Kibble wrote:DTR69 wrote:If you read my rant, I was refering to the idea if Transformers were actualy real, as in real life. And I don't accept it's alien technology anythings possible, as there are many aspects about transformers where everyday limits are valid. Of course there technology is more advanced, but there is no way an Alternator could actualy be a fully working transformer, it would just be a shell, with no inner workings. Alternators are great designs, and do a great job of showing a detailed alt mode and a highly detailed and poseable robot. But if transformers were real, they would have a lot of workings not just to be a robot, but to actualy get from one form to another.
Well, this is really a pretty pointless debate, but I thought the Alternators response was a quite reasonable one actually. If you don't accept that the technology would be far more advanced and wouldn't require the same parts and inner workings that make "our" cars work, well, there's half the reason there are no "real" transformers now...and not really much left to ponder then. If the car, more or less, requires our technology to function, then what technology has an advanced, independently operating, fully functional robot working?
ALternators help proove my point too, becuase if you look through the back window of the Subaru, you can see the legs, and if the inside is identical to a real car, does that mean wheeljack walks about on foam and springs. And how deep does this realism go, if a mechanic opened the hood and worked on the engine, which is there guns, will there be engine or gun parts inside.
This maybe taking the fun out, but I see it in a different light. I like things to be as plausiable as possible. I also think that working out the possabilities helps towards the design and look of a transformer. Transformers robot modes are a result of compramise becuase of there alt modes. Working out plausiable answers to unanswered questions, just as how Michael Bays designers came up with there answers to how a real life TF would look and why, all goes towards the final design. Form follows Function. And it often leads to design querks that would never have been thought of unles there was a reason behind it.
Thats what I love about Transformers, there are design features that are there as a result of the transformation. Thats why gundam, is so samey samey, a transformers way have wings or a grill for a stomach, all these are becuase of form followinf function.
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