This is a graphics webpage devoted to Minerva, the extremely kawaii Headmaster Jr. from Transformers Masterforce. As far as I know, these are the first and only images of Minerva available anywhere on the World Wide Web. (Though if you have or know of any more such images, I would greatly appreciate it if you'd send them my way for inclusion here...)
Feel free to download these, send them around, link to them, et cetera, though if you make them available publically, I would appreciate some credit as to where you got them. They make great wallpaper, I might add.
I got this picture from the Japanese Supergod Masterforce page listed below.
Check out Dave Van Domelen's Minerva repaint page to see Dvandom's version of the Nightbeat toy repainted to look like Minerva, and his Minerva actionmaster kitbash page to see what a little plastic, a little modelling clay, a little glue, and a lot of ingenuity can do.
Special thanks to Robbie Trinidad (deadlock@mozcom.com) for screengrabbing the pictures for me. Visit his Powermaster Optimus Prime (God Ginrai) page for screengrabs of another Masterforce character.
There is also a Masterforce MUSH at masterforce.rnrws.com port 4242.
Other Japanese Transformers pages include:
Minerva is the Cybertrons' medic; her Porsche 911 transtector
(robot body/vehicle) is equipped as a sort of compact ambulance (the
rear seat and trunk space seem to have been replaced by a small
stretcher/medical equipment bay). She does not believe in violence,
and will never fire her weapon to kill. The other two Cybertron
Headmaster Juniors are Shuta (or Go-Shuta), who drives a police car,
and Cab, who drives a fire truck.
In Masterforce, as in all Japanese Transformers series, the
relationship of a Headmaster or Powermaster (Godmaster) to its vehicle
is very different from the way it was portrayed in American media,
such as the comic books or "Rebirth." In Japanese series, the
vehicle/robot body ("transtector") has no mind of its own; rather, it
becomes an extension of the body of its operator when the two have
transformed and combined. (Though Masterforce is the only
Transformer show in which humans were heads or engines--in
Headmasters and Victory it was smaller robots.) Thus,
"Minerva" is the name of both the girl and the robot.
If Minerva's robot form looks slightly familiar, this is because
her toy was recolored and sold in America as the Headmaster Nightbeat.
If you like these pages, please let me know! Email me at robotech@eyrie.org!
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