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lastmaximal

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I’d have bought one by now if not for the listings for the exclusive Thundertron
Mostly this. I'm intrigued by the mold, but I still have oversaturation fatigue from the original so I'm waiting for that or any redeco.

The same (minus the mold fatigue) is true of Bludgeon; I'm waiting to see if the supposed Mayhem release is better than the existing one.
 
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The Predaking

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I found DK-2 Guard at Ross for $8.99 yesterday.


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ZacWilliam1

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So it was a name? Yes that would have been infinitely better.

-ZacWilliam, hate non-name names for TFs. Looks at the Jurassic Park crossover Autobots.
 

Shadewing

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So it was a name? Yes that would have been infinitely better.

-ZacWilliam, hate non-name names for TFs. Looks at the Jurassic Park crossover Autobots.

No, I feel like "Guard" is supposed to be his name, like Breaker. Which is a step up for the JP-#. I just feel that "Guard" is too plain and generic and Vanguard feels more Transformer-y. It's still a title/job but sounds less generic to me, there's something striking and heroic sounding when you say it, least to me. Guardian might also work.
 

wonko the sane?

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Vanguard is a little too on the nose though. He's literally a VAN whose job it is to GUARD stuff.
 

Platypus Prime

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Dooky # 2 Guard combines with Thundercracker and WIndbreaker to make...

...

...before I continue, I'm going to open a window...

(could be worse, given our luck and Japanese naming, Long Haul could have been named TakeDump and Devastator would become Big Dump).
 

Superomegaprime

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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
 

wonko the sane?

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Beast Wars must be extremely painful for you.
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.
 

Shadewing

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GoBots really loved to put unnecessary spaces in names, even if the name with no space was a real word.

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.
 

Noip

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Maybe you can trademark Van Guard but not Vanguard?

I make no claims one way or the other, but vanguard is a real word.
 

wonko the sane?

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Gears, ratchet, jazz: as nouns; they're pretty generic.

Isn't it "Autobot" gears, ratchet and jazz these days anyway?
 


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