User talk:Detour

Will you please stop? You've been going in the same fucking circle for what, hours? --M Sipher 02:43, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Movie Jolt vs Movie Jolt

Sorry if the post about Jolt not being confused with the previously released Jolt wasn't a good one... Just thought it was sort of a unique case that should be addressed, what with there being two movie Jolts, and unlike the 2007 one which didn't appear in any movies and has since been changed to a different character, also not appearing in the movies, the new Jolt is in the movie. I know that's what disambiguation is for, but I just thought it was an interesting bit of trivia that a movie character's name was already used in the movieverse, though for a different character. (not including the whole movie Arcee thing) -Cliffjumper Prime

Megatron joke

The monsters in MMPR always started out human-sized. Then, at some point, Rita throws her staff down from the Moon shouting "Make my monster grow!". The staff lands in the ground and energy shoots out of it, making the monster enormous. The laser effects around Megatron's cannon in that picture look a lot like the staff. Here is a YouTube clip of it: [1]. Honestly, it's not a big deal to me, but the old joke doesn't really make any sense in the first place. It seems to be a premature ejaculation joke to go along with his cannon firing, but it's not like there's anybody else in the picture for the innuendo to be complete. I think the observation our anonymous editor made about the resemblance to the staff is actually pretty clever. A rare instance of somebody changing a joke for the better, IMO. --Steve-o 16:20, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Huzzah! I have a talk page now! Anyway, thanks for clearing it up... I didn't get the ressemblance of Bandora's staff to the laser blast effects of Megatron's cannons... At least I understood the previous joke, wasn't all that funny but it made sense without the explanation. -Detour 16:54, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Revert Revert

Slaggit! This is like, the fourth time this has happened to me. I SPECIFICALLY checked with a preview when I was about to make the reversion, and it did NOT tell me any edits had been made since I'd started mine. Apologies for the confusion and annoyance, but I am definitely not doing this on purpose...--Apcog 23:39, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

No worries. I know it wasn't your fault. I'm pretty sure this happened to me at least once as well. --Detour 16:11, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. That actually makes me feel a lot better about it.--Apcog 16:23, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Treatment

Hey, it's not uploaded anywhere anymore (but Don Murphy has no issues with us handing it around). I can send you the PDF, but I need your email. --FFN 22:42, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Nunchakus

His name is "Michelangelo". :) --Sntint 14:38, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

My bad. Haven't watched TMNT since the original toon. And I was never into Renaissance art or whatever era the artist namesake was from. --Detour 02:28, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Airazor caption

Hi. I was wondering what was wrong with the old caption for the Airazor photo.

Essentially, there's nothing wrong with the toy so criticizing it like that is pointless. --Detour 08:29, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Okay. I didn't think the caption was meant as a criticism of the toy. I thought it was meant to point out that though she was designed as a female figure, she didn't really turn out looking any more female than any other Transformer (excluding Arcee and Thunderblast). But humor is subjective, and what I find somewhat funny might not seem funny at all to someone else.

Airazor was designed as a male figure. The toy/character only became female on the insistence of the show writers. --Monzo 09:15, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

We're talking about the caption for the Transmetal figure. I thought that one was designed from the start to be female.

... oh! Did not realize. Sorry. Ignore me. --Monzo 09:51, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Blurr

He is known to be a member, which should be enough, but he is also known to appear again later in the season, both through the footage from Dubai and the teasers released on the blog. That's why I said that I believed that it ws exception enough if he wasn't a member, it wouldn't need to be moved, but both together seem to be compelling enough.KrytenKoro 16:56, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Look at your talk page, anything Dubai-related should not be discussed here in any capacity. We are not gloryhounds like Seibertron trying to be the first ones to announce every single giant spoiler of every single piece of media. --Detour 19:49, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

That's great, but that's not what I am trying to say. He was announced as a character a while ago, before Dubai, and on one of the creator blogs. He's known to be in the Elite Guard, and we even know who his American voice actor is. We've even had him make his first appearance. Dubai just confirmed an episode he reappears in. That's all I'm trying to say - that we know he's in the guard, and we have confirmation from various sources of a future appearance. Hell, that we've listed his voice actor should be confirmation enough.

And I didn't make the edit to spread spoilers - I did it to add info to a wiki, when the info is confirmed. Yes, we should not be obsessed with news, but neither should we put blinders on and wait until info is months or years old. (Hyperbole, but you get my point)KrytenKoro 22:05, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Rabbicrater Edits

