Bob Budiansky stated that the only time Hasbro ever had a problem with the character names he came up with were due to personal higher-up reasons. He said that Megatron was one of two names that they didn't want to approve because it sounded too scary for kids, while the other name was considered too adult. Generally, Bob had to submit his ideas to Hasbro's legal department who then had to check every potential trademark in case they had a competing product with a similar name. They (Hasbro) usually never had a problem with the names Bob did give them, but unlike the Megatron name and how Bob was able to get them to change their minds about it, Hasbro didn't budge on the other rejected name. Bob explained that the initial Autobots from the first season were mostly cars, or some sort of wheeled vehicle, and he was always looking for cool sounding car related names. So he came up with the name Highbeams. But the product manager at Hasbro - which he noted was female - pointed out that in her native city of Chicago, high beams was slang for a certain part of the female anatomy. Bob claimed he was pretty innocent and naive back then, so he had no clue that the name Highbeams had any kind of adult connotation to it when he submitted it for approval.
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