I remember back when the Shout DVD sets for the three JG1 series came out and it was discovered that nearly all the names and terms had been westernized and random lines of dialogue had been rewritten to throw in totally-out-of-place references to Aligned and IDW1.
At that time, I expressed my...
Reminder that the official American Masterforce DVD set released by Shout used the Hasbro names for almost every single one of those characters, even calling Cancer "Squeezeplay", in the subtitles.
Well, gee, I sure couldn't think of any reason why Hasbro would decide to not name their children's toy "Cancer". 😜
Kidding aside, they also made it a point to sculpt the little headmaster based on Cancer's Masterforce cartoon model, and have said in either the toy's reveal video or it's...
Heh, I remember when that Arcee first came out and a bunch of nitpickers were mad that she wasn't her own new mold with the same Barbie doll proportions as her cartoon model. "She's not feminine enough! She's too butch to be Arcee!" Bunch of ungrateful whiners. 🙄
Didn't stop this from getting made:
Alternately, the Enigma had another form that it could become in Machinima's Combiner Wars cartoon, a more orb-shaped form:
Not much different from people rendering Power of the Primes's "POTP" as "Potpie".
And certainly no worse than Beast Machines giving us "BM". Even Mainframe's at-the-time Director of Communications, Mairi Welman, expressed concern over that one.
MPG-09 Super Ginrai in-hand transformation video:
His cab is actually smaller than MP-44!
And his transformation is relatively straightforward with only a decent amount of complexity to it, none of that "fold the entire figure inside out" or "Fold a million teeny tiny panels to make...
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