Just FYI, the edits HooperX made were capitalizing on the fact that Rabbicrater looks like his name contains the word "rabbi", when in fact it's meant to be most of the word "rabbit". The caption gag of "L'chaim" thus becomes more obvious, though I like the current one better. As for the miscellaneous trivia, I think it's an attempt at a callback to one of the final scenes from the Mel Brooks film History of the World, Part 1. So not TOTAL nonsense.--Apcog 14:16, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Oh, well I don't know much about Judaism so "L'chaim" is kind of flying over my head right now (and I believe even if explained, the Yaoi Kiss Players joke will still be funnier)... And the misc trivia, well History Of The World Part 1 is one of the Mel Brooks films I have not yet had the pleasure of watching... Even then, it's kind of out of place in the same paragraph as the info about the rabbit on the moon... if Hooper wants to bring it back I would suggest he add another asterisk paragraph to point it out... --Detour 15:11, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Long story short, a robot with the word "Rabbi" in his name, even if it actually has to do with "rabbit" is ripe for Judaism gags. "L'Chaim!" is a traditional exclamation of celebration. Originally, I was just gonna put the lyrics to Hava Nagila up there, but hey. The Kiss Players thing I had to stop and stare at - the two dudes humping are kind of cut out of the frame. But hey, whatever. -hx 15:15, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

FWIW, "L'chaim" is a traditional Hebrew version of "Cheers!" and literally means "To life!" I'm up for ethnic humor as much as the next previous guy, but I still find the KP gag funnier in this case. The thought of "Hava Negila" lyrics as a caption does make me grin, though...--Apcog 16:05, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Real Gear hairdryer

Good you took that out for now, I was just too exited to post a unreleased toy for the Movie line, so I did not stop to check if it was real or not. I'm currently looking for more info on it and will put that back up once I found proof. By the way, what do the read minus numbers next to your edit mean?Dead Metal 12:42, 30 May 2008 (UTC) -Edit, I fell for a joke! it was just a joke to take the piss of the US toy gun law.Dead Metal 19:03, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Number of characters (letters and spaces) added or removed from the total article length by this edit. -Derik 22:45, 4 June 2009 (EDT)

....what? --Detour 23:24, 4 June 2009 (EDT)

Hi

I'm listening and I'm sorry Gyro-Robo 22:43, 8 June 2008

Mayhem Suppression Squad‎

Hello ^^ I removed the Category: Shattered Glass characters from the Mayhem Suppression Squad‎ members because Category:Mayhem Suppression Squad‎ is already under Category: Shattered Glass characters. Just like Killbison only under Category:Breastforce which is contained by Combiners, Decepticons, and Victory characters. --TX55^TALK 00:49, 22 April 2009 (EDT)

1989 Character Models

Howdy! I saw the Bumblebee & Jazz pretender models. Do you happen to have higher resolution versions of these images that you'd be willing to share with me? Do you have any more images from this era? (The Ark III needs your help!) --Jimsorenson 21:04, 23 April 2009 (EDT)

Drift

Fine, have it your way! This site could be something awesome for everybody, yet guys like you persist in making it a refuge for your snide insults and negativity. --Hutch 03:47, 24 July 2009 (EDT)

If it helps... even some of us here think Detour takes the AHM-bashing to ridiculous extremes. --Jeysie 04:23, 24 July 2009 (EDT)

Except a lot of what he yanked out was stuff not even written by me. --Detour 04:25, 24 July 2009 (EDT)

Some of us are OK with desnarking the overly-snarked articles. Thankfully Rosicrucian just redid the removal. :P --Jeysie 04:29, 24 July 2009 (EDT)

No, he yanked different parts, and rewrote another. --Detour 04:33, 24 July 2009 (EDT)

Man, just let it go. We're trying to make the trivia sections smaller, y'know.--Rosicrucian^Talk 22:00, 4 June 2009 (EDT)

No! Much, much bigger! I'm good with keeping the Poochie theme for SL: Drift's page, but we really, really gotta get a reference to Rurouni Kenshin on a Drift image somewhere down the line! I can't imagine McCarthy not having Kenshin in some corner of his mind when he was creating Drift. "Oh man, he'll be an ex-assassin, with a dark past he regrets, and he carries a special sword! AWESOME!" --Nu-Priest 16:20, 17 June 2009 (EDT)

Vandalism?

Thanks for fixing my page, I appreciate it. Apparently Mr. Anon didn't take too kindly from me having to up and leave his little "discussion". People gotta go do other things besides argue with somebody on the other side of the computer all day. So do you know how severe punishment is for vandalizing someone's User Page?---AWT88 22:15, 4 June 2009 (EDT)

In this case, I'm inclined to believe it was a simple accident. The guy isn't really all that wiki savvy, and may have just clicked on your sig and thought it was your talkpage. He's... well, I don't hold any illusions he's going to be a productive user here, but he's on a dynamic IP and isn't outright harmful so I'm not sure what a block would accomplish.--Rosicrucian^Talk 22:17, 4 June 2009 (EDT)

True, I didn't take that into account. I tend to jump to the vandalism claim (or any claim honestly) a little too gung-ho sometimes, and this is one of those times.--AWT88 22:27, 4 June 2009 (EDT)

