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Convotron wrote:

shonenfan4 wrote:Wait, if I remember correctly, TFA OP had a firetruck trailer and a normal trailer rite?

Yup. Well, OP could haul different kinds of trailers and I think at least once he served as a dump truck. I just seem to remember seeing the "fire truck" trailer more often than the others.

Aye, it confuses me because OP originally got his Earth form by scanning a firetruck during the 1st episode. Yet, he seems to be able to carry other types of trailers.

they look nice to gether stylistically
but that trailer is just to big for him IMO

According to BBTS, the full list of accessories is thus:

1x unnamed Blaster
1x C-Mode Adaptor Blaster (allows trailer hook-up as well) for Animated Deluxe Optimus Prime
1x E-Mode Adaptor Blaster (allows trailer hook-up as well) for Animated Voyager Optimus Prime
1x Drag Blaster for TF Universe Drag Strip
1x Rod Photon Rifle for Henkei/Classic Rodimus
1x Rod adaptor Ion Thruster (allows trailer hook-up as well) for Henkei/Classic Rodimus
1x WW-Type Magnus Adaptor (allows trailer hookup) for Titanium "War Within" Ultra Magnus
1x A-Mode Grapple Arm upgrade for various trailers

Wow, that's quite a list of accessories. Coolness.

I have U Drag Strip, Deluxe and Voyager TFA OP, and Classics Rodimus so this set may be more interesting to me once I see photos of the items in a more finished state.

Mkall wrote:According to BBTS, the full list of accessories is thus:

1x unnamed Blaster
1x C-Mode Adaptor Blaster (allows trailer hook-up as well) for Animated Deluxe Optimus Prime
1x E-Mode Adaptor Blaster (allows trailer hook-up as well) for Animated Voyager Optimus Prime
1x Drag Blaster for TF Universe Drag Strip
1x Rod Photon Rifle for Henkei/Classic Rodimus
1x Rod adaptor Ion Thruster (allows trailer hook-up as well) for Henkei/Classic Rodimus
1x WW-Type Magnus Adaptor (allows trailer hookup) for Titanium "War Within" Ultra Magnus
1x A-Mode Grapple Arm upgrade for various trailers

For that price, this seems like an extremely good deal to me.

They may have just figured out how to sell me one of their trailers, it looks pretty nice with the animated Op.

On the other hand, a trailer hitch for classics/henkei Rodimus?

metaphorge wrote:On the other hand, a trailer hitch for classics/henkei Rodimus?

Hehe, I had a good chuckle at the idea of being a pack mule.

Optimus Prime: Hot Rod, I've got an important task for you.

Hot Rod: Really? What is it, Optimus? Let me at 'em!

Optimus Prime: Yes. Pull my trailer.

Hot Rod: Yeah, I'm going to scrap some Decepti-... Wait. What?

Optimus Prime: You heard me.

Hot Rod: Seriously? That's the important task?

Optimus Prime: Yes. Do it.

Hot Rod: Yes sir...

Hot Rod is full of fail with that trailer.

Hot Rod is full of back pain after his trailer hauling shift.

Convotron wrote:Hot Rod is full of back pain after his trailer hauling shift.

lol I never did get the concept of giving Hot Rod a trailer after he was given the Matrix of leadership.

shonenfan4 wrote:

Convotron wrote:Hot Rod is full of back pain after his trailer hauling shift.

lol I never did get the concept of giving Hot Rod a trailer after he was given the Matrix of leadership.

Don't you see? The trailer is, like; a metaphore dude. It symbolises the burden of leadership and the bulk of responsibility that one must carry around with him at all times.

Mkall wrote:

shonenfan4 wrote:

Convotron wrote:Hot Rod is full of back pain after his trailer hauling shift.

lol I never did get the concept of giving Hot Rod a trailer after he was given the Matrix of leadership.

Don't you see? The trailer is, like; a metaphore dude. It symbolises the burden of leadership and the bulk of responsibility that one must carry around with him at all times.

Is that the official explanation for the trailer? What about when Rodimus went inside the Matrix and saw the history of how it was passed down? The past leaders didn't seem to have a trailer.

Hot Rod was lied to. He's so gullible. Poor Rodimus.

Hot Rod: It's my time! Where's my faceplate?

The Matrix: You get a trailer.

Hot Rod: What?! I hauled around Optimus' trailer for megacycles and now that I get to be a Prime, I'm still stuck hauling trailers?

