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Sabrblade

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And it was still better than the Hardwired trilogy. Granted, they're both terrible.
I've actually softened up on that trilogy just a bit. Granted, it's still not good, but in light of the live-action movies adding so much edgy grimdark uber-violence to the brand (even towards humans, like DOTM showing Decepticons blasting hundreds of humans into flaming skulls, and AOE turning Lucas into a flaming corpse that it shows up-close and personal, and then lingers on for too long afterward), those books no longer stand out as anomalous in how graphic they were.

If anything, I still find the character of Allister Greaves and ideas of the Followers and the Augments to be interesting concepts that never really got a chance to be developed in anything better written.
 

LordGigaIce

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I'd bring up the novels, but...

Exiles was... so bad (and kept him a mystery 'til the very end, a mystery no one cared about since the payoff was some rando no one had ever heard of before), while Retribution just got him out of the way early on, to make room for the Quintessons.
I went into Exodus with high expectations and it just.... fell so flat. Disappointingly so. Like... RotF levels of disappointment. Made me not even want to bother with Exiles and Retribution.
 

Platypus Prime

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I got as far as "And now I will show everyone how to store his accessories in alt-mode....THUNDER! THUNDER! THUNDER! THUNDERTRON! STOOOOOOOWWWWWW!!!!!"

-and then realized I don't have any version of this character or a youtube channel. Oh, well.
 

PrimalxConvoy

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We really have been missing good fiction for Legacy. The Velocitron comics are great....and motivated me to get the whole collection when they showed up at Ross...just need Galaxy Shuttle.
It's shocking that little or no fiction was made for the Fossilisers or Not-Lords...

"Stones and Bones"?
 

Tuxedo Prime

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It's a bit more succinct than "We-Aren't-Sure-If-WB-Will-Let-Us-Call-Them-Rock-Lords-And-Anyway-The-Inferniac-Universe-Is-Not-A-Gargent-Stream"....
 
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ZacWilliam1

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It's not a very Legacy feeling name but I'm going with the late G1 style "Geomasters." (I considered the early G1 style Geobots, but I thought Masters was snappier.)

-ZacWilliam, I've probably mentioned before I'm imaging them as a team of Autobots who crashed through the crust into the Inhumanoid's Hollow Earth and hooked up with the Granites to fight Metlar and co...
 

Tuxedo Prime

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That's not what Confuzor's talking about.
Remembering Cybertron Metroplex, perhaps not, but in this particular case I was inclined to view the shorthand moniker through the filter of "Hasbro is reluctant to call these characters GoBots Rock Lords" as opposed to "I don't think these are as good as GoBots Rock Lords".
It's not a very Legacy feeling name but I'm going with the late G1 style "Geomasters." (I considered the early G1 style Geobots, but I thought Masters was snappier.)
While punny, I was leaning towards "Sili-Cons", in the style of Armada's Mini-Cons. Geomasters has a nice ring to it, though.
 

Sabrblade

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Remembering Cybertron Metroplex, perhaps not, but in this particular case I was inclined to view the shorthand moniker through the filter of "Hasbro is reluctant to call these characters GoBots Rock Lords" as opposed to "I don't think these are as good as GoBots Rock Lords".
That still doesn't have anything to do with Confuzor calling out PrimalxConvoy's juvenile refusal to call them by their proper name of "Armorizers".
 

Sabrblade

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Also, Hasbro has stated that their primary source of influence for the Armorizers was not the Rock Lords. That was just one of their influences, but a minor one rather than the main one. The main inspiration was the rock aliens of the planet Daira from an episode of Transformers: The Headmasters.

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Geocron's head is even directly based on that of the one in the first pic above, per Evan Brooks' designer commentary.

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They're also deliberately designed with hollow concave torsos to indicate that they are non-Cybertronian alien lifeforms, with Mark Maher even pointing that they have no sparks. If anything, their home dimension being designated the "Infernac Universe" gives them closer ties to the Inhumanoids than not.



So, anyone calling them something as petty as "Not Lords" is, in and of itself, incredibly redundant since, like, of course they're not Rock Lords. They're no supposed to be!

They're name is "Armorizers". They are what they are.
 
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Tuxedo Prime

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That still doesn't have anything to do with Confuzor calling out PrimalxConvoy's juvenile refusal to call them by their proper name of "Armorizers".
See, I didn't even know there was a collective name for the subline (infraline? microline?) besides the aforementioned home stream. Which speaks either to my work-life balance being way too tilted or a failure of Hasbro marketing, take your pick.

I will say that over on the Mayhem Bakery thread, the interaction between PrimalxConvoy and myself has been quite pleasant. I shan't try to defend his every decision or utterance, but as I said above I viewed the recent one here in a neutral-to-favourable light, and others... didn't.

It was often similar, as I recall, with the late Neale Davidson. Make of that what you will.
 

Sabrblade

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See, I didn't even know there was a collective name for the subline (infraline? microline?) besides the aforementioned home stream. Which speaks either to my work-life balance being way too tilted or a failure of Hasbro marketing, take your pick.
The name's on the box.

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And in the Product Descriptions for each toy's online order pages.
 


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