United Voyager 2 pack Frenzy and Rumble, Kup and Wheeljack?

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Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime

Because originally the list would have been written in Japanese, and at some point someone transliterated them to English - probably by someone who doesn't speak English as a first language (which is far more tolerable than seeing native speakers freequently screw upp speeling grammer adn :p).

Keep in mind that in Japanese phonetics "a" is pronounced as in the English word 'father', thus "Ramble" sounds like "Rumble". Japanese doesn't have the /æ/ sound that English has. Japanese also lacks /ə/, so "er" is transliterated the same as "ar", thus to a Japanese speaker "Wreck Ger" is the same as "Wreck Gar." English speakers also do the same thing with phonetics that don't exist in English (e.g. pronounce "tsunami" with a silent "t", whereas in Japanese the "t" is pronounced).

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Ok fair enough. I thought they would have gotten it right for an order sheet though, is all. ;)

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Originally Posted by jaydisc

Thanks. Seems a weird choice for the line.

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It is kind of like how they put Hot Shot, Cheetor and Dinobot in Universe 2.0
Maybe Lugnut is just that popular.

I'm still not convinced. Those other three are defining characters of their original lines.

Hopefully Japanese Tracks will have a better hood decal.

The more I see of Tracks the less I like what I see. I'll still get him though because he is one of my favourite characters.

It's also disappointing that Wheeljack will be a retooled Tracks. He deserves his own mold dammit!

My god what is on that hood :confused:

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Originally Posted by Golden Phoenix

It is kind of like how they put Hot Shot, Cheetor and Dinobot in Universe 2.0
Maybe Lugnut is just that popular.

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Lugnut and Lockdown seem to be fan favourites, or at least Designer favourites, so they've created more toys of each, after their Animated appearance. Personally, I don't like the 'laziness' and 'contamination' of one series with another series' iconic/unique characters.
Homages to Gen1 is one thing, and if a series is full of then, it's not a big deal. But when you have a universe of its own characters and designs, a couple of homages/copied designs and characters to a completely unrelated series, just seems cheap and out of place.

Even seeing Lockdown in the IDW Gen1 universe (in the Drift comic), seems out of place.

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Originally Posted by MV75

Ok fair enough. I thought they would have gotten it right for an order sheet though, is all. ;)

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Thats nothing dude. There are spelling errors like that all through the parts catalouges I used in my old job and those are distributed by major car manufacturers. I was always surprised at the lack of professionalism shown by them.

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Originally Posted by griffin

Even seeing Lockdown in the IDW Gen1 universe (in the Drift comic), seems out of place.

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Geez spoiler alert please :p (j/k)

Sorry. I hesitated, thinking it might spoil, but he's on the front cover...

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Originally Posted by griffin

Lugnut and Lockdown seem to be fan favourites, or at least Designer favourites, so they've created more toys of each, after their Animated appearance. Personally, I don't like the 'laziness' and 'contamination' of one series with another series' iconic/unique characters.
Homages to Gen1 is one thing, and if a series is full of then, it's not a big deal. But when you have a universe of its own characters and designs, a couple of homages/copied designs and characters to a completely unrelated series, just seems cheap and out of place.

Even seeing Lockdown in the IDW Gen1 universe (in the Drift comic), seems out of place.

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I'd like to politely disagree there, Griffin. I don't think it's Laziness or contamination if the Designers for the Movie toys thought Lockdown was cool enough to be given the Movie treatment. He's one of my Favourite ROTF toys and now has greater crossover value after appearing in Drift's series. If the designers love these characters I say make more Animated Homages, it was great to see G1 characters get the Animated treatment, why is so wrong for the unique characters of Animated to get the reverse?

I myself love these Animated to Classics/Movieverse conversions. I'll buy Lugnut and would really love to see a Generations Blitzwing with some design cues from Animated (Mainly the three faces) And a G1 Bulkhead like the one I saw in a Mosiac comic. and to keep on topic I'd love a new Wheeljack and hope that they do a similar sideswipe/sunstreaker altered transformation for him and Tracks.