Talk:Cyclonus (Armada)

How are we going to do Snowstorm/Snowcat? X-BoB58 00:30, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

A keyboard, I presume. --ItsWalky 01:17, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Ya know I never thought about that all this time I've been working on this wiki with my phone's fucking number pad X-BoB58 02:35, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

The same way we did Smokescreen (Armada). The same way that Bumblebee/Goldbug will be handled. One character, one page. --M Sipher

Am I crazy AM I CRAZY?

Tell me I'm cracy! -Derik 03:45, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Cracy? Sure, Derik, I'll remind you of your Craciness again.

Crazy? No. I see a passing resemblence myself. --Richardstone 05:25, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Is it just me or did he have a weird drill mini-con in the series, and a mini-con that became the front face of the 'copter for his toy (so that he actually turned into a reasonably shaped helicopter, instead of a flat sawn-off looking one)? 129.215.149.99 00:10, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Uh... those would be Drill Bit (Armada) and Crumplezone... aka one of the Destruction Mini-Con Team and Cyc's pack-in partner.

A good guy vehicle into a bad guy robot...

Well it obviously happens the same way a good guy robot turns into a bad guy vehicle. Sheesh, hasn't any of you ever read the GI Joe/Transformers crossovers?

Except it didn't happen "the same way". Here we're talking about Hasbro's design team taking one of their more iconic vehicle designs for one of their most iconic hero groups, and making a new toy of it as a villain character rather than the expected good-guy, with ZERO story reasoning behind it. The Joe crossover character designs is a purely fiction-driven deal that has nothing to do with toy design. The question is why the TOYMAKERS went this route. --M Sipher 23:19, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Probably because the series was written by Japanese writers who'd never heard of Gi Joe?

Or in more practical terms- it's difficult for 'specialty' vehicle forms like Snowcat's to work for heroes, who much bear the brunt of narrative focus for many episodes- and thus must 'work' in every environment. (As planes and cars do.) It's much easier to ignore Snowcat's incongruous altmode in a desert if he's only in 3 minutes of an episode vs. 12 minutes.. -Derik 01:41, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

The Japanese writers comment makes no sense given that the toy was obviously always a Decepticon, given that he doesn't Powerlinx and has a Hyper gimmick instead. He was clearly a Decepticon from day one. Why he's a G.I. Joe vehicle despite this is the question, and has nothing to do with We've, I'm pretty sure. --ItsWalky 01:54, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

'Zactly. His being CYCLONUS is likely We've-tied, but the toy design itself... --M Sipher 02:53, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Also the functionality of vehicle modes in Energon is totally inconsequential, since all they do is fly through space anyway. -LV 03:40, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Well since GI Joe doesn't even exist in the UT-continuity, him being either a good guy or a bad guy vehicle is not an issue since the said vehicle obviously doesn't exist in the said 'verse.

It is as far as the DESIGN OF THE FUCKING TOY goes. --M Sipher 03:21, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Cyclonus = Snowcat in Energon Comics?

-I swear I remember reading Snowcat himself Say he is cyclonus in the Energon comics... I brought the first couple of volumes of it, and I'm almost certain when Snowcat first appears, he says this... or is this someone else or appears later on saying "Yeah I am now this guy.... " and not giving any more explaination than that? I'll try to find my volumes, I think it is in the second volume.....

-My mistake, it's Mirage who appears saying "Remember me? I used to be Tidal Wave, but now I'm a completely different Transformer! Ha!" kind of thing.... Sorry, it was an easy mistake...

The Omnicons made a joke about Slugslinger after Mirage announced he was the former Tidal Wave, "is this someone else in a new body?" It seems... odd to say that in response to Mirage's statement, but they had just fought Snowcat the issue prior, so if they knew he was Cyclonus...

Snowcat isn't explicitly stated to be Cyclonus in Energon #25, but he's scornful of Scorponok, and makes several references to being familiar with Megatron which would seem to imply (strongly, given everything else) that yes, he's Cyclonus.

But no, not stated outright.-Derik 00:22, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Is "Snowcat" an alternate spelling somewhere?

I see Snow Cat's name parsed as "Snowcat" quite often so I was wondering. - Starfield 17:50, 17 May 2010 (EDT)