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Kiddies toy outfit Hasbro has pulled off a bit of a branding blinder with the release of its "Spastic with Stunticons" Transformer, which apparently forms part of its Power Core Combiners 2011 Wave 2 range. The Spastic Transformer Transformer fan site Seibertron.com contacted Hasbro when it discovered that the word spastic …

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  1. Tigra 07
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    Lucky...

    That could have become a bit of a marketing disastercon

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  2. Ned Ludd
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    Wait just a minute...

    It looks like they've even gone so far as to trademark the word "spastic". I like that.

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    midwest spazz attack

    Generally being called spazz was just a commentary on a particularly uncoordinated effort on someone's part as opposed to calling names at someone who was actually spastic (and that type of thing was kind of frowned on even back when i was young...in spite of how much fun kids made of each other).

    Maybe they should have just called it (after Paris) a spunkedicon.

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  4. Noodle
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    Eee when I were a lad..

    .. Transformers had proper names like "Grimlock", "Cyclonus" and "Shockwave". These modern Transformers are rubbish.. "Spastic"? Megatron must be turning in his grave..

    Terminator cos.. well it's all robots innit?

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