Quote Originally Posted by Trent View Post
I've always found the design of broadside to be a bit... conceptually poor. I mean the guy transforms into an aircraft carrier and a plane. Do you have any idea how much steel is in an aircraft carrier? He must have some pretty thick armor in plane mode. And some decent engines to move all that weight
You could say pretty much the same thing about G1 Megatron, Soundwave, Blaster, Perceptor, Astrotrain, Reflector, Bruticus, Octane and so on. Mass-shifiting has been a part of Transformers since day one - the size of one mode does not necessarily dictate the size of another.