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Post by The Doctor on Sept 11, 2019 11:40:25 GMT
GRIMLOCK IS A DINOSAUR!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Sept 11, 2019 11:48:44 GMT
Yes.
But neither Swoop or Sky Lynx are.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Sept 11, 2019 11:49:15 GMT
Next Ralph will be calling Swoop a salad!
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Post by The Huff on Sept 11, 2019 16:07:40 GMT
Swoops official toy packaging clearly says 'Transforms the from dinosaur to robot and back'. Which means it's canon.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Sept 11, 2019 16:11:36 GMT
Or has been wrong for 35 years.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 11, 2019 16:22:20 GMT
Next Ralph will be calling Swoop a salad! Or a train. Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 11, 2019 20:41:42 GMT
Or has been wrong for 35 years. So if Swoop's packaging is wrong then all packaging could be wrong! Frenzy is red! -Ralph
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Post by Shockprowl on Sept 11, 2019 20:48:02 GMT
NONSENSE FROM BEYOND THE MIND! -Ralph Yeah, I'm with Doc'. They're Dinosaurs, in the greatest definition of the word.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Sept 11, 2019 21:54:48 GMT
Or has been wrong for 35 years. So if Swoop's packaging is wrong then all packaging could be wrong! Frenzy is red! -Ralph Backstreet and Override were Decepticons all along - not Dogfight!!
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 12, 2019 4:22:42 GMT
So if Swoop's packaging is wrong then all packaging could be wrong! Frenzy is red! It is within Hasbro's remit to declare the name of each of its toys, and it chose to name its red Decepticon cassette tape Rumble, and its spark-shooting Autobots Sparkabots, and its shark Seacon Overbite. It is not within Hasbro's remit or area of expertise to decide whether a pteranodon is a dinosaur or whether a locomotive is a train. And TF packaging makes mistakes. (Warrior has rank 9, air commander has rank 5.) (Picture of Twin Twist on Topspin's tech-specs.) (Accidentally made up the word 'ferrodobalt' then stuck a sticker on correcting it to 'ferrocobalt' to stem the tide of thousands of complaint letters and requests for refunds.) Should read "Can change anything from a construction crane to a can opener into a weapon in less time than it takes to plug in a phone jack." Martin
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Post by The Huff on Sept 12, 2019 7:32:14 GMT
In the 80s and in fiction in general the pteradactyl is generally included and accepted in the world of dinosaurs. If there is a group of them, there is always a flying one. Scientifically this is wrong but as far as Transformers is concerned (and nearly all children's fiction) Swoop/pteradactyls/pteradons/the flying one from Harry's Bucketful. Of Dinosaurs will be dinosaurs to me in that medium.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Sept 12, 2019 8:21:42 GMT
It is a poor disguise if Swoop goes around calling himself a dinosaur. He'd be spotted as a fake a mile off!
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 12, 2019 8:29:21 GMT
Maybe Swoop is a dinosaur disguised as a robot disguised as a pterosaur?
Martin
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 12, 2019 8:36:33 GMT
Gnaw's packaging says he transforms into a 'futuristic shark'. The instructions just refer to it as a shark. Maybe Swoop is a futuristic dinosaur? Martin
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Post by blueshift on Sept 12, 2019 8:57:46 GMT
And TF packaging makes mistakes. Concerned that Martin has revealed himself to be a heretic
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 12, 2019 9:03:30 GMT
Gnaw's packaging says he transforms into a 'futuristic shark'. The instructions just refer to it as a shark. Maybe Swoop is a futuristic dinosaur? Martin It always bothered me that the Sharkticons toy looked more like a piranha!
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Post by blueshift on Sept 12, 2019 9:12:53 GMT
A-are they not piranhas??
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 12, 2019 10:11:08 GMT
They are. Which is why the name is so silly..... especially when there are robots who look like sharks swimming in the Quintesson seas: tfwiki.net/wiki/Allicon
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 12, 2019 10:33:13 GMT
Wait. Wait a minute.
-Ralph
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Post by Benn on Sept 12, 2019 12:04:36 GMT
<taps foot> Yes?
