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Takara Tomy Transformers MPG-01 Trainbot Shouki x Tomytec Diorama Images

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Takara Tomy Website have updated two more images featuring a Transformers MPG-01 Trainbot Shouki x Tomytec Diorama collaboration.

The images show Masterpiece MPG-01 Shouki in robot and train mode surrounded by some cool Tomytec Geocolle diorama pieces. Tomytec offers a large selection of Japanese outline N Scale products including locomotives, multiple units, buildings, kits and accessories as well as trams and tramways. Takara Tomy really did a fantastic job with these images.

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David Hingtgen

If there's one for the PS4/PS5, I'd be very interested. (I tend to watch Youtube on my TV, I like the big screen when watching trains)

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divinecomedy

Use an ad blocker.

If there's one for the PS4/PS5, I'd be very interested. (I tend to watch Youtube on my TV, I like the big screen when watching trains)

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David Hingtgen

I've watched so many Shinkansen videos on Youtube lately, it started giving me Japanese ads…

Use an ad blocker.

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Ejector369

Why thank you! I remember Steamhammer being an Autobot-allied Mini-Con in Transformers: Cybertron years ago.

I haven't seen more than an episode or two of anything past USA G1 (besides the Bay movies), but this seemingly canceled character is where I found the name: Steamhammer (RID) – Transformers Wiki

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marioxb

That works for me! I forget where I came up with Frostbite, maybe it was something I saw someone else suggest online. All of the other names were RiD and other train guys.. Steamhammer being a Decepticon. I ran out of names, so I used the combined name. But I like your names!

Why thank you! I remember Steamhammer being an Autobot-allied Mini-Con in Transformers: Cybertron years ago.

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marioxb

I mean sure, I get that. But it's fun to speculate what Hasbro/ Sunbow might have done back in the 80s/ 90s.

Yeah I think that is it for me, it is fun to imagine ‘what if’ …

I really don’t have an issue with their names.

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Sy-Rein

I think the Japanese names suit the trainbots the best. They were originally developed solely for the Japanese market where trains are very popular and are ubiquitous in every day life (more so than alot of other countries around the world, at least) and they're all fairly Japanese specific trains (from my admittedly minimal research). I'm not trying to tell anyone what to call their toys within their own collections but as far as official names go, I think the Japanese names work great.

I mean sure, I get that. But it's fun to speculate what Hasbro/ Sunbow might have done back in the 80s/ 90s. And as you said, we can call em what we want within our collections. Some people may call their 3rd party guys by their 3rd party names (the horror!).

Ejector369

Here's what I personally think:

Getsui -> Midnight Express
Kaen -> Steamhammer
Seizan -> Rapid Run
Shouki -> Railspike
Suiken -> Waterlog
Yukikaze -> Frostbite

Raiden -> Rail Racer

I believe that'd make more sense because Rail Racer was the name of the RID 2001 Bullet Train Team's combined mode.

EDIT: And yes, the subgroup name "Trainbots" should be localized as "Railbots".

That works for me! I forget where I came up with Frostbite, maybe it was something I saw someone else suggest online. All of the other names were RiD and other train guys.. Steamhammer being a Decepticon. I ran out of names, so I used the combined name. But I like your names!

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David Hingtgen

I've watched so many Shinkansen videos on Youtube lately, it started giving me Japanese ads…

There's a cream for that. :p 

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I've watched so many Shinkansen videos on Youtube lately, it started giving me Japanese ads…

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I think the Japanese names suit the trainbots the best. They were originally developed solely for the Japanese market where trains are very popular and are ubiquitous in every day life (more so than alot of other countries around the world, at least) and they're all fairly Japanese specific trains (from my admittedly minimal research). I'm not trying to tell anyone what to call their toys within their own collections but as far as official names go, I think the Japanese names work great.

