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>On top of that, there's eight Constructicons! None of them are really on-model; three appear to be entirely made up. Many years later, Japanese continuity would retroactively assign the identities of Hauler and Gravedigger to the two extra members of the group, while Fun Publications' "Wings Universe" would present all eight as being new, unnamed characters who belonged to the same pre-Decepticon faction as the main six.
Gravedigger himself is a character born of errors:
>"Gravedigger" came about by accident. The name was a preliminary one for the Constructicon Scrapper, as indicated by both the original The Transformers cartoon series bible and the shooting script for the episode "Heavy Metal War" (which includes the line "Gravedigger, I'm picking up computer signals from above!"). "Dinobots Strike Back" writer Casey Todd was evidently working from that outdated guideline when he wrote the book; most instances of the name were switched to "Scrapper" for the finished product, but one errant use of "Gravedigger" remained. Artist William Schmidt compounded the error by drawing Long Haul instead of Scrapper into the illustration for this scene, which led to fans—at the time unaware of the origin of the "Gravedigger" name—having a bit of fun with it and imagining that Gravedigger was a unique character.
>Nearly three decades later, writer Andrew Hall properly canonized the idea of Gravedigger as his own character in the United EX toyline, opting to assign his identity to the Buildmaster toy. With this addition of an eighth named Construction to the Japanese cartoon continuity, an identity was at last provided for the long-mysterious "eighth Constructicon" who appeared with the others in a dodgily-animated scene in "Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4" (the seventh having been retroactively designated as Hauler in 2003).
>On top of that, there's eight Constructicons! None of them are really on-model; three appear to be entirely made up. Many years later, Japanese continuity would retroactively assign the identities of Hauler and Gravedigger to the two extra members of the group, while Fun Publications' "Wings Universe" would present all eight as being new, unnamed characters who belonged to the same pre-Decepticon faction as the main six.
Gravedigger himself is a character born of errors:
>"Gravedigger" came about by accident. The name was a preliminary one for the Constructicon Scrapper, as indicated by both the original The Transformers cartoon series bible and the shooting script for the episode "Heavy Metal War" (which includes the line "Gravedigger, I'm picking up computer signals from above!"). "Dinobots Strike Back" writer Casey Todd was evidently working from that outdated guideline when he wrote the book; most instances of the name were switched to "Scrapper" for the finished product, but one errant use of "Gravedigger" remained. Artist William Schmidt compounded the error by drawing Long Haul instead of Scrapper into the illustration for this scene, which led to fans—at the time unaware of the origin of the "Gravedigger" name—having a bit of fun with it and imagining that Gravedigger was a unique character.
>Nearly three decades later, writer Andrew Hall properly canonized the idea of Gravedigger as his own character in the United EX toyline, opting to assign his identity to the Buildmaster toy. With this addition of an eighth named Construction to the Japanese cartoon continuity, an identity was at last provided for the long-mysterious "eighth Constructicon" who appeared with the others in a dodgily-animated scene in "Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4" (the seventh having been retroactively designated as Hauler in 2003).
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