Idw 1.0 had fat Tankor (beast machines/thrilling 30) and tall Tankor (octane) as well as Optimus prime and Optimus primal and megatron and beast megatron (not sure if the bw guys were named since I haven’t read unicron). Likewise power of the primes had both Optimus Prime and Optimus primal.

 

I knew someone was gonna post examples! lol. It’s still not the norm to have multiple characters with the same name in the same media. Regardless, it’s just an opinion.

And yeah, once you start using derogatory fan terms like “geewunner” (or whatever) you’ve kinda lost your point. Fans can have primary interest in one part of the franchise and be respectful of the rest of the fandom.

 

I think Primal and BW Megatron were not called by name at any point, but were listed with their names in the characters page of some chapter.
Still, Shockwave named Megatronus after Megatron as a kind of joke, so it wouldn't be surprising if he also named the beast Optimus and Megatron.

Back on Astrotrain. If it's not a voyager sized base body with armor and limb extenders that combine into a train wagon (?) then I will be making my own custom Astrotrain.

 

shockwave naming them would be a moot point in that side discussion because the question was when was the last time multiple characters had the same name within fiction  

im still going with the theory that astrotrain wont have armor, but will instead collapse from a larger vehicle mode into a voyager ish sized bot (ala ss dotm megatron)

 

That was a pretty huge habit of Hasbro’s throughout the 90s and 2000s, but with the evergreen designs and a lot of new designs for certain characters, it seems like they’re really knuckling down on making an identifiable look for each character and not deviating too far from it.

I think they even mentioned it somewhere. Nameslapping is mostly gone for the forseeable future.

 

22 pages and no actual information reveled.

 

LET'S AIM FOR 25!!!!

 

But I thought that adding more comments with no actual information would achieve negative mass and the page count would go down?

I mean, I've always assumed that's why people post in news threads saying "I saw there was activity in this thread and got excited, but there's not even any news? I wish people would stop posting in this thread unless there's new info."

Posting that sort of response for any other reason would be totally crazy, right?

 

That, my friend, is what a certain class of person calls a "conspiracy theory". You see,in Reality Theory, adding more comments to to thread indeed adds to the overall count!

Then there's the madlad theory that Astrotrain often frequents this very thread, waiting until someone gets his molding idea correct so he can give the OK to Hasbro, who in turns, provides the actual reveal.

CALLING IT NOW! ASTROTRAIN TURNS INTO A SUPER RETRO TRAIN BUT A STEAMPUNK SPACESHIP!!!
*patiently waits*

 

You are a beacon of clarity in a sea of misinformation. Would you like to be the Prime Minister of the UK?

 

Sorry, but I must decline. The duties of cleansing the fogginess of lies and doubt is an ongoing job! My people need me!
*Fades out*
....
*Fades back in*
And toys. My people need toys
*Fades out again*

 

Yeah, name slapping shouldn't really reappear going forward. If you are a newer fan or a fan that's been away for a long time, you might not realize it but for the longest time HasTak had the habit of (a) rebooting the franchise every few years (examples: BW, RID, UT, Animated) and (b) only producing ONE toyline at a time.

The toyline stills gets rebooted (example: NewRID and Cyberverse) but there's now multiple toylines getting produced simultaneous with their own media (studio series, cyberverse, generations/siege, rescue heroes, reissues?). In the past, Hasbro would do one toyline and one or two side projects. In 2003 they started experimenting with Universe (which was just repaints) and Alternators and in 2006 we obviously got Classics as a tiny "filler" toyline but none of that stuff had a mainstream media push and were really just smaller projects.

The point I'm trying to make is (a) it's amazing that we have 4ish simultaneous toylines that are getting very strong pushes from Hasbro and (b) nameslapping was really just Hasbro's bandaid for keeping copyright on popular names AND a way to market toys for older fans. Hasbro had no clue how ravenous G1 fans were for new figures of older toys. Takara actually understood this. Hasbro also didn't think they could produce a toyline without any strong media attached to it. What's going on with Siege (closely tied comics and the new Netflix show) is breaking new ground because it's all targeting older fans.

 

I hope we see this Astrotrain at SDCC

 

Can we stop bumping the thread without news?

 

Okay.