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The Meteor Operation facebook page has shared another third-party weapon Generations WFC Deluxe Megatron from unknown produced Fantastic Robots. Images mirrored below.

Another 3rd Party company?
They are spawning like bumblebee reprints!

And timing wise a little late to the WFC line.

Nice.

Another dumb sword ??? What the hell is a Regum ??? Shouldnt it have been Redrum ??? (Murder backwards for you non-rap fans)

Rated X wrote:Another dumb sword ??? What the hell is a Regum ??? Shouldnt it have been Redrum ??? (Murder backwards for you non-rap fans)

Next time just do a search on the web...

Definition for regum:
Web definitions:
Literally, “of the monarch.” Pound is quoting Holmes for the idea that the final justification for not only private actions but also...
oll.libertyfund.org/index.php

Ever heard of Latin?

You could have just easily done a search for the phrase... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases_(U)

daimchoc wrote:

Rated X wrote:Another dumb sword ??? What the hell is a Regum ??? Shouldnt it have been Redrum ??? (Murder backwards for you non-rap fans)

Next time just do a search on the web...

Definition for regum:
Web definitions:
Literally, “of the monarch.” Pound is quoting Holmes for the idea that the final justification for not only private actions but also...
oll.libertyfund.org/index.php

Ever heard of Latin?

You could have just easily done a search for the phrase... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases_(U)

I could have done that. But Id much rather know how many fans actually knew that without use of the internet. Sometimes I feel as though these 3rd party companies think only scholars collect Transformers. Im not knocking anyone who studies foreign language or Euro-history. Im just saying there are plenty of TF fans who are not into that stuff.

Rated X wrote:Another dumb sword ??? What the hell is a Regum ??? Shouldnt it have been Redrum ??? (Murder backwards for you non-rap fans)

thanks for explaining Redrum. I'm sure only rap fans have read or watched The Shining or any one of a hundred different parodies of it.

Rated X wrote:I could have done that. But Id much rather know how many fans actually knew that without use of the internet. Sometimes I feel as though these 3rd party companies think only scholars collect Transformers. Im not knocking anyone who studies foreign language or Euro-history. Im just saying there are plenty of TF fans who are not into that stuff.

Way of an excuse....

daimchoc wrote:

Rated X wrote:I could have done that. But Id much rather know how many fans actually knew that without use of the internet. Sometimes I feel as though these 3rd party companies think only scholars collect Transformers. Im not knocking anyone who studies foreign language or Euro-history. Im just saying there are plenty of TF fans who are not into that stuff.

Way of an excuse....

We all have different interests outside of Transformers. Not everybody gets these silly word plays. A good example is calling MP Dirge "Elergy". Some people thought it was clever. I was like "who cares it freakin Dirge".

Sure nobody would know what it meant without the internet, but nobody would know about the product itself without the internet either. So there's no excuse.

As for the product itself ... is there really such a large market for WFC weapon kits? There seems to be an overabundance. The only one I have any intrest in is that Galvatron upgrade kit and even that is only a maybe.

I think this new sword/melee weapon looks great!

It seems to have a Transformers Prime look to it I think, so seeing it pictured with War for Cybertron Megatron and that other fella who looks like Onslaught means this could crossover different lines.

3rd party weapons in my opinion can be weilded by any Transformer to some extent. Its nice to see some crazy ass weapon shared amongst the different factions, mixing and matching different colours with the deco of any particular Transformer!

Gauntlet101010 wrote:Sure nobody would know what it meant without the internet, but nobody would know about the product itself without the internet either. So there's no excuse.

As for the product itself ... is there really such a large market for WFC weapon kits? There seems to be an overabundance. The only one I have any intrest in is that Galvatron upgrade kit and even that is only a maybe.

A friend of mine posted this on his FB page which made me laugh...

Plus, before the internet we had these odd things called ... "dictionaries". Get this, they had all the words in the English language - yes EVERY SINGLE WORD - all in alphebetical order listed .... with their meanings! And how to pronounce them and everything. Shocking, I know. And it was all stored in this wierd, backwards way. It was printed with this black goo stuff on a whole stack of thin white sheets of thin, bleached, dried, pulped wood that was bound on one side. A real waste of this old thing called "paper" that we used to use to store information. I think they used to call these things a "book."

So, even without the internet, there would be a way to look this up. You know, if you could find one of those "book" things that used to be so popular.

There is no reason this MUST be used with WFC Megatron.
Somebody can always use a kick-ass sword.

I'll buy pretty much any TF sized weapon, as long as it is decent looking (which this is) and the price is reasonable.

Gauntlet101010 wrote:Common sense.

Heh. On the serious, dude we're on the internet. If you're posting here, you can manage a Google search.

On topic, So this looks like Shapeways piece. It really looks like nothing I need. Nope, I'm out.

Gauntlet101010 wrote:Sure nobody would know what it meant without the internet

*raises hand* I knew what it meant without the internet, having taken 4 years of good, proper Roman Latin. I still have all my texts, too, so if I see Latin and can't translate it right away, I go for them, not the intarwebs.

Midnight_Fox wrote:

Gauntlet101010 wrote:Sure nobody would know what it meant without the internet

*raises hand* I knew what it meant without the internet, having taken 4 years of good, proper Roman Latin. I still have all my texts, too, so if I see Latin and can't translate it right away, I go for them, not the intarwebs.

I don't. Super-lazy here. I've downloaded or watched stuff on Netflix that I own on DVD, just because the DVD is in another room. (somewhere)

edit: oh yeah, this sword. It does look a bit shapeways. Probably pass. Maybe with indication it'll be a properly manufactured piece, and some colour variations I could be swayed.