Gok, I'm not gonna argue this anymore (by now I'm sure you know I prefer G1 Megatron because we've had this discussion plenty of times ).

Apart from you (and your friends) I never heard anyone laughing at Meg's alt mode. In fact, when I was a kid every one at school loved the gun mode (I remember someone actually brought one to my primary school). It was ULTRA COOL! But now (as adults) TF fans seem to think it's dumb... I think we're over-analysing it a bit... something we, as kids, didn't do back then - although maybe you did, I'm not sure.

Now flash forward to 2007 - the movie comes out. Okay, Megs is no longer a gun... he's a crapjet! Shouldn't it be an improvement on his G1 alt mode? For argument's sake, let's say I accept the alien jet mode in order to get Megatron to earth (since they got rid of the Ark and the Nemesis ), okay - so he's an alien jet when he arrives, but why not have him reformat in to an earth mode. This is still "robots in disguise" isn't it? I mean, Prime and the Autobots didn't stay as comets. I know you're going to say "But wait - Megatron is the most fearsome creature in the universe - why would he hide behind an earth disguise?!"... the answer is, because he's a TRANSFORMER! He's not Darth Vader or the Predator. He's a robot who turns in to a vehicle/object. This battle takes place on earth - it makes sense that he would have "earth camouflage"!

Bumblebee had 2 alt modes in the film, why couldn't Megatron (Cybertron mode and earth mode)?