AllNewSuperRobot wrote:sol magnus wrote:Not disparing when I say that's all headcanon, which is perfectly fine, but not supported by any facts. For all we know, Kup, Blurr, Springer, Arcee and Hotrod were just futuristic Earth-modes...except for the existence of Wheelie, who had never been to Earth but shares their design aesthetic.
My point is entire supported by the facts. As shown in the cartoon, toys, associated media IE Basically Everything, but hey? who keeps track of all that
Earth didn't disappear after The Movie. No Earth vehicles look like the post Movie cast. The bots themselves all (including Wheelie) share a design aesthetic to further exemplify that they are a new generation, via faces, more streamlined body shapes etc Much in the same way the Headmasters and Targetmasters share a distinct visual physicality.
There is more to the visual language of G1 than pew pews. They always showed the evolution of the Cybertronian form with each successive line.... Until they lost the plot with Pretenders and Actionmasters.
Well, I wasn't disparaging. I know we get into it a lot on here, but from my standpoint it's not malicious. We're free to disagree.
However, it doesn't change the fact that that your idea is all conjecture. To say it's supported by 'facts' is erroneous.
We don't know what very many Earth vehicles look like post movie. The 86 season shows everything from hover cars to jalopy trucks. We don't, in fact, have any reason to think they changed into new Earth vehicles. I just said "we don't know." We don't know because Hasbro has never said. If they have, just show me and I'll recant.
However, Wheelie DEFINITELY doesn't transform into an Earth vehicle. We know that based on facts, unless we don't take it as fact that he was never on Earth before the movie. The 'streamlined body shapes' was basically Floro Dery's evolution of art style making them seem more...organic.
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