Who the heck is Victorion?

[BigTransformerTrev]

That is Victorion.
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No, being obsessed with a game where grown men run around an oval in tiny tiny shorts - THAT is Victorian

[GoktimusPrime]

The name initially bugged me.
<insert rant about hybrid Latin and Greek nomenclature>
Then I realised that it's really no better or worse than what Hasbro did during G1 with names like "Superion*," so it's actually pretty accurate to G1 naming practice!

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*The full Greek equivalent would be Hyperion.

[CBratron]

Of the three names to be voted on the poll, Victorion was the least silly. It even sounds slightly Masterforce-y.

For reference the other names were Slammoth and Quakebreak.

[GoktimusPrime]

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...

[5FDP]

No, being obsessed with a game where grown men run around an oval in tiny tiny shorts - THAT is Victorian

Someone's been watching the games faaaar too closely. Not that there's anything wrong with that

[BigTransformerTrev]

Someone's been watching the games faaaar too closely. Not that there's anything wrong with that

Actually living in a tiny VIC rural town I'm almost a pariah as I don't really follow AFL that much

[Alpha Supreme]

I am really looking forward to Victorion. An all female combiner will be sensational. As previously said I too wish they were Decepticons. IDW's approach to explaining female transformers has been interesting and also the relationships that Transformers can have between each other... "Conjunx Endura" and "Amica Endura" I found touching and really a broadening feature of Transformer lore.

[prjkt]

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.

[griffin]

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?

Kelloggs did the same with their "vote in the new colour Froot Loop" about 15-20 years ago... they obviously wanted blue to win by having the other choices be boring white and dark green (they already had a light green).