S'okay. I mean, I'd be lying if I said my cursor didn't hover over the block button on him while I thought about it. Trouble is his two IPs so far don't even seem to share a common subnet, so even an IP range ban wouldn't be viable. If he becomes genuinely abusive lemme know and I'd be happy to play whack-a-mole with his IPs.--Rosicrucian^Talk 22:31, 4 June 2009 (EDT)

Sorry, I'm new here. Won't happen again, trust me.--ACIDSTORM92 20:59, 12 June 2009 (EDT)

• Z-z-zay, is it no vandalism to undo the another's additionz-z-z-z without any explanation? What's wrong with z-z-z-z-them?--Waz-z-z-zpinator59 01:11, 1 December 2009 (EST)

They didn't make any sense. You should stick to adding to the synopsis/etc. because your English seems to slip right down to nonsensical when you do captions. --Detour 01:47, 1 December 2009 (EST)

Barricade ROTF DS game

Why instand of deleting it why dont you fix all my misspelling i have the game and all barricade parts are true.--Eagc7

So... the burden is on us to fix what you write?--Rosicrucian^Talk 15:07, 30 June 2009 (EDT)

Because neither I nor anyone else on the wiki is your personal spellchecker. If you want your edits to stick, put some effort into it and that includes using proper English. --Detour 15:07, 30 June 2009 (EDT)

Ze little one

"The identity of ze little one is a bit on the fraught side. In the flyover shot of the barge on which the four Constructicons sit, a red bulldozer (Rampage), a concrete mixer (Mixmaster), a dump truck (Long Haul) and a yellow front-end loader are visible. The yellow front-end loader is the alternate mode of the Constructicon Scrapper, and ze little one's robot mode appears to be the same as Scrapper's. As such, the temptation to just consider this a Scrapper unit is great... except that, after the flyover shot, the yellow loader disappears, and is replaced with a yellow Volvo excavator, clearly marked with a large Decepticon insignia. For the purposes of reducing headaches, we're assuming that the excavator is the "correct" vehicle mode, and that it just happens to transform into a robot mode that resembles Scrapper...even though it's not him. "

I wasn't aware of the decision that had reached on the "Ze little one" page, so I didn't realize that this was the reasoning being used. I can agree with this, and I'm sorry the discussion got so hostile. Have a great week.KrytenKoro 00:30, 16 July 2009 (EDT)

SG Ark & SG Nemesis

I'd just have Derik's bot fix those links along with the rest. I only fixed the others because there was about 2-3 links each instead of the 60+ for those two pages. --Jeysie 16:32, 6 August 2009 (EDT)

Thanks for giving me my username

Seriously best alias ever Potty Mouth Anon 01:55, 21 August 2009 (EDT)

TFA: S.P.'s amnesia

You completely sure about that? Seemed like a kind of joke to me - Wasp going through this whole list of humiliation and Sentinel denying it while keeping a straight face. EDIT: sorry for double posting, my browser's acting a little strange Silvery 13:26, 25 August 2009 (EDT)

Except Sentinel finishes the scene by saying "Wait a minute, that was you?" He genuinely doesn't remember, only recalling it then and there. - Chris McFeely 13:27, 25 August 2009 (EDT)

Oookay, my bad. Seems like his ego is powerful enough to erase memories of minor, non-significant beings like Wasp, Bee or Bulky... Silvery 13:45, 25 August 2009 (EDT)

Deaths of Optimus Prime "fanon"

That... wasn't fanon. It was more awkwardly phrased, but consistent with how it was portrayed in the episode. Aerialbots even say, to my recollection, that there are "others at the hanger." Elita-1 was rebuilt. Dion wasn't mentioned. What part of that is fanon, and why did that give you the right to allcaps that dude into submission for it? --ItsWalky 00:17, 6 October 2009 (EDT)

Well it explicitly said in the anon guy's contribution way back there that "Ariel and Dion were also rebuilt" (followed by an awkward parenthesis saying Ariel at least). Plus, the episode itself is awkwardly phrased... Slingshot says "There are others back at the hangar, his girlfriend Ariel" as though he actually meant to say "there's another one back at the hangar, his girlfriend Ariel". After Orion is rebuilt as Prime, there's no concern for any "others" and they only speak of Ariel, whom Alpha Trion says he'll "send droids out for". No mention at all that he'd rebuild other casualties of the hangar massacre. --Detour 00:32, 6 October 2009 (EDT)

Another interpretation: Slingshot says "There are others back at the hangar, [for example] his girlfriend Ariel." Otherwise, he's not being correct when he says there are "otherS" there. Plural. I'm not saying that Alpha Trion rebuilt anybody other than Prime and Elita, or that we have any evidence thereof. I'm saying what the guy wrote, in that particular revision, was technically correct. --ItsWalky 01:50, 6 October 2009 (EDT)

The best kind of correct. --Detour 02:06, 6 October 2009 (EDT)

the Peter Cullen photo.

