Classics Line given New Name in Japan

Any one know the release date yet? I wants that Megs. ^.^

"Hentai! Hentai! Transformers!"? WOO-HOO!

hentai means pervert...

Glitcher wrote:"Hentai! Hentai! Transformers!"? WOO-HOO!

O_O; oh my...

Vile MK III wrote:Any one know the release date yet? I wants that Megs. ^.^

I actualy wanna see it before I say that, if it's a respectable color scheme, I may just import

Yes, but what does Henkei mean?

Savage wrote:Yes, but what does Henkei mean?

Henkei means "transform" and is used for anything mechanical. "Hen" is the root of the meaning, it means "change". On a side note, "henshin" is for human (or anything organic for that matter) transformation.

Savage wrote:Yes, but what does Henkei mean?

According to Primal Convoy from TFans.com:

Primal Convoy wrote:"Henkei" means "transform" basically. Usually, the bots will say "henshin" to transform (or "Turansufooooooomu!"), which also means "transform", so I'm guessing that its just a question of grammer.

My own "educated" guess is that the translated title could make sense as "Transforming...Transformation...TRANSFORMERS!"

"Henkei" means "transformation" so the Japanese are using a redundant term, much like saying "ATM Machine" "Tokyo Koen park" in Japanese- "koen" means park but its also a proper noun, or an official name so it gets "doubled" when translated, also like "Koi Carp" as "koi" means "carp').

Another example of a "redundant term" is to say "ATM Machine" as the "M" means "machine" (but we still say "ATM Machine" anyway).

Vile MK III wrote:

Glitcher wrote:"Hentai! Hentai! Transformers!"? WOO-HOO!

O_O; oh my...

Muhaha
Wouldn't it be tasty to see "Hentai! Hentai! Arcee" getting produced?

Danish-Liokaiser wrote:

Vile MK III wrote:

Glitcher wrote:"Hentai! Hentai! Transformers!"? WOO-HOO!

O_O; oh my...

Muhaha
Wouldn't it be tasty to see "Hentai! Hentai! Arcee" getting produced?

Launching nipps! =D

Figures to be released in the first wave include: Convoy, Megatron, Bumble, Starscream, Rije and Grimrock.

Rije who??

Vile MK III wrote:

Danish-Liokaiser wrote:

Vile MK III wrote:

Glitcher wrote:"Hentai! Hentai! Transformers!"? WOO-HOO!

O_O; oh my...

Muhaha
Wouldn't it be tasty to see "Hentai! Hentai! Arcee" getting produced?

Launching nipps! =D

And crotch massage power ! ...

mattyc1007 wrote:Figures to be released in the first wave include: Convoy, Megatron, Bumble, Starscream, Rije and Grimrock.

Rije who??

Rije is Mirage

Danish-Liokaiser wrote:

mattyc1007 wrote:Figures to be released in the first wave include: Convoy, Megatron, Bumble, Starscream, Rije and Grimrock.

Rije who??

Rije is Mirage

It would make more sense when it's transscribed as "Ligier", his original Japanese name (it's all over the car). But you know trademarking...

Danish-Liokaiser wrote:

Vile MK III wrote:

Danish-Liokaiser wrote:

Vile MK III wrote:

Glitcher wrote:"Hentai! Hentai! Transformers!"? WOO-HOO!

O_O; oh my...

Muhaha
Wouldn't it be tasty to see "Hentai! Hentai! Arcee" getting produced?

Launching nipps! =D

And crotch massage power ! ...

I'd like to ride her.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Danish-Liokaiser wrote:

mattyc1007 wrote:Figures to be released in the first wave include: Convoy, Megatron, Bumble, Starscream, Rije and Grimrock.

Rije who??

Rije is Mirage

It would make more sense when it's transscribed as "Ligier", his original Japanese name (it's all over the car). But you know trademarking...

Dude, im just a Dane, what do i know?

Vile MK III wrote:I'd like to ride her.

Haven't we covered this already?

Glitcher wrote:

Vile MK III wrote:I'd like to ride her.

Haven't we covered this already?

Ooooooh, Snap

I wonder if they would do what they did with the lady mech in Tranzor Z and give her missile boobs.

Break wrote:I wonder if they would do what they did with the lady mech in Tranzor Z and give her missile boobs.

Dear, what have i started?! ...

Break wrote:I wonder if they would do what they did with the lady mech in Tranzor Z and give her missile boobs.

Ouchy, wouldn't that hurt when you're...

hentai transformers?
more hentai!!! no no no no no. no more kiss players.
of wait, henkai. okay its cool.

