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- Fri Jul 17, 2009 10:25 pm
- Forum: Transformers Media / Fandom
- Topic: Names and their Meanings (Largely ROTF) **spoilers**
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- Fri Jul 17, 2009 10:08 pm
- Forum: Transformers Media / Fandom
- Topic: Names and their Meanings (Largely ROTF) **spoilers**
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Wait, I've clearly gotten turned around somewhere, do all three bikes actually have names or is it Arcee and Chromia with unknown rather than Arcee and Elita One with unknown? I seem to have gotten confused by the way some peeps have been bandying Elita 1's name about. If the middle bike is unnamed...
- Fri Jul 17, 2009 9:56 pm
- Forum: Transformers Media / Fandom
- Topic: Names and their Meanings (Largely ROTF) **spoilers**
- Replies: 94
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Machine Wars Soundwave was a fairly random reuse of that name (hell, a few of the others were as well, though Megatron a cute little jet is at least more imposing than the Walther). I honestly don't think any more though was put into picking Elita's name for both the second repaint of Arcee toy in ...
- Fri Jul 17, 2009 8:13 pm
- Forum: Transformers Media / Fandom
- Topic: Names and their Meanings (Largely ROTF) **spoilers**
- Replies: 94
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Thanks for clarifying. Not actually, no. You just listed a bunch of character traits that go hand-in-hand with one name and then did the same for another name, and then said that one name carries meaning and character and the other doesn't. Moreover, you just said how pliable character-naming can b...
- Fri Jul 17, 2009 6:57 pm
- Forum: Transformers Media / Fandom
- Topic: Names and their Meanings (Largely ROTF) **spoilers**
- Replies: 94
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She existed solely to provide a backstory for Blackarachnia, and could just as easily have been named Chromia, Moonracer, or Phillip. Not true because neither Chromia nor Moonracer had a connection to Optimus. Elita does. That is what makes Blackarachnia's story so tragic. It's her connection to Op...
- Fri Jul 17, 2009 3:15 am
- Forum: Transformers Media / Fandom
- Topic: Names and their Meanings (Largely ROTF) **spoilers**
- Replies: 94
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- Fri Jul 17, 2009 2:02 am
- Forum: Transformers Media / Fandom
- Topic: Names and their Meanings (Largely ROTF) **spoilers**
- Replies: 94
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- Fri Jul 17, 2009 12:57 am
- Forum: Transformers Media / Fandom
- Topic: Names and their Meanings (Largely ROTF) **spoilers**
- Replies: 94
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- Fri Jul 17, 2009 12:33 am
- Forum: Transformers Media / Fandom
- Topic: Names and their Meanings (Largely ROTF) **spoilers**
- Replies: 94
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I guess I should just be blunt. The names of the toys are all marketing/branding uses. Simply put, if you want to believe something else, feel free, but do not confuse the motivation of renaming new toys with with personalities of the created characters. The characters are created to promote the to...
- Thu Jul 16, 2009 9:24 pm
- Forum: Transformers Media / Fandom
- Topic: Names and their Meanings (Largely ROTF) **spoilers**
- Replies: 94
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Did he do any leading? In the comic he was pretty much out for himself and by himself when he was wasn't Megatron's whipping boy. And none of the episodes of the cartoon I saw had him displaying any personality. But in her only fictional appearances she isn't, she's basically just a grunt. Doesn't ...
- Thu Jul 16, 2009 8:52 pm
- Forum: Transformers Media / Fandom
- Topic: Names and their Meanings (Largely ROTF) **spoilers**
- Replies: 94
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- Thu Jul 16, 2009 7:39 pm
- Forum: Transformers Media / Fandom
- Topic: Names and their Meanings (Largely ROTF) **spoilers**
- Replies: 94
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- Thu Jul 16, 2009 7:24 pm
- Forum: Transformers Media / Fandom
- Topic: Names and their Meanings (Largely ROTF) **spoilers**
- Replies: 94
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Hasbro bought out Tonka toys in 1991. Originally, the Gobots had been released as Machine Robo toys prior to Tonka Toys release of the Gobot. The Gobots had a story line added and created the Machine Robo toys into a new toy line. The Gobots were the Transformers competition, but lost out in popula...
- Thu Jul 16, 2009 6:16 am
- Forum: Transformers Media / Fandom
- Topic: Names and their Meanings (Largely ROTF) **spoilers**
- Replies: 94
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To be fair though, there has been a lot of random name reusage in the years since, sometime to do with keeping a copyright and sometimes because they don't have any better ideas. To pick a example, does Armada Nightbeat have any association in terms of character, appearance or alt mode with the ori...
- Thu Jul 16, 2009 6:08 am
- Forum: Transformers Media / Fandom
- Topic: Names and their Meanings (Largely ROTF) **spoilers**
- Replies: 94
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To be faire, Mr. Budiansky did just put names to most of the figures. According to TFWiki, Mr. Budiansky also created the backstory and history of the characters. So in fact he did kind of just name-slap names to figures, since he was the one who created most of the characters in the first place. S...
- Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:50 am
- Forum: Transformers Media / Fandom
- Topic: Names and their Meanings (Largely ROTF) **spoilers**
- Replies: 94
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http://lolligagger.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Bob-Budiansky.jpg http://lolligagger.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Dead-Sea-Scrolls-Bob.jpg Apparently all you need is a piece of paper and a pencil with you to name them. As seen in the interview on the 3rd disc of the 25th Anniversary Season One ...
- Wed Jul 15, 2009 11:14 pm
- Forum: Transformers Media / Fandom
- Topic: 13 sarcophagi in ROTF novel.
- Replies: 16
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- Wed Jul 15, 2009 11:01 pm
- Forum: Transformers Media / Fandom
- Topic: 13 sarcophagi in ROTF novel.
- Replies: 16
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- Wed Jul 15, 2009 10:43 pm
- Forum: Transformers Media / Fandom
- Topic: 13 sarcophagi in ROTF novel.
- Replies: 16
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- Wed Jul 15, 2009 8:41 pm
- Forum: Transformers Media / Fandom
- Topic: 13 sarcophagi in ROTF novel.
- Replies: 16
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I know, but the novel doesn't say anything about the hatchlings at all. The setup on the Nemesis was definately different in the novel than either the comic or the movie. In fact, I'll check when I get home to be sure, but the epilogue in the comic that shows Megatron hovering over the stasis pods ...