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I had an idea most of these designes looked more like beast wars to me witch i thought was awsome becuase beast wars was what got me hooked on transfomrers. Ok well here is my idea many people have said starscreams movie desgines reminded them of waspinator. Ok rember the episode where starscreams spirit possesed waspinator mabey thats how they got there idea? What do you think please no NEGATIVE coments.

could be..... waspy and starscream are the same being and this is like a evolution of the two

I head the same thory long long ago...

Nico wrote:I head the same thory long long ago...

Do you mean heard or had?

true. ive had that same theory a few months ago

so i have agreements. I also had aidea on his bodt it kinda reminded me of terrorsuar fro beastwars witch is anoher starscream realated character what do you think about that?

yeah, this theory has been floating around since the first prototype pic surfaced. i didn't buy it then, and i certainly don't buy it now. if it were just him, i'd say it might be plausible (though i'd still think the new look sucked, and not just because that episode was a hideous black mark on an otherwise superb series), but it's not. bug-like heads are a running trend among all the movie 'con designs we've seen. as far as i can tell, this is a textbook case of making evil aliens look insectoid so they'll be "scarier," nothing more.

besides, are you actually suggesting these people did research into past tf designs before making these things? it doesn't even seem like they bothered watching g1, let alone beast wars.

Do you know why the alien robots don't look like humans?

Because their aliens. And there's no rule ANYWHERE that aliens must look strictly humanoid.

Shadowman wrote:Do you know why the alien robots don't look like humans?

Because their aliens. And there's no rule ANYWHERE that aliens must look strictly humanoid.

That doesn't mean that the most of the Cons have to look like piles of recycled slag, though.

Shadowman wrote:Do you know why the alien robots don't look like humans?

Because their aliens. And there's no rule ANYWHERE that aliens must look strictly humanoid.

there's also no rule ANYWHERE that aliens must look strictly insectoid, even if hollywood and michael bay seem to think there is. the problems that a lot of the fans have with these designs have nothing to do with not looking humanoid, at least not directly. it's all about looking like who it's supposed to be. if you want to make a movie with characters based on and named after pre-established characters, you should make them look at least somewhat reminiscent of their namesakes, not force people to try to justify the new appearance by coming up with convoluted theories like "oh, his ghost possessed a guy who looked sort of like this in an episode, maybe that's what they were going for." if they cared enough to intentionally include obscure references like that into the design, they would also have cared enough to do so only after they made sure it was recognizable as starscream.