Talk:Real Gear Robot
Do we have a reason to consider Toaster a RGR? Chip 14:29, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
- Do you know which Toaster I'm talking about?
- He's the prototypical 'animated by the Allspark' Transformer. -Derik 14:53, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
Derik, the Chevy Autobots are not Real Gear Robots. RGRs are a throwback line to the Microchange toys put out in the first two years of Hasbro's Transformers line. Period. Full stop. --Rotty 17:03, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
- Also, I just noticed that the original Real Gear article is Real Gear Robots. The material here that isn't wrong so totally needs to be merged with that. -Rotty 17:08, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
- I am of two minds on this. Fictionally speaking, Real Gear Robots are ordinary Earth machines brought to life by the power of the Allspark. Period. Full stop. However, Real Gear Robots also being the name of a toyline with the specific attributes Rotty notes, applying that term across the board to other examples, or possible examples, of this phenomenon does seem a bit iffy. Hmmmm. I think I would probably lean towards coming up with a different title for this article rather than to merge it with the toyline article. --KilMichaelMcC 17:30, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
- Everything relevant to the RGR subgroup needs to be moved there, just as we don't have an article "Mini-con" (or "Pretender") for the subgroup as a concept within the fiction and "Mini-cons" (or "Pretenders") that only describes the toys. -Rotty 17:37, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
- I am of two minds on this. Fictionally speaking, Real Gear Robots are ordinary Earth machines brought to life by the power of the Allspark. Period. Full stop. However, Real Gear Robots also being the name of a toyline with the specific attributes Rotty notes, applying that term across the board to other examples, or possible examples, of this phenomenon does seem a bit iffy. Hmmmm. I think I would probably lean towards coming up with a different title for this article rather than to merge it with the toyline article. --KilMichaelMcC 17:30, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
I think the discussion here should have been allowed to continue a bit before the article was deleted. I think I would have come down on the side against deletion. I can see the value in keeping this article, albeit moved to another title. Something like "Allspark-animated Earth machines." Real Gear Robots would be just one example of this phenomenon, and this article could cover the others without applying the toyline-specific term to them all. --KilMichaelMcC 18:03, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
