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TakaraTOMY writes their MP bios from a Japanese continuity POV for their market (e.g. MP22's bio makes references to Scramble City), so I felt that for Hasbro's release, I'd like to go in the other direction and write it from an Anglophone continuity perspective for Hasbro's markets -- hence why I removed all mention of Scramble City from MP22's bio, but I did name his weapon the "Ambus Class laser gun." But small continuity discrepancies aside, Ultra Magnus is essentially the same character in both Japanese and Western continuities. This isn't the case with Star Sabre, so adapting his bio for Hasbro presented me with the opportunity to be a lot more creative and complete reinvent his bio based on his appearances in the IDW comics. I've also made references to the G1 Motorvators (the Hasbro versions of the Brainmasters; although Star Sabre was the only Brainmaster never released by Hasbro as a Motorvator during G1 ).

william-james88 wrote:It seems Masterpiece Star Sabre is going to get a limited english language release through Hasbro's distribution. Hasbro Australia's employee GOKTIMUS PRIME (self chosen pseudonym) revealed today, on Talk Transformers facebook fan page, that he has translated the Star Sabre bio for Hasbro, and has also made it entirely different from the japanese bio. The full quote is below. It should be noted that this release is most probably limited to the Australian market where Hasbro also helped distribute Takara's recent Ultra Magnus and Bumblebee, which showed up in Australian Toysrus stores.

I can now reveal that MP Star Sabre was the third translation/adaptation job that I was doing for Hasbro. However, the English bio is completely different and unrelated to the Japanese one. The Japanese bio is based on Star Sabre's appearance in Transformers Victory, where he was -- character-wise -- basically a clone of Optimus Prime (re: flawless heroic saviour archetype). The English bio is based on IDW Star Sabre, where Star Sabre is an incredibly dark character.
In the Japanese booklet, Star Sabre's function is "Autobot Supreme Commander." For the Hasbro version, his function has been changed to 'Duly Appointed Enforcer of the Tyrest Accord' (at times abbreviated to 'Tyrest Accord Enforcer' or just "Autobot Enforcer" in different parts of the booklet). Japanese G1 tech specs don't have mottos, and I only had access to the booklet and not the tech specs card (so I have no idea if TakaraTOMY have newly created a motto for him), but the motto I created for the Hasbro version is "Quidquid facio sancitur divinitus.", which is Latin for "Everything I do is divinely sanctioned." -- and yes, I have written the motto in both Latin and English (as I did for Stinger ).
More reveals to come.

fenrir72 wrote:BURN is gonna love this!

Burn wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:BURN is gonna love this!

nah, old news to me and it's cheaper to import from Japan than buy from TRU. Arctorro and I already worked that out with Bumblebee and Magnus.

WHERE'S YOUR MAGNUS ARCTORRO?

fatbot wrote:just a small correction to the article, he's not an employee, more like a contractor, doing these translations.

And trust me, if you knew him, there are many times you'd relize that you aren't lucky

Sabrblade wrote:Lucky Australians.

Burn wrote:nah, old news to me and it's cheaper to import from Japan than buy from TRU. Arctorro and I already worked that out with Bumblebee and Magnus.

Burn wrote:WHERE'S YOUR MAGNUS ARCTORRO?

Arctorro wrote:By the way, how is Whirl? How are your hands?

fatbot wrote:just a small correction to the article, he's not an employee, more like a contractor, doing these translations.

And trust me, if you knew him, there are many times you'd relize that you aren't lucky

Burn wrote:

Arctorro wrote:By the way, how is Whirl? How are your hands?

I'll let you know when I get them around your neck.

Bounti76 wrote:SO in Australia.....he's essentially Masterpiece IDW Star Saber.

Bounti76 wrote:SO in Australia.....he's essentially Masterpiece IDW Star Saber.

leokearon wrote:

Bounti76 wrote:SO in Australia.....he's essentially Masterpiece IDW Star Saber.

Yeah he is by the sounds of it. I wonder if Hasbro now what they are doing

sol magnus wrote:Why would he need an "Anglo" bio just for Austrailian audiences? Aren't Bumblebee and Ultra Magnus in normal Takara packaging in Austrailian TRUs?

sol magnus wrote:

sol magnus wrote:Why would he need an "Anglo" bio just for Austrailian audiences? Aren't Bumblebee and Ultra Magnus in normal Takara packaging in Austrailian TRUs?

Again, why would this be limited to the Austrailian release if all they do is ship Takara versions to TRU? Is the instruction booklet different? If so, maybe I'd want an Austrailian Magnus...

Sabrblade wrote:Ultra Magnus got new packaging for Australia.

sol magnus wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Ultra Magnus got new packaging for Australia.

Any pictures?