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[RagingBull]

hey guys, heres a movie style rattrap, sorry bumblebee-otch, i know i said id do an Optimus Primal but an idea for rattrap came to me first.

basicaly he is the same personality we all know and love. although instead of being a big rat, he just transforms into a regular size rat, to keep with the movie styles not cheating with mass. so what you see on screen would probably be what his size would actualy be. as a general rule to what youve probably seen already with my other movie style maximals is that they arnt as big as jazz (im sure he was the smallest of the autobots in the movie) and they are probly a tad bigger than the Arcee concept, but anyways onto the details of the guy

weapons:
- computer uplink tail - like in beast machines
- energon blades
- and my fav, the virus injector (the barrel between his blades) basically what it does is cause a chain reaction, detonating the transformer "blood" if you look at carefully at megatron before he gets the cube in his chest you can see his "bleeding" a blue chemical, im going to assume its some kind of vital fluid so il call it "transformer blood"

one unique ability i decided to give him that allows his tiny size to really work to his advantage is that, during the heat of battle a fellow autobot can load Rattrap into a kind of shell and launch him at an enemy, once the shell hits the target rattrap emerges inside the enemy and causes all kinds of havok, this shell can also be used to get him inside of enemy locations and such

but yeah what you guys think of the new abilty and the picture

comments and critisism welcome

cheers

[Ramrider]

Good stuff as ever. I must admit, though, in this case I'm finding it harder to see how he'd transform; have you got any thoughts on that, or were you just going for a cool robot mode?

As for size, I'd suggest making him a large rat (that is, almost as large as a rat is likely to get); after all, some of those sewer rats can get pretty mahoosive, and even stare down a cat with no problem. That way, he may not have a full-sized robot mode, but he could at least be on a par with Frenzy.

[RagingBull]

good point about the rat size, although id like to keep him as small as possible to keep in line with the special ability i gave him.

as for transformations, wow, well again keeping with the movie look, the trasformations involve thousands of moving pieces, same rule applies here, since i dont have vehicle bits and pieces to add here n there so you could say oh look theres a fender or theres a window etc, iv decide that once theyve transformed the beast "parts" would go from being on the outside of the body to the insides and the machinary come to the outside, with the exection of fure plating you see here n there just so you can see that he was once a beast.

take for example, frenzy, once he's transformed the boombox parts change so much that there is not much to give away that he was a boombox, u follow me there.

cheers for the comments, keep em coming