I just know the Takara color scheme for Megs just has to be better than freakin Hasbro. He'll probalby be in a cool metallic silver (I hope) w/red eyes. That's a cool Henkei Henkei! Megatron IMHO

I'm with Jazzz Hentai Transformers?

sounds good to me, Angel blade & Kekko Kamen all the way!


BumbleBuht is upset at me now
and is gonna play pingpong with my balls!

I'm betting it'll be mostly gray. I can't see them busting out the silver on this guy.

Hentai Transformers?
Havent we already had that with Kissplayers?
I mean, do we really WANT x-rated TFs?

All this talk of hentai.

I'm ashamed of you.

Vile MK III wrote:

Danish-Liokaiser wrote:

Vile MK III wrote:

Danish-Liokaiser wrote:

Vile MK III wrote:

Glitcher wrote:"Hentai! Hentai! Transformers!"? WOO-HOO!

O_O; oh my...

Muhaha
Wouldn't it be tasty to see "Hentai! Hentai! Arcee" getting produced?

Launching nipps! =D

And crotch massage power ! ...

I'd like to ride her.

"Psst. Hey... get some boob missiles."
"BOOB missiles? lol!!! Why that's just..."

and I thought it was against regulation to post porn pics

Yes I want tentacles on my TF!

Angel Blade & La Blue Girl style

I see someone found pics to back up my Tranzor Z statements.

As for as Transformers tentacles go, remember how Optimus helped Alita-1 in that one episode, I think Alpha Trion might have been present as well.

Ok guys, enough with the hentai and porn jokes:

hahahah! they said "grimrock"!!

oh i cant stop laughing!! someone make a GODZIRRA joke please!!

Glitcher wrote:"Hentai! Hentai! Transformers!"? WOO-HOO!

Oh Yeah!

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Ok guys, enough with the hentai and porn jokes:

*Hugz Bunny*

Can't wait to see what this line will look like. My money is on the fact that it will blow Hasbro away!

Ok ruuuuunn it godgira (runs away) but enough of the hentai jokes if i want that sort of thing ill go somewhere else. back on topic i think i'll wait for classics 2.

bionic_radical wrote:hahahah! they said "grimrock"!!

oh i cant stop laughing!! someone make a GODZIRRA joke please!!

Haha! That's hilarious! Now spell something in Japanese so we can see how perfect you are. Go on, I'll wait.

All this talk of Classi- rather, Henkai! Henkai! Megatron, when the real awesome part of this line is that it'll finally be my chance to pick up Clas- Henkai! Henkai! Starscream! I've been wanting Classi- Henkai! Henkai! Starscream for a while, but since the Classics version way overpriced on eBay because of Hasbro's usual sh*tty distribution, I haven't been able to.

He's been preordered since his announcement - BBTS says he'll be arriving in March. While 24 bucks for a Deluxe may be a bit steep - it's better than 30-40 bucks on eBay, especially considering this version will have better paint.

I'm sure this has been said already, but I'm really stoked about the new colors on Megs. Hopefully, Takara will completely outdo Hasbro's awful color scheme and come up with something even more outlandish!

I'm thinking some magenta will do nicely.

So I wonder when we get to see Megatron in his new colors.

danish liokaiser how the hell didyou join on 1969!?

bionic_radical wrote:hahahah! they said "grimrock"!!

oh i cant stop laughing!! someone make a GODZIRRA joke please!!

His Japanese name is Gojira, stupid.

jazz reborn wrote:danish liokaiser how the hell didyou join on 1969!?

ThunderZap wrote:

jazz reborn wrote:danish liokaiser how the hell didyou join on 1969!?

are you insulting me?!

Professor Smooth wrote:

bionic_radical wrote:hahahah! they said "grimrock"!!

oh i cant stop laughing!! someone make a GODZIRRA joke please!!

Haha! That's hilarious! Now spell something in Japanese so we can see how perfect you are. Go on, I'll wait.

I find it rather funny how english-speaking people tend to be so hellbent on making sure anything done in Japanese is either done 100% accurate or not done at all with full & proper respect to the Japanese language & culture, where as the Japanese people as a whole make it a point to sodomize the English language by forcing it to fit in a form that uses too few syllables to properly portray it.


Now to keep say something in contex to the topic....Wow, what a redundant name. Not even Optimal Optimus is as bad as that.

