Talk:Repurposing

Shattered Glass

Curiosity: How certain are we about Shattered Glass Arcee, Bludgeon, Huffer, and Gutcruncher? They appear in Dungeons and Dinobots, but not in pictures. Descriptions seem to match the toys listed here, but is there some other confirmation about them? --Crockalley 22:06, 11 May 2009 (EDT)

M Sipher and Trent Troop, who wrote the story, also edit this wiki. Even without their personal confirmation, I was able to determine what toys they were just from reading the text. --ItsWalky 22:30, 11 May 2009 (EDT)

Does Shockwave's personal repaint count as this?—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.153.131.172 (talk • contribs) 18:31, 13 May 2009.

No, that's still the same character appearing as himself.--Rosicrucian^Talk 18:34, 13 May 2009 (EDT)

Where did SG Darkwing and Dreadwind appear in fiction? 68.61.240.172 14:36, 4 July 2009 (EDT)

In the club magazine in the Around Cybertron comic strip. Also, they're called Darkwind and Dreadwind in that appearance. -Crockalley 18:48, 4 July 2009 (EDT)

I heard SG Landcross was in that magazine too. Is he the Stealth Mode black toy or some other deco? 69.14.142.90 15:14, 12 July 2009 (EDT)

He looked green and purple like Devastator. Crockalley 17:25, 12 July 2009 (EDT)

Seeing as how people keep adding stuff to this page and not following up with the toyline page (and vice versa)... is there really any reason to keep synchronizing two identical lists to begin with (especially since it's long and likely to just keep getting longer)? Or can we delete the list on this page and say, "blah blah if you want details of which toys were repurposed see the toyline page blah"? --Jeysie 07:43, 25 November 2009 (EST)

I see no reason to have more than a handful of examples on this page. (the section header says "Examples", after all, not "The Definitive List".) 4-5, perhaps, with a commented-out note for people to quit adding to it willy-nilly. You've hit on the prime reason I'm constantly fighting against copy/pasting the same information on multiple pages. -- Repowers 08:25, 25 November 2009 (EST)

I don't think any actual examples from Shattered Glass need to be on this page, just a simple comment that many toys have been repurposed as SG characters and a link to the full list. Having ANY examples in this section is just going to cause some people to add more, no matter what kind of notice not to do so you put up. Khajidha 08:35, 25 November 2009 (EST)

Yeah, I was think more of Khajidha's philosophy on the matter myself, considering that the SG toyline is practically a shrine to repurposing at this point. Especially since it begs the question of what examples are notable enough to have in this article to begin with. But either way, the long list has got to go, IMHO. --Jeysie 14:54, 25 November 2009 (EST)

What was the FIRST toy repurposed for Shattered Glass? Leave that one in, put the rest in the list already linked to. Khajidha 09:31, 1 December 2009 (EST)

Character pages

As it is now, on the character pages there is little to denote the toy is repurposed. It just lists the original toy and such. Then at the very end it says something like, "this toy was repurposed as...". Maybe we could make it more prominent and at the beginning of the toy section, such as calling the section heading ==Repurposed toys==. - Starfield 12:33, 20 August 2009 (EDT)

Repurpose vs Repurposing

Does anyone else feel that "repurpose" would be better as the title with "repurposing" the redirect rather than the current way? Khajidha 08:32, 15 December 2009 (EST)

But then it wouldn't be a noun, the actual name of the practice. --ItsWalky 09:59, 15 December 2009 (EST)

I was going with a parallel to redeco, retool, and repaint; all of which I had interpreted as verbs, but I see how they could also be nouns (which repurpose can't). Since there is a reason, I tentatively withdraw my suggestion. Khajidha 12:15, 15 December 2009 (EST)

e-Hobby

Does this section really belong here? This doesn't seem like repurposing to me. Repurposing implies that the toy was not sold as the character it is being used as, Road Rage was sold as Road Rage. --Khajidha 18:00, 24 July 2010 (EDT)

Do the Masterforce cast count as repurposing?

In Masterforce the Sparkdashers animation models were the colors of the Firecons, not the Sparkdasher toys. So technically isn't that three repuposes? Cindersaur as Destron Guzzle, etc. This might count for Doubleclouder, who was colored like Doubledealer. 71.238.48.47 19:15, 15 August 2011 (EDT)