sto_vo_kor_2000 wrote:And before you say that its only the ones that showed up in the cartoon that count......Transmetal 2 Blackarachnia, who was featured on the show, did not have a 3rd mode.
And the Transmetal 2 clone of Dinibot also did not have a 3rd mode.
You missed a part of my original post yet again.
Saber Prime wrote:Transmetal 2 figures don't share many simular qualitys so the repaint could actully pass as a TM2.
You're counting TM2's as normal TMs isn't helping your point.
Yeah, it's true Blackarachnia and Dinobot don't have a 3rd mode. Neither does Cheetor's TM2 and Optimal Optimus has 4 modes but I never said anything about TM2's shareing that same quality as a TM.
So really, there are no Transmetals in the show who don't have that 3rd mode. And the only Transmetals on the show are Optimus Primal, Cheetor, Rattrap, Depthcharge, Megatron, Tarantulas, and Rampage all of which have 3 modes.
And as far as I can tell that one repaint of Spittor is the only Transmetal figure (Not Transmetal 2, Just Transmetal) that doesn't have 3 modes so all that proves is that his packageing was misslabled or Hasbro got lazy on renameing a repaint.
Saber Prime wrote: He may of been labled that way but you really wanna argue about a toy only character?
As I just proved there were show characters that were called "Transmetals" and did not have a 3rd mode.
Nope. They were Transmetal
2's not Transmetals. Not a huge difference in name but there is a huge difference in physical trates and origins.
Transmetals were created via Transwarp exsplosion and yes they do all have 3 modes.
Transmetal 2s (with the exception of Optimus and Megatron) were created with an alien device the Predacon's first used to create the new Dinobot. Cheetor stole the device while it was still active and got exsposed to it. And Blackarachnia took it from Cheetor. All of these characters recived verry different effects from eachother and from a true Transmetal. Dinobot became a skelital robot/dino. Cheetor turned into the uglies cat cyborg in exsistance. And Blackarachnia got lots and lots of armor. Optimus and Megatron got their TM2 forms from the Sparks of the original Optimus and Megatron. Optimus gained a new form with 4 modes and Megatron turned into a Dragon.
Someone once argued that Optimus and Megatron weren't even Transmetal 2's because they weren't created by the same alien device that created the others but they're labled that way and there's nothing else you can really classify them as.
the only characteristic that is universal with Transmetals is a metallic paint job.
And wrong again.
There are two main characteristics. One has allready been said. The other is a more Robotic beast mode and an organic looking Robot mode.
Of course again non of the TM2s share thoughs same traits.
And by your definition of haveing a Metalic paint job and you counting TMs and TM2s as being the same then I guess by your standards TM2 Cheetor is not a Transmetal because he doesn't have a metalic paint job.
So how is you want to rag on me for haveing my own definitions for a Transmetal (especially when they're Hasbro's not mine) but you wanna go and insinuate that Cheetor is not a Transmetal 2 just because he's not Matalic?
), and he never trusted Megatron an inch. In Beast Machines, he was a total coward, actually helped Megatron one time, and had a hidious and unarmed robot form that screamed mickey mouse. Plus I can't believe he could not find a single handgun laying around Cybertron.