The Matrix: Take it or leave it. Look, do you want to be Supreme Commander or what?

Rodimus: Yes sir...

Hot Rod/Rodimus, the eternal whipping boy.

shonenfan4 wrote:

Mkall wrote:

shonenfan4 wrote:

Convotron wrote:Hot Rod is full of back pain after his trailer hauling shift.

lol I never did get the concept of giving Hot Rod a trailer after he was given the Matrix of leadership.

Don't you see? The trailer is, like; a metaphore dude. It symbolises the burden of leadership and the bulk of responsibility that one must carry around with him at all times.

Is that the official explanation for the trailer? What about when Rodimus went inside the Matrix and saw the history of how it was passed down? The past leaders didn't seem to have a trailer.

Nah, just some hippie talk about it. I thought that when he went into the Matrix, he only saw the faces of the robots?

Either way, I'm sticking with my theory, you get a Matrix, you get a trailer. The matrix decides if the Trailer is a repair bay or a gunnery turret.

Mkall wrote:

shonenfan4 wrote:

Mkall wrote:

shonenfan4 wrote:

Convotron wrote:Hot Rod is full of back pain after his trailer hauling shift.

lol I never did get the concept of giving Hot Rod a trailer after he was given the Matrix of leadership.

Don't you see? The trailer is, like; a metaphore dude. It symbolises the burden of leadership and the bulk of responsibility that one must carry around with him at all times.

Is that the official explanation for the trailer? What about when Rodimus went inside the Matrix and saw the history of how it was passed down? The past leaders didn't seem to have a trailer.

Nah, just some hippie talk about it. I thought that when he went into the Matrix, he only saw the faces of the robots?

Either way, I'm sticking with my theory, you get a Matrix, you get a trailer. The matrix decides if the Trailer is a repair bay or a gunnery turret.

And this is part where someone should explain where the trailer goes during transformation.

shonenfan4 wrote:And this is part where someone should explain where the trailer goes during transformation.

To a happy place?

Convotron wrote:

shonenfan4 wrote:And this is part where someone should explain where the trailer goes during transformation.

To a happy place?

Prob the same technology as Astrotrain, but instead they become really small instead of big. Pocket-size trailers.

shonenfan4 wrote:

Convotron wrote:

shonenfan4 wrote:And this is part where someone should explain where the trailer goes during transformation.

To a happy place?

Prob the same technology as Astrotrain, but instead they become really small instead of big. Pocket-size trailers.

Hooray for mass shifting!

As I expected, the Hot Rod and Titanium UM links look pretty weak. However, you've got to give them credit for trying. The trailer looks pretty darn good with the Cybertron mode Animated Prime though. Would love to see that picture complete.

Mkall wrote:Either way, I'm sticking with my theory, you get a Matrix, you get a trailer. The matrix decides if the Trailer is a repair bay or a gunnery turret.

with great power, comes great adiposity.

Convotron wrote:

shonenfan4 wrote:

Convotron wrote:

shonenfan4 wrote:And this is part where someone should explain where the trailer goes during transformation.

To a happy place?

Prob the same technology as Astrotrain, but instead they become really small instead of big. Pocket-size trailers.

Hooray for mass shifting!

Wonder if mass shifting will be implemented into Bayverse?

shonenfan4 wrote:Wonder if mass shifting will be implemented into Bayverse?

It's probably explained somehow but I always thought Frenzy's transformation into a cellphone was mass shifting despite Bay's "no mass-shifting" rule.

Convotron wrote:

shonenfan4 wrote:Wonder if mass shifting will be implemented into Bayverse?

It's probably explained somehow but I always thought Frenzy's transformation into a cellphone was mass shifting despite Bay's "no mass-shifting" rule.

I guess it's explained by Frenzy scanning another mode.

shonenfan4 wrote:I guess it's explained by Frenzy scanning another mode.

Yeah, it's just that the mass of Frenzy's head somehow transforming down to the size of a cell phone wasn't something that made sense to me visually without thinking of mass-shifting. I guess the Allspark Cube was mass shifting but it's "mystical" so it's okay, I suppose.

Convotron wrote:

shonenfan4 wrote:I guess it's explained by Frenzy scanning another mode.

Yeah, it's just that the mass of Frenzy's head somehow transforming down to the size of a cell phone wasn't something that made sense to me visually without thinking of mass-shifting. I guess the Allspark Cube was mass shifting but it's "mystical" so it's okay, I suppose.

Guess that means Astrotrain and the others won't be making Bayverse.