Autobot032 wrote:Duke of Luns wrote:Autobot032 wrote:Duke of Luns wrote:One thing: Why does Voyager class Prime get two cool looking rifles that can clip onto his front for some firepower in vehicle mode, and leader class Prime gets a little pistol?
It's not a little pistol actually, it's his arm. It doesn't translate well into plastic, but in the movie, his entire forearm becomes a BFG of doom.
Oh. Well, it looked a little dinky, but since that's supposed to be his arm, maybe it's not so bad.
Hmm, both he and Bumblebee both have "arm cannons", wonder if that's the new thing?
Indeed it is. Apparently their weapons are now fully integrated into their bodies.
Yeah, I believe it goes along the lines of the "why do alien robots that moonlight as vehicles need a spaceship when they can just turn into one?" line of thinking. Yeah apparently they also think that they shouldn't carry sidearms for the same reason, & instead make their arms turn into guns instead. Personally, I would think that would be a bad idea, as blasters & such would require ammo, which would have to be stored in the bot itself, defeating the purpose of integrating the weapons(if a gun is "impractical" due to so many moving parts & having to be integrated into the transformation, how would it be practical to store a bunch of slugs & therefore run into the same problem) or energy, which if I were guessing would be supplied by the bot itself, meaning that should it's energy supply be depleted, the bot could die as well, or vice versa & the bot's weapon wouldn't be very effective when nearing death (think about Dinobot's eye lasers in "Code of Hero" when he was near death). In the case of a sidearm, though, nearing death, a bot could still have a full stock of ammo/energy ready to go, & just like what happened with Megs in the first movie, it can grasp victory from the jaws of defeat(having a hostage dosen't hurt, either).
Yes, I know Prime ended the fight, but untill Megs got the gun, Prime was handing Megs his arse on a silver platter, & afterwards Megs damaged Prime beyond repair....well, for anyone but quintessons, anyway...