Transformers: Starscream's Brigade

[TrueMetis]

And since their forms are about protecting themselves rather than blending in there's no need for their animal forms to be the "correct" size.

[Archanubis]

Though, notably, Beast Wars seemed to be pretty consistent with the scale of the characters, which meant you had a wasp, a gorilla, and a T-Rex that were all roughly the same size. It was a little weird, but it worked.

You can make the argument that their beast forms were adapted to the size of their robots modes, rather than vice versa. As TrueMetis said, it was more about protecting themselves from an environment hostile to their robot forms rather than being "robots in disguise." Which is a good thing, because there was no way characters like Tarantulas and Waspinator were going to wander about a city in beast mode without causing a panic.

[CrypticMirror]

megatron turns into a handgun, weldable by robots that are the same size as himself.

Well, that is because they all use super advanced Mass Displacement Technology which takes advantage of quantum physics and materials that we puny organics just haven't worked out yet. Or, y'know, the writers and animators just didn't care. Whichever.

[Fixer]

megatron turns into a handgun, weldable by robots that are the same size as himself.

Well, that is because they all use super advanced Mass Displacement Technology which takes advantage of quantum physics and materials that we puny organics just haven't worked out yet. Or, y'know, the writers and animators just didn't care. Whichever.

The Michael Bay animators made the effort not to cheat with their transformers. No matter appearing from no-where or size changing.

Yet they couldn't keep narrative straight between movies. I guess in the Transformers universe you can have consistency of scale or plot but not both.

[Aotrs Commander]

I have fond memories of Revenge of Bruticus, since for YEARS (until the series came out on DVD) the only Transformers I had to watch were the videoes for Arrival from Cybertron, Dinobot Island (two-parter with the aforementioned episode on top) and the movie (the PROPER movie!)

Utterly Useless Fact: In the Aotrs Transformers continuity, because nether Menasor nor Bruticus had fused well (one a rampaging tantrum and the other capable of following orders to the letter but incapable of independant thought), the leader of the Decepticons (Starscream, as is right and proper) instead had Motormaster replaced by Onslaught. (As the reason Menasor didn't work so well was because all the other Stunticons HATED Motormaster.) The new gestalt, Brutisaur, was a bit more effective, though considering that it was him and Pirranhacon teaming up aganst the long-suffering Ultra Magnus[1], that might have not been a particularly notworthy improvement.


This was not in any way mandated by having one Combaticon and four Stunticons, not at all. Psychological improvements. Yes.


[1]The Autobots did not win very often, it has to be said...

[RobbyB1982]

Though, notably, Beast Wars seemed to be pretty consistent with the scale of the characters, which meant you had a wasp, a gorilla, and a T-Rex that were all roughly the same size. It was a little weird, but it worked.

Beast Wars kept their scales consistent... and it was even a plot point that Waspinator was too big to be native in the first episode.

The crazy stuff happened in the last season though... when Optimus became the scale of an original Transformer... much, MUCH bigger than everyone else in the cast. So big he could smash Waspinator between his bare hands and that everyone basically just came up to his knees. They had to introduce Depth Charge and Tiger Hawk at nearly double the size of the previous cast members and make everyone else bigger when they got upgrades just to make him not completely ridiculous.

[Beastro]

You know, sometimes I think Transformers might be a bit silly. Nah, can't be right.

Good old silly fun. I bet the writers had a real fun time thinking of crazy ideas for shows.

I'd like to think doing these is a bit of a relaxation for Chuck as he can ease back and have fun mulling over their plots.