I know the person who is in that picture. I thought it would be fun depicting him being the nice guy that he is. If you want me to identify where I got the image from, I can link you right to the source. Unicron 02:59, 12 October 2009 (EDT)

editing

sorry about the starscream page, but did you really have to edit out everything I did? Masterman555 22:54, 21 October 2009 (EDT)

Well, yeah. You screwed up the formatting and the order of figures in the toy section, messed with captions and changed all the thumbnails to ungodly huge sizes. It's pretty standard procedure to undo that. --Detour 23:14, 21 October 2009 (EDT)

Robot Heroes Thrust eyes

Thank you for correcting that, I just took an even closer look to the toy and realized I had made a mistake.ACIDSTORM92 22:39, 12 November 2009 (EST)

IDW

Oh come on, dude. We can take the piss out of IDW sometimes, but that last edit was a bit much.--Rosicrucian^Talk 23:43, 12 November 2009 (EST)

Not even my words there. But like a lot have said... Continuum is pretty much the straw that broke the camel's back. And really, their own page needs a dose of piss-taking-out too, no matter how slight. --Detour 23:46, 12 November 2009 (EST)

What Rosi said. No. --ItsWalky 23:52, 12 November 2009 (EST)

British English spellings

Please read Help:Style_guide#National_varieties_of_English, it mentions guidelines to spelling that may help you. As Club material is published by a company based in Texas, I went with the American English. Keep British English spelling in the UK articles. 68.61.240.172 10:06, 21 November 2009 (EST)

Captions

Detour, He-l-en has been contributing to the Armada episode articles in a generally positive manner. Please stop reverting her caption changes. --Monzo 05:27, 29 November 2009 (EST)

Positive, yes, but thus far little more than minor summary changes in Armada... followed by large doses of captioning. I'll lay off since you asked me. --Detour 06:01, 29 November 2009 (EST) (I can still change his captions to different ones if I come up with better ones, though, right?)

I am trying to handle the situation in a delicate manner; He-l-en is both a new user and someone whose first language is not English, so we cannot immediately expect her to know every facet of our policy right away. Reverting a person's edits without telling them why is not a good way to grow new users. I'm just trying to be courteous. --Monzo 06:15, 29 November 2009 (EST)

Well, it's not like we don't always revert people who aren't doing anything but changing captions. He-l-en is at least also contributing a little bit of info, but we still generally tell people to leave the captions alone when they're new and just worry about adding actual info to the articles. (And it's not like we don't have plenty of Help guides available to read, either...) --Jeysie 06:20, 29 November 2009 (EST)

We know we change people's captions back, yes, but I am inclined to be more lenient to someone who has only been around for two days... hrm. Actually, I am inspired. --Monzo 06:57, 29 November 2009 (EST)

His English seems to have landslided down to "nonsensical" once he started editing captions... Can I revert those, at least? --Detour 06:59, 29 November 2009 (EST)

Sideways Part-swapping pics

Detour- I do have pics of the part-swapped Sideways, however I am not sure how to upload them to the Wiki and add them to the page. If you'd like, I can e-mail them to you if you PM Ultrawave over at TFW2005 (that is my account). Unless there is another way to upload them that I am not aware of? 131.191.68.29 04:20, 7 December 2009 (EST)

Made a Photobucket and uploaded my pic to satisfy your curiousity-- [2] =)131.191.68.29 18:44, 7 December 2009 (EST)

Sari Edit

why did you edit my addition to the page? what i typed was factual. --0utrun 23:16, 30 December 2009 (EST)

Blackarachnia "hit it with a shovel" joke

Why do you deem it so important to take the joke out? It works, it fills an empty caption space, so why? Seriously, Why? --Karhukjnsi 02:09, 6 January 2010 (EST)

Lockdown's position as a bounty hunter.

This isn't something like revealing the gimmicks to a toy or an electronic voice, or even a street date. It's no secret that the ROTF figure is based off a "bounty hunter", you've seen the card say he's a "bounty hunter" regardless if it isn't officially released, is the addition of a category "Bounty Hunter" seriously enough to get you this unnecessarily riled up? It's not like I'm saying something like he's an Autobot sympathizer or something. --Karhukjnsi 02:20, 6 January 2010 (EST)

Captions

No one appointed you the master of captioning. You're acting like a goddamn jackboot, so take a time-out. --Monzo 02:59, 6 January 2010 (EST)

My Grammar

Well i going to tell you why i have bad grammar, i have good grammar BUT i type so freaking Fast in result i make typos, Aslo there some words that i cant spell, aslo i try to slow down but then i start to write fast again -Eagc7

Then either slow down enough so you can write competently, or don't write at all so we don't spend so much time cleaning up your amazingly-sized mess. --ItsWalky 21:38, 29 January 2010 (EST)

Why did you remove my edit?

