Talk:Straxus (G1)

So, Generations "Darkmount" was at ToyFair? I can't find any mention of him outside this wiki. ---Blackout- 07:39, 14 February 2010 (EST)

[1] Geewunling 07:41, 14 February 2010 (EST)

Approximately half the sites call him "Darkhead" for some reason. Pictures be floating about, even though people were asked not to take them. --Monzo 07:44, 14 February 2010 (EST)

Thanks. ---Blackout- 07:46, 14 February 2010 (EST)

FWIW, we were only asked not to take them so as not to flash in the eyes of the presenters, not because anything was a secret; Hasbro said all the pics were going to be given to us anyway. It turned out Straxus' pics had come in from the shop too last-minute to have been added to the press kits. So, good on the shutterbugs. --Thylacine 2000 04:53, 15 February 2010 (EST)

"Tank" vs "Self-Propelled Gun"

I realize there's probably a 99% chance his card copy will say "tank" regardless, but it would be more in-keeping with the character history if he's actually a self-propelled gun? I'll probably add a note to that extent soon. Is there ANY way for us to get official confirmation in advance? For some reason I'm really fixating on this, I even directed the toy pics to a military hobbyist site to see if they could nail down the make and model of the vehicle mode. --Thylacine 2000 04:53, 15 February 2010 (EST)

What feels wrong about this to me is that most of the images of self-propelled guns I'm seeing have really short barrels, and usually multiples of them, keeping with the idea that they're anti-aircraft weapons stuck on a vehicle. Darkmount doesn't keep in line with this, having a more traditional tank barrel. --ItsWalky 08:36, 15 February 2010 (EST)

That's strange, cause a quick Google search just turned up oodles and skoodles of images of vehicles with single, massive barrels that most civilians would unhesitatingly call "tanks". Khajidha 08:45, 15 February 2010 (EST)

The linked article shows numerous examples of s.p.g's that have single gigantic gunbarrels; most are anti-tank guns or mobile Howitzers used for over-the-horizon city bombardment. But here's the weird thing: the only half-track s.p.g's I can find are of the type Walky described: small multi-barrels, usually of WW2 vintage. Meanwhile, I can't find any specimens of a half-track true tank at all.--Thylacine 2000 09:20, 15 February 2010 (EST)

Half-tracks were never used for tank chassis. Half-tracks were pretty much always troop transports or similar. -hx 09:37, 15 February 2010 (EST)