{"id":42034,"date":"2024-04-16T00:00:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T04:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=42034"},"modified":"2024-04-16T01:51:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T05:51:44","slug":"transformers-studio-series-bonecrusher-addendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2024\/04\/transformers-studio-series-bonecrusher-addendum\/","title":{"rendered":"Transformers: Studio Series Bonecrusher addendum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today's review of the Target-exclusive Buzzworthy Bumblebee<\/i> Studio Series N.E.S.T. Bonecrusher<\/a> mentioned that Transformers with that name have typically turned into either super-sturdy working vehicles or buffaloes. But did you know there was almost a Transformer who would have been both?<\/p>\n

According to an eBay listing for some original concept art, there was at some point during Generation 1 going to be a sub-line known as \"Motor World,\" and that line would have included a character who was half dump truck, half bison. Perhaps \"Motor World\" was a planet where all the native life was vehicle-based? No one knows, but it makes as much sense as anything else.<\/p>\n

Quite unfortunately, the name this conceptual cross-blending was assigned was... \"Buffalo-Dump.\"<\/p>\n

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We pray to god that was just an early placeholder name, chosen because it specifically described his two halves. Surely no one actually thought \"Buffalo-Dump\" was a tenable name? And eventually someone at Hasbro would have had the wherewithal to change it before release, right?<\/p>\n

Change it to \"Bonecrusher,\" maybe.<\/p>\n

<i>And now, some more OAFEry:<\/i><\/H5>