Sabrblade wrote:Skritz wrote:Sabrblade wrote:D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Sabrblade wrote:On a different note, wouldn't it have been neat if they had made another Megatron as Voyager class Weaponizer that could combine with Voyager class Optimus Prime into Gilthor?
Now see that is the kind of creativity Takara would do, and it would be awesome to see
And, for those wondering, yes, "Gilthor" is his name. We finally have official confirmation from his creator, Masumi Kaneda, on how to spell his name in English (the "h" is silent, so it is still spoken like "gill-tor").
...what?
Sabrblade wrote:Skritz wrote:No I know who the character is I'm just weirded out by the 'proper translation' after having called it Guiltaur for years.
Masumi Kaneda answered on Twitter. He said he named it after
an evil submarine from an old Japanese series called
National Kid, with the name itself coming from the given name "Gil" and the god "Thor" (though, spoken like the archiac "Tor" pronounciation).
Didn't know where else to put this that people here would see it, but since the above news was put in this thread, I figured I might as well share this here since it is a similar revelation.
Y'all know that big bad evil dude from Transformers Zone with the weird name?
Well, like with Gilthor above, we FINALLY know what his name means! Masumi Kaneda revealed on
Twitter that his name is a combination of the words "
violence", "
giant", "
Gigantis" (an alternate English name for Godzilla), and "ja
guar". He's a violent, gigantic, ferocious predator, he's "
Violengiguar"!
Kaneda also wanted him to have a long name, バイオレンジャイガー, like how long the word "Transformer" is when written in Japanese: トランスフォーマー