Referring to TF:Prime toys as RID

[Paulbot]

I wonder can we not call the wave 1+ Transformers Prime toys "RID"?

There is a toy series we know as RID. A very good one from a decade ago with a mix of something for everybody: beasts and cars and trucks and combiners and a ten-changer and a not too shabby anime cartoon.

The packaging in all the pics I've seen, of both the European and American releases, quite clearly say "Transformers Prime" on them.

It's suggested, and seems more plausible, that the 'robots in disguise' phrase is the new equivalent to Mechtech, to differentiate the deluxe/revealer, voyager/poweriser, leader/weaponiser scales from the legion/commander size in "Cyberverse" (as with the DOTM toys).

DOTM toys didn't need to be called Mechtech when they were referred to. Mostly that was just skipped over.

The only toys that need perhaps to be differentiated are the First Edition / FE ones.

Just call them TF:Prime or Prime or TFP or whatever, but please stop calling them RID toys.

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[Sharky]

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I Agree!!

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[griffin]

RID is a subtitle for the larger figures, like Mechtech was for the Movie toys (they kept Cyberverse as the subtitle for the smaller figures, but needed to change the larger subtitle). I didn't call the Movie toys Mechtech, so I won't be calling the larger TFPrime toys as RID here (in any official, info or news posting).

I would be editing news topic titles that use RID as well, because of the current comic... as it would be confusing.
(as to what people call them in the body of their posts, is up to them - I won't be editing people's posts if it is known what they are referring to)

[Paulbot]

Within posts/topics/context it's been perfectly clear, but it's starting to become dominant on other TF websites.

[griffin]

I just looked at the Cliffjumper comparison topic at Seibertron, and can see the need to use the two acronyms within a posting to make it easier to refer to each quickly, but don't see a need for RID to be used in a topic title... especially since the FE set is essentially been and gone now. If it was an ongoing line with the Regular "RID" toys, then there might be an allowance for it, but fortunately there shouldn't be anymore news on the FE set, so don't need a prefix for the regular figures in news titles to differentiate them from the FE figures.

[jazzy_josh]

But I thought all transformer lines were associated with the old catch phrase Robots In Disguise, isn't it just that though?

[Hursticon]

It's going to be Chug-a-wug-a-doodar all over again...
Are people normally so confused so easily?, do we honestly need a new tag-line every 3 waves?

[GoktimusPrime]

I wonder can we not call the wave 1+ Transformers Prime toys "RID"?

[etc]

+1 Agree much

But I thought all transformer lines were associated with the old catch phrase Robots In Disguise, isn't it just that though?

http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Robots_in_Dis...28franchise%29
http://www.ridforever.info/
http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/carobot/

And of course last year Neil Kaplan - the voice dub actor for Robots In Disguise Optimus Prime - was a guest at SupaNova (I had him autograph my RiD Optimus Prime toy )



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjZO6_ItoDw

[AJ_Prime]

Maybe there are some things I don't like to change or maybe I only like change that is for the better. Either way I think it'll be difficult to refer to the new names for the size classes that are clearly designed to appeal to children.

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

Maybe PRID?

Maybe there are some things I don't like to change or maybe I only like change that is for the better. Either way I think it'll be difficult to refer to the new names for the size classes that are clearly designed to appeal to children.

Amen to that...I can't say 'Powerizers'/'Revealers'/'Weaponisers' without rolling my eyes. Who came up with those titles?