Who the heck is Victorion?

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Originally Posted by Sinnertwin

That is Victorion.
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No, being obsessed with a game where grown men run around an oval in tiny tiny shorts - THAT is Victorian :p

The name initially bugged me.
<insert rant about hybrid Latin and Greek nomenclature>
Then I realised that it's really no better or worse than what Hasbro did during G1 with names like "Superion*," so it's actually pretty accurate to G1 naming practice! :D

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*The full Greek equivalent would be Hyperion.

Of the three names to be voted on the poll, Victorion was the least silly. It even sounds slightly Masterforce-y.

For reference the other names were Slammoth and Quakebreak.

I'm SO glad that "Slammoth" didn't get voted in. And I'm surprised that Hasbro would even considered Slammoth given its colloquial/slang meaning. Even worse if it'd been female! :eek: Hasbro won't use Slag's original name, despite the fact that he's a male Dinobot whose can reduce metal to molten slag with his fire breath (thus it's a direct reference to his ability, not her^his promiscuity), but they were fine with the possibility that they might have had a female character named Slammoth?! :eek: Unless she transforms into a mammoth who... slams... I don't even... :eek:

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Originally Posted by BigTransformerTrev

No, being obsessed with a game where grown men run around an oval in tiny tiny shorts - THAT is Victorian :p

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Someone's been watching the games faaaar too closely. Not that there's anything wrong with that :)

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Originally Posted by 5FDP

Someone's been watching the games faaaar too closely. Not that there's anything wrong with that :)

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Actually living in a tiny VIC rural town I'm almost a pariah as I don't really follow AFL that much :rolleyes:

I am really looking forward to Victorion. An all female combiner will be sensational. As previously said I too wish they were Decepticons. IDW's approach to explaining female transformers has been interesting and also the relationships that Transformers can have between each other... "Conjunx Endura" and "Amica Endura" I found touching and really a broadening feature of Transformer lore.

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Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime

I'm SO glad that "Slammoth" didn't get voted in. And I'm surprised that Hasbro would even considered Slammoth given its colloquial/slang meaning. Even worse if it'd been female! :eek: Hasbro won't use Slag's original name, despite the fact that he's a male Dinobot whose can reduce metal to molten slag with his fire breath (thus it's a direct reference to his ability, not her^his promiscuity), but they were fine with the possibility that they might have had a female character named Slammoth?! :eek: Unless she transforms into a mammoth who... slams... I don't even... :eek:

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I wonder if it was a case of knowing the name they wanted, so they grabbed two of the worst names possible to make their preferred on the most popular?

Or their marketing department has a limited scope when it comes to checking out what words can mean outside of their little corner of the world.

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Originally Posted by prjkt

I wonder if it was a case of knowing the name they wanted, so they grabbed two of the worst names possible to make their preferred on the most popular?

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Kelloggs did the same with their "vote in the new colour Froot Loop" about 15-20 years ago... they obviously wanted blue to win by having the other choices be boring white and dark green (they already had a light green). :rolleyes: