Talk:Hot Rod (Transformers)

Movie
I added, what I think is a more general, and encyclopedic entry to the beginning of this entry. I don’t think a description of the movie really belongs here, unless there is any objections I will remove it. --Plicease 15:25, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Model
I know that it states that Hot Rod is a modified Pontiac Firebird, but I think that he either resembles a Lamborghini Countach or a Lamborghini Diablo. Which do you think? Monksbane 8:02, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

I agree. I see no resemblance to the Pontiac at all. Without a doubt the vehicular mode of Hot Rod is inspired by the Countach.

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Hot Rod (Transformers) vs. Rodimus
Please see Talk:Rodimus. -GTBacchus(talk) 21:52, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

From other talk page

 * ''The following two sections are copied from Talk:Rodimus, which now redirects here. Their history can be found there. -GTBacchus(talk) 23:22, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Move request
I am going to place a request on for this page to be moved to Hot Rod (Transformers), as |Wikipedia: naming conflict suggests the common name (Hot Rod) takes precedence over Rodimus as it has been used far more in the surrounding fiction (including the most modern IDW comics). Feel free to discuss it there. SMegatron 14:09, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi, I'm here from Requested moves. I'm looking at the edit histories of Rodimus and Hot Rod (Transformers), and it appears that, at the beginning of August, the article was cut-and-pasted from the latter title to the former. Thus, most of the article's history, going back to December 2004, is located under the history tab at Hot Rod (Transformers). We'll want to patch the history back together, and I've already started some of the merge work . I'd like to be sure which title we'll be using before I do any more. I'm posting a note to the user who previously moved the article to Rodimus, so we can be sure we're acting with consensus. It appears that a relevant guideline is WP:COMMONNAME: "Except where other accepted Wikipedia naming conventions give a different indication, use the most common name of a person or thing that does not conflict with the names of other people or things." Do we go with the unambiguous but less common "Rodimus", or with the more common name "Hot Rod", which requires disambiguation? -GTBacchus(talk) 21:51, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

I had moved SOME of the information to this page, as there are TWO Transformers named Hot Rod in the series, one is from the first generation of the series, the second is a completely unrelated bad guy from the second Generation. I wanted to move the first guy to Rodimus, because that's the name they currently sell the first toy under (and have for several years), but I didn't want to move the SECOND Hot Rod, as he was never renamed Rodimus by Hasbro. If I had moved the whole article I would have messed up the article for the second Hot Rod, whose name never changed. I hope this makes sense. Mathewignash 22:53, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I think I understand. There are two transformers: Hot Rod/Rodimus, from G1 and G2, and the new Jolt/Hot Rod, from G2 only. Is that right? As I see it, our options are this: (1) We move the pre-August history from Hot Rod (Transformers) here, reconnecting the history with the bulk of the content. The page Hot Rod (Transformers) remains as it is, with links to Rodimus and to Jolt (Transformers). (2) Same as (1), except we redirect Hot Rod (Transformers) here, and put a redirect hatnote at the top of this page, pointing interested readers to Jolt. (3) We move this article back to Hot Rod (Transformers), wiping out the post-August-3 history there, and maintaining a dablink to Jolt (Transformers). I would tend to lean towards (2) or (3), depending on which name is most commonly associated with the character in sources. What do others think, or is there an option that I missed? -GTBacchus(talk) 00:47, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

I've moved the page to Hot Rod (Transformers), implementing option (3) above, because it's been another week and nobody objected. -GTBacchus(talk) 23:25, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

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Fancruft, maybe
In the Armada episode "Soldier", Carlos calls Hot Shot Hot Rod. Sarujo (talk) 06:16, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

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