The Energon Pub

News Credits: 4 · by **Blitzwing the warrior** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 11:20 pm

In IDW's Movie prequel #4 we see Starscream scan a F-22 and reformat himself. We see that basically his parts shift and move around forming his Movie form. But how does this process work for the Autobots? Like how do they form tires?

by **Chris Bot** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 4:27 am

Maybe they have something similar to rubber that they use to mimic tires.

News Credits: 2 · by **Nico** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 9:43 am

Theu just....uh....maybe they uh...uh...dunno! Its really weird!

News Credits: 1 · by **Leonardo** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 11:11 am

They steal the tire swings from gardens, probably.

News Credits: 88 · by **Shinobi Rendar** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 2:38 pm

It'll be magic... movie magic

News Credits: 3 · by **XeroSyphon** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:03 pm

If you look carefully at images of Ironhide and Prime, you'll see the tires are split in half. Maybe some kind of metallic weave that mimics rubber, or whatever creates the vehicle parts is able to create anything, including rubber.

News Credits: 38 · by **TheMuffin** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 1:16 am

No clue. Still better than tires completely disappearing like in the old cartoon though.

by **Gierling** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 1:59 am

My bet is that it is an extruded polymer, mimicking the specifications of "rubber".

Realistically "polymers" are not terribly complicated structures and even if they initially need to drive on metallic tires for a few miles finding a source of polymers to reproduce proper tires is something that debris on the side of a a 10 mile stretch of highway could provide.