Gen1 Optimus/Convoy trailer/repair-bay origin?

[Cat]

New theory: It did all the Decepticons just fine. It used mass shifting perfectly - Reflector, Soundwave, Megatron, the cassettes - to give them all substantially smaller alt modes.

Maybe when Starscream shot the Ark/mountain, it 'bumped the circuits' in the shock, causing the calibration/settings to change on how it handled the remaining Transformers, who were all Autobots (ignoring anyone else that later showed up inexplicably).

Maybe that caused it to handle things different in how it dealt with alteration of mass?

OR - who cares, and I'm just rambling nonsense.


B) is probably the correct answer. :P

[Cat]

Prime was the first Autobot to be repaired in the cartoon.
We never see his Cybertronian form in the 'toon so it's quite possible (and the simplest explanation courtesy of Ockham's Razor) to believe he was either created with it or acquired it sometime later on Cybertron before coming to Earth (in the cartoonverse anyway).

Yep, I actually did remember that (guess because those that initial 3 parter is my favourite, I remember it a bit better than the rest).

I don't think that negates my 'theory'. I think it actually helps it. The first one it had to repair (after being shaken/shocked by Starscream's blast) was Prime. So maybe it then gave him the 'deluxe' package due to that, and trying to incorporate what it saw as being as many necessary things as possible, for the first one (after being damaged and maybe reset a bit).

Again though, (B) from my previous post applies.

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

Possibly, but it's the G1 cartoon which is notoriously lax when it comes to trifling details like continuity and size consistency. I mean, maybe Teletraan 1 just happened to scan a truck with an advanced Cybertronian battle station and a Roller drone inside the trailer. It's possible but not especially likely.

If I was trying to be serious about it I'd just settle for the simplest explanation of he had it before and it got reformatted with the rest of him. See Ockham's Razor. But really, anything more complex than 'there's a bunch of giant warring robots with laser guns in two (or more) opposing factions, and they fight' and it all gets a bit complicated. Even Cybertron hasn't been a constant in every series.

[GoktimusPrime]

What I'd really like to know about the original 1984 G1 Optimus Prime's trailer is... is it compatible with DOTM Deluxe Optimus Prime? Doesn't anyone here own the DotM Dlx OP toy??

[Cat]

Possibly, but it's the G1 cartoon which is notoriously lax when it comes to trifling details like continuity and size consistency. I mean, maybe Teletraan 1 just happened to scan a truck with an advanced Cybertronian battle station and a Roller drone inside the trailer. It's possible but not especially likely.

If I was trying to be serious about it I'd just settle for the simplest explanation of he had it before and it got reformatted with the rest of him. See Ockham's Razor. But really, anything more complex than 'there's a bunch of giant warring robots with laser guns in two (or more) opposing factions, and they fight' and it all gets a bit complicated. Even Cybertron hasn't been a constant in every series.

Aye. Beware, that way lies madness, my friend.