Wolfman Jake wrote:Another interesting note on this English packaging released by Takara: Slingshot is translated as "Quickslinger." That's Hasbro's latest name that's trademarkable (Slingshot is not), but it's also not Takara's name for the same character, "Sling." That's some interesting new synergy between Takara and Hasbro, though I guess recent reveals like Sharpnel vs. Shrapnel in the Transformers Adventure line is a very similar case. Or maybe the person laying out the English instructions just pulled the first English name he could find for the figure without giving it much thought. Still, it's interesting.
Wolfman Jake wrote:Well, I wasn't trying to imply laziness on the translator's work so much as posit that it could be a very non-exciting coincidence.
william-james88 wrote:Wolfman Jake wrote:Well, I wasn't trying to imply laziness on the translator's work so much as posit that it could be a very non-exciting coincidence.
Oh I see, sorry I didnt mean to put words in your mouth.
via Ozformers, GoktimusPrime wrote:They didn't tell me one way or the other, but I try to use the same trademarks as Hasbro just to play it on the safe side.
Burn wrote:via Ozformers, GoktimusPrime wrote:They didn't tell me one way or the other, but I try to use the same trademarks as Hasbro just to play it on the safe side.
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Cyberpath wrote:From Yuki:
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RhA wrote:Groove looks Groovy. The rest is okay.
william-james88 wrote:RhA wrote:Groove looks Groovy. The rest is okay.
Even Dragstrip? Groove has more paint apps than him.
shajaki wrote:Wow.. Dragstrip sure is.. yellow. Which is hard to complain about since its accurate. But damn..
Groove however makes me happy in ways I'd rather not describe.
Cobotron wrote:Hey! You seemed to have attracted a wild Megatronus. They're hard to find, but boy are they fun when you catch one!
Shockwave7 wrote:I totally understand G1 'purism'. But to me, it never has, and still doesn't make sense to have a motorcycle that seems to be as massive as a car or a truck. I know most people just say 'mass-forming', but that's the lazy way out - akin to Xena saying 'a wizard did it'.
'But what about the...'
'Wizard!'
'But in this scene it very clearly...'
'WIZARD!!!'
Even in the Prime series, they had to make Arcee mass form a LOT to make her even close to the size of the other Autobots. If her robot mode remained true to the mass and size she had as a motorcycle, she'd have only been maybe seven or eight feet tall and a few hundred pounds, not the near-twenty feet and 2-3 tons they had her clomping around in on the show.
Groove would suffer similarly. Even the biggest, beefiest motorcycles on the roads today don't come anywhere near to being as massive as an Ambulance or a sports car. Sure, you can MAKE one that big, but a person riding around in such a king-sized motorcycle would look ridiculous, just as a grown man would look ridiculous trying to ride on a children's tricycle.
So I have no problem replacing Rook as Defensor's left leg with a vehicle that's more 'in scale'. I just can't suspend my disbelief enough to accept a 2-wheeler vehicle designed to carry only 1-2 persons having enough mass and weight to compare with the others.
Shockwave7 wrote:
So I have no problem replacing Rook as Defensor's left leg with a vehicle that's more 'in scale'. I just can't suspend my disbelief enough to accept a 2-wheeler vehicle designed to carry only 1-2 persons having enough mass and weight to compare with the others.
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