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Botanica is a failure for me because her alt mode was so wtf that there was not even a toy for her character ( I know Arcee and other characters also had no toy created, but I think Botanica's was purely for wtf reasons).
A few of the late G1 figures with "futuristic ____" as their alt mode annoyed me too.
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Didn't Daniel get a transforming Exosuit in the movie? That'd have to be the worst alt-mode by default...
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Personally I think Cosmos is a bit absurd.
He's not exactly "in Disguise", you know?
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Animated Megatron . Cybertron mode. You dont even know which part is which - where's the cockpit in that er... thing, if it is a ship
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soundwaves lampost mode? that was just hilarious
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I think that Soundwave's cartoon Cybertronian mode is quite appropriate ( but I need to do a TF Mosaic or something to explainOriginally Posted by kuzzy
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I nominate Grandslam and Raindance.
They turn from cassettes into a tank and a jet. So how do they open doors, or use computers, or scratch themselves? How impratical is it to not have a head at all? Their only way around this is to combine into their gestalt form which means they are totally dependent on each other to fit in to normal TF society.
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I agree. Soundwave's cybertronian alt mode may look lame but is highly practical at intercepting transmissions and overall intelligence gathering.I think that Soundwave's cartoon Cybertronian mode is quite appropriate ( but I need to do a TF Mosaic or something to explain
I think we have a new contender for lame alt modes with the Animated Jetstorm/Jetfire twins. Their alt modes look horrendous and their cobined form is not even a combination at all, just a pair of 'somethings' stuck at the bottom.
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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!
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!
Says who eh?
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