too many skidsssssssssssssss

[GoktimusPrime]

It's actually Hasbro's way of maintaining their legal ownership of the names. Cos Hasbro are totally in danger of losing the rights to those names anytime soon </sarcasm>

When I was a kid my favourite G1 Decepticon leader wasn't Megatron but Scorponok (because he was ultimately a heroic Decepticon!). I also quite liked seeing Grimlock and even Perceptor taking on leadership roles. Thunderwing and Bludgeon -- nuff sed. Galvatron was just all kinds of awesome in the G1 comics and Rodimus Prime was okay (although the toy really did suck hard even in 1986)... as DrSmoov's parody said, the Matrix really should've stayed with Ultra Magnus as Prime had intended!

On topic, Skids used to be one of the rarer Autobot Cars, now he's cheap as chips and oh so common.

Still no where near as bad as Bumblebee though. But yeah, there are so many other characters they could be looking at... or just use creative imagination and give us new characters (wow!).

One cool thing about Skids and Mudflap in ROTF is that they did give us regular looking cars (hatchbacks) instead of having more high end expensive sports cars all the time. Although they do seem like flashy hatchbacks. I love how Alternity Bumblebee and Cliffjumper are Suzuki Swifts, cos being more "everyday" vehicles makes them feel more like robots in disguise to me. Almost every time I drive I see a Swift (and visually imagine it transforming! ).

[Lord_Zed]

Still no where near as bad as Bumblebee though. But yeah, there are so many other characters they could be looking at... or just use creative imagination and give us new characters (wow!).

You mean like Drift?

Some new leaders would be cool, as long as they weren't the common sterotypes of ultra heroic selfless Autobot leader, and cruel and calculating Decepticon.

Comic Grimlock the vain and beligerant Autobot leader, And Rat Bat evil decpticon economist are good examples of breaking the mold.

Scorponok too ofcourse.

[GoktimusPrime]

You mean like Drift?

Blast you!

[5FDP]

I'm a big fan of Skids from G1. Sure he wasn't in the cartoon all the much; sure he was hard to get a hold of back in the 80's (being short-packed and all), but he has a lot of character and a really unique transformation.

Skids from ROTF has since given the character a bad name.

[dirge]

Skids is not alone in the name overuse, by any means. Starscream is probably the worst aside from Prime & Megs.

[GoktimusPrime]

I'm a big fan of Skids from G1. Sure he wasn't in the cartoon all the much; sure he was hard to get a hold of back in the 80's (being short-packed and all), but he has a lot of character and a really unique transformation.

Skids got more exposure in the G1 comics... forming a bond with a human woman and then being zapped off to limbo where he was tormented by foul demons... who followed him back to the real world. Nas-teeeh.

I'm still waiting for HasTak to reuse the name "Time Warrior" (c'mon HasTak, ya know ya wanna!)