I feel like that’s pretty disingenuous.
Even then at least Rebel Trooper and Storm Trooper give you something to go on and their respective factions. It’s not even Autobot Red Cog. It’s just Red Cog.
Literally any name they already cleared with legal would’ve been preferable. They released a Wedge in Rescue Bot Academy. Slap that name on here. At least it’s SOMETHING.
Very cool that Parasite has an alternate head like Toy Scorponok does! Not sure how I feel about the notion that both heads might represent different characters, as that might tempt me to get two copies of the toy...
I think I like the "mutant" head better, but I also didn't notice the hex honeycomb pattern on the "ears" for the other head, which looks really cool and makes me more excited for Buzzsaw.
I think I like the "mutant" head better, but I also didn't notice the hex honeycomb pattern on the "ears" for the other head, which looks really cool and makes me more excited for Buzzsaw.
Oh dang, that is cool. More of these alt head pack-ins should be a thing. Better than fireblast effects.
I don't know that it's all that out of line.
-If Red Cog is meant the evoke the Grand Maximus accessory, then it should just be Cog, the 'Red' bit at least differentiates it.
-If it's meant to evoke the 'Security Officer' from the Netflix series, Red Cog is more of a name than Security Officer.
-If the intent is that Cogs are more or less just drones, it's not much worse than Tank Drone, Motorcycle Drone, or Sonic Attack Jet. It's not as catchy as Vehicon or Autorooper, but roughly on par with descriptors like Jet Vehicon or Air Vehicon.
Would it hurt for Hasbro to put some world-building time into character bios for troop-building figures? No. But it is also not particularly necessary, either. They spent the budget for Red Cog on the accessories, of any figure that comes out this year, it's probably the one to let slide for no bio.
Between this, toy coloured Scorponok having the alternate toy head, and SG Ultra Magnus having the Delta Magnus/Powered Convoy head... these are fun developments.
I don't know man. My fiancé is a Star Wars Empire/First Order collector. There's an entire shelf in our place dedicated to Storm Troopers of like every variety.
"Red Cog" doesn't bother me so much.
The Powerdashers would like a word about how this isn't a new thing.
Hell, Sweeps still don't have names.
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Oh man, with Toy Colors Scorponok and Parasite/Skywasp both coming with two heads, it makes me wonder if all four of the figures in this boxed set will each have two heads. Like, if Goldbug comes with a cartoon-based blue head and a Marvel-based gold head. Dunno about what Ransack could have, though.
It's not fragile feeling, it's probably more of a subconscious thing from reading posts about the fragility of translucent plastic at joints. He felt pretty solid while actually transforming him (I'll probably try to get SG Blaster and Rewind too, despite Rewind also being translucent plastic).
Thank you. That's all we ever asked.
I was going to point out how Hasbro has had a rough track record for new names for a couple years now, and was going to cite names like Draculus and Tyrannocon Rex as examples... but then I realized we had Beast Wars characters named stuff like Cheetor, Rhinox and Dinobot... so maybe Transformer names have sucked for a long ass time.
JP93 is still especially god awful. He will forever be Warden to me, (both as in "Game Warden" as well as a reference to John Warden)
JP93 is still especially god awful. He will forever be Warden to me, (both as in "Game Warden" as well as a reference to John Warden)
I'm only bothered because the other one isn't specifically "Blue Cog." There's so much possible confusion that could arise out of this!
And Powerdasher Aragon! Does he count as a Cog? Or is the head enough to differentiate him from the Cogs?
And Powerdasher Aragon! Does he count as a Cog? Or is the head enough to differentiate him from the Cogs?
I like "Tracker" for JP93.
That name kind of reminds me of CW Alpha Bravo, which is literally just the initials for "AerialBot." I decided he would be G1 Evac.
Alpha Bravo is at least a bit clever for doing it the way they did. I'd certainly rate it under Draculus or Tyrannocon for names; but think its still better then JP93 (which I think should be his Cybertronian designation like B-127 was for Bumblebee) and Red Cog.
There are a lot of names they could have reused that I don't think anyone would have been particularly upset about. The first idea that came to mind was Scorchfire, but thinking it over I think my favorite name reuse option would be to call him Overload and have him be a G1 counterpart to the Armada guy.