D-Maximus_Primal wrote:The little vehicles are a lot of fun!
I'm going the same path as you will, going for Skytread for that drone
RodimusConvoy13 wrote:D-Maximus_Primal wrote:The little vehicles are a lot of fun!
I'm going the same path as you will, going for Skytread for that drone
I got both Skytread and Terri-bull. I love that little vehicle. It reminds me a drop ship that's full of troops.
Skytread's head looks great on almost any bot too.
Railbomb wrote:Agamemnon wrote:Cyberpath wrote:I do like to fiddle with Hardhead's drone while watching TV..
Kind of reminds me of Blitzwing.
I, too, like this drone. I don't have the one with Legends Hardhead, but the two TR (Crashbash and Terri-bull?) sit on my desk and I fiddle with them all the time. The other one I really like is Apeface. For such a weird drone/ape/plane thing, he's just...fun.
Apeface (and as named by my friends, his drone Harambecon) is definitely my favorite out of the ones I have so far. Hasbro definitely got something right with with the Titan Master class, I kind of feel bad for how awkwardly they're being released in Japan, being split up from a drone and all.
Thing is, he's a Chinese human.chuckdawg1999 wrote:I find it funny there was a human character named Cancer, I guess it must mean something else in Japanese.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sabrblade wrote:Thing is, he's a Chinese human.chuckdawg1999 wrote:I find it funny there was a human character named Cancer, I guess it must mean something else in Japanese.
Though, the real world reason is likely that the toy was given the name "Cancer" first, and then the cartoon and manga came along and created the character as a human Headmaster Junior bonded to a lifeless Transtector.
As to why Takara named the toy "Cancer", since its altmode is a crab monster, the name most likely came from the Latin word for crab "cancer", which is used for the Zodiac sign, the constellation, and other crab-related things named "Cancer".
*shrug* Gundam Wing back in the day got away with a Mobile Suit called a Cancer, even in its English dub.primalxconvoy wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Thing is, he's a Chinese human.chuckdawg1999 wrote:I find it funny there was a human character named Cancer, I guess it must mean something else in Japanese.
Though, the real world reason is likely that the toy was given the name "Cancer" first, and then the cartoon and manga came along and created the character as a human Headmaster Junior bonded to a lifeless Transtector.
As to why Takara named the toy "Cancer", since its altmode is a crab monster, the name most likely came from the Latin word for crab "cancer", which is used for the Zodiac sign, the constellation, and other crab-related things named "Cancer".
That is exactly why the name was chosen. Although now, I think Takara should have either used a Katakana rendering, or the official (US) English name, to avoid misconceptions. Imagine going into a ship shop in Japan and seeing Marlboro Wheeljack's box next to Shockwave and Cancer...
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sabrblade wrote:*shrug* Gundam Wing back in the day got away with a Mobile Suit called a Cancer, even in its English dub.primalxconvoy wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Thing is, he's a Chinese human.chuckdawg1999 wrote:I find it funny there was a human character named Cancer, I guess it must mean something else in Japanese.
Though, the real world reason is likely that the toy was given the name "Cancer" first, and then the cartoon and manga came along and created the character as a human Headmaster Junior bonded to a lifeless Transtector.
As to why Takara named the toy "Cancer", since its altmode is a crab monster, the name most likely came from the Latin word for crab "cancer", which is used for the Zodiac sign, the constellation, and other crab-related things named "Cancer".
That is exactly why the name was chosen. Although now, I think Takara should have either used a Katakana rendering, or the official (US) English name, to avoid misconceptions. Imagine going into a ship shop in Japan and seeing Marlboro Wheeljack's box next to Shockwave and Cancer...
Sabrblade wrote:*shrug* Gundam Wing back in the day got away with a Mobile Suit called a Cancer, even in its English dub.primalxconvoy wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Thing is, he's a Chinese human.chuckdawg1999 wrote:I find it funny there was a human character named Cancer, I guess it must mean something else in Japanese.
Though, the real world reason is likely that the toy was given the name "Cancer" first, and then the cartoon and manga came along and created the character as a human Headmaster Junior bonded to a lifeless Transtector.
As to why Takara named the toy "Cancer", since its altmode is a crab monster, the name most likely came from the Latin word for crab "cancer", which is used for the Zodiac sign, the constellation, and other crab-related things named "Cancer".
That is exactly why the name was chosen. Although now, I think Takara should have either used a Katakana rendering, or the official (US) English name, to avoid misconceptions. Imagine going into a ship shop in Japan and seeing Marlboro Wheeljack's box next to Shockwave and Cancer...
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:The thing is, the Japanese language is kind of funny when it comes to loanwords vs. original terms. For starters, 悪性腫瘍 akushoushuyou, or for short 癌 gan, is their word for "malignent tumor" or "cancer". Looking through the Japanese wiki on the matter, I don't see キャンサー kyansaa anywhere, but it is used on the disambugation page for it. This tells me that our word "cancer" isn't that associated with the disease there (and more with crabs) and thus more acceptable.