The article discusses fanfiction, so I named two common pairings as an example. It seemed relevant. CH 16:25, 8 February 2010 (EST)

Because the fandom is so large, fragmented and clique-esque that there's really no way to measure what's relevant/common unless it's completely widespread, as in to the point that even average fans that don't read fanfic are familiar with the concepts used. Megatron/Starscream pairings probably predate Beast Wars itself, Starscream/Alexis was a freakin' epidemic for a time. Those are somewhat "worthy" of mention (in a squicky infamous way). Prime/Mikaela and Bumblebee/Sam, however? Although I'm not shocked they exist, I don't believe the average fans would know for certain that they do. And it isn't really quite as notable (again, Starscream/Alexis being an epidemic), no more than hypothetical pairings like Cheetor/Una or Sky-Byte/Koji.. --Detour 16:37, 8 February 2010 (EST)

Friend of Autobots

Sometimes he talks to me too

My spark fills with joy --abates 18:18, 8 February 2010 (EST)

Right.....

What was that weird edit summary all about? ---Blackout- 07:56, 27 February 2010 (EST)

Look at your keyboard, and look at each letter to the left of the letter I typed. :p --Detour 08:12, 27 February 2010 (EST)

It seems we use very different keyboards. All I'm getting is gibberish. ---Blackout- 09:32, 27 February 2010 (EST)

It says "something's wrong with my eyes," okay? Big hairy deal. - Chris McFeely 09:38, 27 February 2010 (EST)

Double dash template

Works just 100% fine on Opera and in Firefox and in IE7, so I don't know what the hell you're talking about. The whole purpose it was created was to clear things without creating gaps above the headers. So stop changing it every time I fix the formatting, as you're driving me insane and I'm going to start reverting you every time you do it. --Jeysie 20:48, 27 February 2010 (EST)

Well it doesn't work on me in neither IE nor Firefox. So clearly the coding for it must be flawed somehow. --Detour 21:22, 27 February 2010 (EST)

IIRC, you're one of the folks using IE6, aren't you? That would explain that part, if so. As for Firefox, it works fine on Firefox for me, so I just don't know what you're talking about there. (I also checked IE7 and it works fine there as well...)

But in any case, bring it up with Derik to fix any problems rather than constantly removing it, considering the whole reason the template exists to begin with is to solve an issue folks used to be griping about. About the only issue I've ever had is that there has to be no line return space between the dash template and the following header, but that's easily tweaked while editing. --Jeysie 21:38, 27 February 2010 (EST)

Yeah, I'm one of the five people on Earth still using IE6. I like the button layout better, sue me. But I do have Firefox 3.5.6 and {{--}} does the same amount of jack squattage. --Detour 22:04, 27 February 2010 (EST)

You do realize button layouts are easily changed in most browsers, yes? (And I'd think lots of broken sites with missing features would be a bigger annoyance... having to surf using IE6 at one of my jobs last year was downright painful, it's missing so many useful standards.)

But, like I said, never had issues with FF at all. And even if there are, again, have Derik tweak the CSS, rather than unfixing the formatting fixes. --Jeysie 22:13, 27 February 2010 (EST)

*sigh* "first edit ever"

fact is I've been editing over the years and adding useful tid bits here and there, but the wiki just can't seem to hold a proper account. so I start a new and get treated like a punk. gratitude for ya.

And yeah, the tone really isn't to my liking. Derek J Wyatt puts down Beachcomber and everyone treats it as canon that the character is not well liked. well I like him! And think the article should be more even handed.

So tell me, how am I supposed to get started here? I can't edit "the funny" as I've been told the last time I tried a permanent account, I can't help to rewrite an article, what do you want from me? When to I earn the right to call out the Beach Comber page for being offensive? --Stly92 01:15, March 18, 2010 (EST)

Jim-Bob's Diner is indeed a reference to James Roberts

Jim-Bob's Diner is, in fact, a reference to Last Stand of the Wreckers co-writer James Roberts. Nick Roche said it himself [3]. (At first, I thought--and was very sure--it was a reference to Jim Salicrup and Bob Budiansky.) --Jeff39042 19:40, 11 April 2010 (EDT)

Well then that belongs in the Notes... not a confusing random link in the middle of the synopsis. --Detour 20:06, 11 April 2010 (EDT)

Last Dutch Issue

The IP Anon 195.240.16.74 removed the "last Dutch issue" sentence from "The Void!" because he was shifting it to "On the Edge of Extinction!" Now, this may require verification (which is why I'm not undoing your reversal yet), but at least it's not a random act of Anon vandalism.--Apcog 11:24, 5 May 2010 (EDT)

Yeah, I reverted it before he did the rest. I don't know who to ask for verification, though. --Detour 11:50, 5 May 2010 (EDT)

Looks like the anon was actually Sunjumper not logged in. Good enough to allow now, or do we still need a citation? Sunjumper mentions on his anon-IP talk page (linked in just above, there) where he saw mention of the last-issue status.--Apcog 13:13, 10 May 2010 (EDT)

If he's Dutch, sure. You're in the better position to make that call anyway. :p --Detour 15:41, 10 May 2010 (EDT)

