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)
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)
