmaster interchangeably. The G1 nomenclature was retained for the subsequent Retro Headmasters line, which brought certain Legends toolings to Western audiences, and it also appeared in the product write-up for Buzzworthy Bumblebee Fangry and Brisko.

Titan Master-compatible toys in other lines include:

Tribute Orion Pax The Last Knight Cogman Decepticon Nitro		Studio Series 09 Thundercracker 39 Cogman 43 KSI Boss Bumblebee Greatest Hits Soundwave & Doombox		Street Fighter II × Transformers Convoy [Ryu] vs Megatron [Vega] Hot Rodimus [Ken]		Transformers / Downtown no Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende!! Transformer Hamada Robo ~Donarimasu~ & Transformer Matsumoto Robo ~Guchirimasu~ (w/ Giant Fujiwara)		Transformers / Downtown no Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende!! Giant Fujiwara.
Golden Lagoon GL-03 Perceptor GL-04 Soundwave The Transformers SonicBlue Bumble & Excelsuit Chama		War for Cybertron: Siege Apeface (w/ Spasma) War for Cybertron: Earthrise Scorponok (w/ Lord Zarak) Snapdragon (w/ Decepticon Krunk)		Retro Headmasters Chromedome (w/ Stylor) Brainstorm (w/ Arcana) Hardhead (w/ Duros) Mindwipe (w/ Vorath)		Highbrow (w/ Gort) Skullcruncher (w/ Grax) Weirdwolf (w/ Monzo)		Retro Headmasters Chromedome.
Buzzworthy Bumblebee Fangry (w/ Brisko)		Generations Selects Black Zarak

Power of the Primes

Following Titans Return, the next and final instalment of the Prime Wars Trilogy was Power of the Primes. This line featured the unified gimmick of "powering up", whether that meant gaining the abilities of one of the original Thirteen Primes, combining, or evolving to Primehood.

Prime Masters

The line introduced the Prime Masters – small robots directly based on the engineering of the Titan Masters. Instead of transforming into heads, the Prime Masters could become "spark modes" to slot into the Prime Armor of various figures, or into the Matrix handles included with the larger toys (see below). These spark modes were essentially Titans Return head modes, but with the front faceplate replaced by the insignia of that particular Prime; this meant that Titan Master heads could fit into the aforementioned Prime Armor, and Prime Master spark modes could be used as heads for Titans Return compatible figures — though with the latter, your mileage may vary on how well each Prime insignia resembles a face.

Prime Master Class Liege Maximo Micronus Vector Prime Alchemist Prime

Alpha Trion Megatronus Quintus Prime Solus Prime

Pack-in partners Onyx Prime Amalgamous Prime Nexus Prime Prima Prime The Thirteenth

Special Edition Megatronus Solus Prime Prima Prime

Power of the Primes Liege Maximo.

Enigmas of Combination/Matrix cores

Deluxe and Voyager Class toys in Power of the Primes revisited Combiner Wars-style combination, augmented by the addition of "Prime Armor" accessories that could house Prime Masters (and by extension, Titan Masters and Headmasters) in any of their configurations. Each Deluxe figure included a Prime Armor chestplate that could form a combiner hand; each Voyager figure came with a pair of bracers that could double as combiner feet, as well as an Enigma of Combination accessory to slot into the mounting port of any of the Prime Armor pieces.

Meanwhile, toys in the Leader Class price point each included a two-piece Matrix accessory, consisting of a frame in the shape of the Matrix of Leadership's handles and a block designed after its crystalline core. The Matrix cores were, surprise surprise, the same general shape as Titan Master heads, Prime Master sparks, and the Enigmas of Combination, so each of those things could be mounted into the Matrix's handles. Do you want your Rodimus Prime to open his chest to reveal a Matrix with an effigy of his own face? Now you can!

We mention all these accessories on this page because, despite not turning into little robots, both the Enigmas of Combination and the Matrix cores feature the characteristic neck post compatible with the Titans Return play pattern, meaning you can plug them right in and give your robots greebly cyclopean heads with no neck articulation. You know, if you wanted to.

Enigmas of Combination Dinobot Grimlock's Dinobot Enigma Starscream's Seeker Enigma

Elita-1's Autobot Enigma Terrorcon Hun-Gurrr's Terrorcon Enigma Inferno's Autobot Enigma

Matrix of Leadership cores Evolution Rodimus Prime Evolution Optimus Prime Evolution Optimal Optimus Throne of the Primes Optimal Optimus

Other Matrix cores Evolution Rodimus Unicronus's Matrix of Chaos Evolution Nemesis Prime' Dark Matrix of Leadership

Power of the Primes Nemesis Prime.