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News Credits: 5749 · by **El Duque** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 9:54 am

Trailcutter is making news again. Just yesterday we got our first official look at his upcoming Transformers Prime "Beast Hunters" Cyberverse Commander figure, now PREVIEWSworld has revealed the IDW universe version of the character will be receiving his own Spotlight in April. No additional details, but the April solicitations should be coming out any day now.

News Credits: 402 · by **Mkall** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 11:48 am

Wow, one of the least-remembered original G1 characters is making one heck of a comeback in 2013!

by **LordTwann** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 12:48 pm

Maybe we can actually see a Generations figure.

News Credits: 11 · by **kirbenvost** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 1:15 pm

What the heck, is his name officially Trailcutter now? Seems like Hasbro's just running with it if they're using it in the comics now too. Don't know why they couldn't just call him Autobot Trailbreaker on the toy packages.

News Credits: 1 · by **rpetras** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 1:35 pm

kirbenvost wrote:What the heck, is his name officially Trailcutter now? Seems like Hasbro's just running with it if they're using it in the comics now too. Don't know why they couldn't just call him Autobot Trailbreaker on the toy packages.

^^ This.

Trailcutter is way to close to turd cutter :BANG_HEAD:

News Credits: 8 · by **Megatron Wolf** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 2:03 pm

wow not even the comics can call him trailbreaker, this name change crap is getting out of hand

News Credits: 487 · by **Darth Bombshell** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 2:29 pm

Megatron Wolf wrote:wow not even the comics can call him trailbreaker, this name change crap is getting out of hand

They HAVE called him Trailbreaker in the comics.

News Credits: 402 · by **Mkall** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 3:33 pm

rpetras wrote:
kirbenvost wrote:What the heck, is his name officially Trailcutter now? Seems like Hasbro's just running with it if they're using it in the comics now too. Don't know why they couldn't just call him Autobot Trailbreaker on the toy packages.

^^ This.

Trailcutter is way to close to turd cutter

The terms Autobot or Decepticon can only be placed in front of a word that is too common for Hasbro to lay claim to, such as Jazz or Tracks. This creates a phrase which Hasbro can lay claim to. When the word is claimed by a different company, such as Ford (I think), then adding words in front won't work.

by **Coptur** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 3:35 pm

If they can't openly use a trademark then they just can't use it. they've explained before that they can't just call them autobot (name) trademarks aren't that simple and if they do use them unlawfully then it can cost companies a lot of money. Hasbro have tried there best in most cases with the new names the best thing fans can do is accept it and move with it and stop complaining about everytime. as long as the heart of the character doesn't change then the character it self doesn't and sometimes it is just a name.

News Credits: 2 · by **Random** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 4:08 pm

For has the "Trailblazer". Not sure where the issue would be with actually calling him Trailbreaker, but it doesn't really matter. Good to see they are doing something with him.

It would be neat to have an updated figure. Wait and see, I guess.

News Credits: 1452 · by **Blurrz** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 5:27 pm

That's funny... he's Trailbreaker in MTMTE.

News Credits: 1 · by **Hairball178** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 6:01 pm

Found a link with a description and covers for it & IDW's other books for April listed on bleedingcool.com.

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/01/18/ ... m=facebook

News Credits: 409 · by **Stormrider** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 8:13 pm

My secret hope is that each Spotlight would reveal the origin of their unique powers but that doesn't seem to be the case. For instance, how come Trailbreaker can make forcefields and no one else? What was the origin of that power? Why can Skywarp teleport and nobody else. It would be cool if these spotlights could shed some light on those unique powers.

News Credits: 487 · by **Darth Bombshell** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 9:10 pm

Blurrz wrote:That's funny... he's Trailbreaker in MTMTE.

It occurs to me that they have to use that name to promote the comic, since they can't use the actual character name because they don't have the copyright to it.

News Credits: 1 · by **jordie5150** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 1:13 am

http://healthcare.zibb.com/trademark/tr ... r/29615608

Hasbro loves to control the names of their products. And the link above is a possible reason for the change.

News Credits: 18 · by **leokearon** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 2:58 am

Livo has his cover for the spotlight up on his Deviantart page

by **Coptur** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 6:30 am

Hold on a second why do we need to know how they have special powers????? What a nonsense story arc just use the power chip rectifier tech from the cartoon :HEADHURTS:

News Credits: 409 · by **Stormrider** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 6:48 am

Coptur wrote:Hold on a second why do we need to know how they have special powers????? What a nonsense story arc just use the power chip rectifier tech from the cartoon

Good point. I feel like a dounce.

News Credits: 487 · by **Darth Bombshell** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 8:07 am

leokearon wrote:Livo has his cover for the spotlight up on his Deviantart page

I might be in the minority here, but I'm not a big fan of Livo's artwork. Really hoping the "B" cover looks better.

by **Cooter** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 5:45 pm

Darth Bombshell wrote:
leokearon wrote:Livo has his cover for the spotlight up on his Deviantart page

I might be in the minority here, but I'm not a big fan of Livo's artwork. Really hoping the "B" cover looks better.

Your in the majority on his art work, I just hope its only a cover

News Credits: 1 · by **Sodan-1** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 1:08 pm

Cooter wrote:
Darth Bombshell wrote:
leokearon wrote:Livo has his cover for the spotlight up on his Deviantart page

I might be in the minority here, but I'm not a big fan of Livo's artwork. Really hoping the "B" cover looks better.

Your in the majority on his art work, I just hope its only a cover

For me, it's like Marmite: I neither love nor hate it.

Not sure if this would be the case, but do protected names only apply if it's in the naming of a product (in this case the comic)? Couldn't IDW call the comic Spotlight: Trailcutter, but then refer to the character within its pages as Trailbreaker?