That's not what Confuzor's talking about.
I proposed "Rock and Rollers" except then they made a helicopter.
I mean I have my Inferniacs displayed with my GoBots/Machine Robo guys.
"Rock Autonomous Collective"
It's not a very Legacy feeling name but I'm going with the late G1 style "Geomasters." (I considered the early G1 style Geobots, but I thought Masters was snappier.)
-ZacWilliam, I've probably mentioned before I'm imaging them as a team of Autobots who crashed through the crust into the Inhumanoid's Hollow Earth and hooked up with the Granites to fight Metlar and co...
-ZacWilliam, I've probably mentioned before I'm imaging them as a team of Autobots who crashed through the crust into the Inhumanoid's Hollow Earth and hooked up with the Granites to fight Metlar and co...
Remembering Cybertron Metroplex, perhaps not, but in this particular case I was inclined to view the shorthand moniker through the filter of "Hasbro is reluctant to call these characters GoBots Rock Lords" as opposed to "I don't think these are as good as GoBots Rock Lords".
While punny, I was leaning towards "Sili-Cons", in the style of Armada's Mini-Cons. Geomasters has a nice ring to it, though.
That still doesn't have anything to do with Confuzor calling out PrimalxConvoy's juvenile refusal to call them by their proper name of "Armorizers".
Well, we couldn't call them "Stone Peasants" as in some places, that might still be an imperative to this day...
Also, Hasbro has stated that their primary source of influence for the Armorizers was not the Rock Lords. That was just one of their influences, but a minor one rather than the main one. The main inspiration was the rock aliens of the planet Daira from an episode of Transformers: The Headmasters.
Geocron's head is even directly based on that of the one in the first pic above, per Evan Brooks' designer commentary.
They're also deliberately designed with hollow concave torsos to indicate that they are non-Cybertronian alien lifeforms, with Mark Maher even pointing that they have no sparks. If anything, their home dimension being designated the "Infernac Universe" gives them closer ties to the Inhumanoids than not.
So, anyone calling them something as petty as "Not Lords" is, in and of itself, incredibly redundant since, like, of course they're not Rock Lords. They're no supposed to be!
They're name is "Armorizers". They are what they are.
Geocron's head is even directly based on that of the one in the first pic above, per Evan Brooks' designer commentary.
They're also deliberately designed with hollow concave torsos to indicate that they are non-Cybertronian alien lifeforms, with Mark Maher even pointing that they have no sparks. If anything, their home dimension being designated the "Infernac Universe" gives them closer ties to the Inhumanoids than not.
So, anyone calling them something as petty as "Not Lords" is, in and of itself, incredibly redundant since, like, of course they're not Rock Lords. They're no supposed to be!
They're name is "Armorizers". They are what they are.
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See, I didn't even know there was a collective name for the subline (infraline? microline?) besides the aforementioned home stream. Which speaks either to my work-life balance being way too tilted or a failure of Hasbro marketing, take your pick.
I will say that over on the Mayhem Bakery thread, the interaction between PrimalxConvoy and myself has been quite pleasant. I shan't try to defend his every decision or utterance, but as I said above I viewed the recent one here in a neutral-to-favourable light, and others... didn't.
It was often similar, as I recall, with the late Neale Davidson. Make of that what you will.
The name's on the box.
And in the Product Descriptions for each toy's online order pages.
One for "work-life balance being out of whack", then, as I've only ever seen these guys out of the boxes posed for various things. And I haven't been able to justify toy shopping, local or online, in some time either. But that's as may be.
Now, if "Not-supposed-to-be-Gobots-Rock-Lords" are "Armorizers", then what do we call the companions to the Liokaiser components? (Besides C.O.M.B.A.T. Bots, if the Earth Wars mobile game is anything to go by....)
Now, if "Not-supposed-to-be-Gobots-Rock-Lords" are "Armorizers", then what do we call the companions to the Liokaiser components? (Besides C.O.M.B.A.T. Bots, if the Earth Wars mobile game is anything to go by....)
The ones that came with HasLab Deathsaurus were labeled "Chest Animals" (though, their original Japanese name still remains as "Breast Animals"). Or do you mean some other companions besides the little beasts that form the Breastforce's chestplates and weaponry?
I'm impressed you managed to read as many PrimalxConvoy posts as you have and haven't heard him say "Not[name]" for any character that isn't G1 before. He does it pretty much unprompted.
As above, I read that formula in regards to Cybertron Metroplex, though it was unclear to me at the time if he was comparing the character to G1 Metroplex and finding him wanting, or if he was comparing the Legacy toy to the Cybertron toy and finding that wanting. The latter is what I inferred, but... Well, as I've also said, mostly we've been talking about Japanese culture (as he lives there and I've been posting Miley Watanabe's explanatory videos).
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I was indeed referring to Tigerchest et al. As they form armour plate it makes more sense to me to call the Breastars "Armorizers" in a modern line, rather than the Infernac Universe crew, but so it goes.
Mayhem's topics, for better or worse, generally do not lend themselves to encouraging this particular brand of linguistic tomfoolery for the most part.
Well I would suggest the radical approach of acknowledging that the rock guys have "Armorizers" on their boxes and the BreastForce guys don't
