Welcome to roughly 60% of Transformers names.
what if we call the guy who turns into a cheetah cheetor and the guy who turns into a rhino rhinox
I guess whoever did the naming thought it might help kids idenify the type of animals they were, the only real expections to that were Megatron and Optimus, thou they altered Prime to Primal to reflect his primal nature, I presume
Nope, because it happened when the names didn't phase me, and I loved the characters before the naming conventions got to me.
These days, yeah, okay, a little. But I love rhinox and scorponok entirely too much.
GoBots really loved to put unnecessary spaces in names, even if the name with no space was a real word.Van Guard - Guardian - www.tfu.info
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It might even be...Gobot-y!
Van Guard, sounds like someone that guards vans. It lowkey bugs me. Vanguard is, as you say, a real word with an actual meaning. The space, for me, changes the whole feel of the word.
So is Jazz, Sideswipe, Ratchet, Gears...
Gears, ratchet, jazz: as nouns; they're pretty generic.
Isn't it "Autobot" gears, ratchet and jazz these days anyway?
Isn't it "Autobot" gears, ratchet and jazz these days anyway?
"Geez, my shifts nearly over and I haven't figured out a good name for the toy tarantulas yet..."
It was the '80's, there was a lot less concern about the trademarkability of character names. (Hence the *blasts and the characters with their factions added in front of their names in recent years) I'd guess that the space was just added to emphasize the pun. Hyphens in GoBot names seemed to be reserved for when one or more syllables were replaced with 'alternate' spellings (Cy-kil, Cop-tur, Spay-C, etc.), with Man-O-War being the notable exception (since it's an actual old naval term).
Stylize it. "Iron Clawed Van-Guarde." But just "Vanguard" to his friends.
Hang on, here's a thought... The Infernac Universe figures... They're basically TransTech, but rock-based vehicles instead of animal-based vehicles?
(I half wonder if TransTech characters would've been appearing in Legacy next year were Legacy not being replaced by the Swapticons range. Possibly.)
(I half wonder if TransTech characters would've been appearing in Legacy next year were Legacy not being replaced by the Swapticons range. Possibly.)
I doult it, as Transtech didn't get very far in the production process, so it more likely we would of seen them tackle Beast Machines more along with Energon & Cybertron, Energon hasn't gotten much love in general, the show was terrible in terms of story and animation, but it had a few good figures in the toyline along with the combining gimmick for the Autobots, but then, they haven't given much love to Beast Machines either, much of the focus has been on the G1 and only more resently, Beast Wars but they are mostly over looking those two shows, but then we can also say they are over looking Beast Wars 2 & Neo for the most part
Legacy's replacement is "Generations Prime".
Which seems to be roughly similar in character choices to Legacy, aside from a focus on having the Thirteen Primes.
Swapticons are presumably some type of gimmick line, primarily sold in 2-packs. We don't even know if they transform or not.
Looks great. The colors turned out way nicer than initially shown.
The texture on that plesiosaur neck, my gawd.