I prefere Convoy Over Prime becuse Guys like Star Convoy and Lio Convoy never got Latin names.

"line of stars traveling together"

"line of cats"

 

huh?!?!

 

Hunter

i prefer the US names too....gives them more of that personality trait that makes them free thinking robots and not drones.

Meister > Jazz.  How many TFans like jazz?  That's my least favorite genre besides polka and bagpipe music.

i prefer the US names too....gives them more of that personality trait that makes them free thinking robots and not drones.

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yes, most of my preference is US name. i.e, Japanese name is "megazark", but US name is "scopronok", sound US name beautiful than JPN

I like jazz, the char and the type of music.  I don't LIKE polka, bagpipe, or other music like country, hip hop, indian pop, but I am more amused by people being irritated by them than I dislike them myself hehe..

Let's take a look at Ultra Magnus

 

Ultra-too many to list here, just click the link

Magnus-Large; great; denoting a structure of large size.

 

So in summary, he's essentially VERY LARGE

i prefer the US names too....gives them more of that personality trait that makes them free thinking robots and not drones.

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yes, most of my preference is US name. i.e, Japanese name is "megazark", but US name is "scopronok", sound US name beautiful than JPN

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"We have this big scorpian guy, but he needs a cool robot sounding name so know lets name him Scorpinok" :roll

The japanese names are really just irritating to me (go-go happy life super flame convoy), (breast force) WTF??

 

I'm all for north american names....(jazz, blaster, lazerbeak etc.)

Megatron Means Great Robot.

Gigatron Means Giant Robot.

Galvatron means Robot who stimulates.

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Never knew of those translations. I do know, however, that in an interview over at bwtf, Bob Budiansky (the man who came up with a lot of the G1 names) says that he liked the name megatron because it was close to megaton, a word associated with nuclear weapons, while tron of course is derived from elecTRONics.

 

As said earlier, the japanese names are the names used by the diaclones, while Hasbro had a change to create names (through Marvel comics) that suited characters in the storyline. My preference is also to the western names, although sometimes I prefer the Japanese name.

 

I still think G1 had some great names and finding out the meaning of the names often helped me to remember the characters capabilities and personality.