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marioxb

Yeah I hate the Japanese names, because they don't fit with the rest of the US names. I made up my own English names for them, based on other Transformers trains. That being said, I don't have any special connection to them, as I've never had any transformers trains (besides Astrotrain and any other American G1 there may have been), nor have I ever seen the Japanese Headmasters. I'd say that even the TT aren't cartoon accurate, as they use toy-style insignias. But I get that they weren't going for hyper toon accuracy with these guys or Skids. IF I get any of these (official or third party), it will just come down to whichever is cheaper, without preordering or buying early. Anyway, my names:

Railbots (Trainbots):

Frostbite (Yukikaze)
Midnight Express (Getsuei)
Rail Racer (Shoki)
Railspike (Suiken)
Rapid Run (Seizan)
Steamhammer (Kaen)

who combine to form—– Conductor (Raiden)

Here's what I personally think:

Getsui -> Midnight Express
Kaen -> Steamhammer
Seizan -> Rapid Run
Shouki -> Railspike
Suiken -> Waterlog
Yukikaze -> Frostbite

Raiden -> Rail Racer

I believe that'd make more sense because Rail Racer was the name of the RID 2001 Bullet Train Team's combined mode.

EDIT: And yes, the subgroup name "Trainbots" should be localized as "Railbots".

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Boatformer

No, they're just Japanese words and compounds. The exception is Shouki, who's named after a deity – and in that case, what's the difference between that and "Dai Atlas" or "Road Caesar"?

Nothing, I guess. Except my G1 ends at the US series. Possibly at a professionally translated (using US voice sound alike English voices, US names and all) Headmasters, if one is ever made.

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Boatformer

No, they're just Japanese words and compounds. The exception is Shouki, who's named after a deity – and in that case, what's the difference between that and "Dai Atlas" or "Road Caesar"?

Well, Caesar was technically a title, essentially making the combiner the Road King, but really no there's no difference.

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marioxb

The problem is, maybe, do they have "names" as in the Japanese equivalent of "Johnny" and "Steve", rather than just "words" as the rest of the Transformers? At least that's how it seems to me. Correct me if I'm wrong and those aren't "name" names. Maybe if the Japanese names were like "samurai" or "ninja", not something that sounds like a person's name.

No, they're just Japanese words and compounds. The exception is Shouki, who's named after a deity – and in that case, what's the difference between that and "Dai Atlas" or "Road Caesar"?

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GizmoTron

One of the nice things is that even in canon and lore the Trainbots were designed and built on Earth in Japan, so them taking on Japanese names is more than appropriate.

The problem is, maybe, do they have "names" as in the Japanese equivalent of "Johnny" and "Steve", rather than just "words" as the rest of the Transformers? At least that's how it seems to me. Correct me if I'm wrong and those aren't "name" names. Maybe if the Japanese names were like "samurai" or "ninja", not something that sounds like a person's name.

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Ryan F

Oh I know (as I say, it’s probably just me being weird), but given that Transformers is a franchise with a global audience, I just think it’s nice that there are still a few bots out there that still cling onto their indigenous, non-American names.

I guess I just hate needless homogenisation!

That, plus I think that ‘Shouki’, ‘Kaen’ and the rest of the gang have some of the coolest names in the entire franchise, so any change would be a downgrade, IMHO.

One of the nice things is that even in canon and lore the Trainbots were designed and built on Earth in Japan, so them taking on Japanese names is more than appropriate.

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mx-01 archon

That's really not the same thing. Nobody's feelings are going to get hurt when you fail to call them by their "birth" names.

That's just a matter of localization. The Japanese toylines used to rename the characters all the time (much less prevalent nowadays). No reason Hasbro shouldn't be able to do the same (and of course, it has).

Oh I know (as I say, it’s probably just me being weird), but given that Transformers is a franchise with a global audience, I just think it’s nice that there are still a few bots out there that still cling onto their indigenous, non-American names.

I guess I just hate needless homogenisation!

That, plus I think that ‘Shouki’, ‘Kaen’ and the rest of the gang have some of the coolest names in the entire franchise, so any change would be a downgrade, IMHO.

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David Hingtgen

Three ways—-almost every member of Raiden is an electric loco. (and likely the source of the name IMHO).

Never thought of that, but yeah!

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marioxb

I think my name, Conductor, is clever in two ways- as in train Conductor, and also electricity Conductor, as Raiden, the god of thunder, was.

Three ways—-almost every member of Raiden is an electric loco. (and likely the source of the name IMHO).

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