Re: Transformer comments and questions
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2017 7:43 pmWelcome to "Transformer comments and questions", the place where nothing is ever as you expect and you can find questions about anything you could ever imagine (and some things you couldn't).Jason5billion wrote:I got another question. I know the Gobots put out Water Walker who turned into a sea plane, but I don't know if they've done that with Transformers. My main question is why they don't offer people who go on trips overseas that form of transportation instead of those big jets that aren't as safe. If nothing else, they could turn jumbo jets into sea planes. They may not fly as fast, but they'd be a lot safer. I remember when passengers on a jumbo jet got scared because the captain or whoever issued a false alarm by mistake about having to ditch the plane while flying over an ocean. That would pretty much be a death sentence for most or everyone on board, and drowning sounds like a scary way to go. If they used sea planes, they could at least radio for help; and there'd be a lot less chance for fatalities.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/c ... /90911068/
http://philip.greenspun.com/bboard/q-an ... ion&topic=
Notably, these parts:
Turboprops have a higher accident rate than jets
Etcetera. So no, seaplanes are not safer than commercial passenger planes, and commercial passenger planes are actually incredibly safe (speaking from experience, I've been on literally dozens of large overseas flights over my life and not a single thing has ever gone wrong). Not to mention the logistical and practical limitations of using less aerodynamic and less fuel-efficient planes for long-distance or intercontinental travel.Yes, the 40-seater should be safer. You'll have two engines instead of what is likely one on the seaplane (though now that I think about it, the seaplane is probably a Cessna Caravan on floats (if it truly has 8 passenger seats) and therefore it too has a jet engine turning a prop, not a piston engine). You'll have a controlled hard-surfaced runway instead of whatever lies underneath the water surface. You'll probably have two pilots in the 40-seater and just a single pilot in the 8-seater (the second pilot catches a lot of mistakes!).
...And now that this incredibly off-topic (somehow) tangent is over, my actually Transformer-related comment or question for everyone, is this: Are there any particular Transformers figures in your collections that have 'transcended' their line of origin? I know RoTF Bludgeon is a common one (being used as Classics-style Bludgeon by many, myself included) but are there any odder choices that any here have made? As a starting example, my current Classics-style Arcee space is being occupied by Animated Arcee despite the total disparity in aesthetics, just because she's the best Arcee figure around IMO - and also because I don't actually have a Gen/LG Arcee, but shh that undermines my point
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