Sabrblade wrote:How do we know that the flashbacks took place on Cybertron? They could have been elsewhere on another colony world after the Great Exodus.
Good point. That thought never crossed my mind. I kind of assumed it from the backgrounds. It looked kind of Cybertron-y to me.
Sabrblade wrote:she assumes her normal Robot Mode at least twice on Earth. Once when we first see her on Earth, and then again when she's realized that Jack went inside her ship and she enters from its "back door" of sorts.
I only saw the episode once, and now that you say that I remember that she was on legs when she went back into the ship. So I guess the only difference between her bot and alt mods is that her bot legs form the spider body and her spider legs get longer and she walks on them.
Shadowman wrote:Laserbeak, Ravage, and Ratbat were all Earth animals before coming to Earth
Well, it didn't make sense back in the '80s either. I know in the first episode of G1, Laserbeak had a Cybertronian alt mode. It looked pretty much like a bird with a rounder head and wings, but it was different. I don't think Ravage appeared in the cartoon until everyone was on Earth, and I know Ratbat didn't. I am basing this solely on the cartoon. I didn't read the comics.