Not that I was ever a fan of his, but I really hate that the writers picked a totally random name from Transformers lore and applied it to a completely different character. Will the next Star Wars movie feature a random alien named Luke Skywalker without featuring the original character? It is so effing annoying. That alone is a really sour way for the show to go out for me, to pile on the ever-increasing list of things that annoyed me about the show.
Sky Lynx. Face palm!!!
What I found weird about it is that Skylynx and Darksteel weren't even the original figures. They were repaints of Skystalker and Grimwing, respectively. So they left out the two "base" toys and put their repaints into the show.
Which, from a marketing standpoint, does make sense. Kids who got the original figures now have to get the repainted variants too, just to have the show's characters.
As far as Skylynx's nameslap goes, maybe Hasbro just wanted to secure their ownership of the name.
Repaints are for economic reasons. Making new molds cost money, so repaints allow them to sell the same mold multiple times without it being overplayed too quickly.
shareTransformers have always reuse the names of characters to secure the rights to it. Bonecrusher is both a Constructicon and a Beast Wars bison. Grimlock is both a Dinobot and a Steam Shovel member of the Autobot Build Team from 2001's Car Robots (Robots in Disguise in the US). Hasbro had to change names for certain characters because they lost the rights to it (Jazz is "Autobot Jazz" in all his promo material, Darkwing was changed to "Darwind").
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