Talk:Arcee (SG)

I don't want to make this edit myself and remove information, but does it really make sense to have a pic of an Elita-1 toy on an Arcee page? And then on Elita-1's page (http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Elita-One_%28SG%29) the toy isn't even listed, and instead we have a toy for a completely different character listed? (Override GTS) ?

Learn about repurposing. --Detour 02:12, 6 June 2010 (EDT)

I know what repurposing is, but when you have an official Elita-1 toy, why isn't it under the Elita-1 character page? Makes zero sense at all.

Because the goddamn toy is a goddamn repaint of a goddamn Arcee toy so it was goddamn repurposed as goddamn Arcee. --Detour 02:38, 6 June 2010 (EDT)

Are you like 2 or something that you have to act like that? Shattered glass isn't even official except for a few botcon exclusives, right? It's a "virtual" toyline. It doesn't even exist. I can repurpose characters all day long, that doesn't make them canon.

You repurposing toys doesn't make it canon, but the authors of the official prose stories repurposing toys as various characters does. --Jeysie 02:47, 6 June 2010 (EDT)

Shattered Glass is official. Hasbro stamp of approval and everything. Just because you're too cheap to shell out the dough for membership doesn't make it fanfiction. --Detour 02:48, 6 June 2010 (EDT)

Shattered glass the franchise, prose, etc. IS, the toy isn't. Period. By that logic if Furman came around and propose RID ultra magnus as a repaint of Furman Prime it would be official. When they do an official repaint of the toy and offer it for sale or as an exclusive, then it's official. Until then it's just a digibash or an idea in someone's head. But I'm not arguing logic anymore with someone who just cusses and throws out insults. If you say an official Elita-One toy belongs on an Arcee page, who am I to argue that logic.

It is official, actually, whether you find it silly or not. Especially when you consider that the repurposed characters either have descriptions or illustrations showing they're the toy in question. (Meanwhile, Furman's Primes don't.) --Jeysie 02:55, 6 June 2010 (EDT)

Hence why the Toy section mentions it's a repurposing. And yes, if Furman had RID Ultra Magnus show up in fiction under the moniker Furman Prime, and it happened in an official Hasbro-approved story (like what Shattered Glass happens to be), it would count. --Detour 02:58, 6 June 2010 (EDT)

The very definition of repurposing which you guys linked to points out that it's unofficial "The repurposed character has no official toy release of his own" http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Repurpose Now I suggest you look up the word Rhetoric.