Quote Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime View Post
I'm SO glad that "Slammoth" didn't get voted in. And I'm surprised that Hasbro would even considered Slammoth given its colloquial/slang meaning. Even worse if it'd been female! Hasbro won't use Slag's original name, despite the fact that he's a male Dinobot whose can reduce metal to molten slag with his fire breath (thus it's a direct reference to his ability, not her^his promiscuity), but they were fine with the possibility that they might have had a female character named Slammoth?! Unless she transforms into a mammoth who... slams... I don't even...
I wonder if it was a case of knowing the name they wanted, so they grabbed two of the worst names possible to make their preferred on the most popular?

Or their marketing department has a limited scope when it comes to checking out what words can mean outside of their little corner of the world.