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Size class - Transformers Wiki Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation -Arato Kato, character animation for "Hard Knocks". 70 comments. These out-of-proportion vehicle parts were necessary to give his robot mode show-accurate proportions. Characters with alternate modes that are not meant to be replicas of real-world things (or at least, close enough while being legally-distinct from said things) are difficult to accurately scale, as they generally transform into futuristic or Cybertronian vehicles whose size we don't really know or, indeed, they don't transform into vehicles at all. It was not shown until "Masters and Students". The Marvel comics commonly sidestepped this issue by not using Transformers as transport characters, or else requiring the passengers to transform into their explicitly smaller forms to be carried. In the second season, the show's aforementioned budget problems were the cause of some of the most common complaints: in addition to necessitatingtwoclip shows(an all-but-extinct concept in cartoons in the 2010s), the cashflow crisis caused several plot threads to suddenly be dropped or truncated in order to shrink the cast;BreakdownandAirachnidwere abruptly killed or written out (respectively) despite being a feature of active subplots in order to eliminate the cost of their celebrity voice actors, as were characters performed by actors that were not part of the "main" cast, likeSilas,Hardshell, andDreadwing. Optimus sacrifices himself to seal away Unicron and restore the AllSpark to its rightful place while Megatron disbands the Decepticons and goes into self-imposed exile. For example, Movie Jazz's Pontiac Solstice alternate mode is a tiny car, and any size class that includes both him and Bumblebee (a Chevrolet Camaro) will result in scale problems between the toys. Since for the majority of his presence on the show he is a loyal servant of Megatron, this was likely intentionally fudged so that he could have scenes inside the Nemesis, which is also where one of his biggest and most plot-important fight scenes takes place. These discrepancies are also seen in the other Scramble City-style combiners with Earth altmodes, whose toys are all smaller than similar earlier toys. For all of these reasons, it is usually considered one of the best Transformers cartoons. Transformers Legends even acknowledges this by having Broadside becoming a gigantic Headmaster large enough to fight level with Grand Scourge, and piloting a larger Transtector who seems to be on a similar scale to most versions of Metroplex. However, the considerable and varied scale problems of Transformers still merit description. Similarly, Silverbolt (a Concorde jet) is dramatically undersized compared to his fighter-jet Aerialbot teammates. Notably, Chromedome, if his driver is meant to be about the size of a human, is a rather oversized car, while the issues of Fortress Maximus being way too small for a city are magnified. The Autobots and Decepticons' struggle becomes a competition for Cybertronian artifacts strewn across the planet, which turn out to have been placed there byAlpha Trion, who foresaw the Autobots coming to Earth. The 2018 Studio Series line was the first to do so: Deluxe Bumblebee is shorter than Deluxe Ratchet, but taller than Deluxe Jazz, with Deluxe Lockdown being taller than all three. Ultimately, Megatron manipulates the Autobots into destroying the project when he discoversPredakingis intelligent, and therefore a potential power rival. hide. When entering the Ark, the Beast Warriors are quite small compared to the dormant Generation 1 characters, especially Optimus Primebut just how much bigger varies quite a bit from scene to scene and episode to episode. (Weirdly, the King Kong-like size of this toy became canon in one specific micro-continuity. The Generations update of Cybertron Metroplex in the Legacy toyline similarly accomplished broadly show accurate scaling with regular Deluxe and Voyager class figures by bumping him up a size class or three with a new Titan class toy. Since when were the kids as small as tires? This page was last modified on 8 April 2023, at 23:14. Cookie Notice Considering our ancestors really were smaller than modern humans, this is not extremely wrong, but it deserves noting. The Action Master vehicles were designed to take advantage of the fact that the Action Master figures were all the same size. The Japanese Galaxy Force release of Metroplex, dubbed "Megalo Convoy", included an exclusive redeco of the Legends of Cybertron Optimus Prime toy to indicate the "correct" scale. Some scale problems are for the sake of characterization. Although this was intended to show that the planet was technological in nature, it makes little sense, as the structures would have to be the size of small nations to be visible. History. He should be able to carry all his teammates in his bed, with some crowding. IDW character heights? : r/transformers - Reddit Some of these were published in the character model guides The Ark and The Ark II. As a side note, Unicron has been established in some continuities as having already devoured approximately 22.56% of known universes which is truly ridiculous if one takes actual planetary/galactic scale into consideration. This is purely for dramatic effect. Likewise, a whole squad of Decepticons can fit into Astrotrain's shuttle mode easily (including the combined-form Devastator! Newcomer Alpha Bravo is also undersized if his windows are anything to go by. Much less common are instances of a Transformer turning into an overscaled real-world object. Transformers: EarthSpark is an animated series that made its debut in November 2022 in support of the franchise of the same name.First announced on February 25, 2021, alongside Transformers: BotBots, the series was co-produced by Entertainment One and Nickelodeon Animation Studio, and features 3D CG animation by Icon Creative Studio.In the U.S., the first 10 half-hour episodes of the season . Scale | Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki | Fandom