I’ve been wanting Reprolabels for my Hosehead for forever, and finally they exist. It’s not often I buy Reprolabels to replace missing official stickers. Usually they’re to “enhance” a toy above and beyond the official appearance, like with Perceptor a few days ago. But my Hosehead has been dreadfully bare for years, and now he is not. Hurrah!
Hosehead is Nightbeat‘s friend. Sort of. It’s hard to discern. Both he and Nightbeat are Headmasters, which means they musta gotten their Nebulan partners basically around the same time frame, right? They should know each other from then.
But in their Marvel UK introduction, when Nightbeat and Siren meet Hosehead, they don’t recognize each other at all, to the point of confusing each other for Decepticons. Maybe Hosehead was in another room when all the Headmastering went down, and convenient foliage kept blocking him whenever Nightbeat and Siren passed by? Who knows. In the US stories, it’s assumed they just hung out together forever.
Anyway.
These are the questions that keep geeks awake at night.
I loved transformers as a kid but my parents rarely bought the bigger, expensive ones. However, Mom did buy me Hosehead when he went on clearance. I LOVED this guy as a kid. For the time he was a very versatile transformer- the joints in the ladder alone amused me to no end. Oddly enough, I still have him. His head was actually lost for years until I found it in another toy bucket.
I still have mine as well, sans head, unfortunately. Lost it some time in ’92. Now it’s one of my daughter’s favorite “Transmora”, as she says it.
I rarely placed the stickers on my Transformers when I was younger. Only really necessary ones like an insignia or a window sticker. I tried it on my first Transformer (Twisn Twist) and after a while of playing, they peeled so badly I never wanted stickers on a figure again. I kinda regret it now, because my old figures look so threadbare.
I like to pronounce his name to rhyme with “bromeliad”. Ho-SEH-hee-AHD!
Hosehead superstar Hosehead superstar Ho-se-head-su-per-staaar….