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WTF animals are FnR's AM's supposed to be?! Wildrider's is the only one I can identify, which is (barely) an elephant.

SKYWARPED_128 wrote:WTF animals are FnR's AM's supposed to be?! Wildrider's is the only one I can identify, which is (barely) an elephant.

Mono-eyed squids?

Amazon Japan listings:


AM-30 Rumble
http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%82%BF%E3%82 ... 687&sr=8-1

AM-31 Frenzy
http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%82%BF%E3%82 ... 713&sr=8-1

AM-32 WildRider
http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%82%BF%E3%82 ... 755&sr=8-1

SKYWARPED_128 wrote:WTF animals are FnR's AM's supposed to be?! Wildrider's is the only one I can identify, which is (barely) an elephant.

I thought it was an elephant but then I thought it was a warthog. That other thing looks like a robot from a 50's TV show.

Frenzy and Rumble's Microns are Octopuses, and are called Dago, from タコ (tako) which means octopus in Japanese. Wildrider's is an elephant, called Ozu, an anagram of zou, or in Japanese 象 or ぞう, which means elephant. Ok, I'm done

Hey, is that a new head on Wildrider?

Sabrblade wrote:

SW's SilverHammer wrote:I know this is an odd idea, any one hoping the Rumble/Frenzy micron's called Tako?

LOL, but alas, it is called Dago. Though, It is likely derived from "Tako", but having the syllable accents altered.

Incidentally, it also makes his name look like it's also derived from "Dagon", who's sometimes portrayed as a sea god/monster.

Not sometimes, IS. Dagon is the Assyro-Babylonian/Semitic god of grain(as a symbol of fertility), fish, and fishing(as a symbol of multiplying). All depictions I've seen of the historical Dagon depict him as having the torso of a man and the lower body of some aquatic life form(fish, shark, or whale, it's hard to tell).

Lovecraft's is the same being, just "promoted" above being a human deity. It's why the Deep Ones(children of Father Dagon and Mother Hydra) are always so obsessed/involved with getting busy in his stories.

It is kind of weird for me to say this, but Wildrider now has me think of Frankenstein's Monster. I mean that those things on his head look like Cybertronian bolts.

Then again, Rumble does look like a Dai Gurren... With Frenzy looking like a blue Gurren.

Damn, these AM are like fricking clouds on a sunny day; you just end up seeing whatever the heck animal you want to see.

Mykltron wrote:I thought it was an elephant but then I thought it was a warthog. That other thing looks like a robot from a 50's TV show.

Could be a hybrid for all we know. Wartlephant? Or elehog?

And yeah, FnR's AM's do look like those ugly-ass robots from 50's scifi movie, don't they?

Personally, the first thing they reminded me of was those gold Aztec trinkets, carved in the image of their gods.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Frenzy and Rumble's Microns are Octopuses, and are called Dago, from タコ (tako) which means octopus in Japanese. Wildrider's is an elephant, called Ozu, an anagram of zou, or in Japanese 象 or ぞう, which means elephant. Ok, I'm done

Dude, what other language do you speak? From what I've seen in your posts, you seem to speak more languages that all the taxi drivers in New York!

English (obviously), Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, German...anything I missed?