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There's 2/3. I certainly hope we will get a Shrapnel to go along with Bombshell and Kickback.

C'mon Hasbro, please make this into a toy (and Shrapnel too).

Delicon wrote:

Skyfire77 wrote:

Megatron Wolf wrote:so why cant they call him bombshell in the game?

Hasbro lost the trademark to "Bombshell" and "Shrapnel" prior to 2008. The TRU Universe rerelease renamed them Hardshell and Sharpshot respectively.

I'm actually a much bigger fan of their E-Hobby clone army counterparts and their names. Salvo, Zaptrap and the all-time greatest TF name ever...SHOTHOLE!

A more likely reason is to be more PC with their names. Names like Bombshell and Shrapnel recall the situation in Afghanistan and Iraq with all the bombings.

There is a DC villain called Shrapnel. It might also fall into an issue of avoiding calling it "Decepticon Shrapnel". The Robot Heroes sharpnel was just called insecticon. I think Sharpshot was an odd choice, but I pretty much just call them all insecticons anyway.