Airachnid

[SMHFConvoy]

Astrotrain = Loco Spacey

Dude, that name deserves to be made into a toy!

[Verno]

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.

[1orion2many]

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.

After ROTF I think it has

[Paulbot]

I keep seeing this thread and thinking it sounds like an Animorphs character.

Animorphs 10th Anniversary line anyone?

[SilverDragon]

I keep seeing this thread and thinking it sounds like an Animorphs character.

Animorphs 10th Anniversary line anyone?

Nah, Animorphs tended to go with names that weren't word mashups. Well, the books did.

[MV75]

What? No word mashups like, well, I dunno, animorphs?

[Tommy K]

I'd like to see a realistic beast mode... we haven't had a realistic beast moded Transformer in a long time. Robotic/cybernetic beast modes =/= robots in disguise. :/

I think this name is rather lame, but I'm used to lame names being assigned to Beast TFs
e.g.
"Cheetor" the cheetah
"Rhinox" the rhino
"Waspinator" the wasp
"K-9" the Doctor's faithful robotic dog
"Tarantulas" the tarantula (that's not a name, it's a plural!)
"Dinobot" the dinosaur who transforms into a robot but isn't a subgroup
"Insecticon" guess what he is?
...all incredibly LAME names. As much as I really love Beast Wars, it had some pret-ty poor names.

Could you imagine if we had such lame names in G1? We'd have:
Bumblebee = Volks
Starscream = Fi-Tor
Whirl = Cop-Tur
Wreck Gar = Cy-Kill
Beachcomber = Buggy Man
Astrotrain = Loco Spacey
That's right!

wait hold on, are you saying if the writers of beast wars had their hands on g1 they would of called

optimus- truckacon

ironhide - bustron

grimlock - t-rox

blitzwing- tank-jetor

soundwave- cassetinator

megatron - blasty? :0
lmao "all hail blasty"

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)

transmutate ( well that one was, ehhhhhh interesting)

DEPTH CHARGE ( come on, you can get chicks with a name like that)

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.

[Starscream212]

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

[Lord_Zed]

I'd like to see a realistic beast mode... we haven't had a realistic beast moded Transformer in a long time. Robotic/cybernetic beast modes =/= robots in disguise. :/

I think this name is rather lame, but I'm used to lame names being assigned to Beast TFs
e.g.
"Cheetor" the cheetah
"Rhinox" the rhino
"Waspinator" the wasp
"K-9" the Doctor's faithful robotic dog
"Tarantulas" the tarantula (that's not a name, it's a plural!)
"Dinobot" the dinosaur who transforms into a robot but isn't a subgroup
"Insecticon" guess what he is?
...all incredibly LAME names. As much as I really love Beast Wars, it had some pret-ty poor names.

Could you imagine if we had such lame names in G1? We'd have:
Bumblebee = Volks
Starscream = Fi-Tor
Whirl = Cop-Tur
Wreck Gar = Cy-Kill
Beachcomber = Buggy Man
Astrotrain = Loco Spacey
That's right!

Well G1 was just lucky enough to get names form a Marvel comics writter rather than some toy company marketing guy. But don't worry Hasbro are trying to retcon TF names to bring them more in line with Beast Wars and Gobots, Universe Tankor anyone?

[Autocon]

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