Ramrider wrote:To be honest, to my eye her transformation seems to basically involve standing up. I can't tell whether her arms come from behind her or under her, but it looks like the whole vehicle basically pivots up onto its front end, a plate comes up to cover the chest, arms come from somewhere and her head flips back. I'd have to guess it's some kind of car, although considering how much you see in that clip, and how much morphing there is, that's a proper guess, and I haven't seen the comic to get any more perspective.
Tramp wrote:That's true because the robot mode is based more on her Dreamwave comic book appearance. Unfortunately, we have no comicbook reference for her vehicle mode.
And, the fact that she is Optimus Prime's counterpart places more veracity to her being some form of truck in vehicle mode.
There are other kinds of trucks besides pick-ups, and I never said she was a pickup truck. Also, it isn't because she is Prime's girl, that points to her being a truck. It is her station as his counterpart—as leader—among the female Autobots. All Autobot leaders, have been trucks of some form.tentagil wrote:Tramp wrote:That's true because the robot mode is based more on her Dreamwave comic book appearance. Unfortunately, we have no comicbook reference for her vehicle mode.
And, the fact that she is Optimus Prime's counterpart places more veracity to her being some form of truck in vehicle mode.
Just because she's Prime's girl doesn't make her a truck. Moonracer is a car but is also Powerglide's girl. Firestar is a Pickup type and Chromia is a minivan type vehicle so they do have some correspondence to Inferno and Ironhide but but none of that points to what Elita-1 actually is. Thats an assumption your making with no real facts to back it up.
And in fact if you want to use the few other Cybertronian pickup design we've seen as references. Kup and Firestar are really the only to and both have the windshield in front of the front wheels rather then behind it and they seem to favor a cab over design.
keeblezak wrote:i don't seewhy cybertronian trucks would be needed in g1, since if wheeljack could store bumblebee and a pile or steel beams in the first ep, and if rachet could hold ironhide inside himself in ambulance mode, then 'truck' worthy items could be held by vans or cars
Tramp wrote:nobody1898 wrote:vans are a type of van
A van is a form of truck. They aren't cars.
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