Talk:Rom

What Marvel own

No, seriously, they own everything except the toy and stuff that came with the toy. Go look at the Annihilators miniseries from a couple of years back on Comixology - it features not just Spaceknights, but Galador, the Dire Wraiths & their black sun and even ROM's girlfriend! - SanityOrMadness (talk) 11:04, 29 November 2013 (EST)

Just because they're using that material doesn't mean they actually have the rights to it. Everything Marvel produced for Hasbro's tie-in comics is, after all, owned by Hasbro; while it's possible Parker Brothers got a shoddier contract than Hasbro did, it's just as likely that Marvel's kept using Rom-related material because nobody on the toy side of things has cared about Rom since 1979. Until recently, anyway. (If nothing else, Marvel didn't actually create the Dire Wraiths: they were mentioned in a Parker Bros. Toy Fair promo video that Jim Shooter admitted he saw during the initial licensing negotiations, and IIRC some Rom letter columns said they were slated to come out from Parker as a toy.)

In any case, the full scope of Rom's various legal issues are both above our pay-grades and beyond our relevancy, and I think the current write-up suffices. --Monzo (talk) 15:52, 29 November 2013 (EST)

Should the Autobot logo be removed

Considering the Bot Shots toy was never released, and the fact that Rom will be showing up as part of Revolution and he is not a Cybertronian, should the Autobot insignia be removed from the top of his page? - DannyBoy (talk) 16:38, 9 July 2016 (EST)

No, this wiki records everything. Since the canceled toy never had a retail toy to supersede it, the unreleased toy's info stays. S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47 (talk) 00:12, 14 July 2016 (EDT)

Records what? According to the notes, his faction is speculative. We don't know the toy would have been an Autobot. --ItsWalky (talk) 01:20, 14 July 2016 (EDT)

Since having an Autobot logo up in the right hand corner is entirely presumptive, I've removed it. --ItsWalky (talk) 03:08, 14 July 2016 (EDT)

Full name

Should his full name (Rom K'atsema) be mentioned in the article, or is that one of the 'it hasn't been mentioned on the TF side' things? - TBR (talk) 04:44, 1 August 2017 (EDT)

Classic Toy?

Should we include the original toy here as well, or just things put out (or intended to be put out) by HasTak? I'm hazarding it's a "no," seeing how it would probably be here by now, but wanted to know.--NewtypeS3 (talk) 20:06, 16 November 2017 (EST)

We only document toys released in Transformers toy lines. --abates (talk) 21:04, 16 November 2017 (EST)

While having an actual toy entry obviously isn't something we want to do, I don't think it would necessarily be a bad idea to include a picture in the notes section. --Dark T Zeratul (talk) 21:48, 17 November 2017 (EST)