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Because Michael Bay is bad at spelling and pronouncing things. (He's repeatedly referred to Scorponok as "Scorpinox" in interviews, and apparently other people on his team think it's spelled "Skorpinocks" or other dumb ones.)
JediTricks wrote:Speaking of missing figures, anybody know what happened to the US release of the deluxe Leadfoot & Topspin set Target was supposed to get? Are they not going to buy them after all now that the HA Leadfoot has sold so poorly?
Nobody knows...and we can't ask since Hasbro has quietly stopped the TF Q&As. (This despite the GI Joe ones continuing.)
BWprowl wrote:The internet having this many different words to describe nerdy folks is akin to the whole eskimos/ice situation, I would presume.
People spend so much time worrying about whether a figure is "mint" or not that they never stop to consider other flavours.
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But "Que" is surely a name he made up, and I can't believe a professional moviemaker is that profoundly stupid that he can misspell a single letter. It must have some sort of double meaning. =|

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If it does, exactly zero people have mentioned it or brought it up in any fashion. Most of the supplemental material (novelizations, comics, etc.) forego the entire thing and just call him Wheeljack.

Clearly you're underestimating the intelligence and grammar skills of people involved in your entertainment. There's a new female fox character in IDW's TMNT comics designed by Kevin Eastman. (At least I think she's a fox; I forget. She might be a lynx or something.) There's some design sketches in the back where Eastman has written notes pointing out her "neckless." (One of them even has "neckless" crossed out and replaced with "necklace.")
BWprowl wrote:The internet having this many different words to describe nerdy folks is akin to the whole eskimos/ice situation, I would presume.
People spend so much time worrying about whether a figure is "mint" or not that they never stop to consider other flavours.
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Oh dear.
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Eh, people make typos sometimes and sometimes they become official. Que could also be as in "pool que", like what you hit the ball with (for Gomess I beleive the proper term would be Snooker Que). Or maybe that's spelled Cue and I'm wrong. Whatever. I just call him Wheeljack anyway so who cares?

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Yeah, that's "cue." Like you cue action on a movie set, or something.
BWprowl wrote:The internet having this many different words to describe nerdy folks is akin to the whole eskimos/ice situation, I would presume.
People spend so much time worrying about whether a figure is "mint" or not that they never stop to consider other flavours.
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Fine, maybe Michael Bay IS stupid. Sigh!
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Onslaught Six wrote:Yeah, that's "cue." Like you cue action on a movie set, or something.
Is that also like the pool cue? The stick you use to hit the balls? Or is that Que?
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No, that's a cue! "Que" is not an English word. Unless my degree really is as worthless as I thought it was.
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Gomess wrote:No, that's a cue! "Que" is not an English word. Unless my degree really is as worthless as I thought it was.
I was just checking and really if anyone was gonna be an authority on the English language it would be you. Y'know, cause you have an English degree... FROM ENGLAND!! That beats anything I got.
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