Nemesis Cyberplex wrote: I find it rather funny how english-speaking people tend to be so hellbent on making sure anything done in Japanese is either done 100% accurate or not done at all with full & proper respect to the Japanese language & culture, where as the Japanese people as a whole make it a point to sodomize the English language by forcing it to fit in a form that uses too few syllables to properly portray it.

Have you studied Japanese? Do you know why the pronunciation of foreign words is different here?

It works both ways, you know. Foreigners have the strangest pronunciations of Japanese words like Karaoke, sake, and Gojira. Chances are, you probably won't run into a Japanese person laughing at you for saying it wrong, though.

To keep on topic, Grimlock's name in Japan actually IS Grimrock. It uses the symbols "Gu," "Ri," "Mu," Ro," a glottal stop, and "Ku."

jazz reborn wrote:

ThunderZap wrote:

jazz reborn wrote:danish liokaiser how the hell didyou join on 1969!?

are you insulting me?!

no, i just think that it was funny

Professor Smooth wrote:

Nemesis Cyberplex wrote: I find it rather funny how english-speaking people tend to be so hellbent on making sure anything done in Japanese is either done 100% accurate or not done at all with full & proper respect to the Japanese language & culture, where as the Japanese people as a whole make it a point to sodomize the English language by forcing it to fit in a form that uses too few syllables to properly portray it.

Have you studied Japanese? Do you know why the pronunciation of foreign words is different here?

It works both ways, you know. Foreigners have the strangest pronunciations of Japanese words like Karaoke, sake, and Gojira. Chances are, you probably won't run into a Japanese person laughing at you for saying it wrong, though.

To keep on topic, Grimlock's name in Japan actually IS Grimrock. It uses the symbols "Gu," "Ri," "Mu," Ro," a glottal stop, and "Ku."

Actually yes I do know why the pronuciation is different. I pointed that out in my last post: they try to cram the english language into their own & spit out the closest approximation. Grimlock was a name created in the English-speaking world, & instead of treating it as a foreign word/language & using English pronuciation & the Western alphabet to correctly portray his name properly, they used...well....the closest approximation. Grimrock (or Gurimuroku, as you pointed out) is a great example of the Japanese language sodomizing English.

Telling people to respect yours while not respecting theirs...that's called hypocriacy my friend.

Nemesis Cyberplex wrote:

Professor Smooth wrote:

Nemesis Cyberplex wrote: I find it rather funny how english-speaking people tend to be so hellbent on making sure anything done in Japanese is either done 100% accurate or not done at all with full & proper respect to the Japanese language & culture, where as the Japanese people as a whole make it a point to sodomize the English language by forcing it to fit in a form that uses too few syllables to properly portray it.

Have you studied Japanese? Do you know why the pronunciation of foreign words is different here?

It works both ways, you know. Foreigners have the strangest pronunciations of Japanese words like Karaoke, sake, and Gojira. Chances are, you probably won't run into a Japanese person laughing at you for saying it wrong, though.

To keep on topic, Grimlock's name in Japan actually IS Grimrock. It uses the symbols "Gu," "Ri," "Mu," Ro," a glottal stop, and "Ku."

Actually yes I do know why the pronuciation is different. I pointed that out in my last post: they try to cram the english language into their own & spit out the closest approximation. Grimlock was a name created in the English-speaking world, & instead of treating it as a foreign word/language & using English pronuciation & the Western alphabet to correctly portray his name properly, they used...well....the closest approximation. Grimrock (or Gurimuroku, as you pointed out) is a great example of the Japanese language sodomizing English.

Telling people to respect yours while not respecting theirs...that's called hypocriacy my friend.

I still don't think you understand. The sounds that make up Grimlock do not exist in the Japanese language. It would be impossible to say it the same way as Americans, Europeans, etc do. When an foreign word is imported into Japanese, its spelling and pronunciation are changed to better fit into the language.

In English, there is a tendancy to use the same pronunciation (and spelling) as other languages (French, Spanish, etc) do. This leads to having words spelled in ways that do not synch up with their pronunciation. English is now full of words that are straight out of other languages.

Second languages are very difficult. Especially when the languages are as different as English and Japanese. If the worst that happens is one letter being switched, then there's not much of a problem.

I do take issue with people ridiculing such minor errors, especially when, were the shoe on the other foot, they could not do any better. I would like to see one of the people who mocked the error translate that article into Japanese. If anyone can do so without making anything more than a spelling error, I will personally mail them a Takara '09 Deluxe Bumblebee.

wmpyr
Post Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 7:52 am

and I thought it was against regulation to post porn pics Smile

Yes I want tentacles on my TF!

Angel Blade & La Blue Girl style

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