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Originally Posted by canprime
This mostly has to do with trademark issues.
It costs money to get/make/retain trademarks. They also only generally last for 5 years and require renewal. So sometimes it is just easier to slap an existing name on another toy/character to save the trademark even if it makes no sense.
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Yeah... The trademark thing makes sense — not sure which came first: Triple Changer Autobot Sandstorm or G2 Decepticon Seeker Sandstorm. But at the very least they could have left Autobot names as Autobots and Decepticon names as Decepticons.
