Talk:Sky Garry (G1)
Did we ever get an official romanization of this guys' name? Could he be Sky Galley? -Derik 05:21, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
- One corner of my brain wants to think somebody said it should be "Sky Carry," and another corner wants to think "Garry" means something relevant that's obscure. --ItsWalky 05:41, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
- The general consenus, at least that I've heard, is that they were going for "Sky Carry" but mispelled his name. Roomaji for his name is "Su-ka-i Gya-rii". The only thing that seperates "gya" from "kya" is a single dakuten over the "ki" kana. The same thing happened with Metroplex. They dropped a dakuten from his name, thus he became "MetroFlex" in Japan. Similarly, Road Pig in G2 is called Road Big, with the only difference between a coherent name in the given name being a single dakuten.
- This is pretty much why he's always been referred to as "Sky Garry". And since that's the spelling most Transformers fans are familiar with, I think it's best to go this route. --DrSpengler 05:45, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
- Okay, I was just wondering, given that he's a ship in the sky with a galley full of Micromasters and all. -Derik 06:35, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
- I went and looked-up the Japanese pronunciation of "galley" just to be certain, and they write it as "ga-ree". Galley would almost make sense, but this *is* the Japanese we're talking about. The same people that slapped "The Truth the Eyes Met Before" on Mega SCF boxes and thought "Ligier Jack" was an awesome name. --DrSpengler 06:56, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
- Okay, I was just wondering, given that he's a ship in the sky with a galley full of Micromasters and all. -Derik 06:35, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
- This is pretty much why he's always been referred to as "Sky Garry". And since that's the spelling most Transformers fans are familiar with, I think it's best to go this route. --DrSpengler 05:45, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
A further hypothesis regarding the "carry" <-> "garry" connection: I've noticed that voiceless consonants like kya in Japanese are often changed to be voiced consonants like gya when they are moved to the middle of a word- in other words, it's only a "kya" if it's at the beginning of the word, and otherwise, it gets a dakuten and becomes "gya". I'm not a student of the Japanese language, so I don't know if this is some kind of firm linguistic rule, but it has held up with a lot of other romanizations i've seen. Considering that his name is parsed as スカイギャリー ("Sukaigyari") without an interpunct/nakaguro, I think that this may just be a case of the words "Sky" and "Carry" being mashed together and modified according to Japanese linguistic standards, rather than an accidental addition of a dakuten. --Ayellowbirds 15:50, 25 February 2013 (EST)
- That's called rendaku and I really don't think that's what they were going for. Mimi 16:48, 25 February 2013 (EST)
- Hook is called "Gren" in Japan, which a Japanese fan once explained to me is actually a traditional (and regional) Japanese misrepresentation of the English word "crane" as "grane". Since we're dealing with the same consonant sound here, is there any chance that "garry" is the same type of weird "that's how our fathers did it" version of the English word "carry"?--Nevermore (talk) 13:36, 22 May 2021 (EDT)
Pre-Release
I suppose I may as well trot this out for the sake of the Battlestars-related characters.
http://s90690880.onlinehome.us/jhiaxus/toymerch/bigbang.htm
--Monzo 09:52, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
- Is Big Bang the guy who shows up in the UK Predators bombsights? -Derik 18:09, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
- No, he's not. --Monzo 22:21, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the info, Monzo. Made Big Bang an article. --DrSpengler 22:39, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
Shouldn't this be at Sky Garry (ROC) now that other Japanese G1 characters have been moved to similar pages? -Mazenoise 18:52, 4 June 2009 (EDT)
Image order
The picture of Sky Garry punching through a Galaman comes from the first Battlestars installment, possibly set prior to Garry being assigned to find Prime's corpse. I'm not sure what the text below the image actually says, though, so I don't know how to document those activities in his history. I could put up a larger version of the text under the punchy image if someone wants to take a crack at it. --Monzo 23:08, 26 November 2009 (EST)
- My kanji's not really up to snuff, but from what I can gather, it doesn't really look like anything important. The gist of it is that Dark Nova sends out his Galaman vanguard soldiers and Sky Garry defeats them with his Mystery Circle Punch. --Sphagnum Moss
- And that the Galaman soldiers were sent from an asteroid.
Number of stickers
"Sky Garry's sticker sheet contained a phenomenal 65 decals — not including the 4 optional star decals that one could apply anywhere on the Battlestars. Only 5 of those decals were for Shotbomber, 5 more were for the Micro Trailer, the other 50 were applied to Sky Garry. This gave Sky Garry 53 labels (including the three factory-applied ones), providing him much of his colour and detail." There's 5 stickers unaccounted for here (50 + 5 + 5 = 60, not 65). --Khajidha 10:19, 16 August 2011 (EDT)
