most absurd alt mode

[GoktimusPrime]

In defence of Botanica, there's nothing inherently wrong with her alt mode. As she explained, she and her crew landed on a planet full of sentient plants and they scanned them as their alt modes, just as G1 Transformers scanned vehicles and Beast Wars Transformers scanned animals. Yes, it is a weird and extremely unorthodox concept, but I think it's rather neat in terms of demonstrating the extent of the Transformers' ability to blend and adapt to their environment. The sentient tree mode looks odd and out of place on Cybertron where she sticks out like a sore thumb - but to be fair, so do all the Maximals in Beast Machines! It's not as if any of their beast modes are really disguises... if anything, they serve to make them easier targets for Vehicons!

soundwaves lampost mode? that was just hilarious

But it works as a disguise. And it's not as if being a walkman is that much better. d: What about Blaster's Cybertronian alt mode? He was a computer console panel!

Personally I think Cosmos is a bit absurd.

He's not exactly "in Disguise", you know?

Says who eh?

[Tommy K]

im just saying its pretty funny, like maybe the cassetcons or whatever they are could just be the lights lol oh and wait when do we see blaster in his cybertron mode i have to see ths control panel thing lol

[SilverDragon]

Much as I like Animated, it's offering up strong contenders for absurd alt modes in the forms of Jetfire/Jetstorm and Cybertron Megatron.

Several Pretenders also count. Finback, for example allegedly transforms into a submarine. The pictures I've seen of his alt mode make him look NOTHING like one.

But I feel that the award for the most absurd alt modes goes not to anyone from the Transformers franchise, but from that other transforming robot series, the Machine Men. Two words: Rock Lords. Sure, Transformers had the Japan-only Eggbots, but the egg mode was more of a primary mode like Soundwave's cassette minions. I have yet to figure out the purpose of having a ROCK for an alternate mode. Disguise could be one, but then it wouldn't work outside of rocky environments.

[GoktimusPrime]

Let's stick to Transformers here (if you want to make one for non-TF lines please open a new thread in the non-TF section).

and wait when do we see blaster in his cybertron mode i have to see ths control panel thing lol

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What's weirder than Soundwave as a streetlight or Blaster as a console is actually Laserbeak as a cassette on Cybertron. His robot mode is different - not a robotic condor, but his alt mode is still a magnetic cassette tape! Buh?! And it's not as if G1 cartoon writers were too short sighted to envision futuristic Cybertron as still using analogue data storage... in "The Ultimate Doom" and "Desertion of the Dinobots" we see data digitally stored on laser discs on Cybertron. Phwoar!!

Paulbot mentioned the impracticality of Raindance and Grand Slam's robot modes before... but their microcassette modes are just as ridiculous considering that those are, like Laserbeak, their Cybertronian alt modes!!


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[dirge]

Animorphs. Period.

[jacksplatt11]

Animorphs. Period.

hmm depends on wether we are talking about animorphs books/tv show, or animorphs toys..

in the books/tv show, they could transform perfectly into any animal they touched, its been a while since i've read them but i think they could transform into any person either?.. anyways, i think that's a pretty awesome "alt" mode..

the toys on the other hand, well.. yeah, not great haha

[SofaMan]

I think stupid Minicon Refute wins, just by having lamest alt made combined with most WTF name.

[liegeprime]

Megabolt megatron transforms into a giant head with legs... looks more like a big fat tick.

[STL]

Megabolt megatron transforms into a giant head with legs... looks more like a big fat tick.

I can see what ur saying here but I don't mind him at all. He's kind of neat.

I thought long and hard last night when this thread first came up but I honestly can't think of an alt mode that is really that absurd in TF lore.

[GoktimusPrime]

hmm depends on wether we are talking about animorphs books/tv show, or animorphs toys..

in the books/tv show, they could transform perfectly into any animal they touched, its been a while since i've read them but i think they could transform into any person either?.. anyways, i think that's a pretty awesome "alt" mode..

the toys on the other hand, well.. yeah, not great haha

This thread is about Transformers, so he's talking about Transformers Animorphs, which are the toys. The books, TV show etc. aren't part of Transformers (although a Beast Wars arcade game can be seen in the first episode of Animorphs ).

Megabolt Megatron's alt mode suffers heaps from the silly legs and treads... (-_-)