Quote Originally Posted by Dan View Post
* Screw scale. The triple-changers seem to change into really small aircraft. Then again maybe that's exactly what they do. It's not like they have to be sized to carry humans, and only have to look right at a distance. Do Decepticons give a damn about scale?
The aircraft and vehicles seem to be in scale with other. As discussed on the Studio Series Dropkick review thread, the Huey is a rather small helicopter. But still definitely larger than a muscle car.

The movie does show the aircraft being larger than the car modes, but the aircraft fold up into the cars. Yeah, it's super complex and, together with the scale issue, we can see why it's not possible to make a triple-changing SS figure. But as far as mass displacement goes - with the assumption of sub-space mass-shifting - it generally works.

It's a lot better than the "Tetris-formers" of Age of Extinction or the outright ridiculous morphing that we see in AOE and The Last Knight. Gah! Take Optimus Prime for example. Where the hell do things go? Look at how the rear half of the truck just gets swallowed into his back! No wonder the toys have a hell of a time dealing with that part of the vehicle in robot mode, with all of them being backpackformers (especially the Leaders).

And feel free to freeze-frame watch the combination transformation for Dragonstorm and Volcanicus. It's so cheap and lazy (only, ya know, with double the budget of Bumblebee).