At any rate, this whole debate is kind of pointless IMO. We all know "Cancer" refers to the crab, yet we touchy people automatically associate it with the disease the moment we see it. Why? In fact, why aren't we associating the Zodiac sign with it?
Yes, but they do that only for the characters who are the same characters as their Western counterparts (which, admittedly, is the majority of the figures in the Legends line, but not all of them). Squeezeplay and Cancer, however, are counterparts but not the same character.primalxconvoy wrote:Personally, I think that, as they used English, then they should have used the English names, as that's what they have done with most of their recent releases.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sabrblade wrote:Yes, but they do that only for the characters who are the same characters as their Western counterparts (which, admittedly, is the majority of the figures in the Legends line, but not all of them). Squeezeplay and Cancer, however, are counterparts but not the same character.primalxconvoy wrote:Personally, I think that, as they used English, then they should have used the English names, as that's what they have done with most of their recent releases.
And they did use the Katakana rendering for Cancer's name in addition to the Latin one. And it's not like Takara's selling the toy in an English-speaking market with the Western mindset that auto-associates the word with the disease. Like JelZe said, they're selling it in a non-English market whose mindset more likely associates the word more predominately with the crab connotations.
Kurona wrote:you guys havin this big conversation about why they did or didn't change the name cancer and i just think its probly bc takara didnt give a shizzlefrickfrack
Kurona wrote:you guys havin this big conversation about why they did or didn't change the name cancer and i just think its probly bc takara didnt give a shizzlefrickfrack
william-james88 wrote:primalxconvoy wrote:I tell you what; both Skull cruncher and hardhead are IMPOSSIBLE to buy in Japan right now. Galvatron too. The week they came out, they were all gone from toys r us, Yamada denki, bic camera, Amazon Japan, etc. Even more, fortress maximus, which is meant to be available for pre order at Amazon Japan, is sold out, yet the scumbags that scalped them from Amazon are selling them as pre orders back at Amazon Japan for 300 dollars.
This isn't always the case with tfs, just specific Japanese only characters...
Interesting. But these arent Japanese only characters right?
Seibertron wrote:william-james88 wrote:primalxconvoy wrote:I tell you what; both Skull cruncher and hardhead are IMPOSSIBLE to buy in Japan right now. Galvatron too. The week they came out, they were all gone from toys r us, Yamada denki, bic camera, Amazon Japan, etc. Even more, fortress maximus, which is meant to be available for pre order at Amazon Japan, is sold out, yet the scumbags that scalped them from Amazon are selling them as pre orders back at Amazon Japan for 300 dollars.
This isn't always the case with tfs, just specific Japanese only characters...
Interesting. But these arent Japanese only characters right?
No, they just were WAY bigger deals in Japan than they were here thanks to the Headmasters cartoon and manga.
william-james88 wrote:Also be weary of hope in this hobby. Hope is just undiscovered disappointment.
Agamemnon, barebacked rider of flying robo-dragon, and not often constipated either...My nephew wrote:Bacon is meat candy.
Agamemnon wrote:So, I was hoping Convobat was going to be one of those E-hobby exclusives that was going to be hard to come by so I wouldn't be tempted to order. ARRRGGGGHHH!!
BBTS Preorder listing for Legends LG-EX Convobat E-Hobby Limited, $89.99
Why? Why? Why did it have to be so expensive and yet so easy to order.?
It looks just too awesome to pass up, especially that Optimal Optimus paint job....Now I need a second Skullcruncher....
#AdultDisposableIncomeInAnEightYearOld
Takara intends for people to just use Legends Skullcruncher for the body of the Megalligator head, as they've color-matched the Megalligator head's green to Skullcruncher's green.That Bot wrote:Agamemnon wrote:So, I was hoping Convobat was going to be one of those E-hobby exclusives that was going to be hard to come by so I wouldn't be tempted to order. ARRRGGGGHHH!!
BBTS Preorder listing for Legends LG-EX Convobat E-Hobby Limited, $89.99
Why? Why? Why did it have to be so expensive and yet so easy to order.?
It looks just too awesome to pass up, especially that Optimal Optimus paint job....Now I need a second Skullcruncher....
#AdultDisposableIncomeInAnEightYearOld
Good god that's beautiful. I want one, and I want a Skullcruncher redecoed as Megaligator now to go with him. They can use Crashbash as his vehicle partner.\
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
primalxconvoy wrote:Kurona wrote:you guys havin this big conversation about why they did or didn't change the name cancer and i just think its probly bc takara didnt give a shizzlefrickfrack
If so, then it error be due to ignorance. This is a common problem in Japan, when English is used. It causes all kinds of problems or incidents.
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