Lock-On

2010-05-30T05:27:01Z

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:''Lock-On is a [[Mini-Con]] from the [[Armada (franchise)|Armada]] portion of the [[Unicron Trilogy]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Lock-On-render.png|right|250px|thumb|Boom boom!]]
'''Lock-On''' is one of many power-enhancing Mini-Cons scattered across [[Earth]]. A member of the [[Red Mini-Con Team]], when [[Powerlinx|Powerlinxed]] to a larger Transformer, Lock-On becomes a weapon that fires homing missiles.

==Fiction==
===Transformers Playstation 2 Game===
Lock-On was the first Mini-Con recovered by the [[Autobot|Autobots]], his [[Mini-Con storage panel|storage panel]] found lying in a fairly open area of the [[Amazon]]. Following the defeat of [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]], he and the other Mini-Cons returned to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] and helped form the [[Matrix Cannon]], [[Nemesis Shield]] and [[Vanguard Booster]], giving the Autobots the power needed to destroy [[Unicron]]. {{storylink|Transformers (Melbomb House)|Transformers}}

==Trivia==
* Lock-On uses the same base model as [[Failsafe]], [[Flashbang]], and [[Hailstorm]].

==External links==
*[http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/transformers_a.txt Transformers (PS2) walkthrough at GameFAQs]

[[Category:Armada characters]]
[[Category:Mini-Cons]]
[[Category:Video game-only characters]]

Neon

2010-05-30T05:23:24Z

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[[Image:G1OmegaSpreem toy.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Orange Spreem]]
{{bigquote|Why can't we get some more realistic colors fitting a real life vechicle/Animals for a TF? Example: A purple wolf Silverbot for the TF line. A rainbow colored Depth charge for TFU. The badly colored Armada Tidalwave. No ones saying paint everything black+grey. just stop using those neon colors & so forth.|Deathy|alt.toys.transformers (2004)<ref>[http://groups.google.com/group/alt.toys.transformers/msg/e1afb34ee4f68eb9?dmode=source Important questions to ask Orson/Hasbro]</ref>}}

Unlike the real world, where the word means "fluorescent", '''neon''' is a term used by many in the Transformers online fandom to describe any color on a Transformers product that an individual merely finds ugly. This broad usage means practically any color imaginable can be marginalized as a hated "neon" color. Colors that have been categorized as neon include the following:

*White
*Yellow (unless it is on a [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bug]])
*Red (unless it is on a [[Optimus Prime (G1)|truck]])
*Blue
*Green (unless it is on a [[Constructicon (G1)|construction vehicle]])
*Purple (see above. [[Trypticon (G1)|Or]] a [[Megatron (BW)|dinosaur.]])
*Orange (unless it is on a [[Predacon (G1)|predatory animal]])
*Black

Often a neon color will be a complementary accent color, even if that color is extremely unsaturated. Any color schemes that [[GEEWUN|adhere slavishly]] to a pre-existing [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] character are exempt from all of the above.

==Prominent examples==
<center><gallery>
Image:Tidalwavearmadaremy.jpg|You might think the red is what's neon here, but it's actually the dull green.
Image:Depthcharge-universe.jpg|The aforementioned "rainbow-colored Depth Charge".
Image:Thundercrackeram.jpg|Okay, this one IS kinda hideous.
Image:G2bruticus.jpg|Neon camouflage — easy to be spotted on the battlefield.
Image:G2 Gobot Soundwave toy.jpg|You can see it from space!
Image:Nemesisprimealtrobot.jpg|The teal here is especially neon. As is the black.
Image:MarvelCrossoversThor.JPG|Verily doth it clash.
Image:Movie2007 AllsparkBrawl.jpg|Many [[AllSpark Power]] figures were considered a bit garfield.
Image:G1Skyquake_toy.jpg|And worst of all, the only reason this toy came out this neon...
Image:Skyquake.jpg|...is because the [[Packaging art]] looks worse!

</gallery></center>

==See also==
*[[Playskool]]
*[[Black repaint]]
*[[Generation 2 (toyline)]]

==References==
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[[Category:Toys]]

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Lock-On

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