Referring to TF:Prime toys as RID

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

Ditto on all counts. Im a Basic, Deluxe and Voyager man myself..... But still call them Mega most of the time. I also call the new toys Prime not RID.

[griffin]

I still think of the original size classes... from when Hasbro first created them for Beast Wars - Basic, Deluxe, Mega, Ultra.
It is so hard to avoid confusion when they keep changing the class names.

As for the tag line/subtitle - it's something we have to live with, as Hasbro has to create a new subtitle every year on a line that goes longer than a year, just for the retailers... as per the "keeping the line fresh" concept.
If they don't change the packaging, theme, gimmicks, subtitle, etc each year on a line that lasts more than a year, retailers are going to go for something else that is "new" for their shelves instead.
Not that kids & Parents are going to care, as they'll still just buy whatever is a good toy/toyline or currently popular. Unfortunately, retailers force successful toylines to be changed or replaced, just to please themselves with the thought of having "something new" on their shelves... which only they know or care about.

[griffin]

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

Yeah, they do... as most Transformers toylines since the original series will have it mentioned somewhere on the packaging.
Which is why it was both annoying and confusing (and lazy) for Hasbro to use that catch phrase for a whole toyline in 2000-2001.

For TFPrime though, the "Robots in Disguise" bit has a different purpose. It is to differentiate between larger figures (Robots in Disguise) and the smaller figures (Cyberverse)... the same way DotM toys were labelled as Mechtech (larger figures) and Cyberverse (smaller figures) to differentiate the two sizes of the series.

[Demonac]

Hey Gok, I think you posted the wrong pictures, as they seem to have no relevance to the discussion at hand.

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

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

Maybe PRID?

Wait, I've got a better one.

We've had TF Prime First Edition (TFPFE), now we have Prime Robots In Disguise Edition.
TF PRIDE!

[Quickstrike]

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

They make more sense than Voyagers at least. What does that even mean?!

[GoktimusPrime]

Wait, I've got a better one.

We've had TF Prime First Edition (TFPFE), now we have Prime Robots In Disguise Edition.
TF PRIDE!

Let's hope Hasbro never releases a line called Transformers Prime Robot Invincible Cybertronian Knights

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

Must...resist..urge..to make...dirty acronyms!

They make more sense than Voyagers at least. What does that even mean?!

Umm...they take long holidays to far-away places?
I'm not keen on Voyagers as a name either (at best guess it got used 'cos it sounds sorta science-fiction-y), but at least it sounds less outright ridiculous than the current crop of Tryingtooharderizers.

Personally, I'd like to see something that's sort of descriptive of their size class, like Minicons (not perfect but it's an established term and works better than 'Snack Size') for what's currently Cyberverse, Basic for Scouts/Cyberverse Commanders, Standard for what's currently Deluxes/Revealers (Deluxe usually means big, and Revealers sounds like they're flashers), Deluxe for Voyagers/Powerizers, and either keeping Leader class for Leader/Weaponizers (since they are usually leader characters) or alternately using 'Supreme' or 'Mega' or something else that identifies them as 'the big ones'.
Not that it makes much difference to me anyway, but it'd be nice if HasTak could use size class names that actually tell you what size they are, instead of whatever random name marketing has decided 'sounds cool'.

[GoktimusPrime]

Could be worse... could be Starbucks where that short cup is called a Tall.

[griffin]

Never liked "Leader Class" as a class, as it suggests that it's only for Leader characters, and could be confusing to kids who see Leader XXX and assume it is a Leader.

Maybe they should incorporate a numbered sizing system like the SWTFs, for uniformity across the series & eras.