Based on his recent contribution to the BW article, I'd say he his. Well and good, then.--Apcog 17:18, 10 May 2010 (EDT)

Anon-made G1 Cast List

I'll grant I didn't do more than a rough glance over it, so I can't vouch for its accuracy, but it WAS in keeping with our formatting for other TV series' front pages. Granted, the cast's much larger and so may be too overwhelming a list for the page, but in principle, it wasn't a wrong idea. Might be worth adding a notice as to why the G1 TV series page would differ in that respect from other series'.--Apcog 15:29, 13 May 2010 (EDT)

Toy Swapping

Look, I am sorry to keep adding tat. I just thought it was important to have in the article, because it was under the same idea. And just so you know, this whole website is full of crappy, big, poorly written sections and just want to help improve some facts not added. So you can take that comment and stick it were it belongs. I just tried to add something.

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Toy Swapping 2

I am sorry for the previous comment made by myself about the edit. I was in a really bad mood and would not tolerate anything. I will stop trying to edit or fix any articles to fix things that people deleted that I made. I do sincerly apologize. People have been quite rude to me on this website and I was starting to get stressed. Not to mention I have major anger manigment issues. I am quite sorry for my comments.LordDalek 12:37, 4 June 2010 (EDT)

Hey.

Yo, be quiet bitch. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by TheRex4441 (talk • contribs){{#if:| {{{2}}}|}}.

Keep it polite, please. --abates 23:39, 24 June 2010 (EDT)

Prime VAs

The editor was right about Optimus & Megatron's VAs, he just didn't have the right source. (It was revealed in a recent BotCon panel.) --Jeysie 14:12, 26 June 2010 (EDT)

edit war

If this edit war does not stop in five minutes and people don't stop getting aggressive at each other, all three of you are getting a time-out. The note is pretty pointless, at best it would be only on Prime Soundwave's page. --M Sipher 21:28, 4 July 2010 (EDT)

Translation help

Hey, Detour. Since you speak French, could you help me by correcting any bad translations I have for the French Animated episode titles here? Thanks! —Interrobang 18:24, 5 July 2010 (EDT)

Done. Egads, epic fail on the dub team on translating Five Servos Of Doom. --Detour 23:06, 5 July 2010 (EDT)

Thanks! That was one of the titles that threw me off. —Interrobang 23:21, 5 July 2010 (EDT)

Cloaca joke?

Was there something wrong with it? 72.229.51.77 15:22, 6 July 2010 (EDT)

Anon reverts

When a dude changes something, and you change it back, and he changes it back with comment asking why it's changed... it might be better, if you're going to simply revert it again, to at least leave a comment of your own, explaining why? If he's explaining his actions, you owe that same courtesy back, even if he's in the wrong. --ItsWalky 10:25, 28 July 2010 (EDT)

You're absolutely right, and I can't for the life of me remember WHY I didn't do just that. It's been hectic in my neck of the woods these past few days, I apologize. --Detour 13:02, 28 July 2010 (EDT)

Come to think of it, I think the reason might've been that I meant to leave the explanation on his talk page, but ended up being sidetracked by other things. --Detour 13:03, 28 July 2010 (EDT)

Nice caption

:D --FFN 03:40, 15 August 2010 (EDT)

Hah, I was just waiting for someone to add a pic of him so I could throw add that caption. --Detour 03:41, 15 August 2010 (EDT)

Decepticon Drone

I am sorry. I thought it looked simmilar, due to the Red T visor, silver and black head, but not the body.

Katsuyuki Konishi and Frank Miller

My joke(s) may be weak, but

1. I wasn't violating any caption policies.
2. I uploaded the Frank Miller image. I deserve a caption or something.
3. Explaining the joke is not funny.
4. (Regarding the link I put at the Konishi caption):

• A straight quote from Gurren Lagann isn't really very funny by itself.
• Frank Miller isn't someone you'd think to find on TFWiki. I'd like to show people that he does belong here and how nteresting a coincidence it is, that both sources of the line contributed to TF. I imagine people reading the link would be like: "Oh yeah, there's also that. Wait, this wiki has an article on F. Miller? What has he got to do with TF? Gonna check that."

But really, I'm more upset about your changing of the caption at Frank Miller for reason number 2. Item42 10:38, 29 September 2010 (EDT)

Why are you reverting everything?

