Do we have a category for name changes like this? Jawbreaker, Professor Spark, Cambo, etc? (If not I want one.) Characters that have multiple names that are NOT their international names? Should there be an AKA template?
Should there be a separate category for external-vs-internal renames? (Characters mysteriously renamed something in a fiction, vs. characters that change their names) Where does Silverstreak fall? -Derik 17:41, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
- I think we'd have to figure out some strict guidelines, so we don't end up putting every Mini-Con in that category who was accidentally called Leader-1. --ItsWalky 17:47, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
- I think it'd have to be systematic, like the Jawbreaker thing.
- And oh-damnit, did I put this in the main article, nto the talk section? -Derik 17:51, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
Overbite/Jawbreaker[]
According to this letters page, Overbite was sold as Overbite in toy stores in the UK.
Unless someone can provide a packaged image of Euro-release Overbite that calls him Jawbreaker, this is where the facts stand. --Monzo 23:36, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
- Hmmmm..... interesting. My memory clearly has Jawbreaker on a card, but I may be getting mixed up with his Tech Specs bio which was published in one of the annuals with his box-art. Nevertheless, he WAS Jawbreaker in UK G1, and this bio only implies that fact, without explicitly stating it. I will edit it accordingly.
- I can vaguely recall a later letters page, probably in the early Dreadwind era, stating that "Jawbreaker is his UK name, Overbite his US name". About a decade ago I inadvertently contributed to this one when I put together a list of some of the UK changes and recalled this one vividly without the issue to hand to check (my own Seacon shark was second hand). What is probably most likely is that the Seacons' appearance in Enemy Action was demanded by Hasbro UK (it's one of the few British strips absolutely loaded with new product) before the final toys were available (it came out in, what, mid February) so inaccurate information may well have been supplied to Marvel UK about toys that weren't yet on the shelves. (This was not unknown - a year later issue #200, on sale in early January, had a competition for sets of the new "Microbots" but I don't think this name ever appeared on the packages.) Timrollpickering 02:13, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
- P.S. And the Sparkabots are also introduced in that issue but called the "Sparkler Mini-Bots". Timrollpickering 02:26, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
G1 Piranacon gift set issues[]
Was there never a full six Seacon giftset? I am aware of the 5 version removing Nautilator (who was dropped in the Italian version btw?) but did the west never get a 6-figure one like Japan? Overbite's different colour scheme as compared to the limbs (Seawing/Nautilator & Skalor/Tentakil) shows that he was always meant for non-limby rifle-ness!
- Japan is the only place that got a giftset with all six Seacons. Italy never got the Seacons in any form at all. --FortMax 02:17, 1 August 2008 (UTC)