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Post by The Huff on Sept 12, 2019 13:05:21 GMT
Sharkticons are obviously based on space sharks - it's only our earth sharks that are the wrong shape.
Many aliens have visited Earth and asked "Why do they call their sharks piranhas?"
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 12, 2019 19:43:56 GMT
Many aliens have visited Earth and asked "Why do they call their sharks piranhas?" And "What happened to all their arms and legs?" Martin
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 12, 2019 19:48:28 GMT
And ironically none of Piranacon's component Seacons transform into piranhas. But one of them is a shark.
Piranacon should be called Sharkticon and the Sharkticons should be called Piranhacons!
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Post by The Huff on Sept 12, 2019 22:30:05 GMT
And ironically none of Pirranacon's component Seacons transform into piranhas. But one of them is a shark. Pirranacon should be called Sharkticon and the Sharkticons should be called Piranhacons! Martn I was going to say this earlier today - but forgot how Piranacon was spelt!
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 13, 2019 6:39:26 GMT
And ironically none of Pirranacon's component Seacons transform into piranhas. But one of them is a shark. Pirranacon should be called Sharkticon and the Sharkticons should be called Piranhacons! Martn I was going to say this earlier today - but forgot how Piranacon was spelt! Whoops, you're right. Should be only one 'r' according to packaging and TF Universe. Though I think I saw double 'r' in TFUK. Martin
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Post by The Huff on Sept 13, 2019 6:49:43 GMT
I was going to say this earlier today - but forgot how Piranacon was spelt! Whoops, you're right. Should be only one 'r' according to packaging and TF Universe. Though I think I saw double 'r' in TFUK. Martin Hah! I wasn't correcting you - I really just couldn't remember how it was spelt. I couldn't tell if you'd spelt it wrong either. (But am glad I'm not the only one). Yes, he should be called Sharkticon because that's so much easier to write.
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Post by The Huff on Sept 13, 2019 6:50:11 GMT
I was going to say this earlier today - but forgot how Piranacon was spelt! Whoops, you're right. Should be only one 'r' according to packaging and TF Universe. Though I think I saw double 'r' in TFUK. Martin Hah! I wasn't correcting you - I really just couldn't remember how it was spelt. I couldn't tell if you'd spelt it wrong either. (But am glad I'm not the only one). Yes, he should be called Sharkticon because that's so much easier to write. Or Fred.
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 16, 2019 18:24:24 GMT
30 Years Ago This Week: Issue #236 The Interplanetary Wrestling Championship - Part 1: Roadhandler makes an appearance on Cecilia Santiago's talk show and gets into an argument with Jake 'The Jackhammer' Jackson when the wrestler accuses the Micromasters of being a threat to the city. Not realising this is an act, Roadhandler expects to fight Jackson and visits his gym the next day with Swindler acting as his manager. There he begins to work on wrestling moves with Jackson resulting in him breaking the ring. Deathbringer - Part 2: The other Autobots try to fight Deathbringer while Optimus Prime is paralyzed with fear. Nightbeat radios Waverider aboard the Ark for help, and learns that there are two Deathbringers, the first is the one Siren's legend spoke of, but this one is a mechanoid designed to wipe clean planets that have succumbed to terrible plagues before infection spreads elsewhere. Optimus persuades the Deathbringer that it is infected with the power of the Matrix and it kills itself to comply with its own directives. Elsewhere, Transformation warns that the Mecannibals will be back in issue 240; the Mighty Marvel Checklist reveals that there is free jelly to be had with issue 67 of The Real Ghostbusters; on the letters' page, Jan Deacon of Tamworth worries s/he is too old to be reading Transformers at the age of 20; and on the back cover, Cadbury Chocolate tells us that Michel Lotito of Grenoble, France, has chewed his way through 10 bicycles, a supermarket trolley, 7 TV sets, 6 chandeliers, a coffin and a low calorie Cessna light aircraft - but none of these things are as chewy as a Curly Wurly.
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 16, 2019 18:24:49 GMT
Blimey Deathbringer was a bit of an anti-climax!
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Post by Benn on Sept 16, 2019 19:30:31 GMT
This story always stuck with me.
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