Why the fuck are you reverting every single edit you see? Is that the only thing you can do? Is is your sole mission to not contribute, but revert everyone else who tries to? Sure, you could just change the singe byte of offending material, BUT NO, YOU HAVE TO REVERT THE WHOLE GODDAMN EDIT. You've been doing this for as long as I've been observing. Also, you've been up my ass about everything the whole time I've been here. Haven't you been blocked before for this kind of thing? --LokitheGrammarNazi 10:01, 5 October 2010 (EDT)

Detour spends a lot of time on the wiki so he often sees poor/vandalistic edits before other editor do. Usually his reversions have been supported by the majority of editors, when he goes over the line Walky puts him in his place. My question is, why are you so sensitive? --Khajidha 10:37, 5 October 2010 (EDT)

If you've been up my ass too, you would see that this is the first time I've exploded over seomthing like this. I have been putting up with shit like this since I started editing here. --LokitheGrammarNazi 10:47, 5 October 2010 (EDT)

I don't know, just looking over your previous edits you seemed rather upset about things on the Twitcher F451, Derrick J. Wyatt, Starscream (BWII) and Shelfwarmer pages. --Khajidha 11:52, 5 October 2010 (EDT)

• WHY ARE YOU REVERTING EVERUTHING???????????????--Waz-z-z-zpinator59 10:15, 7 November 2010 (EST)

Dalek

For your information, there is incorrect information on that page, that must be changed. The Daleks were never first called "Mark 3 travel machines" that is wrong. The were first called Daleks. The machine the ride in was first a Mark 1 Travel Machines, then a Mark 2 Travel Machine, and finally a Mark 3 Travel Machine. It was Davros who called the machine they ride in Mark 3 Travel Machine, but the creatures are called Daleks, and they were first called Kaleds before being mutated into Daleks. I don't know were the hell you got that from but they are also not cyborgs. They are creatures inside tanks basically. I was correcting that. Get your facts right before delete something I did. Trust me, I know more about the Daleks then you. Thus, my user name is LORD DALEK. That is why I am constantly changing that page. LordDalek 15:40, 16 October 2010 (EDT)

Except all that is irrelevant to what was said about Daleks within Transformers fiction, which is what this Wiki is about. And I know plenty about Daleks. Don't assume you're some sort of lone Doctor Who fan on this wiki.--Detour 15:42, 16 October 2010 (EDT)

Fine, I will stop editing the part that is in the comic, BUT THE INFORMATION IN THE NOTES IS WRONG!!! And I also did not say anything about being "a lone Doctor Who fan" I just was saying you undid my edit that was correcting incorrect statements. LordDalek 15:52, 16 October 2010 (EDT)

That thing Detour linked to when he reverted you sure seems to think you're wrong. --ItsWalky 15:56, 16 October 2010 (EDT)

I found two sources that go against what LordDalek is claiming. One is a general science fiction Wiki and the other is the TARDIS Index File, the Doctor Who Wiki (which we link Doctor Who-related articles to). --Detour 15:58, 16 October 2010 (EDT)

ARGG! I have proof that what you said was wrong. Look, you right, they weren't called Daleks, nor they were Mark 3 Travel Machines. They were called merely mutants. Read this:solution is to remove all emotions pertaining to weakness, a category in which he groups such emotions as compassion, mercy and kindness, and place the mutants in tank-like "Mark III travel machines" partly based on the design of his wheelchair. He later names these creatures Daleks, an anagram of Kaleds.LordDalek 16:07, 16 October 2010 (EDT)

Yyyyeah. You seem to be quoting the fictional history at us, while we're talking about the actual behind-the-scenes history of the characters. The comment you removed will stay. --ItsWalky 16:11, 16 October 2010 (EDT)

Actually, from a behind-the-scenes standpoint the name Dalek came first. But Who fiction-wise, it was established in a later serial (Genesis of the Daleks, the Daleks's origin story) that the original name of a Dalek was a Mark III Travel Machine. "At that moment, Davros enters the laboratory, and demonstrates his new "Mark III travel machine", which he later dubs as a "Dalek".". If you want the note to focus less on fiction and more on production, I can always tweak it. But it's still a factual note one way or another. --Detour 17:25, 16 October 2010 (EDT)

Better yet, read this: the most part a Dalek is simply a Dalek.Notable exceptions usually refer to rank, such as "Emperor" and "Supreme Dalek", although in Genesis of the Daleks Davros refers to the newly created Dalek casing as a "Mark 3 Travel Machine". For the last bloody time, Mark 3 Travel Machines refers to the CASING not the actual creature. LordDalek 16:14, 16 October 2010 (EDT)

Listen ItsWalky, when the Daleks first appeared in 1963 THEY WERE CALLED DALEKS. Davros is part of the fictional history, and the real creator of the Daleks was Terry Nation, and he called them Daleks. There. I now have fictional and behind the scenes evidence. The comment must be removed.LordDalek 16:29, 16 October 2010 (EDT)

Why would you ever want to err on the side of removing information rather than clarifying it? When is less information better?--Rosicrucian^Talk 18:15, 16 October 2010 (EDT)

This place is worse than Nazi Germany

SIEG HEIL, DON'T FUCK WITH THE LITTLE TRANSFORMER WIKIPEDIA. WE ONLY LIKE SOME POINTLESS ADDITIONS, NOT A LOT.

