High Command wrote:Loki120 wrote:Leonardo wrote:High Command wrote:[...]Ratchet is named after Nurse Ratched (from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest )[...]
Is that true?
And it wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that Ratchet is a mechanic and a ratchet is a tool?
I doubt the Nurse Ratched thing.
Bob Budiansky is displeased by your doubting.Uncle Bob on naming transformers said not wrote:Do you remember any Transformers in particular that you came up with names and personalities for?
Megatron, whichever the first couple dozen were. Ravage. I think Bumblebee was mine. Ironhide, um who was the ambulence? Ratchet, which I got from "One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest", Nurse Ratchet you know that story. Ironhide I got from the old TV series Ironside. I pulled all these names from different things.
Megatron was "Mega" from "Megaton", you know. "Tron" was from "electronics". I can't say for sure, but my belief is that that name became one of the best known. I remember it was in Doonesbury where the son of Doonsbury is saying that the President is Megatron or something like that. I think it's the best known and regarded among a lot of the names I came up with. At the time, Hasbro actually initially rejected it, and the reasoning was "Well, it sounds too scary because Megatron makes you think of nuclear bombs." and I said "Well, he's the head of the bad guys, the whole idea is for him to be scary." They dropped their protest after that. They would reject names every so often for all sorts of reasons. Although they were really happy, I mean they were just ecstatic generally when I came up with a batch of names for them to look at.
I know sometimes in other years they actually used companies to come up with names. At that time I think there was some really nascent computer software to generate names, and they would do that. And they would always come back to me. For like, five years they did that.
So ner. I wasn't talking out of my arse, thankyouverymuchplease.
Okay, I can admit when I'm wrong.
Ner?