Airachnid

[GoktimusPrime]

Whats all this Beast Wars talk? Beast Wars is like The Matrix. It comes along and light the darkest hour of Transformers, re-energises the market. I hardly think Transformers has quite reached those depths again.

Yes I know all that and I wouldn't deny it for a second. But you gotta admit, it had some odd names. As much as I love Dinobot, I was initially horrified by his name. Ditto Insecticon... the use of sub-group names for individuals didn't gel well with me. As I'm sure you remember Beast Wars copped some flak from fans when it first came out (as often happens with new things), but I liked Beast Wars... but I didn't like some of the names.

As Lord_Zed said, prior to Beast Wars Transformer names were devised by Marvel comic writers, so when Beast Wars came along it was a bit of a rude shock being exposed to names like Cheetor, Cicadacon and B'Boom after having gotten used to Marvel-style names for the past 11 years. Not all the Beast Wars names sucked, there were some good ones like Airazor, Depth Charge (as mentioned by kuzzy), Razorbeast, Sky Shadow etc. But what I was saying is that a name like "Airachnid" reminds me of those suckier BW names.

grimlock - t-rox

T-Wrecks

blitzwing- tank-jetor

Tankor

something we should also remember is that as time went on the names got better

inferno (still in the fire antthing but quite awesome)

rampage ( that has nothing to do with a crab)

btw kuzzy, any reason why your posts are in double space? Anyway, "Inferno" and "Rampage" were names devised by Marvel during the 1980s for G1. Hasbro simply recycled them for Beast Wars. They recycled them well, but the fact remains that they didn't devise those names.

its was just hasbros naming ideas that were the problem, plus their names cybertron modes were completely different, rattrap was still a demolition experto n cybertron, thus the name.

Erm... their Cybertronian modes have nothing to do with how Hasbro would name them. Hasbro/Takara makes the toys then they come up with a name for that toy (product) as part of its marketing appeal. e.g.: Here's a robot that transforms into a rat. So let's call him Rattrap. Here's a robot that transforms into a tiger. Let's call him Tigertron, no wait, Tigatron! (but later on we'll call him Tigerhawk, just for laughs!)

The Names where ok in my opionion but like kuzzy said they got better as the show went on

It's true that we saw a decreasing proportion of sucky names as the Beast Wars series progressed, although the show has nothing to do with it. Hasbro creates the names for the toys then the show is created to help market these toys. By time the show is even in its conceptual stage the characters, names etc. have already been decided by Hasbro based on the existing toys.

[SMHFConvoy]

Don't forget guys that the Beast Wars characters were produced by Kenner before that company was assimilated by it's parent company, Hasbro.

That could be why the initial BW guys had not so imaginative names...

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Don't forget guys that the Beast Wars characters were produced by Kenner before that company was assimilated by it's parent company, Hasbro.

That could be why the initial BW guys had not so imaginative names...

yeah but that still doesn't change that most of the original G1 names were created by real comic book writers (Bob Budiansky to be more exact) and that modern day Hasbro still makes stupid names when it wants to create a new character or make up for a name which they have lost the rights to.

[Tommy K]

Erm... their Cybertronian modes have nothing to do with how Hasbro would name them. Hasbro/Takara makes the toys then they come up with a name for that toy (product) as part of its marketing appeal. e.g.: Here's a robot that transforms into a rat. So let's call him Rattrap. Here's a robot that transforms into a tiger. Let's call him Tigertron, no wait, Tigatron! (but later on we'll call him Tigerhawk, just for laughs!)

no what i ment is, even though we all know that hasbro gave them the sucky names, namely because
1. they are for kids
1.1 kids dont know better ( ever heard of ben 10? (comeo n you could call it something completely better!))
2. it was the cheasy 90's!
3. hasbro wasnt bothered with giving them good names(like you said my dear gok)

but moving on, if we think about this, if lets say the transformers did have those names before they came to earth, then that means that the beast modes would have been chosen because of their names, you wouldnt have rattrap as a rhino, or waspinator as a tarantula


though i do think rhinox or cheetor should deserve something better, like armour-hide, or yellow-lightning (yeah i know i know dont quit my day job lol

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waspinators pre earth name was punginator