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Post by Hoist on Feb 17, 2014 17:56:26 GMT -5
Okay, may have made one of those up but I refuse to acknowledge him as Slug. I perfectly understand why they changed it, but really? Slug? That's the best they could come up with? Not Flamebreath or Slagmaker? When I think slug, do I think War For Cybertron giant metallic slugs? No I think of the household garden slug: hortipm.tamu.edu/pestprofiles/other/garslug/slug.jpgThey could have come up with any name but Slug? What are your thoughts on the name as this has been bugging me for a while. Also - what's with all the very lazy, generic, Age Of Extinction Dinobot heads?!
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Post by Bomblast on Feb 17, 2014 18:47:22 GMT -5
I don't like the names of any of them (besides Grimlock, obviously). Scorn, Strafe and Slash don't really make me think of Dinobots. Have Hasbro lost the rights to Snarl and Swoop in the few years since Animated or something?
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Post by Jazzman Crothers on Feb 17, 2014 20:35:09 GMT -5
Slug sucks. Slag forever!!
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Post by Onix Solo on Feb 17, 2014 20:38:41 GMT -5
A Slug is a large, solid round that hits hard and takes down large targets. I think that it suits a Triceratops Transformer quite well when they can't use Slag.
As for the rest of them in the movie, aside from Strafe who could have been called Swoop (I assume Bay didn't like the name or something), the rest are dinosaurs that are not your typical Dinobot. Scorn is a Spinosaurus, and Slash a Raptor.
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Post by Jazzman Crothers on Feb 17, 2014 21:40:58 GMT -5
A Slug is a large, solid round that hits hard and takes down large targets. I think that it suits a Triceratops Transformer quite well when they can't use Slag. When you say it like that, then Slug should be used for a Targetmaster. But really I can't agree, naming a Triceratops 'Slug' is like naming a Shark 'Worm.' BTW, 'Slagmaker' or rather 'The Slagmaker' was Megatron's nickname in the original Marvel comic profiles.
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Post by Onix Solo on Feb 17, 2014 22:22:43 GMT -5
Only because you are thinking animal. A Triceratops rams things with its skull adorned with massive horns, effectively stopping things in their tracks. Would you really prefer Slag to be Triceradon or Snarl like he has been renamed in the past? One doesn't fit the pattern, and the other alienates another Dinobot and means he now needs a new name. Slug makes sense. Blame Europe for their derogatory terms
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Post by Jazzman Crothers on Feb 17, 2014 23:27:38 GMT -5
Hoist's original post goes to show that a name or a word will make one think or envision the thing that word represents. Naming a transformer that turns into the dinosaur known as a Triceratops, 'Slug', which is a different animal, doesn't make sense. Slugger could of been a possible solution. Slugger: 'person who throws hard punches'. While Slag/Slug is known for ramming people, at least we get the idea from the name of Slugger as one with 'head hits'. And while your reasoning for the name Slug makes sense, the word slug will still conjure up thoughts and images in people's minds of the animal. Plus Slug isn't as fast as a actually slug fired from a gun or even fired from anything. And he's not a slimy and slow shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusc either! In fact the definitions of the animal slug and the bullet slug just seem to contradict each other. So in my opinion, Slug is a bad solution for this character.
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Post by Dracoblast on Feb 18, 2014 6:26:20 GMT -5
Well if you are discussing names for slug why would it be the slag maker, he doesn't melt people, if you were living up to a namesake he'd be "The Shishkebaber" or "BatterHorn" because all I remember is checking the data logs in Fall of. Cybertron and it said the low profile and dense head makes for a good ramming device
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Post by Onix Solo on Feb 18, 2014 8:01:49 GMT -5
Again, Slugger doesn't fit the pattern. Grimlock, Swoop, Snal, Sludge and Slugger?
I admit that at first, I kept thinking about the animal, but I knew thats not the use of the word that they were going for, and after that first period of word association, I was fine with it.
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Post by Jazzman Crothers on Feb 18, 2014 8:13:36 GMT -5
What pattern? A one syllable word beginning with the letter 'S'?
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Post by Bomblast on Feb 18, 2014 16:25:34 GMT -5
They've re-used the name of a previous Transformer, calling what would have been Swoop Strafe instead. They could have done that for Slug and called him Ramhorn. Certainly fits.
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Post by Heavy Handed Assault on Feb 20, 2014 21:00:09 GMT -5
Look up the American meaning of Slag. Hasbro made Transformers what they are today. Slag as a word is what it is. Stony waste thats involved with ore. What it means in England shouldn't be a factor.England had nothing to do with Transformers and what they are today! This is so lame on to many levels.... Here a great example......You ready!? F**! A bushel of sticks.A cigarette. Wtf Ppl.Stop being sissy lala's.
(Edited just incase this doesn't sit well with the TOS)
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Post by Onix Solo on Feb 20, 2014 21:08:04 GMT -5
Look up the American meaning of Slag. Hasbro made Transformers what they are today. Slag as a word is what it is. Stony waste thats involved with ore. What it means in England shouldn't be a factor.England had nothing to do with Transformers and what they are today! This is so lame on to many levels.... Here a great example......You ready!? F**! A bushel of sticks.A cigarette. Wtf Ppl.Stop being sissy lala's. Your second example actually makes sense, as you would burn the bushels of stick for fire, and you burn a cigarette. Slag, on the other hand, I do not get. Hasbro doesn't just sell to Americans, they ship their toys internationally. (Edited just incase this doesn't sit well with the TOS)
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Post by Heavy Handed Assault on Feb 20, 2014 21:17:56 GMT -5
GOOGLE THE WORD SLAG! When Hasbro choose that name they didn't think of what it meant in England.
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Post by Heavy Handed Assault on Feb 20, 2014 21:25:45 GMT -5
Slag=Stony waste matter separated during smelting or refining of ore.
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