Now...About Those Transformers
January 28, 2014
In a previous article I wrote about how an idea can capture me, lead me into a long project, and then leave me high-n-dry with no way of actually implementing the idea.
Today I would like to talk about another idea that has stayed with me and been a constant source of irritation.
This new idea occurred right after watching the first Transformers live-action movie (not the 1986 animated one).
In that movie (which GMC paid to be the major sponsor of) all the Autobots became GMC vehicles (well, except maybe Optimus Prime).
This made me a little irritated.
I understand the idea of getting a corporate sponsorship and all that, but that doesn't mean I have to like it.
So I got to thinking about what would really happen in this world if alien robots of advanced technology came to Earth and transformed into Earth vehicles in order to hide their secret identities.
Question:
Would you, if you were an alien robot, choose only ONE brand of vehicles?
And would you only choose the most mundane of them?
Answer:
Heck NO!
So what would you choose to transform into?
Something cool?
Something advanced?
Maybe even something that only exists in "science-fiction?"
That last question hit me pretty hard.
After all these are ADVANCED ALIEN ROBOTS!!!
They are already using technology super-geniuses (like me) only dream of!
That means that if they happened to get a hold of a detailed schematic or technical manual of, say, the USS Enterprise, NCC-1701, they could potentially transform into it.
Why?
Because, to them, it may not be that advanced and the technology we don't understand could be something they can provide.
Something far-fetched becomes a reality.
Sounds like I'm stretching it a bit thin here, but if you think about it, how far-fetched is the idea of transforming robots anyway?
With this question burning my brain I decided to take up the task of putting together another database of Autobots and what I think they should turn into.
First I went and found lists of Autobots, but only the original series Transformers that existed on television and in the comics.
Then I got pictures of what they looked like in robot form.
After that I researched the vehicles they turned into.
With that information I then started finding more advanced vehicles for them to "upgrade" to, but I tried to keep to the same make or model of vehicle.
A few of them I went outside the box, but with the Dinobots and others, I had to.
(PS: I made the Dinobots triple-changers!)
I then did the same thing with the Decepticons.
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