Talk:Iocus

I thought there should be some record on the wiki (I can't find any) of why the Iocus characters are being changed to G1 or whatever. I understand the clutter of dozens of pages with little-to-no real info outside of the toy. However, I have a hard time wrapping my head around a character from one continuity family being listed on another continuity family's page. Construct-Bots Ironhide is from Iocus, not Primax. How does it work having that toy on G1 Ironhide's page? --07:53, 26 July 2015 (EDT)

After the inclusion of Attacktix (which has characters that are undoubtedly from the UT and Star Wars), it was decided that this was evidence enough that Iocus wasn't to be taken as definitive on wiki organization. It's just one of those weird things that take in characters that are clearly from other universes—an in-fiction representation of how little Hasbro cares about continuity when it comes to those lines. Saix (talk) 08:16, 26 July 2015 (EDT)

Because the only reason Iocus exists was because of the wiki's decision to put all the ancillary toyline characters on separate pages. We were about to merge them into the pages of the characters they're based on when the Complete AllSpark Almanac came out and declared Iocus to be a thing, but at the design stage, the characters weren't meant to be separate - Bot Shots Bumblebee isn't meant to be a new guy, he's meant to be G1 Bumblebee. Riptide (talk) 08:13, 26 July 2015 (EDT)

Bot Shots Bumblebee is a mishmash of Bumblebee designs because Hasbro considers them all to be the same character. He's just at G1 because of his head and for convenience. Saix (talk) 08:16, 26 July 2015 (EDT)