Fucking hypocrites. You included, Spanish twit.--Tommy-Vercetti 18:13, 8 November 2010 (EST)

Please mind your language. And this kind of tantrum-throwing won't exactly have people joining your side in the argument. --Detour 18:18, 8 November 2010 (EST)

Fanmodes

I got the impression, per the "Fan-configurations of toys" discussion in the community portal, that we don't avoid fan modes, that brief mention of such is okay. JW 11:58, 19 November 2010 (EST)

Koiter brothers

Thanks for catching that spelling error I missed on their names! --abates 05:36, 21 November 2010 (EST)

Grimstone

Grimstone's drones' Mini-Con compatibilities are not mentionned on their own page.

Ahem

Why did you revert my talk page edit regarding the doctor who connection on Talk:Death's Head?

NVM I see, I screwed it up.

Emperor of Terror Scorponok

What's wrong with his edits? He seems to be adding several paragraphs of information, which you delete entirely. I see one or two typos here or there, but wouldn't it be easier to fix those than just remove his large amounts of work whole-hog? --ItsWalky 23:03, 16 December 2010 (EST)

Believe me, I've been mulling over that myself, but ultimately, it's more than just typos. A lot of his sentences just don't read right and would ultimately require full rewrites. Figured someone else starting again from scratch would be better than a Cleanup tag... But if I'm wrong in this, sorry. --Detour 23:23, 16 December 2010 (EST)

The English doesn't really read that badly. It's simple, but better than the nothing we have now. --ItsWalky 23:29, 16 December 2010 (EST)

New mexico vs. New Mexico

Thanks, I totally realised the mistake soon after I made the page. MadmanFoidart 14:46, 10 January 2011 (EST)

Reverting edits

May I ask why you insist on reverting my edits? Especially the one just now about TransTech Megatron's concept design matching almost-perfectly to ROTF Megatron's design, which I see far more-notable than the "Oh look, it's an H-Tank, it atuomatically links to Armada Megatron" trivia listed before it, which you have left alone.

For this particular case, it is not merely my opinion that the two resemble each other more, as a quick glance at the image displayed in the trivia section, let alone what that trivia links to off-wiki, shows a closer resemblance to ROTF than Armada, by far. 24.143.42.51 02:41, 27 January 2011 (EST)

You're right, looks like I jumped the gun at that one. My apologies. Still, it could stand a rewriting to be a little less... dogpiley. --Detour 03:35, 27 January 2011 (EST)

Mindset

You said: It says the toy is a retool of Hailstorm, and Hailstorm was designed as the homage. If the Hailstorm/Mindset mold was designed as an homage to the original Mindset, then I don't see how the new Mindset could not be an homage to the original. Particularly since, given the way Hasbro is planning retools these days, the Hailstorm mold was always intended to be retooled into a Mindset. What is the distinction you're making? JW 20:13, 7 February 2011 (EST)

No ressemblance to the original character, for starters. If he was "clearly" intended as an homage, the head would surely have carried over the original character's visor at the very least, yes? And the colors, too. G2 Mindset was white, green and grey, this Autobot Mindset is blue and black. And lastly, the faction allegiance. --Detour 20:22, 7 February 2011 (EST)

This is how I suspect it went down:

1. Hailstorm toy was designed.
2. Kyde was all, hey, dudes, that's totally Mindset.
3. Hasbro decided to name its redeco "Mindset."

Somewhere in between 2 and 3, Toy Fair probably happened, when Aaron was all about how this toy was totally Mindset. --ItsWalky 23:20, 7 February 2011 (EST)

Hmm, okay. Point granted. JW 07:22, 8 February 2011 (EST)

Motormaster

I think the one that said Motormaster's size change is right, because Motormaster is the same size as Optimus, while Optimus has the same size as Motormaster in car mode, both of them with their trailers, i think there's size change in there.

--Metroplex 19:24, 14 March 2011 (EDT)

Yeah, and there's a freighter truck that transforms into a robot that goes up to Prime's shin. Scale doesn't mean much in Transformers, you have Porsche Jazz towering over Porsche Cliffjumper and Jeep Hound towering over Jeep Brawn and F-15s turning into robots the same size as Lamborghinis. It's a dumb thing to note. --Detour 19:39, 14 March 2011 (EDT)

Windcharger

"This was removed before because it's false. Don't add it back" How is it false?--TOM 23:09, 24 March 2011 (EDT)

Bumblebee

BOTH of you knock it the fuck off or you're both getting put in a corner for a while. --M Sipher 23:45, 24 March 2011 (EDT)

DOTM Bumblebee

Just to clear things up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpqamRtmGRE&feature=feedu the maker of the video says: because this figure is smaller than any other version of bumblebee, they technically are all brand new parts. They couldn't reuse any other Bumblebee parts cause they no longer would fit. -optibotimus

DOTM Bumblebee

Just to clear things up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpqamRtmGRE&feature=feedu the maker of the video says: because this figure is smaller than any other version of bumblebee, they technically are all brand new parts. They couldn't reuse any other Bumblebee parts cause they no longer would fit. -optibotimus --TOM 15:33, 25 March 2011 (EDT)