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Post by Jazzman Crothers on Mar 25, 2015 9:42:32 GMT -5
G1 had a tons of this going on to the point it got ridiculous!
It was cool when Megatron and Soundwave did it, but then when Huffer started carrying around Hoist on the cartoon, clearly the animators weren't thinking and/or got lazy!
So which do you prefer? The fan explanation of sub-space where they displace there mass. Or how about parts compression where layers upon layers of metal somehow fold down to make things smaller. Or mass conversion, where the molecular structure is affected to help reduce size but only works during transformation. Or is it mass-displacement sequence where a tons of energy is used to reduce size and weight.
Personally the whole thing bugs me. More so when a Transformer just seems to grow in size to hold more of his buddies. On the show Skyfire was able to carry loads of dudes and of course Astrotrain some how got so big her could hold Devastator in the movie!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2015 12:54:41 GMT -5
Honestly, this has definitely boggled the mind when you think about it. I could maybe see it plausible for Skyfire to carry others because he generally seems a large mech to begin with, and Astrotrain too but to carry Devastator? I never saw the movie but that one just seems laziness, maybe time constraints for all we know and just go with what seems logical in the moment.
But I would sooner believe their is a molecular explanation, compression, or subspace. Maybe the plating is able to shift in ways we can never visible see and just just slides or retracts in hidden spaces of the armor allowing for the explanation of added height or taken away from bot to bot. Or maybe somehow the molecules of a Transformer's metallic armor somehow change in some way.
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Post by Jazzman Crothers on Mar 25, 2015 13:44:21 GMT -5
I think I would have to lean towards molecular resizing of some kind. Its one thing to transform into something smaller then the robot form but to also pack all forms of equipment, weapons and ammo is another headache!
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Post by Bomblast on Mar 27, 2015 17:07:35 GMT -5
Combiners are the biggest problem for me. 5 characters, roughly the same size of an average Transformer suddenly end up like 10 times the size of the characters they were just stood next to.
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Post by Jazzman Crothers on Mar 27, 2015 19:00:14 GMT -5
Yes! And Groove being a motorcycle would have to grow to so much to be the same size s his counter-parts and a limb.
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Post by Bomblast on Mar 27, 2015 19:17:57 GMT -5
Even FoC is guilty of it. Well, the game at least. Bruticus towers over the generic Autobots. Surprisingly, the toys are much more accurate. All of the Combaticons scale nicely with Skywarp and Air Raid (the only other FoC figures I own) and Bruticus just looks right next to the Seeker mold.
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Post by RipRaw on Apr 2, 2015 21:52:46 GMT -5
I always like to think the G1 cartoon was a history documentary and the writers were never able to fully get the facts right. The cartoon was just a low budget reenactment.
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Post by Jazzman Crothers on Apr 3, 2015 0:48:10 GMT -5
I always like to think the G1 cartoon was a history documentary and the writers were never able to fully get the facts right. The cartoon was just a low budget reenactment. Heh... ha....haha........aaaaaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!
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