Auto Bot wrote:Transformers started out as a Hasbro toyline borrowed from Japanese Microchange and Diaclone toylines.
Auto Bot wrote:Addendum:
Examples of BIOLOGICAL species as alt mode:
Dinobots
Insecticons
Predaking
Auto Bot wrote:Following the G1 story, Teletran 1 sent out a probe to explore a possible alt mode for each transformer.
It's a wonder why a few alt mode chosen were BIOLOGICAL creatures.
Granting the choices were not limited to machines or mechanical devices, how come only humans, among the biological creatures, were EXCLUDED as possible alt form? All earth creatures, being alien to them, should have been equal in the eyes of the probe. Humans, being among the most populated biological species, not to mention supreme, would be INCONSPICUOUS, and should have been given top priority.
I know most of you would ask, how can a human form become alt mode of a humanoid robot?
Simple. Think Terminator 2&3. The perfect disguise.
Comments?
Auto Bot wrote:Following the G1 story, Teletran 1 sent out a probe to explore a possible alt mode for each transformer.
It's a wonder why a few alt mode chosen were BIOLOGICAL creatures.
Kranix-76 wrote:While looking at one of the other threads on this board, I was suddenly struck with a question:
Why do some of the Transformers have a non-humanoid "robot" mode?
Most of the incarnations of Cybertron I've read or seen seem to be lacking in inorganic flora and fauna, outside of the Transformers themselves--a good majority of which are in a humanoid form. So was it a freak chance of design that lead to certain TFs to lack a humanoid form, similar to the mutations in organic lifeforms as suggested by evolutionary biology? Or were the likes of Laserbeak and Sky Lynx once humanoid in form, but were transferred to new bodies for reasons strategic (or, for someone like Sky Lynx, purely aesthetic)?
Not that there's a particular answer to this question...I'm just curious to see what everyone else thinks.
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