The leaked packaging design of Rachet has made reference to something called "Automorph Technology". So what is that?
According to the pic of the side of box:
Automorph Technology is a new Transformers technology developed to enhance the vehicle to robot conversion of both Autobot and Decepticon Warriors. Getting them ready and into battle faster. Moving one part of the robot or vehicle causes other parts to move, making Armor plates and weapons shift automatically easier. Faster conversion can mean the difference between victory and defeat in the battle for the the Allspark!
What have we learned? Personally not a darn thing as far as what automorph technology means. Sounds neat but who knows. I guess when play with Rachet or one of the other movie toys will get a better idea.
However, we have learned that the McGuffin of "Transformers", the Energon Cube, has definitely officially been renamed to the "Allspark." Before it was an unconfirmed rumor.
Old school fans can rejoice that energon cubes retain there energy definition and Beast Wars fans can jump for joy to the "Spark" reference that began in that CGI cartoon series. For Transformers, a "Spark" is the Transformers lifeforce, or soul. It is what gives the Transformers alive beyond just being a robot. Kill the spark, kill the Transformer. Therefore the AllSpark is the giver of life for Transformers in the movie, or will take it away depending on who is in control.
Another name for this was the Matrix, but its definition was rather flaky throughout the history of Transformers so can see why they may not have run with it. Depending on which cartoon series vs comics vs whatever the Matrix moved from giver/taker of TF life to the contained essence and knowledge of all Autobot leaders throughout Transformers history.
So what do you need take away from all this? In the Transformers movie the thing all the TFs want and Sam Witwicky has is called the Allspark and things go boom as the two factions try to claim it. So ends the Transformers lesson for today.
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>> Moving one part of the robot or vehicle causes other parts to move, making Armor plates and weapons shift automatically easier. Faster conversion can mean the difference between victory and defeat in the battle for the the Allspark!
ReplyDelete>> What have we learned? Personally not a darn thing as far as what automorph technology means.
I suspect what it means is exactly what it says. Transformers have traditionally been built on a single mechanism, right? You shift one thing at a time and repeat until transformed. This sounds like that the toy is cleverly built using a series of *connected* hinges so that pulling one part of the toy explicitly moves another part also. Imagine, for instance, tying one end of a rope to a door handle and the other end to another door so that when one door is opened, the other is closed.
By the by, the poster didn't use the word "learned" advisedly:
ReplyDelete'learned' is an adjective and therefore describes something; it is pronounced "lur-nid". ("The learned professor spoke on a topic of great interest".)
The word you want is 'learnt': the past-tense of the verb, "to learn". ("We learnt a lot today from the learned professor and we shall learn more tomorrow".)
Yes, I know it's just a Transformer blog and I know you don't care; but if no one points these things out then how will you diffierentate yourself from the ignorant masses?
to the above anonymous poster...
ReplyDeletelearnt is only used in the UK... "learned" carries both meanings you mentioned above in US english
Can my respect for the North American variant of the Queen's Englsh reach no bounds?
ReplyDeleteNow I wonder how many other verbs that do not use the suffix -ed to indicate past tense have been Americanised? Have you swimmed (sic.) in the sea, for instance?
But that's ok; it's always good to learn something new. I thus stand corrected (but gently bemused).
English is a funny and inconsistent thing. I think it was George Bernard Shaw who said that in English one could spell the word *fish* as "ghoti" -- with the *gh* of *enough,* the *o* in *women* and the *ti* in *nation.*
ReplyDeleteYeah, there was a punk band a while back called Ghoti Hook. (fish hook)
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